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Ouch

The number of losses I’ve suffered over at chess.com this week has been monumental. That’s what I get for entering a tournament for folks at least twice as good as I am. Feels kinda like fighting the devil on my own. Or like trying to conquer sin in my own strength. The odds are not in my favor. Now, if [...]

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The Presence of Greatness

I met Bryan when he was about 6.  We threw snowballs at each other and slid down a hill in about twenty inches of snow.  The electricity went out and Karma and I wound up sleeping in his den.  I remember banging on the piano in that den while he and his sister listened.  I [...]

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Wow, Thomas Nelson

Looks like I’m not alone in my disappointment with Thomas Nelson’s Bibles.  I do really like my King James Study Bible, but not the fact that the pages come out very easily.  Seems like a few years ago (mine is about 8 years old) they must have had some difficulties.  Don’t know if they used [...]

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Foolishness, Wisdom, and a P235/75R15 Mudder

I love our red Jeep.  I love the new P235/75R15 mud tread tires that we were able to put on it a couple months back.  We would have been stuck on the mountain a LOT during the past two months of exceptional frozen precipitation without those tires on that Jeep. I’ve worked on vehicles a LOT [...]

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Running Out

I’m more than a little bit OCD, and one of the things that I simply cannot tolerate is an empty glass. Thus, I usually get up from the table, trek to the refrigerator, and refill my glass of milk while there is still one or two inches of perfectly usable fluid in the container.  If my [...]

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