Every year in the autumn I go to a week-long religious festival; not always in the same place, and there are usually several different choices of places to go. In 1994 while attending one of these, I met one of the best friends that I've had in life so far. Here is a comparison list of the places where each of us has been every year starting in ( Read more... )

I keep thinking of little things to write down on here, but I forget them by the time I get to the computer next. Here's two things that I thought of so recently that I didn't forget them yet ( Read more... )

I get this feeling that there are an overwhelming number of things that we don't know about the design of the natural world. This evening I was cutting up zucchini to steam it, and I used a trick that I learned from one of my aunts a few years ago--or was it from my grandma; I don't remember. Anyway, she said that once you cut off the stem end of ( Read more... )

This is going to be, essentially, two thoughts in one entry. They're not really related, except by a common theme. I just have two things to say, and see no reason to split them up. The more important of the two is the latter one ( Read more... )

"Gotta love" English. I was thinking about how to say something I wanted to say the other day, and I was briefly considering using the word "sanction", and then I realized that the way I was going to use it, the meaning would be more or less ambiguous, and could perhaps even be interpreted as meaning the opposite of what I wanted to say--but I was ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm a bit behind the times in commenting on this... but a couple days ago the world of Catholicism got a new Pope. And that, of course, was because the previous man in that position in that church, Pope John Paul II, died, as men are wont to do from time to time. He was by all accounts a good man, and respected by many in the world, ( Read more... )

What are the chances that Aloe Vera is a natural pain reliever? Lol I know that sounds like an obvious statement to anybody who's used it for treatment of burns... but that's for skin, right ( Read more... )

There's a lot of things that are going really right in my life right now. I'm working with a singer as her accompanist, in a professional capacity for the first time (although that won't be a paying proposition for a little while yet; I have to finish learning the songs, we have to record a demo, and then she has to actually book some gigs; but it ( Read more... )

My roommate's parents and sister are in town! They got here last night; today was her birthday so they came down to visit for the weekend and are staying here at the house with us. Tonight the 6 of us (my other roommate and I and her and her family) went out to dinner at a fancy seafood place to celebrate her turning 28. :) It was nice. I like ( Read more... )

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