42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-10-16”

  1. Is today a holiday?
    They used to argue about Columbus day.
    But they don’t hesitate to take the day off.
    Good morning everyone but Jo.
    Good evening Jo. Sweet dreams.

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  2. It is a mess. It really is.
    Even so, Come Lord Jesus.
    But I’m afraid it will get worse.
    I thought of that yesterday when I saw eight year old Addison running around barefoot playing with the other kids. She is the oldest girl and “mothers” the others. I pray for their protection every day.

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  3. Good reminder, Chas, to pray for the next generations.
    I just purchased my ticket to go to Cairns, Australia for Christmas. It was hard to do as my banks were worried and I had to resubmit it. Then I realized it has probably been 5 years since I purchased a ticket since my son gets me standby tickets instead. Blessed.

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  5. Good morning, Chas and AJ. Good evening, Jo.

    Hoping for a normal week here. (What’s that?) 🙂 Everyone seems to be getting over their colds, and we should be able to get back into a good school routine again.

    Blessings on your day/night.

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  6. I’m curious to know if there is still a launching site from which this missile came.
    It should be destroyed by now.

    Rebel forces in Yemen are thought have been blamed after a missile was fired on a US Navy warship.
    The USS Mason, a guided missile destroyer, was shot at with rockets but was undamaged.
    The vessel was on a routine patrol in international waters, according to officials.

    You shoot at us, we shoot at you.
    We have big guns.
    But there may be a civilian at the launch site, so we have to be careful.

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  7. Good hello, y’all. It’s chilly in Atlanta.

    Since it is a holiday, Art went into work so he would not be bothered with distractions and can get to sorting things out. It is the week of tax extension deadlines. He has a good person who has been covering for him. He has been blessed in so many ways.

    I mentioned late on yesterday’s thread that we watched the French film, The Hedgehog. It is based on the bestselling novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Wonderful movie and soundtrack for those who like piano. We have also been watching a BBC mystery series, Vera, which Art said may be his all time favorite in that genre.

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  8. Kathleena, I just read your comments on the weekend’s R&R about internet data usage. My question is, have you switched to Windows 10 recently? When my family first did, our data usage started going over, all the time. At first we thought it was because our family that comes and visits likes to play games on the internet and have Netflix. Games and film eat up the most bandwidth, but when it happened in months when they weren’t here we knew something else was wrong. I did some research, and found out that it had to do with the update settings. So if you do have Windows 10: Go into the Settings app on Windows and go to Update and security. Under Windows Update, click on Advanced Options, and then Choose how updates are delivered. Turn the switch under Updates from More Than One Place to the Off setting. Basically, if it is On, the Windows program uses your computer like a service computer, distributing program updates to other users whenever you are connected to the internet. When I switched the switch off, our internet usage went back to normal. I don’t know if other computer programs do the same thing, but it might be worth checking on any new program. The iPhone shouldn’t be using that much data, my smartphone barely uses more than a GB.

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  13. Good Morning All. I chose to read a book instead of watch the debates. Mr. P watched them. I don’t know how he did it. I don’t like Trump and even less after this latest release of his crudeness. I remind myself that I think he is really Team Hillary and anytime he starts looking reasonable he has to leak something that will make him unelectable to boost her. Hillary, on the other hand has grated my nerves since the 90’s. I cannot listen to her voice and cannot stand her smugness and sense of entitlement. She has done her time and we OWE her the presidency.
    I don’t know anyone who is pro-either of them. Even my most liberal friends wish there was a different choice than Hillary and my most conservative friends wish there was anyone but Trump. How did we end up in this situation? The two least likable candidates in modern history and we are going to be stuck with one of them. Ugh.

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  15. Columbus Day is highly contentious out here. I always think about one of our former reporters, a young guy who made it one of his hobby horse issues and would go on tirades about it each year.

    Only schools and government get it off — oh, and banks — as far as I know around here.

    I watched “We Bought a Zoo” this weekend, cute movie (but I was distracted doing something else during the first 30 minutes of it, so I need to watch the beginning of it if I ever get a chance.

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  17. Happy Thanksgiving, Roscuro. Does the holiday still (I assume it started that way) have the meaning of being thankful to God?

