Miscellaneous Missives

During this time between Christmas and Lent our church has the theme "Rekindling the Fire." My service is looking at Bible stories in a different way. Today's story was David vs. Goliath. The first discussion was about how the story was probably exaggerated. Was Goliath really ten feet tall? As the story was read, we were asked questions. What is your Goliath? I wrote down "our political leaders, tea baggers, crazies, negativity". What are you five smooth stones? Actually I had six, but I left off compassion feeling it was redundant. 1. Peace 2. Patience 3. Courage 4. Understanding 5. Love During prayers Egypt and Tunisia were mentioned. My prayer was for intelligence and understanding as we devour media. I prayed that we remember each source is only one side of the story. Later today my brother sent me a link . After receiving the link, I called to get his impressions (even though I can't open it on my computer). This is an exciting ...

I don't typically complain about my salary. Basically I am satisfied with what I make. However, it is frustrating when I don't even get a cost of living raise (and haven't for years).

You should also know... I also am a fan of this song as I was reminded on Facebook. If you would like to take me out for multiple adult beverages in an establishment that has old music (NOT Karaoke), I will sing this and The Piano Man for you.

I like this song. Perhaps I like it because it isn't played all of the time. When it gets more play, I won't like it. ...thought you'd want to know.

Today I "hit the wall". I decided that I was going to the doctor to take care of my sinus infection. Acupuncture, Neti Pot, Advil Cold and Sinus, Mucinex... nothing was working, and I was getting crabby (crabbier than usual). After consultation from the administrative assistants at work, I decided to try the "Minute Clinic" at Target instead of Urgent Care. I posted my initial reaction on Facebook, "Minute" Clinic my ass... As I entered the clinic, I was given a pager and told that it was going to be a twenty-five minute wait. At first I thought this was ridiculous since no one was waiting in the waiting area. Then I realized that no one was in the waiting area because everyone was shopping in Target with their pagers. At first I perused the Target aisles, then I realized that I didn't want to purchase anything. All was well since I recently added solitaire to my iTouch. The actual consultation went well. I was given a prescription, and they...

Intermittently this winter I have had water coming in through my bathroom exhaust fan. The first three times it seemed to coincide with weekends and snowfall. Typically if I run the exhaust fan, it drys out. The first time it happened I called the condo management thinking it was coming in through the exhaust fan vent. Although they came out twice, I didn't realize this because no one informed me of the second visit. I've made at least three calls prior to today about the situation. Today I called again to find out someone had not only come out, but they had taken pictures through a scope to verify that it was a plumbing problem not an exhaust fan problem. Perhaps someone could have shared this information allowing me to contact my upstairs neighbor to let him know his plumbing was leaking into my bathroom. After talking to the management company, I contacted my neighbor. I was apprehensive not knowing if he would understand his responsibility. He came down tonight whe...

"Duncan praised Kline repeatedly during his visit to Minnesota, adding Kline's opposition to a third round is no reason to give up the effort." What is the effort of which Arnie Duncan is speaking? Maybe the effort is the house resolution that would freeze teacher salaries and allow the state to keep money it borrowed from schools. Perhaps it's talking about the senate bill that would freeze teachers' salaries and eliminate mandates that schools set aside money for staff development. My links are working, but try this . This comes as Arne Duncan is calling for schools to get "teachers" from the general public. Awesome! Schools should hire people without teacher training at the same time schools start taking away staff development training. Great idea! I could rant about my feelings about Arne Duncan and President Obama's education (or lack of) policy. I will merely say is is disheartening that we do not have an "education president...