I found this e-mail tonight and wanted to post it because all I have is the printout, and I had lost it for a long time. This was a pretty seminal event in my religious and relational life.

Juno e-mail printed Fri, 22 June 2001 21:08:56 , page 1

From: Xxxxx X Xxxxx

To: gkamprath@juno.com

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:46:00 -0400

Greg,



I’m not really sure what you think about gifts of the spirit, such as prophecy, but I’m all into that. Prophet Glen Miller, an extraordinary man of God, comes to our church quite a bit, and has been teaching at the church meetings I’ve been going to the last couple of nights. I’ve gotten prophetic words from him and other people many times, and each time they’ve been what I needed to hear. God reveals things to people and speaks through them. Prophecy is a very helpful tool for the church to hear God’s will.

For a while I’ve been asking God for direction in my life and to make some things clear for me. Well, on wednesday night God was really clear. He spoke to me through Prophet Glen. Here’s a bit of what he said: “...The Lord has got your husband. I’m sorry, he’s not coming now. He’s not comin at 17, he’s not coming when you’re 18, and you won’t see him at 19. And if you start chasing, you’re gonna get something that’s not yours… the Lord says ‘you concern yourself with me.’”

There was more to the word than that, but that sums up the part concerning us. And I know in my heart that he’s right. As much as it hurt me to hear, and as much as it could hurt you, I know that I’m not supposed to have any dating-style relationship with you, or anyone else for that matter. I am trying to seek God’s kingdom and his righteousness first, and in order to do that I need to follow his way, not mine. I realize I’ve hurt you a couple other times when pulling out of the relationship, and you’ve said you’ll wait. But don’t wait this time, because we can’t start it up again. I can’t be in a relationship that I know God doesn’t approve of.

I pray that God protects your heart, Greg. You really are a one-of-a-kind friend. And hopefully you’ll still be up for a group bike ride by the canal some time – I’ll see you sunday. May God give you peace in Christ,



Xxxxx

For the record, she would not see me on Sunday because I was leaving the next day to work at camp for the summer. As I understand it the word from the Lord didn’t exactly come true either. Although it could be just because she started “chasing” and got something that’s not hers… Anyway, you can see Glenn’s website here: http://www.lionsshareministries.com. It’s kind of weird, I never looked him up until now, and there he is. He became this sort of mythical character in a story I tell, but now he has a face.

There’s this guy working at the front desk who’s really bad at using the radio. He’ll say things like “Housekeeping to Todd,” when he’s Todd*, and he’s trying to get a hold of Housekeeping. It makes it sound like he’s commanding them to answer.

Then he says stuff like “Can someone help the customer in the computer center with the printer?” or “Can someone open the door to the Princeton room?” Which is ridiculous, because it’s not like just anyone will do these things, there are specific responsibilities for specific people. So on the one hand, it sounds passive aggressive, like “Can someone fix the printer?” is really intended for Joe from engineering. On the other hand, if that specific person isn’t listening, everyone else just ignores it, and the customer gets screwed. The other day I found this guy standing in the hall, and I realized about 15 minutes before, Todd had radioed for someone to open the door to a meeting room. Now you know… the rest of the story.**

*He’s not really named Todd.

** rest of the pointless story

Hopefully late tomorrow I’m going to post a song that Kelly and I wrote. It’s not entirely sensical. We wrote the lyrics for one of the titles on songfight.org, but then we didn’t start recording until today. So it wasn’t ready for the songfight, but it also wasn’t ready today, which you’ll remember is my not kept deadline for creating something each week.

Update: here’s the song!
States That Mate – “Robot Candidate”

Hey guys, I was just listening to the album “If you’re feeling sinister” by a band called Belle & Sebastian. It’s really good! I think these guys could be big!!

A couple (few?) months ago my hard drive died. Being retarded I hadn’t backed up in a really long time. I lost a bunch of source files from recordings, email, pictures and a variety of documents. But, I just downloaded a bunch of pictures that I had previously uploaded to Flickr. I’m really happy about that because although I still lost a bunch of pictures, in a sense the “essential” pictures were the ones I had uploaded to Flickr, so I still have them. If I upgrade to a Pro account I could actually get the original files. So thanks Flickr, for existing.

P.S. If you want to send me any pictures from time we spent together, or recordings you made of me interviewing my grandparents about their childhood, please do.

I put up a new song on myspace and the website. You can go here to listen to it. (I also put up the other songs I’ve been doing for songfight) The new plan is to create something every week. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll do songs, but I was thinking about messing around with making videos or doing cartoons or whatever.

Sometimes when I’m bored and mindless I’ll type the first thing that comes to mind into my web browser, and see if it exists. Today I visited fightforyourrighttoparty.com. At first I thought it was just a stupid place holder website with random links on it. But then I read the title at the top of the browser, and saw I was in fact visiting “The Leading Legal Rights Site on the Net.” Awesome.

I call clients to check if they need AV. This guy I was just talking to seemed friendly enough, but he said we were too expensive.

Me: “Well what did you need?”
Customer: “We need a screen.”
M: “Oh, what price did they quote you?”
C: “I didn’t even find out. They just said we’d have to pay for it.”
M: “Well that’s true, it’s $35 to rent a screen.”
C: “$35! No, thanks! I’ll bring my own.”
M: “Oh well, ok…”
C: “Ha ha… $35! ...Yeah, right!...”

This really confuses me, because I don’t know where he’d get the idea that screens are free? Or where he could get them cheaper?         ????????????

This week I learned that if you want something, you should just take it. For example, if you’ve been sitting in an Office Chair for Kids™ for the duration of your employment, you should just wait until someone leaves the company, and take their chair. Or if you’re moved to a new office and you don’t have a trash can, you should just take one you find somewhere.

You’re not stealing from someone else, and you’re not stealing from the company. You are just bypassing the requisition process where you ask someone for something and it takes forever to happen.

In conclusion, if you see a person who looks rich you should mug them.

Girlfriend of friend just launched new website. I like it. Also, she’s pretty funny. Also, she told us how she took pictures for John Rueben once, and that was really funny.