Life is kind of strange right now. I just set up my new laptop (which was bought with Christmas and birthday money from the last year) and my settings aren’t transferred over yet. My laptop refuses to recognize my desktop (which is making the transfer of my Outlook Express a royal pain) and my techie and I spent an hour playing with things before they worked yesterday. Right now, I’m putting my MP3 collection on CD’s. I’m on disc 6 of the “Doxa!” series and the next one will probably be my oldies ones.<\/p>\n
Church was lovely this morning. Doing the Confirmation material has put me more on speaking terms with the Almighty and I actually wanted to get up at dark-thirty on a morning when the temperature was a balmy -35F with wind chill to go worship. (The cold was worth about 7 expletives.) The service at Church #1 was short because of the annual meeting; but I sang my heart out (and probably was the reason some people got one of the hymns — it’s Danish, which means that the tune is bizarre). At Church #2, they let me sing with Holy Commotion (the worship team) and I had a blast. I’ve been missing church choir and I relished the opportunity to sing and worship with a group like them. I also got compliments from parents on my Confirmation lesson last week, which was an ego boosting for me.<\/p>\n
We take Sable (our happening ’84 Volvo) in for fuel pump replacements tomorrow. (I am so tempted to fry our Newark mechanic on the MechanX Files on Car Talk’s website<\/a> because he misinstalled the rear fuel pump and didn’t use Volvo parts. If he’d used Volvo parts, they would be under warranty right now. Grrrrr.) We also have a copy machine tech coming by because we fried a fuse in it while copying annual reports. On Wednesday, I have two Confirmation classes and there are various other things going on. I’ll be blogging but perhaps not as vocally as usual.<\/p>\n Oh yes… I do have opinions on the Democratic primaries that are happening. (Unless there is a shot that Dubya won’t get re-nominated, I’m ignoring the Republican ones. The Republicans are also on the state sh*tlist around here as well because they’ve cut a lot of really essential services and have done things to irritate the farmers.) I’m torn between Dean and Clark. Dean’s claim of religion irritates me (it’s scary that someone could butcher the Christian faith worse than Dubya’s random allusions to verses and hymns with no context) but I don’t know if Clark will get the nomination. I also like Kerry, so I’m kind of split three ways. Once Iowa is over (since it’s being talked up here), I might blog about my thoughts on each of the candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Life is kind of strange right now. I just set up my new laptop (which was bought with Christmas and birthday money from the last year) and my settings aren’t transferred over yet. My laptop refuses to recognize my desktop … Continue reading