Yes, that’s right.  You read the title correctly. The pool has challenges every month.  This month’s is swim the distance from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia (we just call it Saudi) during the month of April.  The distance is 20,000 meters, which is 400 laps. I signed up today.  Already  I have done 1500 meters.  And [...]

Week Four: Love: Day Five We’re finally there!  The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived!  It’s Christmas Day!  Our Savior and our king is here!  The One we’ve been waiting for is here!  Rejoice!  We have Hope and Peace with God!  Rejoice, in His love!  Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all [...]

I’ve been really stressed at work lately.  Everyone at work has been stressed lately.  Late hours, extra work.  We’re undermanned–about 70% manning just at a guess and have been that way for awhile, so this stress has just been building up.  I’ve found myself being really grumpy the last two days and snapping at people.  [...]

I want to talk about a website I think is a very worthy website.  I found it through somebody else’s blog, but I don’t remember whose, so I’m sorry I can’t provide a link to give credit where credit is due. This website is called freerice.com.  It is a website that is at once a [...]

If you remember from the Peanuts cartoons, Snoopy was always starting a novel with the words, “It was a dark and stormy night.” I found the complete text of Snoopy’s novel. If you like Peanuts and especially if you like Snoopy, go check it out. Also see the background of this phrase, and Snoopy’s Wikipedia [...]

I’ve been thinking about this lately.  This is something I’ve thought about off and on for a long time (thinking about stuff is one of my hobbies).  And recently Betsy’s post about patriotism has provided fodder for this thought topic as has some religious observations I’ve made since coming here and musings about the devotional [...]