I’m praying for our friends the Masons as they gear up to head to China. In China they will meet and adopt their new daughter for the first time. They already have a precious daughter Nadia and she’ll be excitedly meeting her Chinese sister for the first time, but from the perspective of a child. I’m hoping that the trip goes well, the kids settle in together, and that Nadia says something funny, like she usually does, and Louanne or Mike will tweet it, blog it, or Facebook it (where Jessica will see it). She’s said some pretty funny things before – but she’s pretty jazzed right now, so the funny may be quite amped.
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I Speak in Rabbit Trails
A friend from church said to me, “I speak in rabbit trails,” while we were discussing a Sunday school class environment. That quote made me smile a big grin and I asked her for permission to use that quote on my website. So now it is the sub-title for my blog. It’s not original to me (obviously), but I feel like it is reflective of the places this mind wanders to.
2000
WordPress is telling me this is my 2000th post. Not a lot of content here, but just for grins:
1) The surprise non-geek post: Ligers
2) I’ve been blogging (mostly at this site, but when I started on a site that no longer exists) for over 10 years
3) Doing the math on that, I’m not a very consistent blogger
4) Before switching to WordPress I wrote my own blogging platform
5) Most people really want pictures of my daughters on this site, but I’m a bit short on photographs
6) After all this time I think my Sister-in-Law, Shari, still thinks I’m a dork
7) I have probably gotten the most comments on this blog from my mom, who used to regularly correct my spelling and grammar
8) This list isn’t very interesting
9) The blog I used to link to, but that is defunct, but that I miss the most is “Apropos of Nothing”
10) Before Facebook and Twitter I used to spend a LOT more time on this site
Factual Friday: Acrylic Drums
Just to add to the ‘way too much’ nature of this blog: I learned to play the drumset in Jr. High on the school’s acrylic drums. They were clear, tuned poorly, and older than the entire drum section’s ages combined. We loved them. We played and played on them. No animals or trees were harmed in their manufacturing, unless of course you consider that plastic is a petroleum biproduct, in which case animals and plants may have been harmed quite some time ago for their manufacturing. I’m pretty sure PETA would protest those drums and put paint on them. We’d probably have hit the PETA members back with the wooden drum sticks we all carried around with us EVERYWHERE.