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Our Daily Thread 8-23-13

Good Morning! 🙂

1,000!

This is our 1,000th post here at WV’s. Can you believe it? 🙂

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On this day in 1839 Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.

In 1944 Marseilles was captured by Allied troops during World War II.

In 1959 in the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.

In 1962 the first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.

And in 1982 Gaylord Perry (Seattle Mariners) was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball. 

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Quote of the Day

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

Helen Keller
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It’s Tex Williams’ birthday.

It’s Michael O’Brien’s birthday too.

And it’s also Jimi Jamison’s, from this band. Gotta love the 80’s. 🙂

Makes me wanna watch a Rocky movie. Again. 🙂

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QoD?

What do you like best about Wandering Views, and is there something we could add/do that you think would make it better?

81 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-23-13”

  4. 1,000th post! Yay! That’s a great accomplishment. 🙂

    I’m off to Bible study this morning. I’ll think about my answer to the QoD and be back later. But I can say right off the bat that I do really love it around this place, AJ. It’s such a blessing that you took the baton and ran with it when you had the opportunity. This has been an important and enjoyable part of my life this past almost one year since you started the blog, and I can’t imagine life without it.

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  6. I love the sense of community. I love that we can share our lives and struggles with others and seek advice and prayers. I love knowing that despite only knowing you over a website I feel safe here. I love being part of a group of people I would otherwise never know in my everyday life. I love that we are a diverse group of believers.
    Where else could I hang out daily with a man who mapped the moon, a couple of homeschoolers, a published author, an editor, a couple of journalists, some teachers, a family that has lived all over the world, some missionaries, government contract workers, a stay at home dad, a comedienne, and a whole host of others I can’t think of this morning.

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  7. Hooray!!! It’s finally taking my posts! Girls have dentist appointments this morning at 8:30 CST. Prayers requested that Becca would cooperate so they can get good x-rays and give her teeth a thorough cleaning. She is terrified of the dentist and 6 months ago at her last appointment they were unable to complete the cleaning as she had a meltdown.

    I’ve been up since 4:30 when I was awakened by whimpering by Buddy (our lab). We’ve had him for nine years and this is only the second or third time he’s done this. I was unable to return to sleep, but did manage to clean up my emails on my phone (deleted over 450+ emails) and got Becca registered for an Art After School class. She participated in the class last year and loved it. I like it b/c it’s held on Wednesdays at the school immediately after last bell, which means no extra driving for me. I simply pick her up an hour later than usual.

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  8. Today’s QoD: I love this blog! I look forward to reading it every day, even when I don’t have time to post. I feel like I know the regulars on here pretty well now and enjoy praying for others as well as having my prayer requests honored. It is so nice to have the fellowship of other believers on a regular basis, as many of my friends don’t share my worldview. I’m very grateful to A.j. for creating and maintaining this site–he does an outstanding job. And, although I rarely post on the political thread, I do enjoy reading it to stay current. I don’t know what could be done to improve the site–I have no complaints. I can’t believe it’s already been a year since we all moved over here from WMB. TIme sure flies as one ages. I can remember feeling like a semester was a long time as a kid, but now an entire year goes by and it seems like it’s only been a couple of months! Thanks for providing this site, A.j. Keep up the good work!

    I’ve got to run to the dentist now and then we’re off to the mall to finish up our back to school shopping (yuck!). I suppose I should just be grateful that I don’t have to worry about the money that is necessary to provide them with all they need for a new school year. We got school supplies last week and I was shocked that the bill was almost $100.00/child. That’s a pretty steep price if one has a lot of kids. Y’all have fun on here today. I won’t be checking in ’til late this afternoon.

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  9. It’s Friday
    So What?
    What I like best about WV is that it’s here. The way to improve it would be to get NJL, Sawgunner,Pauline and some of the others over here.
    I have communicated with Sawgunner. He is being transferred to Fort Sam in October.
    I’ve wondered how NJL survived Sandy. Some of you have been in touch, but I haven’t heard much.
    One of the first things I usually do in the mornings is come here. But I leave early in the evenings, usually about 8:30 eastern.

