It was a pretty good day today. It was a challenging evening, but it was a day full of grace. At work, I just worked on building an addition to a school capacity calculating app that one of our clients. I am really just retrofitting part A to handle data related to part B,...
Read more →It’s always a precarious thing to wade back into our memories. When time passes and life batters us by waves of experiences, it’s easy to lose clarity about the things that have happened to us- especially those that happened long ago from where we are now. What we cannot remember clearly, we forget. And...
Read more →After reading the lyrics, I finally understand this song now. It totally explains to me what happened. “She had a place in his life… He never made her think twice.” Amazing. “A fool sees what he hopes for.” I guess it’s happened a few times in the world before. — “What A Fool Believes”...
Read more →“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” ― Millicent Fenwick I am finally admitting to myself that, among others, I have one horrible habit that I recognize I need to get rid of. And it is not my excessive...
Read more →Yesterday was a good day. I got a fair amount accomplished on a project at work, and the day was quiet. My boss has been out this week doing home projects, so it has been more empty back in the back area of the office where I work. I guess the biggest news of...
Read more →Location in the Bible Following the four gospels that record events in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, Acts is the fifth book of the New Testament, and it chronicles life in the early church after the ascension of Jesus, in the “Apostolic Age”. Title: “The Acts of the Apostles” A. Acts: A...
Read more →There are a ton of online tools that can help you with Bible study. I tend to just use a few, so I thought I’d share them here. A few great tools are better than a bunch of okay tools. Feel free to add links to your favorite quality tools as well in the...
Read more →This weekend, much like last weekend, was a celebration of relationships. The highlights of my weekend featured time with my friends and family. I mean, come on, how can I top this? On Friday night after work I did my regular Graham’s hitch to socialize and dance and shed the tension of the work...
Read more →Thanks, Jeremy, for the intro.
Read more →That. Just. Happened. Well, two years ago.
This is what happens when your boss is out of the office, you just watched the intro of an Office episode that was similar, and Ben comes around with his camera.
Ben’s brother, Tim Lolli, accidentally fell into the film. He was a good sport, and a quick read to develop his character. We were also fortunate to have William Winkler make a cameo appearance near the denouement to up the dramatic intensity of the storyline.
Another quality production by Ben Lolli.
No furniture or computers were harmed irreparably in the making of this film.
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Link: The Original. Just flat out inspirational.
Today was a pretty good day: I made some progress at work on creating a generic form generator that can update any table tied to a selected database, including setting some parameters on form fields and placing some checks on numerical fields. This little app can change how quickly building a backend administration area...
Read more →It may be a stretch, but I think the best scripture passage I have heard that is probably most helpful for the addict is the story of Jesus with the Samaritan Woman, found in John 4:1-26. I became aware of this when I heard my cousin Jeremy Pummel preach a sermon from this passage...
Read more →It was nearly 15 years ago that, one evening, I sat in one of the local Flying Star coffee shops visiting with my Aunt Sharon when this song came on in the background music stream. I remember hearing bits of the lyrics and the driving drum bed and was so distracted I excused myself momentarily to find out who this group was. So began my affection for the music of these four Irish siblings.
So much talent in one family, as showcased here in this video, which was the second single released off of their debut album of the same. The Corrs have had massive success in Britain, Ireland and Australia while experiencing mediocre reception in the U.S. Still, their music has sold over 40 million albums worldwide since 1995.
Great musicians. Great lyricists. Great music.
Dug out a Corrs disc. Love me some Corrs. As my Grandma Collins would say, “Not an ugly one in the bunch.”
For whatever reason, I was so wasted last night. I was in bed by 9:30 PM (which is early for me) and I slept fairly solidly until 7:00 this morning. I’ve been dealing with sleepiness between 2 and 3 each day this week, even though I drink coffee in the morning and eat a...
Read more →About two months ago, Anne Lamott tweeted a line of advice for writers that has stayed on my mind ever since. She said “Write as if your parents are dead.” I’ve thought for a while about what that statement implied there. She is saying to write as if your parents will never read what...
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