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amaebi's LiveJournal:
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | |
| 6:15 am | |
| 6:13 am | |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | |
| 8:31 pm | |
| 3:03 pm | From the inside of the cornucopia Here's the impression I get about what unchurched folks who ask the church for help think we have here: -chests of money -lots of Safeway cards, maybe presented to us gratis by Safeway -thousands of cell phone minutes card, analogously ditto -vouchers for local motels, analogously ditto -a wide assortment of clothing -oodles of Bibles -a pastor who moons around moaning, "I wish I had something to DOOOOOOO!" |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | |
| 5:12 am | Odd encounter Yesterday I went to a transition facility for parolees, to drop off a public transit pass. While I waited for my guy-- who turned out to be checked out for another hour and a half-- another bored resident came over to talk. He said he wished he got visitors, and gave me his name for me to see whether I might be able to arrange for someone to come see him. He said that he was from Aurora, but didn't like it-- that the women there were no good, that he "wanted to marry a good Christian woman." He said that he had several children but had never been married; he was 23. And shortly afterwards he was exchanging the glad eye, then off flirting with another visiting woman considerably more raffish-looking than I. :D How funny to realize that I had most likely been a casual mark for someone trying to find a sugar mama or "sugar mama." (Of course, I have emailed my closest prison ministry acquaintance to see whether she can refer.) |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | |
| 5:39 am | goodsearch.com ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pernishus kindly asked whether people not in my church could use the search engine www.goodsearch.com and benefit the church I pastor. Sure thing!Just go to http://www.goodsearch.com/ when you want to do a websearch. Beneath the logo and underneath the search box, you should see a leedle grey strip with white letters spelling "who do you goodsearch for?" Beneath that is a box for entering the name of your chosen beneficiary, which should initially contain the words "enter your charity here ..." Enter "United Church of Idaho Springs" and then press the yellow button labeled "Verify" underneath. That should get you to a page like the one you began on, but with "United Church of Idaho Springs (Idaho Springs, CO)" in the "who do you goodsearch for?" space. After that, all websearches (powered by Yahoo!) accrue credit for the church, which is paid after September each year. That is, as long as they add up to more than $20. You can also use goodsearch.com as a shopping portal to quite a few retailers and thus accrue a small percentage of purchase prices for the United Church or other goodsearch charity of your choice. The list includes amazon, Hewlett Packard, eBay, Apple, L.L.Bean, and many others. |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | |
| 10:53 pm | Lightly anonymized message from Tagged ( Can this conceivably be serious in any way? Could this be something anyone expected or intended to have taken as serious or individualized? ) A revelation: I thought I had no profile or anything there, but it turns out to have picked up a photograph of the Chunster and me from fb. Well, I would never have guess that that would bring on a storm of would-be wooers. I'm reminded of the time when some unhinged stranger on irc asked what I looked like, I replied, "A large fish," and he kept on trying to have netsex with me. |
| 5:04 am | |
| Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | |
| 3:57 pm | Buffalo Overlook, Colorado They march, a stolid line, crunching frost-brittle grass on some unfathomable errand of the new winter. Why are they going? They look so solemn, intent, momentous, hooves weighted by thick brazen hides, beards pendant from vast heads that wag faintly, reeling from the burdens of philosophy, or hauling present into future, or sheer bad temper. They are cold, and they like it. |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | |
| 1:22 pm | |
| Monday, October 12th, 2009 | |
| 5:54 am | Facebook I'm one of the people whose account was on a database that went down, so my account's been out for over eight days. I lost confidence that I'd see it again, and have just started another account. Same name: mine. |
| Saturday, October 10th, 2009 | |
| 6:48 pm | I'm home now I left the motel and then Rawlins at checkout, and joined a line of mostly-trucks with some cars on I-80 eastbound, waiting for the highway to open. And Lo! it was not long. The drive was a bit slow and tiresome but not bad-- certainly nothing to indicate why the highway was closed so long. My best guess, therefore, is that they may have cut the highway patrol, towing companies may have cut their staff, and that they just wanted lots more than the usual amount of time to clear up crashes. |
| 10:49 am | 10:50 I-80 still closed eastbound. Checkout's 11:00. I can't believe I-80 will remain closed all day at this time of year. So I guess I'll head to the public library shortly. |
| 9:34 am | More of this morning It's 9:35 and the highway's still closed. Checkout time is 11:00. Tomorrow after church services there is to be a soup and bread luncheon, for which I'm booked to bring soup and bread, followed by a United Methodist Foundation presentation on "How not to outlive your money." |
| 7:15 am | A morning, thus far. 4:30 Wake up. Phone WYDOT weather. Highway still closed. 5:00 Alarm rings. Wake up. Phone WYDOT weather. Highway still closed. 5:30 Alarm rings. Wake up. Phone WYDOT weather. Highway still closed. 6:00 Alarm rings. Wake up. Phone WYDOT weather. Highway still closed. 6:30 Alarm rings. Wake up. Phone WYDOT weather. Highway still closed. 6:45 Get up. Start monitoring highway closure via computer. Still closed. 7:00 Read lj posting of someone who is being told she's having a hard year. no one ever tells me that. I'm not infrequently told that my experiences are Perfickly Normal, however. Think about how that seems to suggests that I'm grotesquely self-obsessed, have no sense of proportion, or that I'm simply not the sort of person anyone gives a flying about. Check WYDOT website. Highway still closed. 7:20 Highway still closed. Go to take a shower. |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 | |
| 11:00 pm | Ah, Wyoming Eastbound I-80 was closed at Sinclair, so I'm spending the night at Rawlins. The Presby Western National Leadership Training event was worth it, though. But Sheeyun's cross. |
| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | |
| 10:40 pm | Slant rhyme I note with pleasure that, at least in the company of my Denver Presbytery homies, roister and pastor are near rhymes. :D |
| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | |
| 5:44 pm | Space 1. A couple of days ago I wasn't so much thinking about, as having a tune run in my head about: -how a lot of sociological and ethical work with kids works easily in story-space, thence to be brought into our dailyspace -"the kingdom of God is within you" And suddenly, they popped together into a recollection of the concept of dual space*. Ah, another theologically powerful bit of maths-- and uniting those two maunderings in duality makes an interesting new sense of Jesus's assertions that one needs to be like a little child to be in the kingdom. 2. Today I drove from Arvada east to I-25, up through Fort Collins to Laramie, to Rawlins, to Rock Springs, to Jackson. I have not travelled from the Denver area to Rock Springs for nearly 15 months, but I travelled it about 200 times in the earlier two years. The section between Fort Collins and Laramie was so strange. My senses knew that I had known it well, but now it's like seeing Oz with physical eyes after knowing the books.... ( * ) P.S. I am glad of the tires, even just on account of the wind today, which was dry. |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | |
| 6:13 pm | Well, that's a relief I realized yesterday that my tires are really, really worn. Snow is predicted along my route through Wyoming this Friday and Saturday. New tires, ordered yesterday at our Magnificent Mechanic, came in today in time for them to go on. I will feel enormously more secure going to and from the conference in Jackson. |
| Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | |
| 8:47 am | Help a great, poor school Carlson Elementary School accomplishes amazing things with remarkably little in the way of resources, mostly because dedicated and talented teachers and parents make it so. When I think what the school could do with some actual funds, I'm excited. Please consider voting for the school-- and if you have questions I'll be glad to try and find you an answer. http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/8002 |
