The Creation of The World

"Ussher deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC in the Proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox, while Lightfoot similarly deduced that Creation began at nightfall near the autumnal equinox, but in the year 3929 BC." - Wikipedia, on Creation In The Usher-Lightfoor Calendar

Hello All...

It's the middle of the night and I'm sitting at the desk in my office with all the lights off and the heat not on. It's cold and dark...because I made it that way.

I've been thinking that if I'm lucky enough to grow old and gray that I may just look back on October 2005 and say that I've never had to work as hard for nothing as I have in this month. It won't be the month that I was the busiest, it won't be the month that was the toughest, it won't be the month that was the worst. But it may just be the month I had to work the hardest in. I'll have logged well over 400 hours this month, have slept very little, have seen my friends and family even less.

One year ago right this second I was standing on a street corner in Philadelphia waiting in the cold to go to the lamest giant haunted prison I have ever been in.

The other night someone told me I took the easy way out. (Why is it that all too often when I use the phrase "Someone told me" that someone is Corey?) I disagreed, but I can see how someone may think that. They don't get what I'm trying to do, they don't know what I've gotten myself into. They can't see how far in over my head I am. They can't see how much I love it, and how afraid of it all I really am. It's not just him, it's everyone. I don't mind.

We talked about April 19th, 2004 a night on which nothing happened, but somehow a night that has shaped everything that has happened to me ever since. I don't pretend to be able to understand it, but somehow that night changed everything. It seems a little silly to say now, but until the next big thing happens that will remain the most important night of my life. It seems impossible to pin something so important down to just one night, but then again...

"Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC..."

And if that's true, well then...

"So if this really is the 6,009th anniversary of the day the world was created (or pulled out of some pile of muck), then I say cheers to that, and hope that I may be one of the first to wish it many, many more." - T.O. Hob