This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Jul
4
2024
This post is a repeat – I’m phoning it in today because I’m enjoying the holiday.
Happy Birthday
A M E R I C AA M E R I C AA M E R I C A!
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.
Psalm 33:12
Mar
20
2024
I took some photos of a small waterfall up at Dead River Falls last summer. Not even a waterfall, just a slight elevation change. But here it is, for your viewing pleasure.
It was a set of 10 photos taken in burst mode, I just strung them together into a GIF.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
Psalm 42:7
Dec
16
2023
Based on the popularity existence of last year’s article predicting bowl games in haiku form, I present to you this year’s all-haiku bowl game predictions. Still America’s only all-haiku college football bowl game predictions.
These are listed in order of date (earliest first). Some picks are whom I think will win, and some picks are whom I want to win. I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to decide which is which.
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Nov
29
2023
At the very end of Thanksgiving break, we got our first real snow of this winter. To celebrate that (or commiserate, your choice), here are some photos.
He showers snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.
Psalm 147:16
Jun
28
2023
A number of sites and services are switching to 2-factor authentication, rather than just a simple username and password. So you’d login, but then have to enter a code sent to you by email or text before it will finish the login.
So far many of the places I use have that as an option, not mandatory. And I don’t opt in, but for a lot of the places I end up having to do the same steps anyway.
The reason: I forget passwords.
Here’s a typical login scenario from me. I enter my username and password, the site rejects it. I then enter my username and another password, and the site rejects it. At this point, I don’t want to enter a third bad password, in case they’re strict with their lockout protocol, so I select the forgot password link.
The site then sends me a reset link, I follow that and select a new password (usually the first password I tried), and then I’m good.
It’s about the same steps as standard 2-factor stuff, but in an unofficial manner.
then they would say to him, “Just say, ‘Shibboleth.'” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he was not prepared to pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.
Judges 12:6
Jan
11
2023
Okay, okay, it is 2023 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2022 because they match with the 2022 predictions made in 2022 for the 2022 season. Also, the results are not all-haiku, just the predictions were. A more accurate title would be “Results for the All-Haiku Predictions made in 2022”.
Before the bowl games commenced for this past college football season, I made some predictions. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the tally of those predictions. Note that the results are not in haiku form, in contrast to the predictions.
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Dec
28
2022
I’m on holiday this week, so no real blog post.
I will take this time to mention that around here, we don’t put the wise men at the Nativity, because they didn’t arrive until a couple years after Jesus was born. But I think you should be allowed to have the wise men at your Christmas display if you note they are the wise men from two years ago. Then you get into all sorts of time travel logistical problems, such as shouldn’t the baby Jesus then be the toddler Jesus, and how can you have the baby Jesus and the toddler Jesus in the same place? Maybe it’s best just to keep the Wise Men apart from the manger to show the time distance that way.
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
Matthew 2:1
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