Ah fuck. My shoes are already breaking. I just bought these less than a year ago! Ok. Screw that. Time to implement project Make Your Own Shoes.

I dress so I can have the following conversation 2-3 times a week: Them: Nice coat! Me: Thanks! I made it myself. Them: Oh wow, really? You made that? Me: Yep! It's waterproof. Occasionally replaced by: Them: I recognize that coat! Hi! How's it going?

Kingdom When John is imprisoned, Jesus leaves town. He goes to Galilee, to Capernaum, to lie low for a while and to develop his ministry farther away from Jerusalem. It almost looks like cowardice, except that he takes up John's message. From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the…

Friday friends! I haven't done this in a bit, so here's a month of interactions. @floregonian.com, @spindlypete.bsky.social, @genuscorvidae.bsky.social, @juliethecranky.bsky.social, @rningscissors.bsky.social, @pagnificent.bsky.social, @streamlass.bsky.social, @3fecta.bsky.social,

Wait... What the fuck is DHS for anyway?

So uh... I have two kids. That I love. And after my second was born I took an extended time at home as a stay at home parent. Nearly three years. And um... You first, dude.

Hmmm. My lunch place have me a complementary side dish, but I don't like it. What's the etiquette here?

Dangit. I bought the wrong size of envelopes.

"It's sort of like Power BI only user friendly" Skillllll Issssue.

My coworker is whining again. He thinks some code is too complicated. Skill issue. Git Gud.

Someone in a meeting: AI will definitely solve all our problems, are we investing in it? Ugh [citation needed].

Ugh. A four meeting day.

Whoops. My most annoying coworker is also in favor of the whole 51st state thing. What an asshole.

Having a conversation elsewhere with a conservative dude whining about birth rates and cultural decline. And I sort of want to say: Skill issue. Git gud. But that would be counter-productive so I'm saying it here instead.

Calling The Gospel according to John tells a different story of Jesus gathering good first disciples than the other Gospels do. Elsewhere, Jesus hires his first disciples from boats around the sea of Galilee. In John, he finds them hanging around with John the Baptist and they essentially recruit…

I am not allowed to shower and sleep until 11:30 pm this evening. This might be a problem.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @wgreaves.bsky.social given the extremely well documented situation south of the border, when will we be withdrawing from the Safe Third Country agreement? Sure doesn't look safe to me.

Headlice day 7. Last night I dreamt that I was wet combing someone's hair.

BlueSky is telling me to log off.

I built a cool little utility for a work thing but then realized that maybe I could have made a cooler bigger utility so now I'm grouchy.

Disaster! I forgot to restock my desk snacks!

I don't want to tell you about my current home river, but I grew up with the Maitland

Realize Peter has realized something. We're in the 10th chapter of Acts. Peter has just arrived at the house of Cornelius and now he begins to understand. God is doing even more than Peter has already witnessed. He is, perhaps, late to this realization. Peter himself has already been preaching…

Sooo. My paintings for the next 6 weeks are human faces. Note: I'm terrible at drawing human faces. And these are the seasonal colors

Do you remember that mouthwash that was supposed to make the plaque turn blue so that you could see it easily and make sure you brushed it all off? They should make that but for head lice nits.

Happy Distaff Day! bsky.app/profile/rivi...

OK. One person was excited, so we're talking about this shawl bsky.app/profile/rivi... Scroll down that thread for pictures of yarn, but we're going to talk about process in this thread.

Uh...ok. Fibre crafts then? It's either that or a progressive reading on the Canons of Dordt and I dunno if anyone wants to hear that.

😬 One of the most conservative people I know liked my blog post this week. Next week I'd better say something much more radical.

Flesh The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 Full Text John 1:1-18 There's a lot of terrible happenings in the news this week. So let's talk about the Incarnation.…

It's obviously because they're tracking his decline. But he's not going to know that.

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. I'm a car crash. Reminder: Never rent a car from Budget.

I have completed Portal and Portal 2 (which made me feel like barfing less than the original) What should I play next?

I went years and years where I read very little, but this year I read 33 books. For me, a part of what I need to do to make that happen is to have a plan about what I want to read and seek out specific books rather than just browsing the library and waiting for something to catch my eye.

Books 2025 I read some books this year. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, Beth Allison Barr This was my non-fiction selection for 2024. I've written a longer post about it. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie A fun fantasy book with an interesting voice.…

Somewhere in my neighbourhood an alarm is going off. Should I walk up the street and see if I can identify where it is?

Second attempt at the post office and... They were sold out of stamps? (For postage within Canada.) Cards to the USA are on their way.

I probably should have selected a different map. The part of my life where the USA is on the list of places to consider is probably over. I'd really rather never move again.

Left the house early to try to buy postage. But the post office is closed because of staff illness.

Now I get to solve the social puzzle that is addressing my last 6 holiday cards.

The Catechism: Conclusion I spent the year reading the catechism that I grew up with. I found it disappointing overall. To be fair, there were a few questions that I thought had actual good answers, and a lot of questions that had merely boring answers, but there were also a lot of questions that…

Not getting anything useful done today, but I painted a painting

I’d encourage them to put their fortunes into beach-front properties near Miami. Wave of the future.

This holiday I am playing Portal. I had never played it before, fun puzzles, creepy vibe, on sale for $2.50, what's not to like? What's not to like is that it's a first person 3D game and it therefore makes me feel like barfing.

Gingerbread's a go!

The last of the Christmas Shopping is done. Relatively painlessly this year.

In my hubris, I have used Krazy glue without gloves. I will have to wait for new skin.

I probably should have gone to church this evening, but I didn't think I could handle going tonight and also Christmas Eve. So we're making doughnuts instead.

Scandal Whatever Joseph's intentions, a quiet divorce without public disgrace did not exist for Mary. Disgrace would have been inevitable. A young woman with no husband and a baby would have no place in society. Another marriage would be unlikely with a child in tow. She's not even a widow to fit…

We have watched a Christmas movie: Die Hard The misogyny!