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Thanks George. It was a good birthday. I bought myself a car. It is a 2003 Honda Civic SI hatchback, 5 speed.
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Roy and Linda...Thank you.
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I started reading the book two and a half years ago. I read a couple of chapters and gagged at the passage that excie has cited and another one early on about hell so I stopped reading. Perhaps I am missing my purpose in life. Perhaps I am missing a few years of anguish trying to please God and sending my IRA money to Rick Warren before I realize that God has already made me pleasing to Him.
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Happy birthday dear friend of mine.
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Thanks for all the kind and wonderful thoughts. Thanks for remaining my friends through all my ups, downs and all arounds. I treasure each and every one of you. Damn Excie...speaking of getting spooked on Halloween.
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Eddie told me that he went to see a scary movie although I can't remember the name. It seems that happens more and more as I get older. We ate gummi worms and collaborated on his math homework today. The assignment involved the concept of probability. We were given a circle that was 1/2 blue, 1/3 red and 1/6 green. We were instructed to put the point of a pencil in the center of the circle such that a paper clip could spin freely around the circle. We were asked to estimate how many landings for each color would occur out of 36 spins. Then Eddie spinned the paper clip and our estimate was dead on exact, 18 blue, 12 red and 6 green. Next we were asked to estimate how many landings each color would get from 90 spins. Our estimate was only off by 2. Red had one less landing and green had 1 more than our estimate. Vegan, I bought Stephen Hawkin's the Universe in a Nutshell on cd for Ryan for Christmas one year. We listened to it as we drove to West Virginia to ski during the Christmas break. It was very interesting and very challenging just to keep up with the material for me.
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Allow me to introduce Eddie D. to you. Eddie is a fifth grader at a school that is shall we say in an under resourced part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eddie is just a bit on the chubby side which makes him all the more adorable. He loves hamburgers, soccer, math and if he could do anything he wanted to do, he would be an astronaut because astronauts get to be weightless and float around and eat stuff as they watch it float around too. He doesn't like writing so much or broccoli but he will eat it anyway. His teacher is Ms. St. Germaine and the Principal is Ms. Hernandez. I would estimate that the school he attends is 90% hispanic, 9% African American and maybe 1% white if we stretch it a bit. Eddie's school was selected by the church I attend, Mars Hill, because low income minority children are at a high risk of dropping out. When they drop out they are at a very high risk of teen pregnancy, drug / alcohol abuse, involvement in gangs which often results in prison and / or death. He and I meet for one hour a week at the school after regular hours so that I can be his pal and mentor. Today, he told me that he likes to ride his bike. When he rides he hooks up with his friends, Oscar and Fernando. They like to go thru the woods to a river and sit and talk. When he was telling me that he would like to be an astronaut, I asked him what do astronauts need to study in order to be astronauts. "Stars and planets", he answered. I asked him what is the closest star. "I dunno.", he said. I told him that it was the sun and it was just a run of the mill kind of star, really not all that big as stars go . We spent some time talking about nebulae, birth of stars, speed of light, how long it takes the sun's light to get to us and how long it takes distant stars light to reach us too. We didn't get into who is Stephen Hawkin and what is string theory. He told me that his mom and dad are Norma and Gratian. He has a older brother Yovanni and his younger siblings are Christian, Jolissa and Emiliano. Emiliano is a baby. Oh yeah! He has a poodle named Stuart. He has a grandmother in Mexico, Abuela Tan. He likes to close his eyes and think of being with her. She loves to see him and his brothers and sisters. He likes being at her house and especially so when his cousins come over. His grandmother in Grand Rapids doesn't like him or his brothers and sisters, he says. She does like their cousins though. He said she treats and talks to his brothers and sister badly but is nice when his dad and mom are present. He picks blueberries in the summer with his family. They get paid $3 a bucket. He says it takes a long time to pick a bucket. Last summers blueberries were small so it took much longer than the year before. I told him I love blueberries and eat a lot of them and maybe I ate some of the one's he picked. Last summer he spent some time with Abuela Tan. He has a cousin in Mexico, who is a cop. He added instantly that his cousin is a good cop and not a bad one like the ones who stopped their van during their trip to Mexico last summer and made them unload everything to see if they had anything they wanted to take. He said that the bad cops told them if his mom and dad didn't give them their stuff they would have to go to jail. Finally, his dad had to pay them to leave them alone. Sigh.
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Happy, happy birthday Linda! I hope your day is filled with friends and laughter. Robin
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Amish grieve with Gunman's family Only love can conquer hate. -Marvin Gaye from What's going on
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No bomb needed here. The words speak for themselves.
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I am frightened by submission also, especially the submission of the American people to the daily erosion of civil liberties.
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I am too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
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Rhino, Are you making your case for another Crusade? Are Jews more worse off than Christians? I will not speak in condescending tones but I will speak from my experience of having known Muslims. I found them all most hospitable. They never made conversion (a la TWI) to Islam a condition of friendship. They never argued with me about religion even when I ( when afficted with waybrain) pushed the envelope with them. I DO draw a distinction between them (and the majority of Muslims in the world) and the radical Islamists who are blinded by their hatred of anything that is not what they are about. (Perhaps as ex-way people, we can relate.) I will not be burning any books by Salmon Rushdie or Omar Khayhim in protest. Small minds (I am not referring to you, Rhino) tend to reduce ethno/racial/international situations to black and white, us and them. I can understand why. They do it in order to get their small minds around complex issues. Mstar, The corpse guy had the IQ of a gnat. I would have told him to gfy. I love Mozart.
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Idomeneo banned What is next? Prohibit Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice from being performed because it may offend Jews? Ban Huckleberry Finn from school libraries for its liberal usage of the "N" word? Where does it stop?
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My Webpage What is next? Prohibit Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice from being performed because it may offend Jews? Ban Huckleberry Finn from school libraries for its liberal usage of the "N" word? Where does it stop?
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Seventh Grade playing spin the bottle with Linda Work and her kid sister. Whenever fortune would have Linda and I to kiss, we sent the kid sister out of the room. I liked it so much I asked her to be my "steady" as every sinew in my body winced preparing for rejection. When she said "Yes," it was like music. I wanted to ask her to say it again and again but I figured why chance that she might change her mind. Ahh...the fleeting moment of hormone intoxication.
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Agreeing with Linda about moving this to "About the Way." Pink Lady, Would you like to name the splinter group in question here. Perhaps you have some vital information that may help others with their decision to join or to fellowship with this group or not. Peace, Robin
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Right this way to the moribund-ant life
