My Own Thoughts

Went to slightly pissed and he had a link to “Hot or not” which he swears is a guy in drag. I went searching the web for this “put the nose with the face” thing I saw, where it was a quiz to see if you could tell by the nose if it was a [...]

Just watched a show on Beyond 2000 about bees being killed off by parasites. Right now there is nothing that is stopping the parasites. Europe's honeybee population has been “devastated” and 1000s of hives in Ohio have been killed by the little critters. Then, I was reading my email and got this. Defenceless banana 'will [...]

Today I got my great grandmother's old oak rocker back from the restoration and upholstery people. It needed a slat replaced. And since they had it, I asked them to make a cushion so that it was actually comfortable. Now it sits in my living room with my two “modern” sofas, inherited from my mom [...]

Tomorrow is the day for teleological and cosmological arguments for God. Will probably mention Lewis' moral argument as well. If we get through all that, I have a question/answer session on the continuity of the Bible. (Interesting stuff.) But since I also need to pick up the kids' 5 verses they think sum up their [...]

I was reading kimmy's blog on blog-city. She said random people stop in and write her comments. Or people she knows. Not anyone else. Who else would there be? I know that is a bit of a strange question, but it's really got me thinking. Non-random people. How are those different from random people? Are [...]

I have been seriously considering giving up on BFL. It's been 42 weeks; I'm in week 43. I've lost 43 pounds and 27 inches, but it is slow. And it just seems as if I am not getting anywhere. My hubby took a week off, did no cardio and no weights, but did stay up [...]

Right now I am supposed to be up at church singing “She'll be coming round the mountain” with 16 little 3 year olds. However, both my kids were up sick this morning. So, we're home. All day. Can't think that will be fun, but I guess we will all live through it. Right now I [...]

Body for Life is a 12 week work out/eat right challenge. I'm on my fourth. Today's journal entry starts off with “Congratulations! You are more than halfway!” That was amazing. How did that happen? It's been a day at a time and finally, poof, it's been six weeks. I'm not making progress like the Champions [...]

The save software wasn't working on Monday, so I wasn't able to add my blog entries for the day. Did anyone else have this problem? The good thing about that was I got my syllabus finished. It looks good and do-able. Much less work than I normally do in that sort of class. Much less [...]

I've been playing with color on my blog. Used to be a preset theme. The two tone blue one. Can't remember what it's called. What do you think of the new colors?

If you're wondering what practical jokes and/or lies have been cropping up throughout history, you can hit the museum of hoaxes online. I went to college pranks to read about the Rose Bowl Parade prank that 14 students from CalTech pulled off on national television the year before I was born. (Yes, they had TV [...]

If you haven't made your European tour, feel free to hit Brussels' navels and check out the belly buttons of hundreds, thousands, of Europeans. Send him a pic of your belly button to go in the gallery. Think it's kind of silly, but some days you need silly.

The fun new Big and Small commercial from Apple Computers, featuring “Mini Me” and the 7ft Chinese basketball player. Great fun.

I'm ready for this week, up till Saturday classes start. I'm not ready for those. I need to get back in gear and get my syllabus finished and typed out. My husband was thinking about taking time off on Friday and us going out of town, but he forgot I have to work. (I forgot [...]

Found a great entry at Pinesol's blog about the Brit's poet laureate being so forcefully against war. Four short, not very good, rhyming lines. Then Pinesol directed me to Tim Blair's blog where he quotes the bunches of people who sent him four and more line poems in scorn or support of Motion's politics. CAUSA [...]

After six long days, my husband is home. His trip was uneventful and his airport experience simple. I am so glad he's home.

These are two arguments about God which I will be lecturing on in Apologetics next week. The first is the cosmological argument. This attempts to prove that things have a cause and that there must be an uncaused-cause as starting place. Objects do not bring themselves into existence; they must have a cause. 1. Things [...]

That's sarcasm. One of the administrators called tonight, fairly late, 9 pm, and said that another administrator, who had not been in on the discussion, thought that I should call each and every one of the students' parents and explain what we talked about in relation to suicide. She did say I could skip her [...]

I love the USA. I love our nation's history, sordid though it is in places. I love our nation's motto. I love the flag. I love the pledge of allegiance. I even love the national anthem, more for the story than the music. But I do not love the fact that people who went voluntarily [...]

For those who came when this was up as a draft, sorry. I thought I hit save as draft, but apparently not. It is no longer a draft. One thing I have found very interesting on blog-city that I am not finding on other blog sites is the lack of links. I enjoy the diary [...]