About 30 miles north of downtown Cincinnati is a megachurch which calls itself the Solid Rock Church. The most striking feature of this church as you pass it by on I-75 is was the 62-foot tall Jesus statue, which featured him from the waist up with his arms outstretched towards heaven. I say "was" because I regret to say that the statue is no ( Read more... )

I can't believe my vacation to Toronto is about to end, for the second time of all things! And I'll have to admit that this is a bit of a misnomer, because it was really only a half-day at best before I had to catch my early afternoon flight ( Read more... )

Thought I was finished, did you? They say we should live each day to its fullest. In my case, I am trying to stretch out each day for as long as I can. One week per day seems reasonable. For all those who are offended by my extreme lateness, all I can say is I'm sorry!

The lesson is that lateness is not the end of the world. It was a lesson shiara_ ( Read more... )

Apparently it takes me a week to describe a day. I'm sorry! Anyway, I was still flying high after my Pirate Banana experience, so the only thing to do that morning was coffee at Timothy's, which I discovered has absolutely no relation to Tim Horton's despite the name. Different Tim. It was good, except that they charged me full price for a ( Read more... )

Have you ever gone to some place partly to meet up with some people you have met on the internet? If you are in Generations X or Y, the answer is probably yes. Thus, I found myself going to Toronto for a long weekend last week, with the intent of meeting with shiara_ and duhbigman, also known as Janene and Jeff ( Read more... )

My windshield had a nasty crack in it. (Boo ( Read more... )

It's my birthday, all right, and that's no joke. I just turned 39, one hair below 40, which means I am almost middle aged. Need to choose the right stereoptypical behavior to adopt ( Read more... )

All right, I'll be making a short trip to Canada, but that counts as international travel these days because I need a passport. I've never been to Toronto before, but it seems to be the city to visit in Canada.

This is one of those "meeting my efriends" trips. Primarily I will finally meet shiara_, though I'm hoping to catch up with duhbigman as well, and maybe ( Read more... )

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Since I can't think of anything better to do, I'll go ahead and talk about what I do at work. Okay, let me go back and modify that: I'll talk about what I work on at work. And since I work at an aircraft engine company, that means talking about jet engines.


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