We’re back, but it’s a busy week: meeting of a Presbytery committee plus a funeral and a pair of hospitalizations. Mercy!
Back From Vacation
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Standup Desk at Church
I got rid of the behemoth.
When I moved my day off from Friday to Monday, I still wrote my sermons on Friday, but no longer on my day off. As a result, I no longer wrote them at home. Which in turn meant I came home with all kinds of bursitis and odd aches and pains from trying to type a few thousand words in a couple of hours at a non-ergonomic workstation. Ergo, the stand-up desk (“bar table”) I use at home must be more ergonomic than the gigantic desk at church.
So for my birthday, more or less, Mrs. Mess of Pottage bought me a new desk. My arms feel better, but my feet are sore. (The blue shock-absorbing mat at the bottom of the desk is a late-afternoon addition.)
Frogs in the machine room
I’ve already blogged this on my church blog, but I just keep chuckling at this image:
Talking Like Pirates
If you’re like many people who try to talk like a pirate, you don’t really know what to say, other than the 3 A’s: arrgh, avast, and ahoy.
Here, then, a deep-link to my very own blog, to give you a clue.
Great Voices
Five years ago, during the fall of my first term in Seminary, I took a class called “Speech Communications in Ministry 101.” In it I found out just how terribly awful I am at the use of my voice as an instrument.
Not so with these guys. (Warning: there is one crude phrase about halfway in. Interestingly, it isn’t a laugh line itself, but is there only to set up the next two lines.)
More Lipstick
It’s morning in America and I’m feeling perhaps a little more charitable, so I’ll revise and extend my remarks about yesterday’s “lipstick” furor.
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Lipstick on a Pig
I used the phrase “putting lipstick on a pig” a couple of months ago at a ministerial meeting. One of the local tribes recently decided that California didn’t have enough casinos yet, so they’re building a new one in Twentynine Palms.
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It Came From The Science Fair
It Came From The Science Fair
Originally uploaded by The Joy Of The Mundane
I love this science fair entry. It’s worse even than the one I did before I got cured of science fairs.
Obama activates female surrogates
According to this NY Times piece:
Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday.
Which raises the question: why? (i.e., why would Hillary do this?)
Is Sen. Obama going to help her retire some of that campaign debt?
Or is Sen. Clinton worried that thisRasmussen poll on a 2012 Hillary-Palin match might represent her high-water mark?
And what’s with this:
Advisers to Mrs. Clinton said that she stood ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged the campaign not to overestimate the impact Mrs. Clinton could have, noting that she had other commitments this fall, like campaigning and raising money for Senate candidates.
(Emphasis mine.)
(Clarified my wording of the question this news item raises.)
Palin Speech
I really liked it. Even better was the way the family was highlighted. The best defense is not to be distracted by side issues.
Note. We don’t have cable, and since we’re in the middle of nowhere, that means we don’t have TV. But because of the rise in multimedia delivered over the internet, I was able tonight to see a political convention speech live for the first time since 1996 (when we got rid of cable).
Updates: transcript here.
I liked this article about Palin’s experience. (Note from my previous article, however, my real interest isn’t experience so much as career path.)