July 15, 2012
Muggy and Indoors
Good morning! Today marks the week Michelle gets off from taking her daily Xeloda. We dropped Claire off at Subway and head to DFE for breakfast with the boys. Looks like its going to be another warm, muggy one today. We might possibly see a little thunderstorm later. Luckily yesterday Claire learned that she can wear shorts to work, esp. since their A/C is broken.
We ordered a pair of family decals for our Honda Odyssey. We had something like this before, but over time the automatic rear window wiper decapitated everyone. So we're going to try putting them on each of the rear side windows instead. Sadly they won't be ready before our family reunion.
Ordered the first three Harry Potter movies on DVD for the long drive to Michigan.
We didn't buy the expensive DVD option back when we bought our Odyssey in 2010. So Timothy and I re-setup our much cheaper, Target-grade headrest DVD players in the van for our trip. Man, it's steamy out there in the garage. Even with every door and window open, it was hard not to sweat while setting it up.
I enjoy how Carl daydreams writing to The Washington Post.
A fight between dermatologists and nutritionists over vitamin D deficiency. “Go Out in the Sun!” All with moderation, of course.
My new favorite psuedo tech word: dioxycarbophobia. [Excessive Fear of CO2]
The Christian in Revolt. Excerpt:
“When in the first century AD, the Roman Emperor Nero smeared Christians with pitch and lit them to serve as nighttime torches or covered them in animal hides and set dogs on them, he was among the first to recognize Christianity as an intolerable religion, though many have recognized it as such since. Christianity was the only religion that ancient Rome could not tolerate—and the Romans could tolerate everyone. Numbers of conquered deities, Greek, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, made their way into the Roman pantheon, but the Nazarene carpenter who was God never rested there.
Christianity was the only religion that a tolerant world could not tolerate. It is the same in the modern secular world as the ancient pagan. A tolerant world can accept everything and everyone, any religion, and nearly any deviation, but it cannot accept Christianity.”
Because it was so muggy, we didn't go out much today. The boys had plenty of trips to the pool this week and weren't in the mood to go again today. They had also been the the movies earlier this week. So we were indoors, reading, studying, and playing games. Daniel is trying to finish the first “Harry Potter” book this week. Michael is reading a cool book called “Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places.” Grampa should be happy that it includes a chapter on the Hurricane Hunters. I caught up on news and a few things in my Read It Later list. Timothy did some reading and a lot of computer tinkering. After dinner I watched the original "Yours, Mine, and Ours" with Claire, Michael, and Michelle.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world,
to be holy and without blemish before him.” — Ephesians 1