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Friday, 10 July 2009
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Happy 500th Birthday, John Calvin!
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
Cor Deum Tibi Offero Domine, Prompte et Sincere.
Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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Mr Music Queries Again
That mind of Mr Music's is always in overdrive. We were driving home from a picnic last evening when I heard an urgent question from the back seat, "Mom! Which one is better: Hadrian's Wall or The Great Wall of China?"
Well, how's a Mom supposed to answer that? "Better in what way? longer? stronger? older? better price to function ratio? more aesthetic? more effective in achieving its desired purpose?" Nah, this Mom just decided to pass the question along to her faithful readers. So, how shall we answer Mr Music?
* extra question for bonus points: anyone else old enough to now be humming the Paul Simon song Something So Right?
Monday, 06 July 2009
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Another Reason to Avoid Potato Chips
Last night I dreamed about the latest way the American government is going to raise taxes, so here is your heads up.
They are placing a 6 mil tax on /cr/.
Yes. You read it here first. Every time you use a /cr/ it will cost you six mils.
So. The practical applications.
1) Buy yourself a good thesaurus. You will not want to use words like "crown," "crouch," "crowd"...
and
2) No more potato chips. Every **ispy **unch will be double taxed.
Sunday, 05 July 2009
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Wordle
A friend on a chat board has introduced me to a new time waster useful application, wordle. You just type your text in and it will arrange the words in funky "word clouds", then you can play with font, colours, arrangement till you like the results. Here I have played with one of my favorite poems, Hope by Randall Jarrell. (click on it to enlarge. Even my tech support is stumped on this one.)
Saturday, 04 July 2009
Thursday, 02 July 2009
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Little Revelation
None of the Bananalets are married. Or even courting. Nevertheless, Miss Dance has far-reaching plans, especially for Miss Language. She has had these plans for several years now and they continue to get more detailed.
According to Miss Dance, Miss Language (once she is Mrs Whatever) and her DH will have 66 children. Mostly singles, but some twins and one set of triplets. They will go like this: oldest - female named Genesis; boy named Exodus; boy named Leviticus (will she call him 'Levi' for short?); and so on, up to, as I mentioned, the triplet Johns (not to be confused with the older John); Jude; and of course, the youngest, Little Revelation. Miss Dance is sure he is the cutest. He is blond, chubby, blue-eyed, a bit clumsy, tries his hardest, but gets scolded the most for some reason. He seems to stay an eternal toddler in Miss Dance's eyes.
At the moment, Mr Music is reading aloud from a very old grade-school reader where the boy is mischievous. He pauses, mid-story, to say, "This sounds just like something Revelation would do." And Miss Dance and Miss Dog Lover laugh and agree.
I can hardly wait to meet my grandchildren. It seems I know them already.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Are You Sure?
Sometimes Real Life ought to copy cyberspace.
I say this after being annoyed at my cautious, over-protective computer. No matter what I tell it to do (delete the e-mail that sells deviant health products; close down before it is taken out by a lightning bolt; empty the trash) it comes back at me with a "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO xxxxxxxx PERMANENTLY?"
Yes. 99% of the time I am sure.
However, telling it "yes" is a minor annoyance. Think of how wonderful Real Life would be if it came with this sort of warning. You would get a chance to reconsider decisions like Pulling Out into Traffic in Front of a Fast Moving Large Truck. Or Going to Check on the Baby without Turning Off the Stove. Or Skipping the Sunscreen before a Day on the Lake.
I am picturing something a little like the currently famous teleprompter that would just float in front of you, popping up "Are You Sure?" messages as needed. And some of us probably need a lot of them. -
Veggie Wars
The other night while helping me prepare dinner, Mr Music came out with one of his distinctly male deep questions of life. I present it here for your opinions, rather than in a blogpoll, so you can give fully developed answers.
"If a beet and a squash fought, who do you think would win? Would the squash get beat or would the beet get squashed?"
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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Sweet Things Make Smile
Time to make smile from friends at engrish.com
and from friends at youtube
Monday, 22 June 2009
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~ Happy Sigh ~
Tonight was Mr Music's final Little League playoff game. His team went in undefeated and since it was double elimination, if they had lost the first game, would have had to turn right around and play a second.
But - THEY WON (I can yell on my own blog, right?) in a pretty exciting game, even though it ended 9-2! Mr Music was catcher most of the game and made some great plays, getting a couple outs at home. He got to be the game-ending pitcher and strike out the last batter, too, one of the most feared batters in the league.
It has been a lot of fun being his mom this summer. :)
And now the baseball crazies are over and we can get down to the serious business of relaxing in the summer.
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Just to be perfectly clear... Tobybo does not carry a six thousand dollar purse. Ever. She's quite unsure she even can imagine such a thing.
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it is a sign one's brain is on "summer" mode when one vigorously squashes a hairball on the bathroom floor, mistaking it for a huge mosquito
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The buying and selling of books: possibly one of the most important parts of life as a homeschooler at this most wonderful time of the year.
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