Neh 7 - Not (personally) interested

The readings - day 146 - Nehemiah 7

The thing is, when a census is released in Canada, I'm actually genuinely interested in the data. This time around, I was working on writing something up for my day job that allowed me to pore over the details with a nerdy, yet, useful/productive glee. I find it fascinating to look at the zoomed-out version of day-to-day life in Canada - who lives where, who left where, how many of whom stay where, etc.

See? I have nothing against the collection/publication of census data.

Census data collected and published from thousands of years ago in the ancient near-east, however...

1 Chronicles 18-29 - I really can't believe how boring Chronicles is...

The readings - Days 127-130 - 1 Chronicles 18-29

This is unbelievable. I was really within a day of actually getting caught up, but Chronicles is (so far, anyway) so abjectly uninspiring that it's very, very difficult to muster the motivation to post something, since I'm essentially (as I said before) trying to find something interesting to write about a boring recap of stuff that's already happened.

*sigh*

HOWEVER, there is something that shows up in the latter half of 1 Chronicles that hinges on the fact that this is a re-run.

2 Sam 22-24 - Census taking and forgetfulness...

The readings - Day 101 - 2 Samuel 22-24

And so the pair of Samuels draws to a close, and befitting David, who held by far the pre-eminent place in the books, it ends (almost) with a song/psalm.

I'll admit, I've always found reading songs to be fairly boring. I'm pretty sure that's why I've still never made it all the way through The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien loved him some ballads, etc, and I just end up getting bored and finding something shiny to look at instead.

Num 26-30 - In which I compare Van Halen to God

The readings - Days 53-54 - Numbers 26-30

Funny how when I fall behind in posting about Numbers, it tends to correspond with the times when Numbers decides to completely abandon narrative and story and revert back to that which earned it its name...

I swear it's not on purpose - it just happens that way.

Anyway, on days 53 and 54, Numbers did just that, and we're back with *drum roll* another census!

Sure, traditionally it was Moses, but I say the author(s) of most of Numbers were these guys...

Num. 1-10 - On meeting expectations...

The readings - Days 42-46 - Numbers 1-10

I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that despite being 10 chapters into Numbers now, I'm still sticking with this reading-a-day plan, and it's looking good for me to actually follow through on something for once.

The bad news is that Numbers is exactly as excruciatingly boring as I had originally thought it would be.