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Addict

7/27/2010

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There are oodles of things I would like to write about right now.  However, the only thing I feel is appropriate to say is, "I am addicted to Flickr." I was just browsing through the different things you can do with your pictures on Flickr, like creating galleries and joining groups.  I have a feeling this is all just the tip of the iceberg.  If you want to look through some pictures, here is the link: Niki's Flickr 
If you don't have Flickr, try it out.  It's crazy, but once you start adventuring around on it... well, it's hard to stop.  Perhaps Flickr is now made with MSG...
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On the Road Again

7/22/2010

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I was driving around the construction in Duluth today.  For those of you that don't live in Duluth, let me just tell you that the road construction is everywhere.  I wish that was a joke.  They decided to demolish one side of I-35 (major freeway). So now everything is one lane and the merging (which was bad enough because Minnesotans don't know how to merge) has gotten even worse. 

Well, I was about to merge onto I-35, there was one car merging in front of me, and it was a taking-turns situation.  The car in front of me merged, I let the next car go by and started to merge, hoping that the car would let me.  I put my hands up in a questioning sort of way and looked back at the car.  There was a snowball's chance in hell he was going to let me in, and to prove it, he forcefully pointed at me as if to say, "don't even %@#$@^$ think about it! I will steal your soul if you ever move from that spot!" Needless to say (I guess I kinda do need to say it...) I started cracking up.  Hilarious!  What a jerk!

Well, traffic gets pretty close because there are concrete barriers on both sides of the lane and it's already stop-and-go.  So I'm still laughing and I pull in behind this guy because the car behind him was driven by a normal human being. I make a point to emphasize my laughter.  Oh he sees me.  I know he does.  He watches me from his side mirror and can see me laughing.  His blood boils, and he acts. BRAKE CHECK!  I was a safe distance behind (mainly because I was only going like 5 mph), so I stopped.  He started up again and.... BRAKE CHECK!  Once again!  Oh this guy is mad!  I am just laughing hysterically now, and that doesn't help anything because this guy doesn't start moving again.  He just sits there in his car, stopped on the freeway, writhing in anger, and holding up traffic.  I imagine if I had honked at that point, he would have gotten out.  Eventually he pulls forward and I give him about 5 car lengths because it is clear to me that the driver of the blue nearly-sporty car with the big Amsoil sticker in the back window is, in fact, completely unstable.  He just so happens to take the same exit I do... I think he thought I was following him.  Wouldn't that have been funny?
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"My Thoughts" by Someone Else

7/19/2010

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So, I've been reading The Stand because it's been recommended to me by several people whose opinions I value.  It took a little getting into, but I've not been disappointed thus far.  I bookmarked a certain page because Stephen King mentions a character's opinion of one of my favorite books.  I read this passage which I will put in this entry, but it basically sums up my opinion of the book!  Here it is:

"Three years ago Stu had gotten a book called Watership Down to send to a nephew of his in WAco. He had gotten out a box to put the book in, and then, because he hated to wrap presents even more than he hated to read, he had thumbed to the first page, thinking he would scan a little of it to see what it was about.  He read that first page, then the second . . . and then he was enthralled.  He had stayed up all night, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and plowing steadily along, the way a man does when he's not much used to reading just for the pleasure of it.  The thing turned out to be about rabbits, for Christ's sake.  The stupidest, most cowardly of God's earth . . . except the guy who wrote that book made them seem different.  You really cared about them. It was a pretty damn good story, and Stu, who read at a snail's pace, finished it two days later." (page 258 of this particular, unabridged hardcover version of this book)

I love Watership Down so very much, but when people ask me what the book is about, I never know what to say.  It usually ends up being something like, "It's about talking bunnies." But King is right, Richard Adams does make you care about the rabbits. It's positively brilliant!
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Eat Fresh

7/15/2010

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I was standing in line at Subway today, thinking about their motto: "Eat Fresh".  Then, I looked at the containers if vegetables, meats, and cheeses that had been sitting out since... well, I don't really want to think about when they were set out.  I thought, "Is this really 'eating fresh'?" No. It's not.  That made me think about American society today.  The "freshest" food that most Americans consume is probably fast food.  It is frozen and then fried basically in front of your eyes.  Who would have thought, that in today's world, the freshest food consumed most often is actually the worst for us? 
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This makes me admire people like my friends Sara and Kevin.  I was over at their house the other day and had all sorts of delicious food concoctions from their garden, or a family member's garden.  I can't believe how long it's been since I've had really fresh food.  

Perhaps we need to redefine the word "fresh". 
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A Lesson in Greek

7/10/2010

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There is a word in Greek that implies such a strong emotion that there is a physical reaction, a physical pain associated with it. Luke 19:41 in the original Greek employs this word: 
41 καὶ ὡς ἤγγισεν, ἰδὼν τὴν πόλιν ἔκλαυσεν ἐπ' αὐτῇ, λέγων
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it

In this verse, Jesus felt such a strong compassion for the city that he was literally weeping in anguish. Have you ever felt something so strongly that you were physically in pain because of it? I imagine intense grief, loneliness, loss, love, compassion, and pride are the most common.  For some reason, this has been on my mind lately.  Don't know why, but there it is.  A random tidbit of information for you...
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