Month: May 2026
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William’s Laundry
William prefers to do his laundry at our house instead of spending quarters to do it at his apartment building, and Stephanie facilitates that. He’s over and he and I have had some good conversations. We have been talking about personalities. All three of the cats have different personalities and Stephanie and I paralleled that…
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God and my Wife
I gave a piece of advice to my oldest son Brandon today. His girlfriend wants him to be more holy. I agreed with her. But more importantly I think God agrees with her, so I told him if God and his girlfriend agree that he’d better pay attention. This theology has created a stable marriage…
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Not Garbage Day
The truck didn’t come today to pick up the garbage I put on the curb. In retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. When there’s a holiday everything gets moved forward to the next day. I just wasn’t thinking when I put garbage out last night. Memorial Day bumped it until tomorrow. It’s not garbage day.
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Map Editor
I’ve been playing a lot of Colonization Classic. I like exploring. I like founding new colonies. I don’t like fighting with random maps. Some maps just don’t have enough land. That’s apparent pretty quickly. Some maps don’t have the right diversity of land. That takes longer and more exploration to decide. And some maps after…
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The Right Screwdriver
The boy next door asked for help removing a screw. He’s maybe eight so hasn’t developed a lot of muscle mass or spatial reasoning to get the torq right. He also had a screwdriver that looked like someone drove a tank over it. So I got a couple of appropriate screwdrivers and followed him to…
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Holidays
Memorial Day weekend is here and my biggest concern is getting everyone in the house before night fall and crazy partiers race through darkened streets. I’m relatively certain the boys won’t jump in front of traffic. I am less convinced that the cats know better. Ether just came in a few minutes ago so everyone…
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Chastity
The rule in The Church is exclusive relations between a husband and a wife. Premarital and extra marital sex is out. Self service is not allowed. Porn is forbidden. And The Church won’t sanctify committed homosexual relations. But we aren’t Catholics or even Episcopalians. Impure sexual thoughts are not sinful and only become so if…
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Attention
The house is quiet but not my head. People want my attention. Sometimes that’s difficult. Sometimes I want theirs. It seems like that is difficult for almost everyone else. Attention takes energy. Complaining also takes energy. I try not to complain, but when people want my attention it is often to complain, so I hold…
Latter Day Sinner 