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Heritage Presbytery ‘s PresWIC
Tomorrow is PresWIC (a gathering of the Women In the Church from all of the different churches in our Presbytery), and I’m really looking forward to attending. I am particularly looking forward to seeing Barbara Thompson again. While we were at the leadership training conference in Atlanta, she and Susan Hunt and I spent time […]
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Beer Brewing
Next Saturday, we’ll be making our beer for the summer – to be unbottled for the first time at our Annual Pig Roast on May 30th. We’ll be making an Irish Red Ale and a Bavarian Weizenbier (wheat beer). Some of our friends will be helping make the beer. I’m sure pictures will be posted. […]
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Back in the States
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m back in the states. The trips were generally productive, but I’m looking foward to a few 40 hour weeks to relax.
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Atlantic City
I went to AC last night with my brother for his bachelor’s party. Had a pretty good time. It’s amazing how dead the streets are at 10:30pm when we arrived, but the Trump Plaza and the Tropicana were packed. I spent about three hours playing Limit Texas Hold ‘Em at the $2/$4 tables… and walked […]
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Hairspray
misc/beard2_bigRainier Maute, a dashingly whiskered trucker from Albstadt, Germany, plans to compete in the Olympic Games later this year. It may be surprising that the 48-year-old smoker has a shot at a title. But Maute says he follows a strict training regime to keep in top form. Each morning the former world and European champion […]
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Quote of the Day
album06/IMG_0133Tom (in the middle of installing a cable modem): “Thomas, you’re touching me. Take a hike. Go play in another room.” Thomas: “Dad.. this is the FAMILY room!”
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Costume Party – March 23
On Wednesday, the kids and I threw a costume party here! Costumes were required for children and moms! There were nine moms and twenty kids. Everyone brought food to add to a smorgasbord lunch, which included munchies (chips, crackers, pretzels), cookie-cutter cut peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, fruit salad. For desert, we had jello […]
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Forgetting to obey
Always trying to improve. Here’s a thought on parenting. If a parent gives a child a task to completed that is out of their range of sight, and the parents comes back a half-hour later and it’s not done and the child says that they “forgot” that their parent had told them to do something, […]
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Mean Ladies Need Spankings; Naps
PicsOfKids/4kids2Today, I took the children to get their picture taken. I had a coupon for a free sitting and free 8×10. Everything was fine until we got into the studio room.
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Mono?
Right before I left for Australia, I found out that my friend and coworker Bill was really sick down here. He missed work a few days, and when he went to the doctors, they told him that he had all the symptoms of mono. He was out of it for a few days, and we […]
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Nice
The number one search string to find our website this month is “roppongi foreigners death”, due to this post. I’m actually the number #13 link on Google for the terms. Weird. Actually, I was in Roppongi this trip, and I had a good time, and never felt at all unsafe.
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Free Wireless at Narita
Now that’s more like it. Remember when I was saying how the United lounge at Chicago O’Hare disappointed me because I had to pay for my wireless connection in the business lounge, and because I had to pay for the alcohol? Well, they can take a lesson from the Qantas lounge at Narita Airport in […]
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Obligatory Pictures
album09/IMG_0343I guess if one goes to another country, that one must take pictures of things. It’s no lie to say that I haven’t seen the sun in five days. It’s making me irritable. Anyway, check out my obligatory Tokyo pictures.
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Sink Reflections – Chapter 2
misc/sink Chapter2: Let’s Talk about CHAOS and Clutter I think the acronym Cilley uses, and the fact that it spells a word meaning what happens as a result of clutter is just fabulous: Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome “Is your perfectionism one of the main reasons for clutter and chaos in your life and home?” […]
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Status Report
How sad is it to be in one of the most amazing cities in the world, and not being able to take the time to enjoy it? I’ve been working 12-14 hour days for the last week, and it’s really starting to take a toll. Thankfully, though, we turned the system back over to the […]