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  12. Chas, NJL is doing well. She has a job that is fulfilling her right now helping victims of Sandy, She cannot log on from work and doesn’t have internet at home. For some reason WordPress sites are blocked.

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  16. QoD: What I like best about this blog is that I can rock the boat without fearing that the rest of you will dump me overboard. This little blog, as Whirled Views used to be, is for me a picture of how fellowship in the church ought to be, honest about one thoughts and opinions, feelings and failures to one another; and together striving to know the Lord and live for Him.
    Because I lived through two church splits as a child and then a young teen and saw others in my family be savagely treated by fellow churchgoers, I never have felt free to say what I really think to people in my church. I used to only be able to tell it to my immediate family and my closest friend (who is also a relative).
    I joined World when I was living away from home, because I needed the outlet, now that my family wasn’t there. When the magazine took that away just as I prepared to come here, I braced myself for a period of silence, as poor Aju suun couldn’t possibly listen to me for that long. But, The Real took over – thank you, The Real – and so I still have this safety valve. You probably all groan when you see one of my dissertations, but at least you allow me to type them.

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  17. I miss Drill too. He was here once or twice at the beginning of the blog, but hasn’t materialized in a while. A pity, as I suspect I have something to thank him for (leastways, I know it wasn’t any of the rest of you).

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  18. QoD: I like the camaraderie without the drama. Yes, I could do Facebook or Google+, or some other social media. But the original WMB was the first blog I ever visited back in 2003, when it was the Wild West with cowardly anonymous posters dropping bombs and running away. Some of them even posted an argument, then replied to themselves. In those days, Marvin Olasky was the moderator and didn’t have the time to keep things orderly. While I liked the give-and-take of discussing politics and religion with those who disagreed, yet kept civil (Anlir comes to mind), the trolls kept a few good people from sticking around.

    Keep up the good work, AJ. This is an island of civility in an ocean monsters and f-bombers. I only wish we could recruit Anlir or some other unbelievers who want to discuss rather than argue. Yeah, Random stops in every now and then, but I stopped reading his posts when it was obvious he was trying to get kicked out.

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  19. Like the rest of you, I miss Anlir and Drill and some others. I hope Random stays with us. I believe he is still searching, regardless of what he says. I think he is here for a reason. It may be that the Hound of Heaven will tree him someday.

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  20. Another vote for hunting down Drill. NJL, Anlir and others. I do miss the civil dissenters. We did keep HRW and I think Coyote Blue has been around.

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  23. I love this site for the Christian community which includes several different denominations. I am able to get different perspectives on the faith. I am able to hear from different parts of our nation and world to get news behind the news. I love the funny videos and music that is posted. I feel the encouragement and Christian love flowing freely daily on this site. I enjoy praying for the needs mentioned because I know there are true believers who beleve in the power of prayer for good in this world because of how God chooses to act when asked. I guess I could go as far as to say, visiting on this site is a bit like a glimpse of heaven and how the community there might feel. Thanks, AJ!

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  24. roscuro 🙂 : ” … as poor Aju suun couldn’t possibly listen to me for that long.”

    AJ, can’t say I’d change anything, you’ve done a great job and I’m amazed at how faithful you’ve been in keeping this going. I know it must take a considerable amount of your time (and no doubt there are mornings when it’s a bit of an unwanted chore).

    The 3 daily threads, I think, are perfect — a place for everything we typically talk about, from prayer needs to politics to silly stuff. And sometimes a little drama, too.

    Like everyone else, I’ve loved the ‘cyber’ fellowship and getting to know people I normally would never have met. I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone from the “south” before. 🙂

    It’s Friday at last and I think I have a fairly easy story to write today. I’m off on Monday because I’m working next Saturday, so I even have a 3-day weekend ahead (although I prefer to take the comp days off after I’ve worked the abnormal shift — this way I’ll have only a 1-day weekend next week, Sunday off only).

