Turns out the free lunch was not pizza. It was hamburgers and hotdogs. I was sent away the first time I tried to get in line… they weren’t ready yet. Then I went through twice.

I just saw a calvinistic baptist say this on a forum.. “It’s not an issue of soteriology, so why would there be any Calvinists position on this issue?”

ugh. As though calvinism were only about getting ’saved’. I need to get back to work on my new five points of calvinism.

Intelligent Design in Nature

Yesterday evening, the girls were outside playing hard. A few times they came carrying various things to show Megan and me. At one point, Geneva came to the door holding a stick and said, “This is my sword!”. Ashley shortly followed (as is pretty much always the case with A. these days… doing everything G. does), and made the same comment.

Only, she wasn’t holding a stick. She was holding a leaf. And it was a leaf that must have fallen off the tree a few days ago, because it was all limp and wilted. So she was holding the stem of it, and the rest of the leaf was draped over her hand.

it is spring fling today. it is raining, so it will be in the cafeteria. I don’t care… I only go because there is free pizza. Of course, the lat few times they were so cheap that I only got one or two pieces. How do they expect me to survive on that?

So I picked up a slingshot the other day, and armed myself with an 88¢ box of runts. I didn’t want marbles, because they’ll shatter. I didn’t want ‘hunting shot’, because I don’t want dead cats. I seriously considered paint balls, but didn’t want to have to deal with angry neighbors with paint soaked pets. Plus, what if I missed? Then I’d have paint all over my property.

So I went with the runts. Small, out of the way, poor. wait. small, mostly round, biodegradable, nonlethal, and cheap. Cheaper than all the other options by at least 50%.

So I’ve been shooting runts at cats the past day and a half, and while my aim is steadily improving, they are steadily becoming more wary of my presence. It won’t be long…

Service Ready Date is tentatively May 4th, which is Wednesday. In the meantime, I’ve changed our current isp service plan to no dialup minutes. Which basially means our email will remain active, but we need some other internet access to use it. That’s about 40% the ordinary cost, so I figure I’d do that for a month until we get settled in with dsl, and tell everyone about our new email address.

But, that means we’ll have a few days where we won’t be able to signon from home. I’ll still check email from work for those few days… but poor megan won’t be able to get her iFix.

We should be getting the package with all the junk today, via UPS.

Some time ago I ran across this test, to measure how fast you read. I read 199 words per minute, which is average. I just took the test again, and I’m up to 243 wpm… Speed Reader!

However, I did get 91% comprehension, which ain’t too shabby.