October 30, 2014

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Has anyone heard this joke before?

“God was once approached by a scientist who said, “Listen God, we’ve decided we don’t need you anymore. These days we can clone people, transplant organs and do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous.”

God replied, “Don’t need me huh? How about we put your theory to the test. Why don’t we have a competition to see who can make a human being, say, a male human being.”

The scientist agrees, so God declares they should do it like he did in the good old days when he created Adam.

“Fine” says the scientist as he bends down to scoop up a handful of dirt.”

“Whoa!” says God, shaking his head in disapproval. “Not so fast. Make your own dirt.”

Sunday, July 6, 2014

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4:28pm — Rockford, IL

Dear Jesus,

This month has started out kind of rough for me.  As you know, I went up to Minnesota last week.  Overall, I would rate it as a definite moral failing, even though some good came out o it.

Monday 6/23 — I was very tired, but caught the bus at 12:10 to Madison, and then the Megabus after that to Minneapolis.  It was nothing less than semi-torturous.  I couldn’t get comfortable, or fall asleep.  I kept getting distracted by things, even though I KNEW I should have done my best to go to sleep!  — I finally arrived in Minnesota around 8:00ish.  I WAS planning intitially to stay with my friend Dan Puumala at his rental property, but, I decided to just get a hotel room for the night instead.  It was $100 at the Ramada.

Tuesday 6/24 — This was Sara’s birthday.  I was going to try and make it down to Apple Valley to watch Austin play soccer.  Before I left the hotel, I decided to send Sara a text message to find out for sure if he was playing or not.  She texted back and said that they were not going to soccer that day because they were doing something special for her birthday.  So, instead of wasting a trip down to Apple Valley, I decided to try and find another hotel for the night.  I went to the Mall of America.  I WAS going to try and meet up with my friend Jon Bliss, but, he suddenly had a work commitment for the night.  He originally said I would be able to stay at his house that night, but wasn’t sure when he would be getting back.  I decided to get another hotel.  For some reason they were really hard to find on Priceline.  I was sitting at one of my favorite places, Tony Roma’s looking online for almost anything.  Finally, and for some weird, last minute reason, I finally WAS able to find something.  I ended up taking a cab to a Marriott.

Monday, June 23, 2014

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7:27pm — I-94 Passing Eau Claire, WI

I am on a Megabus just passing Eau Claire, heading up to Minnesota.  I’m HOPING that I will be able to get to see Austin play soccer again tomorrow evening.  I haven’t really told all too many people about this trip.  I’m also planning on turning in all of the paper work I need in order to get my license back.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to get that taken care of by Friday.  I’m still missing a few things, I know.  The main thing is going to be getting the discharge summary from Mercy Hospital.  I DID do a disclosure request, but only to the house.

I’m totally dead tired.  It was really hard trying to get to sleep last night and to stay that way.  I’m sure it will be good to get a good night’s rest tonight.

The other times this week, I do plan on participating with Outpost and the outreach they’re going to be doing this week during the TC Pride week.  I’m really, really not sure what to expect.