I was party to a very meaningful moment today. Sometimes God entrusts me with important messages to people that usually mean nothing to me. Sometimes I find out later what they mean, or even have a glimmering at the time, but usually I have nook idea of the gravity f the situation. In this case, i didn't realize until it sank in afterward. But then ( Read more... )

*squeee* [unpronounceable Swahili name] made her triumphant entry into the world tonight! now I'm officially weird uncle Jari! Well...I was weird uncle Jari before, but I've never seen my newborn niece/nephew in anything but years-old pictures. She was very quiet, and when she did make noise, she made kitty sounds...it was so cute! but while she ( Read more... )

An interesting thing happened tonight....whilst I was on this very computer in the corner of EDR, a guy started picking on a girl at one of the other computers. This is ABSOLUTELY NOT DONE. It was sort of in fun, but she was fed up with it, and asked him to stop, and he wouldn't. I've never seen anything like this happen in all my time wiht ( Read more... )

Tonight at work I met a teacher I hadn't talked to in far too long. One of my favorites. Mr. Nau, who is finally teaching calculus again (set cheer="Whoo hoo!!!!"; there's a long and complicated explanation to his being ousted from calculus, but it mostly involves inner- and inter-school politics, and is entirely stupid). Anyhow, I talked to him ( Read more... )

I discovered by accident at work a while ago that Kellogg brand Pot Tarts are Jari-safe. So I went to Walmart today to buy some, and was pleased (and surprised) to find that they taste much better (and are considerably cheaper) than the ones at work. The ones at work are bitter. I can't imagine how old they are. :-P ( Read more... )

We had a lady back into one of the gas pumps tonight. Again. I'd ask why men don't run into gas pumps, but two is hardly a quorum, even if they were both women. :-3 Either way, this one was a bit more serious than just marring the aesthetics. It put a nice crunchy impact crater in the metal housing (the kind that can't be fixed with giant CO2 ( Read more... )

Every night before bed I read a chapter of the Bible. Sometimes the sheer enthralling power of the story catches me and I get sucked in, reading chapters and chapters before I even realize it. This used to be such a problem I had to be pretty strict about the "one chapter" rule, because when you read too much, you can't really digest and think ( Read more... )

On Saturday I worked the noon shift, which was a nice change of pace (even if it meant not enough sleep because I worked the night shift the night before). The morning shifters were play-bantering back and forth like always, though when I caught one of them alone a little later, she nearly broke down in tears because of several non-work ( Read more... )

Despite all my complaints about it, and despite all the jokes I make about it, I honestly have to confess that I'm proud of my state. Idaho is a good place in my humble, heavily biased opinion. People seem to be, for the most part, honest and maybe even kind-hearted...sort o a (stereotypical) grandmother-type of thing. Good ol' fashion values, good ( Read more... )

I just saw the movie "US Marshals". Several times, particularly of late, I've noted a striking similarity between people I know and famous people. Tommy Lee Jones (or so mom says the guy who played the Marshal was)'s character was very much like Todd, my old Refuge boss. About all they have in appearance is gray hair, but their voices have all the ( Read more... )