Good Morning!
On this day in 1660 the books of John Milton were burned in London due to his attacks on King Charles II.
In 1889 boxer Jack “Nonpareil” Dempsey was defeated for the first time of his career by George LaBlanche.
In 1892 the original Metropolitan Opera House in New York was seriously damaged by fire.
In 1939 Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
And in 1972 North Vietnam’s major port at Haiphong saw the first bombings from U.S. warplanes.
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Quote of the Day
“If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
I guess it depends on who you ask…. 🙂
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Today is Carter Stanley’s birthday.
And it’s Megan Garrett’s too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FWMebzGZGZc
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Wandering Views 
Morning all! About time to end my day. My back is feeling better, but I am still going to take it easy the rest of the week. I don’t want a repeat of that pain.
Feel a little like tearing my hair out. Just figured out that the offering funds that I transferred last month were never processed. Actually I sent in two forms, one in PNG kina and the other in US dollars. The USD was never processed. Glad that I finally figured it out.
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oh, and since I do this job for the entire branch, it was quite a lot of money. But, I am praying, that it is taken care of now.
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It’s getting awfully lonely here….. guess I will see you all in my morning, your afternoon.
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Good night Jo. 🙂
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It’s 8:30 and nobody here yet. Janice was on yesterday’s thread.
She must have gone back to bed.
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Has anyone seen Karen lately?
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Good Morning All. I had a successful party last night. Our corporate office and agents hardly ever do anything just us. All the other branches have some sort of social event once a month or so. I put together an after hours get together at the Fairhope Brewery. We provided the food and they bought their own drinks. It is a pretty fun place. Since they are not in an economically depressed area and a quirk in the law, they can brew beer on site but cannot serve food so you are welcome to bring your own in.
I think Mr. Seller and I have come to terms. Amazing what a woman picking up her purse and walking out can accomplish. He flagged me down in the parking lot and lowered his price. He sent me a text last night that “we are over the hump”.
In everything that was going on it was also Mr. P’s birthday. I told him I bought him a house for his birthday. He was gracious enough to accept that.
Middle son seems to be maturing. He called me last week to find out what to get his dad for his birthday. He is sending some sort of Alabama Crimson Tide Pennant hang us flag sort of thing. Just what I need moving into a smaller house–more stuff. I myself am all about consumables. Gift certificates for services.
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Congratulations Kim.
I confused about something you said yesterday though.
Are you taking another job?
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Good morning! I was up earlier, but did Bible study and had breakfast. Also I needed to consider priorities for today.
I had a nice chat with husband’s pastor yesterday to see if there may be interest there in attending the CLI dinner. My church is already involved in many missions so there is not much interest there. I am also working on an event, Prayer at the Prison Gate. Soon there will be a website up about the December gatherings in communities where believers wish to organize an event.
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World has a series going about homeschooling. One of the articles is about how abusive families have hid behind homeschooling: http://www.worldmag.com/2014/08/homeschool_debate_2. The comment section is interesting, but I agree with the commenter Soapbxn – legalism in homeschooling is a serious problem. Within the circle of homeschooling families I know, those who were most legalistic about it were the abusive ones. I’ve said before, my parents homeschooled from academic concerns, not religious ones. Using homeschooling as a way to guarantee that one’s child will become a good Christian leads only to problems. One cannot save their child by works.
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Second job, really an old job. Guy I Used to Work With can’t keep an assistant. He is demanding and eveything else. I have found him two different assistants in the last 6 months and neither has lasted. I know what to do, how to do it, and can handle him. I am giving him 10 hours a week. It will be extra money not budgeted it for things I will want to do to the new house. I want tile in the wet areas, wood flooring in the common areas, and will leave carpet in the bedrooms. I will need to strip the wallpaper in the kitchen, and put up blinds in the windows. This way I can pay for those things as I go.
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Kim, is this a different/new house? Or the one you’d first set your sights on before but someone else offered more? Did you provide us a link? 😉
I spotted those stories, roscuro, but didn’t read them. Nearly all the families in our church home school — but we’re a reformed church and legalism is a rather dreaded concept. But we have some talented people who combine efforts to teach, with other home schoolers coming to our church grounds to take advantage of some of that as well.
I’m not hooked in with any of that really, but when our newspaper held a community open house several months ago I wound up chatting with a woman who came with her son and somehow she mentioned that she homeschooled him. Turned out she was one of those who was taking advantage of the the combined classes taught at our church (they fellowshipped somewhere else) and she said our church had quite a stellar reputation among the homeschool community for solid academic course offerings. Kind of cool to know.
