The story of stuff….

It seems to me sometimes that we don't own our stuff, rather our stuff owns us....https://goo.gl/ggrcC8 We accumulate so much stuff, it gets in the way and sometimes causes arguments. We hold on to stuff for sentimental value but it is stuffed away hidden in a cardboard box in a dark rarely entered room....

I was up at 02:00 am to take mother-in-l …

I was up at 02:00 am to take mother-in-law and her sister to airport. I am really tired; I suspect getting up too early is worse than going to bed too late. What's really rough though is to go to bed too late AND get up too early ! I'm way too old to do …

An article decrying the wasting of time …

This article decrying the wasting of time looking at trash on the media | Distracting Ourselves to Death http://goo.gl/xoB5gP Its prompts me to ponder whether it is the content or the media itself ? I suspect a good answer would be "moderation in all things"

My Friend Dated My Rapist is the persona …

My Friend Dated My Rapist is the personal story of a woman who was raped at a dorm party in her freshman year at college. She tells how she tried to ignore it by burying it deep in her mind but eventually found some degree of relief from the pain by speaking up and telling …

I have confidence in me

I make Excel spreadsheets to document personal property claims and to be honest, I am damn good at it. I know my way around Excel. So what would I like to be better at ? Let's start with being a better Excel geek... I could learn more about the statistical functions, pivot tables and the …

What I Worry About

I tend to worry frequently about a lot of things. Being 57 years old I really ought to know better; worrying doesn't help ! Also, my experience so far has been that whatever happens is not nearly so catastrophic as I imagined it would be.... My favorite thing to worry about is money; I never …

What I'm Saving Up to Buy

I have a 401k plan for retirement but otherwise live paycheck to paycheck. I try to keep a few hundred in the bank but often I must "raid the cookie jar" to pay some bill or unexpected expense. And so it goes.....

Amazon Kindle: The Hangman's Daught …

Amazon Kindle: The Hangman's Daughter | Recently read this one. Interesting with many historical details and an intricate plot.... Interesting to note that Jacob, the Hangman, is in many ways a really decent person, quite intelligent and progressive but also seems to have no qualms about his work. Actually we all simultaneously exhibit both good …

Would I Live Forever?

First of all let me state that my faith in Christ leads me to conclude that I will live forever but not life as we now know it here on Earth. Even so I am in no hurry to meet the Lord in Heaven; I have no desire to die. For this question I will …

An unfinished thought is any thought, re …

An unfinished thought is any thought, really — if a thought is “finished” it’s dead. We are all of us in transition, all the time, and our thoughts can be no exception.

Our public officials won’t tell you the …

Our public officials won't tell you the truth, but I will. If we still have high unemployment and rising foreclosures: the recession is NOT over ! If soldiers and civilians (both American and Iraqi) continue to be killed by insurgents: the war is NOT over ! If Afghanistan is still infested with Taliban and Al …

The Other Religion at Ground Zero – Newsweek

The Other Religion at Ground Zero - Newsweek - They ought to let these guys rebuild; they were there way before the WTC was even thought of. I don't have a problem with the Mosque either but I would advise against it because of the intense opposition; if they did build it I suspect the …

People who see the iPad can’t control …

People who see the iPad can’t control their desire to buy one, because they’re so cool! Good article by Leo I'm not so "hard core" as he is but he does bring up many good points. He's right, I would buy an iPad if I could afford one but the truth is I don't really …

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-103458 …

My so-called paperless life --  article about digitizing record keeping with suggestions and caveats. Something I have noticed though is that with digital technology making it easy to produce multiple versions of documents and everyone wants a hard copy of everything; seems to me that we use more paper than ever before....

Like this:

What surprises me is the amount of time those discussions get in the US – this ideology, like most, is an extreme simplification that couldnt work alone for 5 days. Its good to have a bit of everything ! How people fail to see that and sometimes spend their life cherishing their abstraction of choice …

Why do people get so “gaga” over cel …

Why do people get so “gaga” over celebrities ? Totally baffling to me ! I’m not a MJ fan but I do acknowledge he was a talented, skilled entertainer and musician and of course it’s sad when anyone dies. MJ was like anyone else really; he had his good points and his bad points (which …

sunday afternoon…..

I'm tired ! After church I helped Sweetous build some shelves for the closet. I was going to work on a spreadsheet from work but I am way too tired for that now. I may try to fix my other computer which gets hung up trying to boot. I figure I'll reformat and install a …

sunday evening home alone….

Sweetous is staying the week with Piglette so I am home alone again. I'm a fairly self contained self reliant person; some might even say I was semi-reclusive. I actually don't like being alone though; it can be downright unnerving. In Genesis God said that it was not good for a man to be alone; …

Digital vs Real….

I wonder which will prove to be more durable: the faded photos stuffed in boxes in the attic or the digital ephemera stored in "locations" that are really only collections of bytes somewhere in cyberspace.... My parents have a few old faded photos of their parents and even grandparents hidden away somewhere. They have a …

thoughts about the web….

The links on the web are like footnotes or "see also" notes in books. Hypertext is better than footnotes because it makes vast amounts of information available at the click of a mouse. I used to read encylopedias in high school study hall; now I surf the web. The web is wonderful, but it has …