    Today we’re also doing a little goodbye (for now) baby shower for one of the reporters who’s off on maternity leave for 4 months. It’s her 2nd baby. So far, no word on whether they’ll replace her with a temp. Typical. Sigh. Don’t get me started. 😉

    There already are so few of us that it’ll be very strange with yet another person gone, another empty desk. We’re rattling around in this pretty big office now, the remaining few of us. …

    My best to Becca at the dentist. … When we were kids, one of my boy cousins had to have root canal (he broke a tooth rough-hoursing) and before they could even get started, he literally shot up out of the dentist chair, hauled himself over the back, and hit the ground running, flying past his mom and right out of the office 🙂

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  25. Becca survived the dentist! They were even able to get all needed x-rays and got most of the tartar off her front bottom teeth (they were terrible). Now, we’re off to the mall. THanks for the prayers!!!

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  27. So, I am in a class today. We are talking about Social Media and that FB is not as popular. I asked if anyone was familiar with Tout. “I got it from a friend of mine in Los Angeles”… another agent looked at me and said, “Wow! You have friends all over the country!”

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  28. Ha. that’s funny Kim. Tout is not well known (instagram & vine are better known short video applications) but somehow our newspaper group has linked up with Tout on some sort of deal. So we’re now all about Touts. 🙂 Maybe it’ll catch on.

    We’re supposed to be doing 3 a day apiece, but it’s hard if you’re not on an assignment that lends itself to short video.

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  29. I will say that our most recent stats had my tout viewership really high for some reason. Can’t figure out if it was the roller derby or cliff fall or sea lion clips that brought such a surge, but I was way up there for some reason. 🙂

    Now I’m in the process of trying to refresh the pets blog which I’ve sometimes neglected.

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  31. Survivor, the 80s sometimes I’m not sure I want to be associated with that decade – I took my students to see “Footloose” the musical. The new version of the movie had yet to make it to the theaters and in an effort to get the students interested in the field trip I showed a few clips from the original movie. The first response I got from the students was on the boys’ jeans — they never saw tight jeans on boys. Some girls found it gross while some found it “interesting” while the boys marveled on how guys actually put them on.

    Anlir quit posting on WMB soon after Obama’s election as he felt the WMB response to his first years in office was far too negative and disrespectful.

    I’m actually kid free for the first time in 4 months and although I should “back to school” cleaning the house, I find myself procrastinating.

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  32. Tout is like a video version of Twitter – you can take short video clips (15-45 seconds long) and post them with your stories, on Twitter & FB

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  35. I’m enjoying reading all the answers to the QoD. Can I just answer, “All of the above”? 😉

    I didn’t recognize the name Anlir, and now I know why from HRW’s post. I didn’t find WMB until 2010, and didn’t start reading there regularly until I got internet at home in 2011.

    Wandering Views feels like family to me. I can come here and be myself without people getting bent out of shape about anything I say. I’ve never felt afraid of expressing different views here when I’m in the minority on an issue.

    Let me also say (and it’s not the first time I’ve said it), I love the classical music selections when you post them here, AJ. 🙂

    I also enjoy when new people come out of lurking. 😉 I sometimes wonder how many people are here whom we haven’t met yet. And it’s great to see how newcomers are welcomed by so many friendly folks on this blog.

    I don’t travel much, but being a part of the conversation here is like getting a taste of what it’s like in other parts of the country that I haven’t been to in a long time, or ever. Not to mention traveling vicariously to other countries. I’ve never gone out of the United States except for having spent part of one day in Canada.

    Well, I think I’ve rambled enough, hopping and skipping from one subject to another.