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John Piper and his Desiring God website have been posting a series of interesting Scripture studies this month — which I believe will be launched in a more systematic way this fall — online and via FB.
Videos are just under 10 minutes and demonstrate how he takes apart & outlines specific passages and verses for study. (today’s is on 2 Peter 1:3-4).
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/god-s-precious-and-great-promises
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And now that it’s the day AFTER National Dog Day, here are some weird and funny “perfectly timed” dog pics:
http://pulptastic.com/28-perfectly-timed-dog-photos/
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Those are funny, Donna, but I’m sure that some of those HAD to be photoshopped!
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Or at least purposely posed.
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I think most were posed, but I saw evidence of amateur photoshopping.
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I started homeschooling for medical and academic reasons. In the long run it helped to seal our son’s Christian faith as he went to Christian college with high academic standards and made friends with high spiritual Christian standards along with high academic standards.
I really struggled at times to get our son to do his assignments. He was always so interested in what he wanted to learn for himself so it was not like he wasn’t learning even if he did not want to do what I assigned. It was hard to keep up with him and change what we were doing to fit what his interest was at the moment. I could be flexible and allow him to continue his love of learning or we could have fought and butted heads all the days long. Our son got a good homeschool education despite having me for a teacher. 🙂
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Photos to help mark the 100th year since the beginning of the War To End All Wars.
WWI in the air: http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/wwiair/
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Good post on a study that rates reading on a kindle vs. on paper.
I agree with Veith (and disagree with the findings): fiction is wonderful to read on a kindle. Serious non-fiction, including Scripture, not so much.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2014/08/reading-on-kindle-vs-reading-on-paper/
Veith: For me, contrary to these findings, fiction works well with Kindle, as the story unfolds as on an electronic scroll. Nonfiction, though, is more difficult, since I need to page back and forth to get the full effect of the argument or the information, something hard to do on a Kindle.
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Meanwhile, we’re seeing an epic surf event out here due to Hurricane Marie.
There are some 20-footers being seen at the south-facing beach where I live, with between 30 and 50 surfers taking advantage of it.But it’s definitely an “experts only” kind of day out there.
http://photos.dailybreeze.com/2014/08/photos-hurricane-marie-causing-big-waves-flooding-in-california/#1
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My middle name at birth was Marie!
I love reading fiction on a Kindle. I just finished a fiction novel on Kindle yesterday. Nonfiction is certainly doable on Kindle but can be awkward as you noted. I have several Bibles on Kindle and some are more accessible than others for moving around in. Since doinng Bible Drill I am fairly quick at locating Bible passages. Therefore a paper copy is quicker in that respect. Also, notes are right there, but with Kindle there is the feature of controlling print size and contrast for easier reading so there is a tradeoff there.
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Posting over on the Prayer Thread for one of my agents
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For those interested, you now have less than 24 hours to get in on the first college football poll this year. There are 7 entries, plus I’ll count a partial entry for Mumsee, since she posted her usual “Go Boise”, as well as “Go Vandals”.
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Here’s one of our rental listings out here in a trendy but gritty enclave of old L.A. near Dodger Stadium.
OK, so it’s only 180 square feet, there’s no kitchen and the rent is $950 a month. But hey. It’s within walking distance of a Starbucks.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/08/ridiculously_tiny_shack_in_los_feliz_is_trying_to_rent_for_950.php
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Donna: that’s hilarious to me! Where I live, you could get a 1000 square foot, 2 bedroom for that!
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Around here for $950/mo you can get a large (~2000 sqft) 3-4 bdrm house with a yard! In the nearby small city, and new 2-3 bdrm condo would be about that price.
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Rents here are outrageous (although that one takes the cake).
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But really, this is even more annoying:
“Californians already pay the nation’s second highest gas tax at 68 cents a gallon — and now it will go up again in January to pay for a first-in-the-nation climate change law.
” ‘I didn’t know that,’ said Los Angeles motorist Tyler Rich. ‘It’s ridiculous.’
” ‘I think it’s terrible,’ added Lupe Sanchez, pumping $4.09-a-gallon gas at a Chevron near Santa Monica. ‘The economy, the way it is right now with jobs and everything, it’s just crazy.’ … ”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/california-hidden-gas-tax/
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