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I'm posting this because I want to give praise to my boys, but I can't post this to Facebook. You'll see why.
 
On Sunday, we got word that the parents of a family at church had just lost their overtime hours at their jobs. They have 4 children still at home (and the father has 4 living with their mother). As such, they have to scale back Christmas for the kids. My wife and I decided to help them. She told our boys yesterday morning about this, three of the kids are in the same Sunday school class. She then said, "Would you like to help them?"
 
These two boys, 6 and 8, got their money envelopes, pulled out 50 cents to keep for their Royal Ranger dues, and gave her the rest of the money.

I'm posting this because I want to give praise to my boys, but I can't post this to Facebook. You'll see why.
 
On Sunday, we got word that the parents of a family at church had just lost their overtime hours at their jobs. They have 4 children still at home (and the father has 4 living with their mother). As such, they have to scale back Christmas for the kids. My wife and I decided to help them. She told our boys yesterday morning about this, three of the kids are in the same Sunday school class. She then said, "Would you like to help them?"
 
These two boys, 6 and 8, got their money envelopes, pulled out 50 cents to keep for their Royal Ranger dues, and gave her the rest of the money.

The lion and the lamb may lay down together, but the lamb will not get much sleep. I wonder if the same applies to tigers and goats.

"I have not yet begun to procrastinate!"

Only fired?  If that was my kid the bus driver would have to beg to go to prison where I couldn't get to him.

An atheist and an Evangelical Christian were talking about the Israelites crossing through the sea to escape Pharaoh. The atheist states, "that was no miracle, at certain times of the year the water recedes to a lower level along with sea plants floating in and they simply waded across."
 
The Christian pauses perplexed, then says "wow, it's an even greater miracle than I had realized."
 
The atheist looks at him and says "What? How do you figure that?" 
 
The Christian says, "Well think about it, Pharaoh's entire army drowning in waist-deep water!"

Was a good sermon with a nice response. Ephesians 6, Armor of God.

Got a big surprise this morning. The head pastor called and he's snowed in where he went for a funeral the other day. I'm preaching tomorrow. I have never finished sermon prep this fast!
 

My eldest (not quite 8) started having head aches. Most were small and short, but then he had one that incapacitated him for several hours. My wife checked his medications. Turns out that the prescription antacid has "headaches, possibly severe" as a potential side effect. He needed to come off of that, pronto. However, he was on that because he had stomachaches daily (and threw up regularly with them). My wife had been reading about why that might be and we were discussing going gluten free to see if that helped. After this headache, we decided to just go for it.
 
We stopped the antacid and went gluten free the next meal. That was two weeks ago. Not a single headache since. One stomachache (but he ate three gluten-free blueberry muffins for breakfast that morning and the pain was different than the other ones). His appetite has improved, and he feels better.
 
And there's a new dented can store about 15 miles away that carries a large selection of almost-expired-and-just-past-date gluten free products for ~75% off the retail price.

I was just issued a new iPad Air at work, and the assistant IT guy (a former student) came by to help me set it up.  He introduced me to Siri.  This has led to a few amusing Q&As.
 
 
Me: Who's on first?
Siri: That's right. Who is on first.
 
Me: What is the meaning of life?
Siri: I don't believe there's a consensus on that question.
 
Me: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Siri: The last person who asked me that ended up in a crevasse.
 
 
Who says programmers don't have a sense of humor?

Saint and Sinner, a Christian superhero, Saint who unwittingly changes into her villainous alter ego, the tall scythe wielding Sinner at times of stress and vice versa. Neither of the two are aware of each other though they hunt one another.

Was a good sermon with a nice response. Ephesians 6, Armor of God.

Due to some of my recent postings combined in my head.
 
Star Trek: TOS......
 
....with Yeoman Harley Quinn

Camaraderie, mainly. Even though I don't play, I have created many characters in several different systems. And I'm a writer, this place discusses sci-fi, fantasy, and other genres I like. While I can't answer questions about specific rules, I can answer when people ask about creating drama in their setup. And I've asked questions on those lines, too.
 
This place has a whole lot of geeks, and I feel comfortable here.

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

One fine fall day, two University of Nebraska football players, Bubba and Billy Bob, were taking their final exam in the University’s “Music Appreciation for Athletes” class.  A few minutes into the exam, one of them whispers to the other:
 
“Psst! Hey, Bubba!”
 
“Shut up, Billy Bob, you’re going to get us in trouble!”
 
“Hey, I just need help with question #3.”
 
“No!”
 
“Come on, it’ll only take a minute!”
 
“Fine, what’s question #3?”
 
“It says, ‘Fill in the blank: Old MacDonald had a blank’.”
 
“It’s ‘farm’, you dope! Everyone knows that! Old MacDonald had a farm!”
 
“Oh, yeah. Thanks!”
 
A few minutes later, there was another whisper.  “Psst! Hey, Bubba!”
 
“Knock it off! You’re gonna get us in trouble!”
 
“I just have to ask you one more question.
 
“All right, what is it now?”
 
“How do you spell farm?”
 
“You don’t know how to spell farm? You must be the most ignorant corn shucker of all time.”
 
“Come on, Billy Bob, don’t be like that. Just tell me how to spell farm.”
 
“All right, but this is the last time I’m helping you.”
 
“Thanks Bubba.”
 
“All right, this is how you spell farm: E-I-E-I-O.”

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

Got a big surprise this morning. The head pastor called and he's snowed in where he went for a funeral the other day. I'm preaching tomorrow. I have never finished sermon prep this fast!
 

Got a big surprise this morning. The head pastor called and he's snowed in where he went for a funeral the other day. I'm preaching tomorrow. I have never finished sermon prep this fast!
 

Got a big surprise this morning. The head pastor called and he's snowed in where he went for a funeral the other day. I'm preaching tomorrow. I have never finished sermon prep this fast!
 

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

The Boston Symphony performed Beethoven's Ninth recently. There's a 20 minute stretch where the double bassists have nothing to do. Instead of sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they decided to hit the tavern next door. After slamming down a few beers, one of them looked at his watch and said, "Oh. we're late!"
 
Another said, "Not to worry. I tied the last few pages together of the conductor's sheet music together with string. It'll take him a bit to get it undone."
 
Once they stumbled back in their place, a woman in the audience saw the conductor looking nervous. She mentioned this to her companion.
 
"Of course," her date replied. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded."

I did not know all of that about him, but I was correct by the end.