The World Surrounding Me

Matt’s playing softball, so I’m in time-waster mode tonight. Links: Time-Wasters: Terminology – believe it or not, I remember a time when I thought east was always “going towards the Atlantic” This cartoon reminds me of that. Shaun the Sheep game (from the folks who brought you Wallace & Grommit) Fantastic Contraption – I’ve passed [...]

This is not very interesting at all, but I felt like writing something, so I shall tell you the story of the world’s most hard-headed bird… Last fall, when I was working at home a lot, there would be plenty of days that I’d spend hunched over my work laptop and home computer, simultaneously. I’d [...]

The lines of a poem have been stuck in my head today. This isn’t some great work of poetry, it’s just a 4-line stanza that is written in my preschool yearbook (if you can call it that – it was preschool after all). This is the poem: A story is a special thingThe ones that [...]

I’m working on the list I keep of the hundreds of people who are involved with leadership at our church. I was looking at photos online, trying to put faces to names for the many people I don’t know. While doing so, I stumbled onto an album from our church’s 10th anniversary party. In that [...]

I found this today – text of Rick Warren’s prayer for our country and our new President at the Inauguration. I was working, so I didn’t watch the entire ceremony (I did watch President Obama’s speech when it was replayed that night), so it was nice to be able to read this: Link via Out [...]

I made this sauce for the second time tonight. Matt declared it to be “even better than your tortilla soup” which is high praise in our household. Great on tacos or rellenos, and would probably also be great on enchiladas, or perhaps also just as a dip. I modified this from several versions I found [...]

Well, I missed blog post #100 by just 2. So, rather than this being 100 things about me (as seems to be the tradition), it will be 102. I hope I can come up with that many. In no particular order, of course… This is a stream-of-consciousness look into my brain, tonight, January 14, 2009. [...]

I’m at home this afternoon – took a sick day. I’m not sick in the definition that implies contagious – but sick in the way that implies in pain and not really up to working. I had a mole removed from my forehead today, and though my doctor was great at doing the procedure itself [...]

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