Like a lot of churches, our church is always looking for a fundraiser. So we’ve put together a CD of some favorite Orthodox hymns, and I’m shamelessly hawking it on my blog. Yes, I am exploiting the hallowed spaces of the Ortho-blogosphere to sell wares, and I promise to feel really bad about that at […]

Hot news from the Wide World of Science: Getting old bums you out.
What would we do without these geniuses?

We’ve got a new car to replace the one that got crunched two weeks ago. And though our new car is just someone else’s old car, we made out pretty well in the deal. It’s the exact same make and model, but two years and 100,000 miles newer — so what’s not to love?
Well, maybe […]

Here’s a map that Greg sent me of the breakouts of Christian churches by county throughout the country. (Click on the image to enlarge it).
Well, we can certainly understand why everyone thought Huckabee would win in South Carolina.
Kind of humbling that we Orthodox are sharing the “Other” category with Quakers and Adventists. Boy, talk about […]

Deb helpfully sent me off to this MTV page to translate some of Tom Cruise’s Scientology jargon from this video. As she says, some of the stuff still doesn’t make much sense. But at least I got an answer on the meaning of that bit about ‘getting those spectators out of there.’ Sure enough, “spectators” […]

Greg sent me this late last night, and I’m posting it right away because it’s very likely that it’ll get yanked off the internet REALLY fast. It’s a 9-minute video that Tom Cruise made to indoctrinate newbies into Scientology. The link is HERE.
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Tom Cruise is starting to be the new Michael Jackson. He just keeps […]

We got a couple inches of snow in a short period of time yesterday. It wasn’t much fun to drive in last night, but this morning it’s really pretty. And school is out and everything around town is very quiet.
The sun has come out and Clementine seems to want nothing more than to get in […]

The damage doesn’t look all that bad, does it? Shows what we know. We just heard from CarStar, and even the rough estimate was coming in $2000 higher than the bluebook value.
So that’s the end of my Hyundai XG-350. That was the best car I ever owned, and definitely the most reliable.
We just paid it […]

It’s been a weird week here with Mr. & Mrs. This-side-of-glory.
For my part, my cold is mostly gone, but it looks like it’ll be a long time before my voice is completely normal. I was afraid of this. I injured my vocal cords about five years ago by singing incorrectly, and ever since then, I’ve […]

Ugh! I had just been boasting to Greg that I hadn’t had a cold in a long time when whammo. The Theophany troparion hadn’t left my mind before some nasty germs decided to take up residence in my poor old body. As things have progressed, my head has gotten stuffier and my voice has gotten […]