    Thanks for the information. I did go through that with one of my daughters and did shut that off. We shut some other ones off, too, so hopefully nothing that I really need! I think between the thing we shut off on the IPhone and this, things have calmed down on the gig usage. Since we do not play games online or watch anything other than shorter videos, I knew something was wrong.

    I did get an automatic update and do not want those randomly done. If I was at the end of my gig usage, it would cost me. I can afford it, but it is not necessary to do it then.

    Wish I had my children and grandchildren closer to get that advice sooner. Also, I believe they do keep us more on top of what is new. Happy to have the advice some of you can give us on this website, too. 🙂

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  19. We went out to dinner instead of watching the debate. I wanted a steak so bad but can’t have one at the moment. Anyway my brothers watched and said they wanted to see Trump put Hillary in a head lock. We all decided that would be the best thing that could happen. Trump gets arrested, Pence is the nominee and we all get to see Hillary get what we’ve wanted to see her get for years. Win, win, win. 🙂

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  20. Wow, that would, indeed, be awesome kbells

    Bathroom: slow. I need to call the beadboard place but they’re probably closed today (they’re in Texas). I’ve decided I’ll need the tile guy (whom I’ve not personally talked to yet) to come over and TELL ME how much and what kinds of subway tiles to order for the tub area. The floor tiles I guess I can order on my own and I need to do that in the next day or two, they’re coming from Home Depot’s website.

    I still need to order light fixtures as well, but that I can do as I’ve pretty much settled on them.

    Real estate pal is on a jaunt in NY the past couple weeks, attending a high school reunion, and he’s my go-between with workers, tile guy.

    Window: I’ve decided to have two window companies, Anderson & Win-Dor, come over for their “free” estimates to ask them options for the window (in order to keep exterior wood frame).

    And I’m trying to focus on not being so anxious over it all, but that’s hard. I feel like I’m living in limbo right now, everything’s turned upside down in the house.

    It’s all taking a whole lot longer than I thought it would, I have no idea if it’ll be done before the end of the year at this rate. 😦

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  21. Love the header! Makes me want to sit and watch them.

    It is too cool for open windows here, so Miss Bosley will be sad for her loss of her grand stand viewing site. Her only consolation is that it is now more comfortable for ectended cuddle time.

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  22. I have found (through more internet poking around) that these big bathroom windows were common in older homes like mine. So I’m thinking that what I have is the original window opening, but that whoever did the 1960s-70s era remodel retrofitted it with this metal window. Ugh.

    It sits very low in the shower-tub area, however, so water / moisture is a real concern if I keep the same opening even with a vinyl inside window material. One suggestion I’ve seen is (I think Jo also suggested this) to hang a 2nd shower curtain liner on the window side of the tub/shower, it would only be pulled “closed” when the shower is in use. But that’s a lot of plastic everywhere …

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  23. K, to answer your question about Thanksgiving, sort of, kind of, maybe. Our Thanksgivings are more based off the European/English harvest festivals, which included a liturgical element. As an interesting aside, the first Thanksgiving service in the new world wasn’t the Pilgrims’ celebration – in 1578, the English explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew gave thanks in what is now Newfoundland for deliverance from a dangerous voyage by taking communion. The whole separation of church and state idea is a lot weaker here, mainly because the English colonialists and the French colonialists each identified themselves strongly with their Protestantism and Catholicism, respectively, but they had to learn to operate together anyway. So tolerating differing religions arose more out of people working together despite their differences rather than a written law banning the state from making a state religion. Only those Canadians who confuse the laws of the U.S. with our own laws fuss about separation of church and state (the confusion happens on both sides of the political spectrum). Our prime minister, whose outlook is as secular as it gets, still read a Scripture passage at the Parliamentary prayer breakfast, and he personally chose to read from Romans 12: http://www.contextwithlornadueck.com/blog/justin-trudeau-when-a-bible-passage-says-it-all. I was struck by how many people in class, which generally is as secular as it gets, said have a good Thanksgiving with the same purposeful intent that people say “Merry Christmas”. The latter greeting really seems to be making a big comeback. No, Canadians aren’t any more Christian than the U.S. is. Our religious content is a respectable low key chit chat about higher powers – resembling a universalist Unitarian meeting. Somewhat like the British, we have a lot of religion – you should see the number of churches in the city where I’m staying, an average of one every three city blocks – and yet only a few really understand the Gospel.

