Warning: this will probably come across as navel-gazing. Feel free to ignore the melodrama. Over the holidays, Laureen and I got to travel with my brother, Jim, and his wife, Pam on a car trip to our northern brethren. It was the four of us in the car, and we were talking about life. Jim …
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Happy New Year
Fried Okra Salad
Halve 1 container of cherry tomatoes. Chop a bunch of green onions. Marinate the above ingredients in catalina salad dressing. Fry a half-pound of bacon to make bacon bits or use pre-packaged bacon bits. Set the oil for deep frying the okra. Get a 24 oz. bag of breaded okra and fry it up. If …
Christmas Music
Jacob performs “O Tannenbaum” in German. Jessie tries to outdo him with “Jingle Bells”. Jacob ripostes with his 78 r.p.m. rendition.
New Pictures of Old Events
I’ve finally added pictures from August through November in the gallery.
Someone Explain This To Me
I just finished reading an article from the online version of Fortune magazine written by a former congressman and former head of the Democratic Leadership Committee, Harold Ford, Jr. The article states that the President should do the following: Don’t raise taxes on companies. Don’t create new regulations on businesses. Cut taxes on every form …
Jacob in the Workplace
There are times when I look at my son and say, “STOP DOING THAT!” ‘That’, of course, is usually something involving torturing his sister. Of course, she tortures him as well, usually through made up songs. Since Laureen’s birthday is coming up, last night, Jacob called a meeting of the family-not-Laureen in his room. He …
Religion and children
At dinner tonight, Jessie asked whether she was “baporated”. She was learning about it at her preschool (the Lutheran one), where one of the teachers had mentioned getting water poured on your head. Apparently, the LCMS does infant baptism. So, we got to explain that to her, which led to the differences between being dedicated, …
The Islamification of Oklahoma
Among the general brouhaha of the elections of November 2, there was the little tidbit that Oklahomans had passed a measure banning Sharia Law from being used in their state. Naturally, this issue has raised quite a few eyebrows at Law Universities, since it seems to directly interfere with the first amendment, but that’s not …
Happy Birthday, Love of my Life
Today, November 2, is Laureen’s 40th birthday. I got her the sexiest gift I could find–a new clothes dryer. Before you clonk me on the head for being “that type of husband,” please understand that our current dryer has a cycle of approximately 4.3 weeks for a load of jeans. There’s heat. There’s lint. There …