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Baptism
May 22nd, 2011, 26 Comments
Today I was baptized and joined the Mennonite Church. I imagine this might surprise some of you for various reasons, so let me provide a bit of background. I’ve had a lot of people, both in person and in comments responding to my blog post, express surprise with statements I have made. The view of [...]
Napoleon, Winter in May, and Silly String
May 14th, 2011, 2 Comments
This is just a diary of a random day sort of post. Nothing all that particularly unusual, but then perhaps if I only blog about the unusual, the typical gets lost. This week started out with temperatures as high at 99F. Today we didn’t even reach 60, and tonight will be cold almost to freezing. [...]
The death of one
May 3rd, 2011, 9 Comments
”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only [...]
Anniversary: Europe Ideas?
April 29th, 2011, 21 Comments
Terah and I have our 10th wedding anniversary coming up this fall. We’ve discussed a bit what we’d like to do. Terah said that she’d enjoy a relaxing resort on a beach somewhere with a reasonable hotel room so there isn’t really anything we have to do — just relax. I said that I’d love [...]
Adventure: 1 dad, 2 boys, and lots of trains
April 23rd, 2011, 3 Comments
Terah and I recently decided that each of us could use a “day off” of not having to do work or supervise boys. Yesterday I had the day off work so that was mine. I took my Kindle, along with its Gutenberg copy of War and Peace, which yes, I’m reading for fun. I slept [...]
The Boys
April 16th, 2011, No Comments
Jacob really enjoys his pajamas. By this point, he can mostly get himself ready for bed. He still wants help brushing his teeth but that’s about it. His favorite pajamas are his “rocket ship pajamas”, which also cover his feet and have a white pad underneath the feet. That’s his favorite part. They have rockets [...]
Country Car Repair & California-Kansas Culture Shock
March 24th, 2011, 4 Comments
I know this is almost a cliche, but here goes. Just to show you that it still exists. Today my car needed some work. This morning I dropped it off at the mechanic, who lives right off a well-traveled state highway. They don’t have a dropbox for keys because, well, they don’t need one. I [...]
Slices of 2010
January 28th, 2011, No Comments
A lot of people look back on their year in December. I think it doesn’t make sense to look back on a year until it’s done. And then take a little time to let it simmer. That’s my excuse for not doing this until almost February, anyhow. 2010 started with a 3-day ordeal of taking [...]
Backing Up to the Cloud
January 18th, 2011, 36 Comments
I’m recently taking some big-picture looks at how we do things, and one thing that I think could be useful would be for us to back up a limited set of data to an offsite location states away. Prices are cheap enough for this to make it useful. Services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace [...]
24 hours with Jacob
January 16th, 2011, 2 Comments
Friday, I wrote about the train trip Jacob and I were planning to take. Here’s the story about it. Friday night, Jacob was super excited. He was running around the house, talking about trains. I had him pack his own backpack with toys this time, which were — you guessed it — trains. Plus train [...]
