Mixed Moss

OK, so I now think that I officially have a life.
One day in the office some of the staff were rolling their eyes at Jr. High and talking about how difficult kids that age are, and I said Hey, they aren’t that bad. I used to work with them back at the church I […]

Matt Adam and his fiancee Angela are in town this week-end, and I spent all of today hanging out with them and Rachel and Alex. Tonight the four of them went out for dinner together and pointedly did not invite me. I caught myself feeling badly for about thirty seconds while I watched them all […]

Here’s your culture for the day, and your comic relief for the day all rolled into one. Taken from “The Three Musketeers,” by Alexander Dumas.
Synopsis: D’Artagnan, a musketeer, is asking a fellow musketeer’s servant how he learned to be so good at sneaking about the back hallways and kitchens of an inn and stealing […]

Well, this past week-end wasn’t as depressing as I thought it would be. Friday night and Saturday I hung out with Tammy and Donnie, and Sunday I spent with Ellen at RibFest watching the CCC band play– there was a sort of a “battle of the church bands” on Sunday morning at one of the […]

This week-end is the RibFest in Naperville. It is a huge festival, with games and carnival rides and concerts, where different restaurants come and sell ribs, sort of like Taste of Chicago but smaller and with better bands. It’s a fundraiser for child abuse prevention. Community Christian Church (CCC) partners with the event co-ordinators […]

A spacecraft named Cassini finally got to Saturn after a seven-year journey. It has begun transmitting pictures back to NASA scientists. You can check them out here:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/
Pretty neat. It’s sad that the only NASA activities you hear about are the ones that don’t work very well, when things break once they get there […]

The politics here are crazy, and even the teachers get into it. There was an election for the new head of the teachers’ union. I would have thought something so completely off the radar would have been able to pass quietly along without being featured on the morning news, but no. Apparently there were enough […]