It is absolutely gorgeous out right now, and has been for days.  Our Septembers tend to be, but it still takes me off guard.  A few of the trees have even ventured to turn colors.  Like those scarlet maples or whatever they are that do the whole flame-orange-red thing.  I love those ( Read more... )

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
 a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
 though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
Though its waters roar and foam,
 though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
 Selah

There is a ( Read more... )

Three years ago - slightly more than that - I decided to lose weight.  I wasn't horribly overweight or anything, but I'd been slowly gaining weight ever since my senior year in high school.  I carried it well (I thank my grandmother for my good build) being 5'5" and about 160 lbs was uncomfortable and not terribly pretty.  But the hard part wasn't ( Read more... )

I'm working on writing my way through my emotional life, how it all works, what it's influenced by, how to use it to the fullest.  And I think I'm drawing in threads connecting introversion, pure sensory processing, and AD/HD.  Not that it's all the same thing, not that parts aren't my own fault, and not to make myself a victim.  Just to work out ( Read more... )

Netflix has Duck Soup.  I'd never seen any Marx Brothers stuff before, so I watched it.  I'm sure there's lots I didn't get, and some things didn't age well, but I gotta say, nearly eighty years on, I about died when someone asked Harpo for a light and he pulled a blowtorch out of his pants.

Also, you can really see where Animaniacs got its ( Read more... )

I did something really clever in preparation for Holy Week.  I read Perelandra.

It wasn't on purpose.  What was on purpose was listening to Handel's Messiah during Holy Week, as that oratorio was written for Easter (not Christmas), and anyway, every time someone started quoting Messianic passages (in church or online or wherever), I could only ( Read more... )

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One of the things I love about astronomy is that we humans have been documenting the stars for so long that modern astronomers get useful information from data collected centuries ago.  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day talks about how the light from Cassiopeia A's supernova reached Earth 330 years ago.  Which is way before computers and ( Read more... )

When I get my hands on something that I really want, something I think I'm really going to enjoy, I do this throaty laugh thing as I anticipate the pleasure of experiencing whatever it is I've got.

Yesterday I got a package from Amazon.  It had the Season Five soundtrack to Doctor Who, the latest Newsboys CD (Born Again), and A.W. Tozer's ( Read more... )

Work was stressful.  Even though I got a whole new chunk of RAM in my machine.  (I only had a gig.)  I was in rather a bad mood when I left ( Read more... )