- Location:Home for now
- Mood:
thoughtful
Today i get to go to my "family reunion" and its pouring down rain outside. Joy. I get to sit outside in a pavilion with 100% humidity. I have try to not to look like i'd rather be anywhere but there. I hate these things. I could deal with the jedi tradition of not being involved with your family. Especially since i know how its going to go. My crazy aunt will start up something. Mother will bend and twist tales to make herself look good. Either that or make up some.
I believe i'll bring my consitutional law homework to do. I really wish i had an Ipod. I have so many songs on my computer i would love to listen to in my misery.
I believe i'll bring my consitutional law homework to do. I really wish i had an Ipod. I have so many songs on my computer i would love to listen to in my misery.
- Mood:
irritated
I never watched very much of the Deathnote English dubbed anime...
Kinda seems a little bit butchered. *koff*
I'm being quite lazy and typing this from the bed in my grandparents's motorhome. My laptop keeps laughing at me when I try to search for wifi so I gave up and am using my sidekick. I apologize in advance for any typos.
The weather in iowa has been erratic. Monday was hot and humid and wednesday it turned cold and started pouring rain. In kc and green bay we were getting cooked and this morning I had to turn the heater on. Crazy.
I watched stand up to cancer last night. That was rough for me but I watched it. Never saw david but the show itself was pretty moving. The testimonials started to really get to me, for obvious reasons. Cancer is such a horrendous disease and something has GOT to be done to erradicate it.
Several relatives came over to my grandparents' house last night. I love seeing everyone but I have the greatest aunts ever and just love them immensley. Mom outed me and my ai craziness in front of them last night. Ahaha joy. Retold the michael jones story, etc. Scared some of them, I'm sure, but my aunts wanted to check out the video. Too funny.
Today should be fairly mellow with the only plan being dinner at my aunt angie's tonight. My diet has been absolutely ridiculous since I got here. It's so hard when you don't have access to your normal food. Hopefully I'm doing too much damage.
It's after 10 and I've been lazy enough. Miss you guys! I feel so out of the loop way out here. Keeping up with lj is difficult on this little screen so if something is going on with you, comment here and let me know. I don't think I'll ever get caught up.
*hugs* this time next week I'll be in tulsa- ahhhh!
The weather in iowa has been erratic. Monday was hot and humid and wednesday it turned cold and started pouring rain. In kc and green bay we were getting cooked and this morning I had to turn the heater on. Crazy.
I watched stand up to cancer last night. That was rough for me but I watched it. Never saw david but the show itself was pretty moving. The testimonials started to really get to me, for obvious reasons. Cancer is such a horrendous disease and something has GOT to be done to erradicate it.
Several relatives came over to my grandparents' house last night. I love seeing everyone but I have the greatest aunts ever and just love them immensley. Mom outed me and my ai craziness in front of them last night. Ahaha joy. Retold the michael jones story, etc. Scared some of them, I'm sure, but my aunts wanted to check out the video. Too funny.
Today should be fairly mellow with the only plan being dinner at my aunt angie's tonight. My diet has been absolutely ridiculous since I got here. It's so hard when you don't have access to your normal food. Hopefully I'm doing too much damage.
It's after 10 and I've been lazy enough. Miss you guys! I feel so out of the loop way out here. Keeping up with lj is difficult on this little screen so if something is going on with you, comment here and let me know. I don't think I'll ever get caught up.
*hugs* this time next week I'll be in tulsa- ahhhh!
- Location:grandparents' motorhome
- Apparently you can "decide the fate" of the Cactus Kid from the Oasis adverts at runcactuskidrun.com - I say kill him. I always say that.
- Managed to get 2 CD sets, just not the ones I said I would.
- Also, am applying to work at Game.
- And whoever put the pepper in this egg sandwich put it all in my last bite. Will be dying now.
Witness to my family, I think. Be a verbal witness out loud in any capacity, really. I tend to allow myself to be silenced by any number of excuses.
You know, I get really tired of being me sometimes.
Anyway, barring that, I think I would want to either start up or be a part of a fundamental Christian children's home, or foster dozens of children. That and a Christian school that runs for homeschool minded children... Not a school so much as a circle of like-minded families to help each other out, but it could be extended to be a "school" for selected students, I suppose.
Children. I want to take care of the children. I don't want any of my own, I honestly hope I find out that there's no way I can have a child of my own. I want to foster and adopt or be a part of programs that are helping. But I won't donate, I refuse, not to some organization or something I know nothing about. Not to anything that I don't know for sure isn't really, truly working toward the salvation of those children.
