And All That Jazz!

I saw the movie "Chicago" today for the first time. Jennie bought it on DVD last Saturday, and, since I had the day off, I saw it, along with the extra features. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zelleweger, Queen Latifah, and Richard Gere all have tremendous talent!

I have the song "All That Jazz" going through my head right now. Not so much of a bad thing, except that those words are the only ones I remember! :) I'll get something else in there soon, though.

Long-Distance Email

I've mentioned my friend and brother in Christ, Steve, before. He's on the tail end of a 90-day stint in Biloxi, Mississippi, being retooled for his work in the USAF. He recently sent me an update:

Hello all,

I know that it has been at least two weeks since I have e-mailed people but have been PS2 addicted and passing the time with playing games and other things
here in Biloxi.

My last block test was about a week and a half ago, I got a 97 on that test, again, a stupid on my part negated me to get a 100. Well, I need some help. If
all of you could say a prayer for me for the next block test on Tuesday I would really appreciate it. I do not feel very comfy with the information. Things
are starting to run together and getting harder to understand. It is all new info for me so I am having to work harder.

Spent tonight working with XML editor to help build questions for this block to study for (who said that hardware networking people don't use software?). Should be done tomorrow, so will have the next 4 days to study like everyone else.

Went out with about 12 people for lunch tonight at a mexican resturaunt called Cucos. Really good food, great heart burn. A bunch of us are thinking about
going fishing the last weekend that we are here. More to come with that.

The laptop got struck with that MSblast virus, luckily the laptop survived, but will have to reload it, it's acting really screwy. Should be fun.

Well time for bed, so have a good day.

Take care and God Bless
Steve

More Library Blogging

Long time, no blogging. I'm at the library with Mom. It's been a long time since I've been on the Internet, so I'm here checking email along with the other stuff.

Let's see... 38 new messages in the Inbox... 105 new messages in the Bulk folder. I guess folks would like to keep in touch. I bet a lot of these are spam. I'm banking that most of the messages, if not all, in the Bulk folder are.

Be right back.

Library Blogging

I took the home PC to be serviced yesterday. The technician said it would be about 2 to 3 days before they could look at it and do the work. So, I'm still at the library, checking email, blogging, etc., in my one-hour timeframe.

Today Keisha is off school, so she's around here somewhere. I need to get off soon so that I can see whether she's tearing the place up.

I've updated my reading list. I've been doing a lot more of that, since I haven't had the computer available at home. I suppose that's a good thing, isn't it? I miss not being able to catch up with all the folks on my blogroll, though.

Phone Warrior

I heard this guy on the Bob and Tom Morning Show some time ago, and I need to see if the library has any of his CDs available.

[His first CD, Revenge on the Telemarketers] contains an especially memorable bit in which a burial plot salesman calls and Mabe announces he’s about to kill himself. After a few meager attempts to get him help, the salesman asks, “If I got the paperwork out to you this afternoon, do you think you could maybe hold off until tomorrow?”

This guy is my hero.

Call for Officials!

Okay, gentle readers... Here's the deal. I want you to become an "Official" of this weblog. There is no real responsibility for the office you will hold, except that you stop by once in awhile, which you probably do already.

You get to choose the office you wish to hold, unless it has already been taken by someone else. For example, Mark Morris is the Official Iowan.

Today, I am pleased to announce the naming of two additional Officials. Today I name my Mom the Official Mom of Journey Inside My Mind because she's my Mom :D. IreneQ asked me to pick an office for her to hold, so I've come up with something that I think will fit nicely: the Official Introspectional Blogger. If you read her blog with any frequency, then you'll understand.

So, let's hear it for the Officials!

• Official Iowan
• Official Blogger of Introspection
• Official Mom

Super-Encouraging Sunday Service

Yesterday at church, two of the members who gave the message mentioned me as a great example of encouragement to them personally and to the church as a whole. I don't know what to do when this happens, except to thank them and try to be humble.

They approached me before service to ask me for some jokes to tell as part of their message. I'm encouraged that they are encouraged!

Also, things have been going well at work. We have a new head chef, who is making some needed changes in how the restaurant is run.

As I left work yesterday, I praised God. "People lift me up as an example of encouragement, but what I do pales in comparison to what you do. God, you are the Super Encourager!"

Our Dog Jake

... really needs to get neutered. We have concluded that he does not care whether the other dog is male or female: he is still "interested" (nice euphemism, huh?).

Like this morning, after Keisha left for school. I took Jake for a little walk without a leash in the little cul de sac area where we live. I'm glad I spotted the male poodle with his owner first and grabbed Jake's collar to hold on to him. The poodle's owner mentioned that the poodle prefers male dogs to female. I was slightly relieved to discover that Jake is not alone in his preference for dogs of the same sex.

Last Saturday we took him to my Dad's farm in Indiana, and he met Icky, short for Ichabod, who is a dog old enough to be Jake's grandfather. Let's just say that Icky made it very clear up front that he was not interested.

It was fun to watch the two of them interact. As Jake would get close to Icky, Icky would growl and start to chase after Jake. Jake, the much younger and faster dog, would get away unscathed, yet with his tail between his legs nevertheless.

Then, as I walked Jake around the farm, Icky followed. As Jake would "mark" his spots around the farm, Icky would follow up with "marks" of his own. While we humans were chatting, Jake and Icky would take turns marking the firewood pile, for example.

Silly dog.

Biblical Confirmation on Coffee?

From an email forum to which I subscribe:

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.

The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."

The husband said, " You are in charge of the cooking around here, and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."

The wife replied, "No you should do it, and besides it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."

The husband replied, " I can't believe that. Show me."

So she fetched the Bible, opened the New Testament, and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says:

"HEBREWS"

Unravelled

IreneQ's blog has not been updated since Thursday, July 24, 2003. I really miss her, and I have yet to come up with a title that would make her an Official of this blog.