    BTW, is there a race to 1000 today? 😉

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  36. My favorite personal Tout from a few weeks ago – Taken at the dog park of Cowboy and his good friend Cosmo — Cosmo was bugging Cowboy this day so Cowboy just laid down and played dead until Cosmo lost interest; it’s a boring video, but very short). 🙂 (and I’m not sure this link will work)

    #sanpedro #dogpark Cowboy and Cosmo

    http://www.tout.com/m/vgci6

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  40. What is the name of the game where you choose a word, then change one letter to make another word?
    I can’t recall the name. of the game.
    I can’t remember the word that was chosen.
    I can’t remember who all stuck with us till the end.
    I do remember that we got over 1000 hits on that thread.
    I always tried to submit one word a day.
    I stopped at 500 for a few days, then came back.
    I don’t remember how many words we finally got.
    Does anyone here remember?

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  42. Donna, I still get a 404 copying and pasting into my browser (Google Chrome). Which browser did you use?

    Chas, I remember hearing about that long thread. Could be called scrabble, I suppose — it sounds similar.

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  44. I haven’t been on much, but try to check out the prayer requests regularly. I do like to know how everyone is doing, after being online for so long with many of you. I also appreciate the prayer I have been given. My SIL found a full time sub. teaching job for this first semester. Since he had been layed off and just received his last check, it was a God-send, indeed.

    I also find many of the links interesting. Some I do not see elsewhere. I like to hear opinions that vary from mine and those I am most around. I ponder those and consider things differently than I might have. I have shared some of those to others.

    I appreciate that the site is not filled with filth and four-letter words. I also appreciate that most dialogue is actual thoughtful and just not twenty-second sound bite foolishness. Even if I disagree with someone, it gives me food for thought and some insight into how someone else thinks.

    Thank you for doing all the work, AJ.

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  51. Mumsee, I hear you saying that it’s all over. Does that mean the guyis back also? I.e. are things like they were before?
    I too, am thankful for the resolution.
    Don’t forget to be thankful.

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  52. Kathaleena, I thought of that same verse after I saw Mumsee’s good news on the prayer thread.

    What beautiful news! God is always faithful and ever so merciful!

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  54. I appreciate stopping in and catching up with “the gang,” though we still refer to you as the WorldMagBlog folks at my house.

    Three is good; I’m afraid I’m a little leery about posting on the News stories now that people can easily find out who I am. Worried about my image and politics, I suppose.

    Since I’ve been posting on this blog for nearly 10 years (!), I guess I’ve acustomed to your (non) faces . . . 🙂

    I also appreciate those of you who have taken an interest in my blog and writing. I’m sending Peter L a “guy romance,” just because he entered my contest!

    Laughing, and thankful for a place to share with people who, it feels like, know me.

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  55. Sounds like we need cake to celebrate the good news about Mike. Anybody here besides Mumsee who can make us cake to celebrate?
    Her cakes have always been great. I just thought she could have a chance to relax.

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  56. Hooray, Mumsee! When I read your post that Mike is back home, I actually felt chills go through my body b/c I’m so happy for you all. The Nest has been on my mind and heart a lot lately. I’m so glad things have worked out.

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  59. Hooray! Mike is home!

    Thank you, Michelle. Is it a Kindle version or hard copy? I guess I should check that email account.

    And Chas- It was Cyber Scrabble with 2129 words over 2000 posts from November 2008 to May 31, 2009. It died because nobody added to it in two days. I remember the date because on June 1, I and another WMBer (Mark Roth) tried to continue the game on our blogs. Neither of us were successful. Here is the one from my blog, which has been inactive since April. I guess all my blogging has been here and at a local news site.

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  60. I remember now. I don’t remember who all was on it.
    I notice on yours, that you got to “hoke” but no one said Coke.
    I didn’t remember that it went over 2000. I think I stayed with it till the end, except for a brief break.

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  62. I had a rubarb pie that was made with strawberry jello many years ago. Is that by chance the type Mike likes?

    Thanks, Peter L for the link to the Cyber Scrabble game on your blog. It looks like fun to me.

