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Baby Escapes…then Destroys Surveillance Footage
Too Funny. HT: Creative Minority Report … Read entire article »
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Saltwater, Electricity and Me
A simple GFCI outlet saved me from taking 120v and 15A last night. I’d installed it five days before for the fish tank, thinking that the only thing worse than water and electricity is saltwater and electricity, given its superior conductivity. All the while installing it, I kept thinking, “I’m doing this really for Marjorie.” She’s the one who has nightmares about the house burning down around her children. Did I really need it? I mean, … Read entire article »
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Twenty Days
Yep. That long since my last post. I think it may be time to put up or shut up. Seems like too many blogs are closing down and the pros are taking over. They are consolidating, I guess. What have I been doing the past twenty days? Working. Preaching. Administering the sacraments. Playing with my fish tank. Writing some fiction. Getting the kids ready for school. Lamenting my girth and trying to figure out a good time to get back to the Y … Read entire article »
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Signs from God?
I had a bad time writing the other day. It was late afternoon, I had a few moments of quiet and tried to write a little on a project I am working on and immediately got stymied. Stuck. Like mud. No, more like quicksand with a bunch of fifth-graders laughing at me. It was really bad. No more than an hour later a friend confided that he was meeting someone in the industry to talk about … Read entire article »
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From Your Side
Last Sunday I attended church by sitting in a pew instead of standing up there where I usually worship. It was a joy to sit and stand next to my family: my aunt behind me, my sisters and parents down the pew and in front. If I cannot be with my church family here, then being with my relatives is the best. It was good to help my son remember to stand and pray, to … Read entire article »
What We Expect Is What We Get – Lifehacker
I think we all understand the placebo effect a little, but this article (What We Expect Is What We Get – Lifehacker) describes something even more bizarre: being told you job makes you more fit actually does. I’m going to stop lamenting about my job being so sedentary and start thinking of it as active. Also, go back to the Y more often. … Read entire article »
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Thoughts on the Storm Shelter
So I grew up in the Kansas City area and remember watching the horizon darken, the air grow green and then, in a flash, like a thrown light switch the rain appear, pelting the front yard. We would watch from the front porch, breathing the ozone-rich air, smelling the rain, feeling the temperature drop by the second. It was lovely. And I’ve lived in Oklahoma now for years and years–sixteen years almost total– and can’t see the storms brewing, but they come with their vengeance here too. With all of this I’ve always thought storm shelters were dumb. Dumb. What are the chances? What are the chances a tornado will hit your house bad enough to kill? Really? It’s like buying lottery insurance, I always thought. Or lightening strike insurance. What … Read entire article »
This “Test” May Harm You
I just took the most disturbing little psychology “test” online. Weird, diss-associative, paranoid, ambiguous questions, which resulted in the a horoscope-style profile that I, for once, found amazingly accurate here it is: The test is here You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day. You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not-of-this-earth. Occasionally you imagine interior lives for friends and associates that are near-complete fabrications based on your fears or hopes for the future. You are often not aware of your own feelings. You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and because of this are often disappointed. Despite what can sometimes be a destructive inward-turning anger, you are very gentle. You are sometimes a bit out … Read entire article »
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Distinguish Between “Idle TIme” and “Leisure Time” to Avoid Wasting Time
In my ever-time-consuming search to be more productive, efficient and less of a wastrel, idler and no-goodnik, here is a link I discovered. My wife is a natural at this, though I am not. Here’s to the future! Distinguish Between “Idle TIme” and “Leisure Time” to Avoid Wasting Time. … Read entire article »
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