Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 16th, 2006
The one bright spot in an otherwise ugly exercise day was running into my old friend "Cash." Have you ever had one of those days when you make a wrong call, and then your next judgment call gets second-guessed, even though you’re in a gray area and both your opinion and the boss’ [...]
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
I caught a few minutes of Fox News Watch this morning. In the segment where the topic was whether or not journalists ought to be allowed by their corporate employees to donate to political campaigns, I caught a comment that raised my hackles. Neil Gabler, while siding on the half that believed journalists should [...]
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Revelations 5:4 (NIV) — Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword. Okay, so a nuclear weapon isn’t necessarily the latest sign of an impending apocalypse. Still, methinks [...]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
How’s this for a trip? Start with a two-hour ride in a car (luckily a BMW 7-series, about the size of a Chevy Impala) with four other people, one of them being your wife and practically sitting in your lap (not a complaint by any stretch). Stop at the airport to drop off some [...]
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Christina and I celebrated our ceremonial wedding yesterday with a mass/service at her parish church. The officiating priest was a retired Bundeswehr chaplain who lived in the States from 1986-1991. He performed most of the excellent ceremony in English, for the benefit of the five out of about a hundred people (one of them [...]
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