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| Ok... under popular requests, I'm posting to my blog again. Key points since the last time:
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has come and gone, so now Megan (my 8 year old) is in a junior production of High School Musical as an "other student".
- I'm at work currently, (9pm Wednesday) editing the video of a wedding I taped a couple of weeks ago. This was the first of what I hope to be a string of relatively lucrative side projects.
- Emily and I have caught up on one-on-one time, thanks to some vacation time and "the sims", which all of the kids beg me to play with them. I won't let them play it alone cause it's rated "teen" for a reason.
- I gave birth to a kidney stone. It hurt. I think I got off easy, though. Some people hurt for days straight. I hurt off and on for only about 22 hours, thanks to some pretty serious pain medication, and a few tips I read on the internet. Did you know that if you have kidney stone pain, it means there's fluid behind the stone? If you jump and hit the floor hard, the weight of the fluid will help push the thing along. I'm also told that lemon juice is acidic enough to break it up, if you can bring yourself to drink much of it when you're in pain. I heard that one after the fact, though, so I can't tell you from experience whether it works. The doctor told me to drink more fluids, which amused the tar out of the people I work with who make fun of the 64 ounce mug that always sits on my desk. (which is currently full of water. ;) )
More updates will be forthcoming, though it may be another 5 months at the rate I'm going. ;)
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| Hi everyone! It's been about five months since the last post, so let me try to summarize.
Accomplishments/Events since my last post:
- I survived Christmas
- I survived my 32nd birthday.
- I've developed an unusual interest in WWII and the events leading up to it. I think I've become obsessed with figuring out how so much evil could rise to power and go unopposed for so long, and looking for signs that history is repeating itself. I've probably seen 30 or 40 hours of related films and documentaries now, as well as read every article on it in wikipedia and the first 100 pages of Mein Kampf, before I had to get it back to the library. Wild stuff.
- I've begun exploring Myspace more regularly. I'm starting to understand its appeal a bit more. To summarize, it's in the multiple points of connectivity to your friends (you can subscribe to their blogs, read their bulletins, see their pages, get comments on your own images, blogs, etc) as well as personalization and automation of the content on your own site. I'm starting to even enjoy it, although I don't really use half the stuff that's offered.
- My mouth is all grown up now... For some crazy reason, my lower front left canine tooth lacked ambition or something, and never pushed out the baby tooth in its place. Over the last year or more, it occasionally would go loose if I bit something the wrong way, but invariably would become solid again. The last month or two, it's been staying loose and even getting in the way until I finally pulled the darned thing on groundhog day. The new tooth hasn't made much headway, but at least I could enjoy the corn on the cob today.
- God is still good! IC keeps trucking, and I feel refreshed after the holiday season at Hillvue. I'm doing all I can to keep my wife from collapsing under lesson plans and piles of laundry and event calendars. My daughter got a role as an Oompa-Loompa in the local play of Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Caleb and I have been bonding through video games. Emily and I, well, we're overdue for some time one-on-one. Still, life is good, and I have nothing to complain about. Other than a lack of reasons to blog, perhaps.
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| Found a great website the other day. It's a tongue-in-cheek site that has some videos that explain current church practices. Awesome stuff there - The only challenge (for some) is to figure out which parts are truth and which are satire.
The Church You Know | | |
| Hey everyone!
I've taken two days off of work - yesterday and today - as a mini-vacation. So far it's great. I've spent some time with the kids playing four-square, battle chess, and with a dvorak typing tutor. (yes, I've recruited them in my nefarious scheme to rid the world of qwerty! Muahahaha!!!) I also made a great batch of chili (even if I do say so myself) and got in some serious video game time. Most of that was today, and I've got my normal two days off to go! I've also got two more days to take before the end of the year, and I haven't decided how I want to use those yet.
faith_of_a_child posted a map like this one, and I had to try it :
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
I got most of those out west during my month-long cross country trip across the US after I graduated High School. I visited 22 National Parks in 19 states and drove just over 10,000 miles. When I was a kid, I went with my church youth group up to a mission in Michigan and also visited Mackinac Island. "On the way" back we cut across that part of Canada and visited Niagara Falls before coming home. I think I slept through Pennsylvania, so I'm not sure if it really counts. ;)
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| I know, I know... if I'm going to wait a month between posts, I should post something meaningful, or at least deep and thoughtful. Instead, I'm in a quirky mood, so I bring you a compilation of bible verses that are humorous or surprising when removed entirely from their context.
Please don't write me angrily that I'm mocking God's word. After all, He put them in there in the first place, and it's possible that He meant them partially for our amusement. If you're easily offended, just stop reading now. Please. My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek as I repeat these, and no, I'm not making these up.
Here goes -
Leviticus 13:40 - When a man has lost his hair and is bald, he is clean.
(There's hope for me after all!)
Proverbs 16:31 - Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life.
(Cool...Does that make Don King holy?)
Romans 14:3 - The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.
Leviticus 3:16 - All the fat is the LORD's
(Funny... and I thought gluttony was a sin?)
Numbers 6:3 - He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
Ecclesiastes 10:19 - A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
(... Is it? And all this time I thought Jesus was.)
Proverbs 23:31 - Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!
(yes... if it goes down smoothly, you must enjoy it blindfolded.)
Proverbs 31:6 - Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish;
(Shh... don't tell the old-school baptists about this one. They'll have nothing left to preach about.)
Time for great pickup lines -
Song of Solomon 7:4 - Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.
Song of Solomon 4:1 -1 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats, descending from Mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
Song of Solomon 7:2 Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.
(I'm sure they'll be swooning over that one)
1 Samuel 19:16
But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats' hair.
(strange imagery....)
And thanks to the KJV and modern definitions of ancient words, the following become rather humorous as well -
Exodus 23:12 -Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
(Good, cause I'm sure thine ass is tired after all that work.)
Exodus 20:17 -Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
(Insert your own punchline here)
Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
(Yes... don't let his ass go astray.)
James 2:3
And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
(Hmm.... shouldn't we at least offer the poor people a real seat, next to the dude in the bright orange?)
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