Ten Top Trivia Tips about NWMethodist!

1. Only one person in two billion will live to be NWMethodist.
2. It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at NWMethodist!
3. Never store NWMethodist at room temperature.
4. Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into NWMethodist.
5. While sleeping, fifteen percent of men snore, and ten ( Read more... )

Hmm. This was a surprise to me.

Okay, not a huge surprise ...

You are a
Social Liberal
(68% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(13% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist
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From quillpen's LJ:

book meme! *
1. I list the first line(s) of 10 books I really like. (some are recent favorites, others are classic)
2. Cool points for knowing which book they're from.

* don't ask me about "meme." It seems like a shorthand way of saying "thingamajig." -- NWM1. The high plains, the beginning of the desert West, often acts as a ( Read more... )

So other folks are always running these quizzes, but this time I'm first ...

If I were a country, which would I be?

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I'm reading George Lakoff's Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Also his compression of that work in this year's Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate.

It's fertile ground for thinking about the polarization of the culture and the way that's reflected in politics and in the church.

In a nutshell, ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Mary!

My browser's homepage is http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/, a frequently updated view of Mt. St. Helens, from the Johnstone Ridge Observatory to the north of the mountain. By day, I see a snowy blanket covering it all, and a column of steam rising from behind the lava dome in the crater. By night, a bad image, but there's usually a spot of ( Read more... )

I'm rearranging my office at the church. My desk and my computer table had been set back-to-back so I could look straight out my door, to see who's coming into the outer office, and those walking by could see me. I like that. But now, because of cabling requirements for new stuff!, I'm moving the computer station to a spot where I can't see or be ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm a cheapskate. A tightwad. A pennypincher.

I wasn't going to get an LJ account until Mary told me it's free now.

So here I am. Gee. This is fun.