Tony Campolo was the speaker at this year’s Yearly Meeting for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and I happened to be the one responsible for the live streaming of it (you can still go watch the video on the site). He spoke three times, but there was one topic that has stuck with me [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: authority, NWYM, power, Tony Campolo
I heard an interview with David Rothkopf about his article in the Washington Post, and he talked about how there is somewhat of a cycle to economic policy. That’s started me thinking about economic policy, and where we are going to go in the next few years. The last time the US was in this [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: economy
Last summer our HOA decided to start enforcing the rules, and they started cracking down on brown lawns. I did my best to keep the lawn green with typical sprinklers, but there were two big issues with it: I had to remember to turn the sprinklers on I had to remember to turn the sprinklers off There [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
Tagged: sprinklers, yard
Got my car fixed. And the bill wasn’t too painful, which is always a bonus. That little bracket I mentioned was what connected my clutch pedal to the clutch cable to the . . . wait for it . . . clutch! A “few” dollars later and I’m driving again. My old clutch cable was [...]
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This is what I had planned for this evening: dinner with my parents, 5:30p worship rehersal for Sunday, July 23, 7p softball game, 8:45p This didn’t happen. Instead this is what went down. dinner with my parents, 5:30p while driving home my clutch pedal broke, 6:45p call Mauri (got Sherry) to let him know that [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
This website has started generating some media attention. Having bought a house a few miles down the road from work in a cheaper housing market I don’t look forward to “getting” to pay a $1.75 toll every time I drive to work — a whole whopping 4 miles — then $1.75 to drive home. *sigh* [...]
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The latest grass progress Originally uploaded by jschwanz. We’ve had some really great weather recently, so I was able to finally mow the new grass in the backyard. I think it’s really coming along, but there are still some bare patches that I’ll need to re-seed once we get more into spring.
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
All of my (and my parents’) hard labor in the back yard is paying off. Check it out.
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
I’m taking the week off because my parents are in town, but also to do work around the house. On tap this week is taking care of the backyard. The previous owners had two dogs, and they had sectioned a big portion of the backyard off for the dogs. Since we don’t have any dogs [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff