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December 18, 2024

That which does not kill me

Had better start running

I’ve a upper respiratory bug, given to my by traveling companions…
The shower in our ‘new’ room floods the bathroom because the drain is slow, and it’s a fancy shower. It has pieces of white plastic glued to the floor to ‘discourage’ water. It doesn’t work when the water is 1” deep and getting deeper.
I had to take a ‘Navy Shower’.
One of my life’s pleasures is a long hot shower.

I’m not feeling the ‘Zippity Do Dah’ today.
Ergo the shirt.
Time for an Irish Coffee…
Baileys ain’t going to suffice.

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Congratulations to @NJFLA and @SGKusmertz. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists.

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WINNER Kitchen Dreams Contest

Congratulations to @IMP85. Your Huli Huli recipe was chosen for tonight’s Sunday Suppers. After a fierce showdown between Imp amd @Arius-Trychus, the sugar won this round. I got the entries down to two and Mark chose the winner. Oh, and it was delicious. Sorry @Arius-Trychus, sweet always talks louder for Mark.
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Thank you to everyone who shared recipes and helped keep my temporary “toaster oven, bbq, and crockpot era” alive. Here’s hoping to the kitchen face look flies by fast.

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“My FIFA story”

In 2002, I was working in Taipei, and Seoul. The FIFA World Cup was being held in Japan and South Korea at the time.

I was already pissed off as I was boarding my flight in SFO for Narita Japan…
I had been making the 24 hour commute (each way),DC-SFO-Narita-Taipei, for about 6 months.
Until this trip I had been able to get upgraded to Business Class. Because of all of the Soccer teams and fans, the damn planes were packed.
It was so bad, that upon landing in Narita, they parked the 747 out on the tarmac, and used portable stairs because they didn’t have enough gates.
You don’t really have an appreciation for how big a 747 is, until you climb or descend those stairs. The door close to three storeys off of the ground.

Anyway, as I walked into the Coach section of the airplane, the entire right side of Coach, was the Argentinian National Soccer team. My seat was three rows from the back bulkhead, aisle seat.
As I got closer I realized that one of the players was occupying my ...

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More craziness on The Five today: ‘Christian Nationalism’ - I guess I haven’t heard that before - used seriously, anyway. Whaaaat? The Chicago burning cross, Jessica,is one more thing you just blah blahed away. Tiresome and arrogant.
Dems are just so damn desperate. Scary.

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From: The Federalist Papers 

This cartoon says exactly what a lot of the so-called smart people in our culture do not want to admit.

Science does not lead away from God. At the end of science is God, period.

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

That pretty much sums it up.

A little science can make someone arrogant. A little knowledge can make a person think they have outgrown faith, outgrown God, and outgrown the people who still believe there is a Creator behind all of this.

But that is not wisdom. That is pride.

The deeper you go into real science, the harder it becomes to believe any of this is an accident.

The universe is too ordered, too precise, too mathematical, too perfectly balanced, and too full of mystery to be brushed off as nothing more than random chance.

Look at physics. Look at biology. Look at the fine tuning of the universe.

Look at the complexity of life. Look at consciousness, ...

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