Month: August 2023
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Laundry Day Sorta
I am out of clean uniforms so they are in the wash. Unfortunately our dryer isn’t working properly. The service people have been out several times for the issue so another house call will probably be little or no charge. But it’s an inconvenience to have to tumble a load of close three times as…
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Magic Pancakes
What’s your favorite recipe? Many years ago when my children were young and we were much poorer than we are now the rest of the family was eligible for the federal Women Infants and Children program. At the time it dispensed certificates to purchase certain food items at no cost. They were eligible for about…
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Not Today Satan
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. This is a family friendly site the last time I checked. I cannot in good conscience answer that question publicly. 26 August 2023
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Walkable Cities
How would you design the city of the future? I went to the University of Milwaukee. It’s built straight up. The whole campus is about 8 city blocks. There was enough commerce in the area to entertain a host of college kids. I don’t need a whole city to be that tight but it would…
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Getting Dressed
They say you should dress for the job you want. I haven’t found a way to make a million dollars a year without getting out of my pajamas. Of course I’m not making that by getting dressed and going to Walgreens either so the incentive isn’t great. I have a habit tracking app and one…
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Love not Logic
As I’ve mentioned before I am looking for a divinity that I can feel. A divinity that goes beyond mere words. We think about God and inevitably we end up fighting about God. And when words aren’t strong enough weapons it turns to bloodshed. I don’t want to worship a god that is in collusion…
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My Name is Boring
Where did your name come from? Mark – after the Gospel writer Mark Frederick – after King Frederick the Great Crist – someone in Germany farther back than anyone has done my genealogy literally took on the name of Christ (the “h” was dropped after my forefathers immigrated to the Americas)
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Meaningful Life
What motivates you? I want my life to matter. I want my name in the history books. I want to be approved by God if He does that sort of thing. It is desire and vanity really, and suffering comes from both. But I want my life to be meaningful in as many ways as…
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Movies I Like
Favorite movies One of my all time favorite movies is the Rankin Bass cartoon version of The Hobbit. The new Hobbit movies were just gross. I like The Empire Strikes Back before CGI. I have 1989 copies of the Original Trilogy on VHS. At some point I’m going convert them in MP4 so I can…
Latter Day Sinner 