I Lub You

I can’t beat this; here’s Ali’s blog: http://www.alirae.net/blog/archives/395-lub.html

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Wise Decisions …

A few days ago, Sophie, a medical missionary in Ethiopia, wrote these words in her blog: The particularly heart-breaking part of the day came when a mom with twin 4-month olds came.   But you need to hear the beginning of the story first.  2 weeks ago, a mom brought twin babies and asked if we [...]

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Mirror

There once was a big ole mirror on the wall behind the vanity in the hall bathroom.  Under orders At my wife’s suggestion, I pulled the old mirror down in order to hang a smaller one. Well, the small mirror is hung, but now we’ve got this big honkin’ mirror and no place to put [...]

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Chili Powder Day

I need to make chili powder for the pie/casserole/whatever Saturday.  I’m down to just one tablespoon of my last batch. The following recipe is based on Alton Brown’s 2004 chili powder recipe.  I’ve changed the varieties of chilies to what I can get here in lil’ ole Cartersville, substituted regular paprika for the virtually unavailable [...]

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Stupid Men

Johan C. Karremans, Thijs Verwijmeren, Tila M. Pronk, and Meyke Reitsma, after grueling study, say, “Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning” From thelondonpaper.com, “Researchers: Talking to women makes men thick” Or as The Telegraph says. “Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women.” We needed this study. A group of heterosexual men (others [...]

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Bee(r) Stingers

My sister-in-law was stung by a wasp yesterday. She was outside, enjoying her above-ground pool at the time.  She reached for her can of beer, put it to her mouth, and turned it up. With the onrush of cool, refreshing Milwaukee’s Best (ugh!) came a wasp who had innocently been enjoying the brew in the [...]

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A Three Year Plan — Yikes!!

The following post was first published in July 2009.  We’re a little over two years into the plan.  Anyone got a guess as to how well we’ve been tracking with the plan we developed? I was scheduled to attend participate in a meeting tonight to begin to develop a “Three Year Plan.” Thankfully, the event [...]

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Not Enough to Do ….

I caught Dr. Helen’s blog on Autism yesterday, which led me to read the article she referenced.  From there, I read about Dr. Simon Baron Cohen, and I was led, ultimately, to the Autism Quotient test. From the AQ test site: Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the [...]

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In Addition to Stupid Flakes….

Back in May, a a judge in Cali (the U.S. District Court for California’a Eastern District) dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries  ’cause she believed that Crunchberries were real fruit. That lady probably saw those commercials where the Cap’n and the Crunchberry monster were vying [...]

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The Dreaded DIE-A-BEETUS

    My blood glucose level this morning was 196 mg/dL. That’s the lowest it’s been since last Tuesday. If I were normal, It would be 110 mg/dL or less.* I’ve got all kinds of reasonable excuses to explain why I’ve let it get this far out of control. But they’re all really BS. They [...]

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