I was shopping around for a new curtain rod for the shower and I noticed that they were all titled “tension rod”.
They were titled that because they are held in place by pressing against the walls, rather than by being fastened to the walls.
But from what I learned in college, that’s wrong.
The curtain rod is pushing against the walls so it is being compressed. It should be a compression rod.
A tension rod would be somewhere that needed to prevent two walls from spreading apart.
Maybe a better way to do this is to picture a spring in the middle of the bar. To get the curtain rod to stay in place, you wedge it in place – what happens to the spring compared to its normal state? It is compressed. When a tension rod is in use, it is experiencing compression.
Whoever named that thing a tension rod has some explaining to do.
You shall break them with a rid of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.
Psalm 2:9
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I was planning on keeping the blog schedule at twice per week, but it’s been getting more difficult to get that done each week. Last week I ended up posting only once, so I decided to make that the new schedule.
Here’s my blogging frequency history.
Week 1: Every day
Weeks 2-259: thrice a week
Weeks 260-532: twice a week
Weeks 533+: once a week
Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
Psalm 55:22
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No blog post today – we’re celebrating Christmas with the other side of the family.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
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I’m not posting anything today – I’m too busy doing Thanksgivingy stuff.
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
1 Chronicles 16:34
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I am without a laptop at the moment. Which means I don’t have some of my already-started posts on hand to complete. Which means all you get is what I can type on my iPhone. Which is this, today.
But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.
1 Corinthians 9:15
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Except for this introductory sentence and this link ( Blank Post ), this post is empty.
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
Genesis 37:24
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For want of a post today, I will simply note it is both National Lemonade Day and National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day today.
I personally prefer milk with chocolate pecan pie, so maybe I’ll have to celebrate these days separately somehow.
Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
Leviticus 25:24
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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.
