I’m at the Red Lion Airport Inn in Portland.Â? I’ve been in Oregon since Thursday for my grandfather’s burial service.Â? It’s been wonderful to see family and hang out but I’m really looking forward to getting home tomorrow and seeing my kitties.
Will post tomorrow once I’m home.Â? My mind is racing so I’ll probably have reflective schtuff to post.
So I did the Toole County 5K Dash for Health this morning.Â? I planned to just walk it because my asthma wasn’t going to let me run and besides, I have a sinus infection.Â? So… I walked it and came in… dead last.Â? The ambulance was following me.Â? My time was probably around an hour for finishing (especially since neither my lungs nor legs felt like working toward the end) but dangit I FINISHED!!!!!!!!
Everyone was cheering for me when I got to the finish line (which made me feel more and hey… free BBQ afterwards for participating and I won a shirt in the drawing.
I came home, checked to see if they needed any help at VBS, showered, checked email, and promptly COLLAPSED on the couch for 5 hours and slept.
My goal if I do it next year: finish in less time.Â? I’m not even going to pretend that I can run it, especially with all the freaking hills in Shelby.
A few months back, Michelle blogged about making prairie dogs. I commented that I wanted one and so this came in the mail as a birthday present:
I decided to name him Claude. :)Â? Thanks Mish!
I’m the French translator for Blogathon 2006 and in translating my first of the pages, I realized how much I suck at going from English to French.Â? I can translate French-English without a problem but in doing reverse translation, I start nitpicking over the exact word I want to use and it makes it take longer than it would going the other way.
This is why I don’t go off on tangents about how one translation of the Bible is inherently better than another — each translation bears the biases of the translator. Â? Granted, I can read Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew so I can see some of the inside jokes and nuances which get lost in translating the Scriptures into English.Â? I guess this is why we have Bible commentaries?