I was walking in to work today, and met up with a colleague from across the floor.  I don't know her very well, but we're all very friendly folks.  So we started to chat a little bit and she tried to strike up a conversation ( Read more... )

In the end, I think a great number of people just want to be known ( Read more... )

As someone who had the opportunity to research the flu pandemic of 1918-1919, it is not really that comforting to be diagnosed with actual influenza.  And prescribed Tamiflu.  Which, on the box, says "For stockpile use only".  Although it does make me kind of feel like I'm trying to be one of the survivors of the apocalyptic pandemic that will ( Read more... )

Subchunker has pitched me what should be an easy question, but in the end, it is turning out to be quite difficult to answer ( Read more... )

I was inspired to write a more spirituality oriented post this week, and I've posted it on that blog.  If you're interested, you can go take a look:

On prayer - silvergryph

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I've been in a very ruminative mood lately.  Lots of things to think about, and it is the time of year to do it.  The increasing dark and cold outside makes us want to curl up in our cozy dens and go inside ourselves.

So in one of my thinking moments, I started to think about the meaning of life.  This is a question that has been bouncing around in ( Read more... )

A while ago, I wrote about how I checked my symptoms on WebMD one day when I was pretty sure I had a virus, and WebMD tried to tell me I had cancer and the plague...

Well, they've updated their symptom checker, apparently.  And I'm a wuss.

I entered in some of my fairly nebulous and rather irritating symptoms that I've had over the last while - ( Read more... )

A few little things I've seen around in the past little while ( Read more... )

I've been off work, ill, for two days.  Yesterday, Subchunker came with me for my walk of the dog, and it really did exhaust me (as he found me on the floor while making spaghetti sauce a short time later - sitting and trying to rally some more energy to finish chopping celery).

Today, however, I'm feeling better and Subchunker went rock climbing.   ( Read more... )

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.  That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." - post made by an old friend to his diocese on Facebook, from facebook.com/StopPlayingChurch

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