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  24. Through all the house frustration, I have to remind myself I’m trying to do this all on my own (and I’m not conversant with either building issues or home decorating per se, though I know the look I’m aiming for, which helps). But since I work full time, and have no “contractor” to organize it all, it’s really been a bear of a project.

    It’s a major stress.

    I really only wanted to get a new roof and paint — the bathroom problems have to be dealt with but it was never part of the original plan.

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  25. Now, everywhere I look I see something else that needs to be fixed or organized or painted or otherwise done. 😦 It’s hard to focus on just one thing at a time, but that’s what I need to do.

    OK, end of rant. Just feeling discouraged by it all this morning. So that’s my update, Kim. 🙂 Glad you asked???

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  26. Our pastor made the comment in SS yesterday (when someone lamented about the U.S. and what’s happened/happening to it) that China could be shaping up to be the place to be in about 50 years, the new “western Europe.” The gospel is spreading like wildfire in many other countries.

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  27. Donna, We built our home, except for the basement and shell. My husband did all the plumbing and electrical work. The work we need done today is still stressful. No surprise it is for you. Kudos to you for doing what absolutely needs to be done. Like most stressful things, it will be worth it later.

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  28. I’m most calm when I’m at work 🙂 Away from looking at it. Of course, our office building now is doing a huge lobby remodel under new owners.

    But I decided on the drive in that I’ll start (again) by making window appointments for a date asap

    Focus.

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  29. We are headed for another financial disaster. I received this from my credit card company in an email:
    Give them spending power and exclusive offers as an Authorized Buyer – and easily share the benefits of your card.

    Now, once upon a time I was able to get myself in enough debt all by myself. Why would I give someone else the power to get me in debt?

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  30. Donna- I’m surprised there would be a lot of fuss in California about Columbus Day, but then it is California. They can’t get over the fact that a white European claimed an entire continent for Spain and basically ignored the natives that were here. Oh, well. That’s Liberalism.

    Don’t the Latinos celebrate Día de la Raza out there? I know that a lot of Latin Americans do, since the Mestizo “race” began with the Spaniards intermarrying with the natives.

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  35. Interesting, I see from some preliminary research, that although Columbus Day has been marked for a while in the Americas and both Italy and Spain, it did not become a federal holiday in the U.S. until 1934 by FDR after lobbying by the Knights of Columbus and Italian American leaders. It was not made the second Monday in October until 1970.

    We who dwell in the most northern parts of the Americas tend to remember the likes of Leif Erickson, Henry Hudson, Jean Cabot, and Jacques Cartier when it comes to the first European explorers of the Americas. Perhaps it is to do with the bitter rivalry between France and England against Spain in claiming North America, but the Spanish explorers were never particularly well regarded and their cruelty was frequently remarked upon in the old school history books that I read. Then you get Victorian novels like Westward Ho! which portray the English as humane heroes and the Spanish as cruel conquerors. So, I’ve never felt that Columbus was a man to be greatly admired. That Spanish cruelty was documented by the Spanish themselves. One of the first documents recording the atrocities of the Spanish was written by one Bartolome de las Casas, a Dominican priest who argued for the essential humanity of American natives in the Valladolid debate: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/american-indians/resources/bartolom%C3%A9-de-las-casas-debates-subjugation-indians-1550. He wrote that he was an eye witness to some of these atrocities and his account, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, is gruesome reading: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20321/pg20321-images.html. He was on the Island of Hispaniola when Columbus was there.

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  36. Kare, I recently had a discussion with some other students about some of my experiences in West Africa. One of the primary speakers to me appeared to be of mixed Asian and African genetic origin. She and I discussed about how I was perceived by the villagers quite frankly, and without any assumptions on her part about how my Caucasian experience biased me. It was quite refreshing.

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  38. Kim, they did where I was, especially when I was in the tourist section. They had reason, the amount of middle aged European women walking around hand in hand with young African men was about equal to the amount of middle aged European me walking around hand in hand with young African men. It is highly inappropriate in that culture – walking hand in hand with a person of the same sex is a signal of friendship, walking hand in hand with persons of the opposite sex isn’t done by decent people – not even married couples.

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