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- December 23rd, 2009
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A Special Xmas Edition of WTF Wordless Wednesday: Rudolf the Transvestite Reindeer
In the display at our local library for December are dolls, among which is this particularly creepy one:My wife says it looks like the Infant Jesus of Prague.To me, though, it's this profile photo tha…
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Grateful for what online friends have given me, but not necessarily for what I’ve given them
For this week’s Sleeping With Bread post (click on the badge at right for more information about the meme), I’m going to cut right to the chase. For what am I most grateful this past week…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Sharing The Only True Currency In This Bankrupt World With Uncool Kevin
Well, I said yesterday that I was giving my family "nuttin'" for Christmas. However, that doesn't mean I'm getting nuttin' for everybody, especially since I got something special for Kevin McBeaver of…
- December 21st, 2009
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What I’ve Read So Far For The Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
I joined Kerrie from Mysteries in Paradise with her Agatha Christie Reading Challenge back in February of this year. I thought it would be good, since it’s close to the end of the year and I…
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I see NUTTIN\', I know NUTTIN\', I buy NUTTIN\' for Christmas and encourage you to do the same
So this is ChristmasAnd what have you doneThis year, I feel like answering that question like the dumb David Letterman guy:"Um, I don't know."Shrugs shoulders."Nuttin'."And guess what I'm getting for…
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Poirot Loses A Client
Title: Poirot Loses A Client (aka Dumb Witness) Author: Agatha Christie Publication Year: 1937 Pages: 234 Genre: Mystery Count for Year: 53 How I discovered I have joined Kerrie from Mysteries in…
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Poirot Loses A Client
Title: Poirot Loses A Client (aka Dumb Witness) Author: Agatha Christie Publication Year: 1937 Pages: 234 Genre: Mystery Count for Year: 53 How I discovered I have joined Kerrie from Mysteries…
- December 19th, 2009
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An early Christmas present: Yet another New AND Improved Blogroll
Many of these blogs can be found on the following sites:Humor-Blogs.comHumor BloggersBlogStorm
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Step Right Up And Get Your FREE KIDS
Yes, our local video store is offering FREE KIDS (See store for details, mentioned twice, in case you missed it the first time). My wife and I don’t have kids, but I don’t know if we’d pick them…
- December 17th, 2009
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Duck Duck Goose? This week I hope so
I'm looking to cook Team Duckgirl's goose in the first round of the playoffs in the Humor Fantasy Football League. To see how I plan to do it, visit my post on the league blog about our upcoming match…
- December 15th, 2009
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Here\'s to you, Randy Moss, Jesus loves you more than me after this past weekend
Here's the number of points Randy Moss gave me this past weekend in fantasy football:To say I was displeased would be an understatement on par to Tiger Woods wishing he had never backed out of his dri…
- December 14th, 2009
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Things You Didn’t Know About Your Local Library, Part I
Earlier this month, I began a part-time job at our local library. On my first day, I was given a tour of the library, at which point the librarian said she’d tell me Things You Didn’t Know…
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Things You Didn\'t Know About Your Local Library, Part I
Earlier this month, I began a part-time job at our local library. On my first day, I was given a tour of the library, at which point the librarian said she'd tell meThings You Didn't Know About Your L…
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On discernment, friends and forgetting
Thomas Merton enters the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. 1941. I saw this on a desk calendar at the hospice where I volunteer last Thursday, Dec. 10. Earlier that day, in meeting with my sp…
- December 11th, 2009
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This Is Not An Empty Blog Post. It\'s A Reminder For Me To Write A Real One In The Near Future.
