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Things, Goings On, and Stuff I write

Sushi

Jessica ate Sushi tonight and liked it.  She totally wrestled with the chopsticks, but made up for it in eating raw, uncooked, redundant fish.  On top of that she also ate non-fish items like rice, veggies and cooked eel.  Good stuff.  I had some sushi, but the balance of my meal came from the plate, which balanced quite nicely on the table.  Oh, and I ate Kung Pow Chicken!  I asked for it to be extra hot.  I think the chef thought I meant, warm, which was fine, because the flavor was actually quite nice on top of being warm.  Next time I think I’ll have to send it back and complain that I wasn’t crying after the first bite.  Dr. Starling, whom we went to dinner with, thought that the KPC was hot, but I think she needs to learn about hot by eating more hot stuff like habanero peppers.

OK, I really need to go to bed now.

New Neighbors

last night I met one of our new neighbors.  Her name is Jen, and her husband’s name is Sean.  I don’t know how he spells it Sean, Shawn, Shon, Shaughn or Schwann [that’s a joke].  What is amusing for me is that two of my best friends throughout High School were named Sean & Jen, and they briefly dated.  However, this is surely not them 🙂

I then proceeded to ride my unicycle (or at least practice riding my unicycle).  Which was pretty funny because I’m rather stinky at it still and Jen was raking the leaves in their front yard.  I hope that I didn’t scare her.  You don’t meet a lot of unicyclers, so it may make her think twice about talking with us again.

From the Headlines: Bush and Hu Agree Iran Shouldn’t Have Nukes

In what has to be one of the more ‘obvious’ types of statements: most world leaders think that they should be leading. Now, I’ll admit that a bunch of weapons of mass distruction in anyone’s hands is a potentially bad thing, but the Iranians need to just stick to persecuting Christians, selling oil to nations they hate for “un-Allah-ly” [get it?] amounts of money and making statements that only Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell could beat.

And the U.S. and China should go about with their lovely trading strategy of the U.S. hating China’s communism, but dirt cheap prices, and the Chinese should love selling trash to the U.S. using raw materials they imported from us with complete distrust. It will be beautiful – there will be world harmony if we all go about despising one another and building better weapons than the other guys. Yeah, its like a luke-warm war instead of a cold war.

Upgraded

I have upgraded my WordPress install finally to the latest 2.0 release.  I have Akismet enabled and we’ll see how much spam I get blocked due to this nifty tool.  If you have any problems since the upgrade feel free to email me or leave a comment (unless the problem is with the comments 🙂 )

Knock, Knock

Abby’s been trying to develop her humor skills over the last several months. She’s been doing knock, knock jokes. Only she doesn’t know any knock, knock jokes. So she’ll say “Knock, knock.” To which I’ll reply, “Who’s there?”
She’ll come up with some random word and then just bust up laughing. Its precious in a painful sort of way because the humorist inside of me goes, “No, that’s not how to do those!”

As if there’s actually a really sophisticated knock, knock joke that I’ve developed over years of finely tuned stand-up yacking. Given the quality of some of the humor on this site, I should probably be taking lessons from her. Or maybe lessens 😉

/me will now be trying to think of the best knock, knock joke ever for days.

Happy Resurrection Sunday Day!

Today is the day we commemorate the empty tomb. The tomb a rich man purchased for a Messiah who came to save a people who rejected Him because he wasn’t wearing Armani, healed people on the Sabbath and rejected their extension of the law to a point where love was not practiced and faith was rejected for bloodline. He fed many, he healed many, he corrected many and loved the children. He wasn’t a politician, He wouldn’t go along with the system. In many ways Christ was the rebel that people would have rejected on the onset because the culture had departed from the pattern God had set. His rightouesness was obvious, but infuriating, His words true yet hard for folks to understand because they had long rejected what God had spoken for newer ideas. To quote Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “God created man in His image. Man returned the favor.”

In the end the empty tomb is not our focus – the resurrected Son of God is our focus, and He’s seated at the right hand of God now… and those who believe? They are hidden in Him:
Colossians 3:3
For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

From the News: Used Up Italian Porn Star Tries to Compete with Heavenly Virgins

When reality is this twisted, it must be blogged. An Italian Porn star offers herself to Bin Laden if he’ll stop the terrorism. First she’s not the young spry thing that she once was, so when you see her picture it won’t remind you of the photoshopped/airbrushed pictures of most every other person on the cover of any magazine (not just the naughty ones) – so the physical allure of her offer is definitely lacking. Secondly if Bin Laden gets killed in action as a martyr he’ll get free virgins in heaven according to Islam.

Apparently this gal doesn’t know her world religions very well.

Linux for the Weekend

This weekend I ended up installing Ubuntu Linux onto an old machine that was choking under Windows XP. Wow. I ended up Remote Desktopping into Windows from Ubuntu to do Windows only things and spent the rest of the weekend in Linux, including finishing up my handout for the Sunday School class that I had to teach yesterday morning. It even connected to my network printer without issues [Yes, I had to configure it a tiny bit, but it wasn’t hard]. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu, there are ‘live CD’ images available. You just download the image, burn it to a disk, and then reboot your computer. Ubuntu looks good, works fast, and makes the old Pentium III 1 Ghz 256 MB or RAM feel like a screamer.

It is Enough to Make Me Cry

This morning Jessica has been cutting onions up in preparation for dinner. She has been doing this upstairs in the kitchen while I am working in the basement about as far away from the onions as I could possibly be. However, the eye irritating sulphur has made its way down and is permeating the office, my eyes and the computers, who are also crying.