I'm content where I am, but if I can one day move forward in this direction, I would be very pleased. Then again, anything that is in obedience will do. That, at least, I know I can work toward and always have.
no matter how many of them you've been in... Or maybe its not that earthquakes are always jarring, in San Diego they usually weren't. Maybe its living practically right on a fault line that makes even the small-ish ones sometimes a bit jarring. Or maybe its that creaking noise that sounds like the garage might just collapse under you if it keeps shaking much longer that's jarring. Or the realization that the feeling of violent shaking pales in comparison to the shaking we'd feel if it were an earthquake strong enough to cause damages. Initial reports cited this one as a 4.1, less than 20 miles away, following right along the same fault line as our house. Or maybe its just jarring because earthquakes never start out at their strongest, and you're always wondering if this one is "going to be the big one", or the reasonable certainty that our house, and especially not the part of the house where my room is, probably doesn't have the kind of stable foundation and reinforcement that would make you confident it could even withstand "the big one" should it ever come. At least the heart-pounding is the only part of it that really lasts for more than a few seconds.Can you describe me in one word? Try and then post this in your own LJ for some descriptors of your own.
- Mood:
happy
calmI switched from Google Reader to NewsGator/FeedDemon as my primary means of following all my non-LJ blogs and RSS feeds that I follow. I'm actually quite happy with FeedDemon the more I play with it, as it has a few features that I find rather helpful that make it one-up google reader
1) you can right click on a feed name to mark the feed as "read". Now that doesn't sound all that impressive, but it was one of my biggest gripes about google reader, that it was inefficient to "mark all as read" for a specific feed because you had to load the feed summary before you could mark them as read.
2) it supports synchronization with NewsGator's web reader, and not simply synchronization, but selective sync, so when I log in from work it'll show me updates from TechCrunch but not from Comics Curmudgeon, but when I get home, any Comics Curmudgeon updates will be waiting for me.
3) Using a native OS based reader software is significantly faster and more responsive than a web-based interface, particularly when you're clicking over to the blog entry page itself to read comments without subscribing to comments.
4) Offline mode. You can download all the unread feeds with images to catch up on when you're somewhere that doesn't have net access. For the most part, this is something I rarely use, but when I need it, its extremely helpful to havel. How handy would it have been in Uganda to have been able to download blog posts as easily as email to read later when I'm not paying for net access by the minute? Or handy it might have been to download blog posts to read on those busy traveling days where you do a lot of hurry up and wait, such as sitting at the airport, or the other week when I was hanging out at the church patio for an hour between when Costco closed and service started. Yes, this has potential to be a useful perk.
Do any of you read blogs and feeds that are not on LJ? How do you keep up on them? Do you use a blog reader? Do you check each page where there might be updates individually? Rely on email notifications of new content?
1) you can right click on a feed name to mark the feed as "read". Now that doesn't sound all that impressive, but it was one of my biggest gripes about google reader, that it was inefficient to "mark all as read" for a specific feed because you had to load the feed summary before you could mark them as read.
2) it supports synchronization with NewsGator's web reader, and not simply synchronization, but selective sync, so when I log in from work it'll show me updates from TechCrunch but not from Comics Curmudgeon, but when I get home, any Comics Curmudgeon updates will be waiting for me.
3) Using a native OS based reader software is significantly faster and more responsive than a web-based interface, particularly when you're clicking over to the blog entry page itself to read comments without subscribing to comments.
4) Offline mode. You can download all the unread feeds with images to catch up on when you're somewhere that doesn't have net access. For the most part, this is something I rarely use, but when I need it, its extremely helpful to havel. How handy would it have been in Uganda to have been able to download blog posts as easily as email to read later when I'm not paying for net access by the minute? Or handy it might have been to download blog posts to read on those busy traveling days where you do a lot of hurry up and wait, such as sitting at the airport, or the other week when I was hanging out at the church patio for an hour between when Costco closed and service started. Yes, this has potential to be a useful perk.
Do any of you read blogs and feeds that are not on LJ? How do you keep up on them? Do you use a blog reader? Do you check each page where there might be updates individually? Rely on email notifications of new content?
One of the blogs I've been hooked on lately is Atheist Central--Ray Comfort's Blog. I was a little puzzled at first glance when Google Reader suggested "Atheist Central" as a "blog I might enjoy", but knowing a little about who Ray Comfort was (he's the evangelism guy who did the video series about preaching the gospel using the ten commandments), I clicked over the to blog in curious confusion. But as I started to actually read the blog, an understanding of the title began to dawn on me. Apparently, Ray's blog is like a magnet for professing atheists. In some way it kind of reminds me of students watching "Brother Jed" preach in Price Center in college because they found his hecklers endlessly entertaining.