This is what I saw at the bottom of my Reese's Peanut Butter Cups package the other day......in case I needed a reminder to pick up an empty-calorie candy.Isn't it bad enough that I'm being "reminded"…
- December 9th, 2009
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I’m still reading (yeah yeah yeah)
Some of you may be wondering, “This guy calls himself a reading fool? Puh-leeze. Who does he think he’s kidding?” You’re right. However, I’d like to point to the title o…
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I’m still reading (yeah yeah yeah)
Some of you may be wondering, “This guy calls himself a reading fool? Puh-leeaze. Who’s he kidding?” You’re right. However, I’d like to point to the title of my blog and…
- December 8th, 2009
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Of Jedi Knights, stew and fantasy football
What do stewand Jesus wielding a light saber:http://www.flickr.com/photos/theshadowknows/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0have to do with fantasy football?Find out the answer to this and many more pressing questions…
- December 6th, 2009
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Letting the grace snow down
It’s Sunday morning and earlier this morning (much earlier) I listened to a homily on EWTN for a daily Mass for Saturday from Alabama. In the homily, the priest discussed snow falling there and…
- December 4th, 2009
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Ruh-Roh, a rhee-hee-hee edition of NPR\'s Morning Edition
Aaron Schroeder, who wrote the above song (along with Wally Gold), passed away yesterday at the age of 83. Schroeder also wrote other number one Presley hits "Stuck on You," "Good Luck Charm," "A Big…
- December 2nd, 2009
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This Is Your Brain On TV
"Brain Fog? Anxious? Moody?Is Your Brain Undernourished?"All I could do at 3:30 a.m. this morning as I was volunteering at a hospice where I had been up most of the night was nod, "Yes" to the televis…
- November 30th, 2009
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Turn it up! Yeah!
Nothing like being up at 6 a.m. Sunday morning with Batman Returns blaring in the background from a surround-sound TV.But that's where I found myself this past weekend.The cost of volunteering the ove…
- November 28th, 2009
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A belated Thanksgiving Midweek Review Library Loot Flashback Friday Review of Challenges post
Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today… …from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly sched…
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A belated Thanksgiving Midweek Review Library Loot Flashback Friday Review of Challenges post
Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today… …from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly sched…
- November 24th, 2009
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The Injustice of Procrastination
Last month I signed up for:that is going on all this month over at Humor Bloggers dot com. This evening is my first post about injustice, specifically the injustice of procrastination.Actually, techni…
- November 23rd, 2009
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My Little Pony Felicity and My Wife
This is a rerun from last December headlining The Wife. I thought it appropriate to rerun because today is our 13th wedding anniversary (happy anniversary, hon) and it highlights one of the many reaso…
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Thankful for 13 lucky years!
Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book by the same name and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Fla…
- November 20th, 2009
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Thank God for the rabbits and our house. Amen.
On one of the walls In the hallway of our church is a bulletin board where comments from kids are put up in responses to questions they are presented in Sunday school.Last week I saw responses to this…
- November 18th, 2009
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The call of Spenser and Cthulhu
This is a combination of the past two weeks’ Library Loot actually. You may say, “That’s sad.” However, I have been sick with the flu (swine maybe) for the past few weeks and…
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The call of Spenser and Cthulhu
This is a combination of the past two weeks’ Library Loot actually. You may say, “That’s sad.” However, I have been sick with the flu (swine maybe) for the past few weeks and…
- November 17th, 2009
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Am I bugging you? I don\'t mean to bug ya.
Last night while talking to my father on the telephone, he fell asleep.I was there talking away for about five minutes and then I hear nothing."Dad?"Pause. Nothing."Dad?"As often is the case with cell…
- November 16th, 2009
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Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around (yes, yet again)
I previously have written about this rock back last year on my running blog, then again in a reprint in July on this blog and referenced it in a post later that month. This morning, I found the rock…
- November 13th, 2009
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The Blah!
