Year: 2005

Lately my emotions are all…

Adventures

Lately my emotions are all mixed up. That is, my water-works are subject to leaks. Peradventure the anomaly is caused by the gift of 3 sons and a wife about whom one may easily wax sentimental.

Example: I watched The Village again this past weekend and noticed at least one more major theme, namely the nature of fear and it’s relation to love. In the conversation between Ivy and Lucius on Ivy’s porch, Lucius says, “…the only time I feel fear is when I think of you and harm….” What an elegant expression of selfless love!

1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear…”

I don’t know anything about…

Observations

I don’t know anything about the Sprint PCS service. C has Virgin (on the Sprint network) but doesn’t use it enough to say if it’s good or bad. One friend says the service is poor. Another likes it.

No matter, I am compelled to declare that the advertisments featuring the black-coated man are tops. Whether on the radio or on television, that personage (along with the characters around him) busts my gut every time.

Interesting: that when you hear…

Observations

Interesting: that when you hear of a court case in the news, namely a case of sexual abuse, it is generally phrased as “touched him innapropriately.” It occurs to me that this word implies a subjective standard of what is appropriate. If the story were written “touched him wrongly” or “sexually abused him”, it would imply an objective standard of right and wrong.

I generated the following error…

Fun

I generated the following error message by submitting a specific SQL statement to IBM DB/2. Thus, it’s ineligible for the Crazy Wall of Errors or the anomalisms page but I post it herewith because it’s humorous.

Error: SQL0104 - Token WHITEY was not valid. Valid tokens:

( END GET SET CALL DROP FREE HOLD LOCK OPEN WITH ALTER BEGIN.

(State:37000, Native Code: FFFFFF98)

G and I were playing…

Family

G and I were playing “chess”, at least his version of it which is more like checkers but with a few twists. I decided to show him the rules of real chess since he seems to grasp checkers already. I started with the board setup. 2 minutes after I showed him the setup, he reproduced it…on his own…correctly! Yes, I suppose I’m bragging.

Also, me: “So, what did you do today?”

G: “Just lazed around.”

Whence comes this wit?

G got a board game…

Family

G got a board game for Christmas, “SORRY!: Disney Edition”. It has the standard four SORRY! colours, but the teams are Disney characters. There are teams of villians, cuddly animals, princesses, and heroes. In the very first game he played his Grandma, Grandpa, and Great-Grandma. G picked the villians team and Half-way through the game he bumped one of his grandparents. He said, “Sorry!” then declared, “Wait! I’m not supposed to say that. Bad guys don’t say ‘Sorry!'”

Also, LH has requested actual development on the “Bring it Back” page. I shall comply.