Apparently the blog wasn't always called Atheist Central though, it was a change from "Comfort Food" as the title to make it "more welcoming" to Atheists, and has quotes by people like Darwin and Dawkins plastered all over the header, and a "Beginners Guide to Atheism" in the side-bar. Of course, coming from who its coming from, its really not what it sounds. "He was quote mining" the atheists accuse of his quotations from Darwin and Dawkins, implying he was taking the quotations out of context. But if you keep reading through the archives, you can see where Ray posts the quotes in context and cites their source to show they really aren't out of context, and it goes back and forth a bunch.
and then there's other features in the blog, like Ray answers questions from atheists and evolutionists, and pretty much no matter what the question is, manages to twist around the answer no matter what he's discussing back to his favorite point--how they aren't living up to God's moral standards and this is dangerous and asking for trouble. And he has "Atheist memory verses" which are really just bible verses about sin or salvation, which I didn't quite get why he does them until I stared reading some of the comments on his verses and Ray's response to some of the comments...
I think I laughed when I read Ray comparing believing in God to believing in faeries and leprechauns, in drawing the distinction that nobody's feel the need to vehemently argue with you over whether faeries and leprechauns really exist...in his amusement that atheists get so stirred up about something they don't even believe exist.
Anyway, just thought I'd share about that blog, because its probably one of the most fun ones I'm currently following in my blog reader.
Apparently the blog wasn't always called Atheist Central though, it was a change from "Comfort Food" as the title to make it "more welcoming" to Atheists, and has quotes by people like Darwin and Dawkins plastered all over the header, and a "Beginners Guide to Atheism" in the side-bar. Of course, coming from who its coming from, its really not what it sounds. "He was quote mining" the atheists accuse of his quotations from Darwin and Dawkins, implying he was taking the quotations out of context. But if you keep reading through the archives, you can see where Ray posts the quotes in context and cites their source to show they really aren't out of context, and it goes back and forth a bunch.
and then there's other features in the blog, like Ray answers questions from atheists and evolutionists, and pretty much no matter what the question is, manages to twist around the answer no matter what he's discussing back to his favorite point--how they aren't living up to God's moral standards and this is dangerous and asking for trouble. And he has "Atheist memory verses" which are really just bible verses about sin or salvation, which I didn't quite get why he does them until I stared reading some of the comments on his verses and Ray's response to some of the comments...
I think I laughed when I read Ray comparing believing in God to believing in faeries and leprechauns, in drawing the distinction that nobody's feel the need to vehemently argue with you over whether faeries and leprechauns really exist...in his amusement that atheists get so stirred up about something they don't even believe exist.
Anyway, just thought I'd share about that blog, because its probably one of the most fun ones I'm currently following in my blog reader.
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- Mood:
ecstatic
I got an e-mail that said, "Hey, I found your resume - it's awesome! Wanna come work for us??" (paraphrased, of course) from an insurance company. They're hunting sales people.
I went to the website and answered their questionnaire. As I suspected (although it's not confirmed by that company yet), me + sales = BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yeah. I don't like to persuade people to do things (except small children, whom I'd rather persuade than see spanked). I do not like to compete. The idea of saying, "Ha, ha! I sold more than you did!" (or hearing it) just goes against my grain. I'm not even sure it's Christian.
If you're the type of person who likes to persuade people and compete to sell the most, go for it. Every company in America is always hunting for good sales people. Seriously. If they make something - anything, good or service - they're hunting for people to sell it.
If I ever get my novel done, it'll be hard for me to sell myself enough to find an agent or a publisher who'll give me the time of day, much less decide that I can actually write and that other people would pay to read what I've written. However, after reading about some of the travesties of language![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
kiwiria has been inflicted with, maybe it won't be that hard.
*dramatic fling of arm to forehead* Oh, the drama a writer can inflict on herself.
I went to the website and answered their questionnaire. As I suspected (although it's not confirmed by that company yet), me + sales = BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yeah. I don't like to persuade people to do things (except small children, whom I'd rather persuade than see spanked). I do not like to compete. The idea of saying, "Ha, ha! I sold more than you did!" (or hearing it) just goes against my grain. I'm not even sure it's Christian.
If you're the type of person who likes to persuade people and compete to sell the most, go for it. Every company in America is always hunting for good sales people. Seriously. If they make something - anything, good or service - they're hunting for people to sell it.
If I ever get my novel done, it'll be hard for me to sell myself enough to find an agent or a publisher who'll give me the time of day, much less decide that I can actually write and that other people would pay to read what I've written. However, after reading about some of the travesties of language
kiwiria has been inflicted with, maybe it won't be that hard. *dramatic fling of arm to forehead* Oh, the drama a writer can inflict on herself.
