Category: Random

I got this spam (well, I seem to get it regularly). I have no idea who in the world would ever be able to understand it … it must be secret code, or a magic incantation or just stupid spam trash. PCAVLUXMCVrop elembi alievi ltrana eriial iagec bren um tramx diis raia ex$3 a a$1…

I read this while sitting on the couch. To think people are coming here, not just to a temporary stay till their house is ready to inhabit, but here to make a new life. To start over. With nothing in their pockets. No trucks following behind with their stuff. I pray God will use us…

Improvements are on the way to this little site (trying to figure out this RSS feed thing — so very close). I like using this site as my guinea pig for other projects … Idea; rather than point the finger – ask yourself what you can do. (and I was correct about the review; it…

Shortly there should be a review I wrote of the newest Death Cab for Cutie album (on RelevantMagazine.com. I’m fairly certain that people will not be happy with my review (because I don’t out-and-out love the album). BUT I do like Plans, but I don’t feel it’s great, or even on par with Transatlanticism. I…

I pee’d on a church. Well, not “on” a church, but in the bushes, next to a church. But, let me start from the beginning. I have a weekly tradition of going to the Dubliner with Jared and Jason at 4 on Fridays. Typically I’ve have 2 pints of Guinness and smoke my pipe (I’ve…

Days upon days pile on each other, until eventually there is a mountain of things past and little to show for the effort except sullen eyes and stuttering footsteps. This last weekend we had a tremendous time with our friends Kim and Jason at Caesars Creek on the lake. The kids had a blast. Got…

I often get foreign spam mail (I attribute it to my CIVA email account – which in China is the Chinese International Volunteer Association). I occasionally like to open one, and do a translation on it. I came many round, east under the Burma means, had to become vip member? How am I the vegetable…

… had fun (I had no idea what else to say, I’m truly uninspired). We literally Just got back to my parents house about an hour ago (pathetic that I’m on the computer; no? work calls, and the kids are out at Dutch Wonderland with mom and dad). We walked and walked and walked. No…