WATER FELL FROM THE SKY!Recently, I mentioned that Austin is in a terrible drought, and this past week the city put us in Stage 2 water restrictions. Then, literally out of the blue, we got two rainstorms this week. That was nearly more rain in 48 hours than I think I've seen all summer. It was overcast when I woke this morning, too, and perhaps ( Read more... )

So... had an interesting evening tonight... Mormons showed up at the door before Ian got home from work. Those boys are always so polite, and the patience of my LDS friends in putting up with my endless Dial-A-Mormon questions has really given me a good respect for their missionary work. I cheerfully invited them in, and sat chatting with them a ( Read more... )

Hello Friends!

Sorry I have been uncharacteristically absent from blogging in recent times. As you can imagine, the move to Austin and related events have been fairly all-consuming over the past two weeks. My thanks to those of you who've reached out to stay in touch with me, and for everyone's patience as I have been out of touch.

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I just watched a movie called, "September Dawn," about a massacre of some pioneers that was blamed on crazy Mormons. Really interesting; it made me think ( Read more... )

English midterm paper is in the final stages of polish. I wrote my conclusion at lunch -- that's the easiest part of the whole thing. I gave the whole paper one solid edit, and even read it allowed to make sure it flows nicely and catch some weird word choices. I always find that really helpful. Sure enough, I caught a whole bunch of little burrs ( Read more... )

I've got some neat things to look forward to in the next month or so, many of them embarrassingly geeky, I have to admit ( Read more... )

Third Time's The CharmGot up early this morning and tried my new commute for the third time, leaving even earlier this time. As anticipated, although I left 10 minutes earlier than last time, I arrived at my destination 25 minutes earlier (lack of pouring rain may have had an effect here). I arrived at my office building much earlier than I would ( Read more... )

Stayed up later than I intended last night since I started reading The Godfather. Therefore I did not wake up early to make Commute Test Two. I now understand what both my parents told me, that they couldn't put the book down. In fact, my father started reading it on my parents' honeymoon. My mother joked that their marriage almost ended in the ( Read more... )

( How I came to pray last night. )

( Thinkin about religion, God, and talks about the same. )