Family Life

POST OF AN OLD DRAFT. Originally dated Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I bought Debbie a puzzle for her birthday. She loves puzzles, and I didn’t want to insult her intelligence with something too easy. So I picked one I thought would present a bit of a challenge and hoped she’d find it interesting. Little did [...]

Tonight’s youth group was small. We had six leaders and three youth. The evening’s speaker had wondered about canceling altogether. But no, we went ahead anyway. Many or few, we bring God’s Word to those who are willing to listen. A small group is always a concern though. Usually you need a certain critical mass, [...]

It is increasingly difficult to justify my existence at work these days, mainly because I have nothing to do, but today I managed to earn my wages. I finished putting together ideas for a major upgrade to one of our machine lines. This was the first machine I designed when I started at the company [...]

I’m back to using contacts, about a month after losing one. It was a very routine visit, considering the past six months of tests and trials and experiments. The doctor was pretty optimistic about my general outlook and sent me on my way with instructions to see her in six months. So now I’m in [...]

Success! Debbie did a masterful job at decorating Daniel’s birthday cake, as predicted. In the past she’d been plagued by icing that was too runny, so she made it extra-thick. It looked more like Play-Doh than icing, something that could be molded and shaped, laid down like wallpaper rather than paint. Decorating was easier that [...]