This past week, it struck.....with a FURY! Hurricane Katrina? Please, get the funk outta ma face. This is 100 times worse in its wake.No, not the Swine Flu, although it did play a role in this product…
- November 11th, 2009
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Out of my 50 books, 50 movies this year, my 20 must-see, must-read
I just tallied up the number of books I’ve read and movies I’ve watched for the year, and I’m at 50 for each. Last year I read 70 books according to this, which also lists this year&…
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Out of my 50 books, 50 movies this year, my 20 must-see, must-read
I just tallied up the number of books I’ve read and movies I’ve watched for the year, and I’m at 50 for each. Last year I read 70 books according to this, which also lists this year&…
- November 9th, 2009
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I am the Thread Creep or Professional Thread Jacker, at your service
Okay, first of all, I'm not this bad.Second, though, yes, I do hijack threads from time to time as the artist of this illustration, Jenn Thorson, can tell you because I did it over on her Facebook pag…
- November 6th, 2009
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I’ve got friends in low places
For this week’s Flashback Friday, during which I try to participate in the Sleeping with Bread meme with these fine ladies, I would like to be short for what I am grateful and not so grateful th…
- November 5th, 2009
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Let it begin with me
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, l…
- November 4th, 2009
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This blog is under quarantine until further notice...
It's true. This blog is under quarantine because its author possibly has the swine flu. If you've already entered, even through a reader, I'm sorry, but you aren't allowed to leave. You're forced to l…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Watching my weight, Sparkin’ up (no, it’s not what you think) and heading to the beach
It’s been more than two months since my last Just A (Running) Fool post (and Motivation Monday post too). Today, hopefully I can begin a new streak of not only posting once a week for Just A (Ru…
- October 30th, 2009
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Sorry, I’ve been hanging out elsewhere this week
Waving… “Hey, I’m still here.” Sorry, just been hanging out elsewhere the past week: Tuesday: Humor Bloggers Fantasy Football League Blog where I was playing Tuesday Morning Q…
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Sorry, I’ve been hanging out elsewhere this week
Waving… “Hey, I’m still here.” Sorry, just been hanging out elsewhere the past week: Tuesday: Humor Bloggers Fantasy Football League Blog where I was playing Tuesday Morning Q…
- October 28th, 2009
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The Top 10 Biblical Characters To Dress Up As At Halloween...er...Harvest Parties
The emphasis on Halloween for me as a youth was on the "Hallow" as in "Hallowed be Thy name."I grew up in an Assemblies of God background, which didn't even believe in Boy Scouts but had Royal Rangers…
- October 22nd, 2009
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Mercury Falls: Worth $12 for paperback, $5 for Kindle on Amazon? Let me tell you
Title: Mercury Falls Author: Robert Kroese Publication Year: 2009 Pages: 337 Genre: Fiction Count for Year: 48 How I discovered It’s a wee bit complicated, but the short version is that I know…
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Mercury Falls: Worth $12 for paperback, $5 for Kindle on Amazon? Let me tell you
Title: Mercury Falls Author: Robert Kroese Publication Year: 2009 Pages: 337 Genre: Fiction Count for Year: 48 How I discovered It’s a wee bit complicated, but the short version is that I know…
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Mercury Falls: Worth $12 for paperback, $5 for Kindle on Amazon? Let me tell you
Title: Mercury FallsAuthor: Robert KroesePublication Year: 2009Pages: 337Genre: FictionCount for Year: 48 How I discoveredIt's a wee bit complicated, but the short version is that I know Robert Kroese…
- October 21st, 2009
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Library Loot in reverse
Today I am returning a pile of books that I took out of the library earlier this month — unread. I write this as I sit on our couch with a bookshelf beside me. I turn 90 degrees to the right an…
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Library Loot in reverse
Today I am returning a pile of books that I took out of the library earlier this month — unread. I write this as I sit on our couch with a bookshelf beside me. I turn 90 degrees to the right an…
- October 19th, 2009
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Got your Race Face on?
From the folks who brought you Sun Bum and Game Face comes Race Face.*Yes, it's the only officially NASCAR-licensed sunscreen. So the next time somebody at the race asks you, "Got your race face on?,…
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Are you giving your best?
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 Malachi 1:14, 2:13-16 and an excerpt…