    Rain is pounding on the roof of the office. A friend with relatives in a nearby state told me her relatives were heading up north for a vacation from the rain.

    Our lunch at Long Horn was full of errors today. The waitress failed to bring the salad I had ordered, our workmate’s steak was rare when she had ordered well done, the blueberries were left off of the grilled pound cake with strawberries and whipped cream, my husband’s credit card rejected because it had a hold on it since we had made some charges out in Texas and the card company thought perhaps the card had been stolen, and then my pocketbook had fallen under the table and spilled some of the contents so the other coworker and I had to lay down on the seats of the booth to try to reach under the table to retrieve the items. If we were small we would not have needed to do the gymnastic tricks. My husband knew better than to even try!

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  64. Okay, Aj, I love this blog, but it seemed like you were asking how to make it better or what was left out. I did think of one thing just now. I am faraway and find it hard to get the news. So your news might be all that I read. So… I was wondering if perhaps once a week you could post something like “this week’s encouraging news” just to let the positive in once in a while. Though I am wondering if there is any encouraging news. 😦

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  65. So excited for Mumsee and Mike. I was actually praying this week that it has been long enough and it’s time for the Lord to end this.
    Great Sports Day yesterday with sunshine – something we rarely see for a whole day. Of course when it is clear it gets cold at night. In the 50’s last night, doesn’t sound too cold until you realize that we have no heat and no insulation, I can see the ground through cracks in my wood floor and our windows are louvers.

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  66. Such a different time zone. it is 10 am on Saturday morning here while you on the East coast are at 8pm on Friday evening.
    We have a three day weekend with Monday a holiday. Monday is a National Day of Repentance, perhaps we need one in the US?

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  69. Oh my it has been a busy day….and I come here and find it is 1000 day!! Happy 1000 day everyone and thank you AJ….you have blessed us all. I love this place…it’s a safe place and I love praying for my sisters and brothers (and those who are searching even if they don’t realize it 🙂 ) I am grinning and crying at the same time at Mumsee’s news….oh my heart is full….our Lord is indeed good and worthy to be praised!!

    I had a physical today….I am “disgustingly healthy” says Doc…except…..I am alarmingly low in Vit D….hmmm…now I must focus on remembering to take my Vit D supplements, have a bone density test and go back in 3 months for labs and consult with Doc….he’s a family friend and likes to give me a hard time 🙂

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  70. AJ–if you could get the numbers added back in, that would be good. But I’ll add that I love this blog community and our ability to encourage one another from afar–even to see each other in person once in a while. It was still World blog when I got married, but I felt so loved when I got several wedding gifts, and two handmade cards signed by a whole lot of you, when I married almost two years ago. (Two months till our second anniversary–hard to believe! Two months yesterday!) My husband said yesterday, “We’ve been married 23 monhts!” I said, “Twenty-two–it just seems like longer.” (He knew I was joking.)

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  71. Long enough to prove that he was innocent. I TOLD all of you he passed my skin crawl test. I told him that while it might not sound flattering he didn’t make my skin crawl. I would have never put myself and my child in a car with him if he had.

    It took just over a month to clear him. To us it seems like a long time, but really it wasn’t that long. It could have dragged our much longer. Thank You, God, that it wasn’t longer.

    Now they can all begin to heal and the children can get back to their normal. Life is good. It isn’t always Great but it is always good. In this instance it was Great! Mike being back in the home means so much more than most of us realize.

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  77. I think that it was closer to 8 weeks that Mike was gone. I was in Australia when it was on the prayer thread and we just finished week 5 of school. No matter, it was way too long. So happy to have the family restored and together again

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  78. hey I got 77, that is when my 2nd daughter was born
    Aj, I thought of another feature, which I have no idea whether it is possible or not. I finally learned on facebook that you can edit or delete your posts. That would be a lovely feature to have for all those misspellings that need correcting 🙂

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