I haven't even heard John McCain's speech yet. For one thing, I was having trouble with the video. And then I saw two(?) protestors being removed. I cannot believe people have the gall to do something like that. I don't care what side you're on or what your message is. I don't care if it's a political speech or a neighborhood PTA meeting - you do not walk in and start screaming and disrupting things! Who do these people think they are? And how did they get in? And why weren't they removed more forcefully? I say TAZE 'EM ALL. I cannot stand that sort of display.
If you're going to be out in public - and especially if you're attempting to make some sort of point - then act like a civilized human being who knows how to speak and debate ideas, not like a raving lunatic who only knows how to shriek at people. And don't even start with the 'free speech' nonsense. There is a proper time to speak up and a proper time to be silent. This was not a public debate. And it was certainly not a public free for all. This was a speech. If you want to hold a sign, that's one thing. You don't jump up and start screaming just because you feel like it. Can you imagine a society with people behaving that way all the time? It would be chaos! And then McCain seemed way too pleasant about it all. I was FURIOUS and couldn't concentrate the rest of the night. I had to shut it off.
And then as I thought about it this morning, something hit me. Last night I watched some of the video of John McCain's life. I cannot imagine the things he's been through and how he survived for years under the conditions he did. I would've died or killed myself or just... gone deep inside my own head and never come back out.
But this man endured unimagineable hell on behalf of the principles this country was founded upon - principles which allow people like those protestors to rant and rave and shriek right in his face. They'd spit in his face if they got close enough. You want to see a clash of civilizations on a small scale? That was it, right there.
On a happy note, this is such good news!
'US Weekly' Loses Five to Ten Thousand Subscribers
It's so easy to think that most people support the ugliness that's gone on this week in the destruction of Sarah Palin's daughter and family. It's so easy to think that this is the majority, simply because they hold the microphones and shove these views in our faces everywhere we turn. But this shows me that most people aren't like that, will not stand for that - so much so that they'd put their money where their mouth is. Or take that money away, as the case may be.
I don't have much faith in humanity these days. But this gave me a little.
So I spent all of yesterday and the better part of Wednesday in bed with the cold that's going around. Woke up this morning and felt fine, aside from the lingering congestion. I sound the sickest I have all week, what with the sniffling and sneezing, but since my fever broke last night, I haven't had that full-body-ache-and-a-longing-for-death thing going on, which is a relief. Am back at work, more or less functional, though the brain's a tad slower than usual for a Friday morning.
On the upside, I finished one Brother Cadfael mystery, started another, and read The Outsiders. Any sniffling done while finishing the latter may not have been entirely the result of illness.
Also of the happy: tomorrow is Take the Geek Girls from LA Shooting Day! Muahahaa! *plotty fingers*
And now, back to work. *sigh*
On the upside, I finished one Brother Cadfael mystery, started another, and read The Outsiders. Any sniffling done while finishing the latter may not have been entirely the result of illness.
Also of the happy: tomorrow is Take the Geek Girls from LA Shooting Day! Muahahaa! *plotty fingers*
And now, back to work. *sigh*
Here are the answers; let me know if you want to know the questions. :)
1.krikketgirl
2.feyfern, robkeeney, krikketgirl
3.mrs617
4.beccabug33, saint_magenta
5.krikketgirl, feyfern
6.mermaids_tears
7.windandtherain
8.thryth
9. the whole list!
10.feyfern, beccabug33, saint_magenta, bellawilfer, mrs617
11. None.
12.windandtherain
13.krikketgirl
14.bassnote for one and saint_magenta for the othe.
15. Not going there.
16.mermaids_tears. . . I think.
17.beccabug33, but only in the best way.
18.reubeneater
19.saint_magenta
20.mermaids_tears
21. Whazzat??
22. Whazzat again??
23.mermaids_tears
24. *snort* none of them.
25.windandtherain, well, of her husband, at least.
26.burnmasterg I'd hope!
27. The whole list!
28. Whazzat, please?
29.burnmasterg
30. love you whole lots and bunches!
1.
krikketgirl2.
feyfern, robkeeney, krikketgirl3.
mrs6174.
beccabug33, saint_magenta5.
krikketgirl, feyfern6.
mermaids_tears7.
windandtherain8.
thryth9. the whole list!
10.
feyfern, beccabug33, saint_magenta, bellawilfer, mrs61711. None.
12.
windandtherain 13.
krikketgirl 14.
bassnote for one and saint_magenta for the othe.15. Not going there.
16.
mermaids_tears. . . I think. 17.
beccabug33, but only in the best way.18.
reubeneater19.
saint_magenta20.
mermaids_tears21. Whazzat??
22. Whazzat again??
23.
mermaids_tears24. *snort* none of them.
25.
windandtherain, well, of her husband, at least.26.
burnmasterg I'd hope!27. The whole list!
28. Whazzat, please?
29.
burnmasterg30. love you whole lots and bunches!
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