Four tests for the "hardcore" online test takers, thanks to Mary_of_Egypt. It's too hot for anything else. "Medical Emergency" test, "Are you truly erudite" test, and "Are you Academically Hardcore?" and "do you understand the stuff around you?"( Read more... )

I was sent this link from "Poodwaddle.com". A world clock of sorts with facts changing allegedly in real time. Touted as a good example of "Flash " software which means little to me, but if it's real stats it's a little scary. You can click on changing stats for the year, the month, the week, or the day, or most scary...here and now, second by ( Read more... )

The Irish folk singer Tommy Makem died on August 1, 2007. Probably not known to many people these days he was part of the folk group "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem." Growing up in my Irish Catholic neighborhood we spent many hours listening to their songs of Irish rebellion and drinking. Maybe his best known song was "Four Green Fields" a ( Read more... )

Poll Snooze Alarm

OK....NOW I'm leaving.

See...it's now 7:16 and I haven't left yet ( Read more... )

Township notice

"we are paving the roads in your section.
all vehichles must be off the street between 7am and 5pm
from 7/17/07 to 7/31/07 or they will be towed at owner's expense."Body is in a state of shock leaving for work this early ( Read more... )

Can not sleep. Bought a new Icon today. "Ostrobramska" icon.
The woman who sold the icon said it shoudl be put on the front door to keep people away that you do not want. Seems like an unfair use of an icon but I liked the whole story that went with it.

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Why should ambermae have all the fun.

Here is mine.

I received a link to a blog from a Fr. Stephen from ambermae that had so many ideas applicable to me. This paragraph reminds me there are no shortcuts in Orthodoxy.

We come, day in and day out, to the hard lesson of obedience to God’s commandments. We confess our sins. We receive absolution. We receive the Body and Blood of God. We are taught to pray ( Read more... )