Shoot I don't even check my friends page as much as I should.

P.S. After two weeks E found a nice apartment in the Heritage Hill district (which is fabulous). So it was a nice but brief visit.

Last Friday, a friend of ours -Elizabeth N. will do for identification- came to live with us while she gets her on her feet here in GR. We're very happy about this. John also came to visit this weekend, which was welcome.

me: so you proud of your man
me: for his otakon success?
Undine Ocean00: OF COURSE!!
me: yay ;)
Undine Ocean00: he is TEH AWESOMEST!
me: there's nothing better in the world than hearing your wife say that

Justin Rush: I just bought a scooter
Justin Rush: a 250cc chinese-made cheap-as-hell deathtrap
Justin Rush: I'm not licensed and I don't own a helmet
Justin Rush: brb

yup.

The Orthodox Church celebrated Pascha this past Sunday.

We had John and Josh B. here for Holy Week to chant for us. And thank God for that.

In other news, there's a baby fox running around the church. He's very nice. I need to post a pic of him. Josh caught him on his little flip camera.

America must be the only place in the world where beggars drive up to your place in their cars to ask for a hand out.

Today I got told by a guy who was as big as a refrigerator that he was "getting back into bad stuff" by which he meant some unspecified felony. Heard this schtick before.

Asking for a hand out is a tremendously humiliating thing, and so beggars usually try to save some face by trying to con you. They always need "traveling money" or some other such deceit. One woman who comes in regularly tried to tell us for a while that she had "big money coming in from a lawsuit", and of course she wanted to pay back the church.

Yeah, everybody's working a con. Do they realize that if they simply came in and said "I'm a beggar, please give me 10 bucks" they would get their 10 bucks? Yes, but that would be humiliating. So the rule is that if you want to give money to the needy, you must also allow them to lie outrageously and persistently to you.

Things I don't want to do tomorrow:

1. Reload my os on to my macbook because the latest update jacked it up (again).

Things I'll probably have to do tomorrow:

1. Reload my os on to my macbook because the latest update jacked it up (again).

Update: Hey the OS loaded and all is tentatively well.

Today I went to the Farmer Insurance office, which reeked with a stench I would have guessed came out of a few hundred cat litter boxes. Wow!

I just finished reviewing a thousand NT Greek words today. I knew like half of them. (doh! getting rusty!) I need to do more in Greek otherwise I'll lose what I have. Mi genito!

I went and purchased some fabric for the curtain for the chapel. Need to get the Zohr to whip those up for me.

Now time to do more typing for Fr. Winfrey.

His grace, -Nikolai is headed back to Alaska!

And the crowd goes wild.

Talking to the OCF at MSU next Sunday, as per request of Christina Stavros. Something about Epiphany.

This week I need to pick up my game vis a vis the music for Lent and Holy Week. Meeting with Nick A. tomorrow about the Akathists, Pre-sanctifieds, and Holy Week.

God-willing we'll have something dignified for people this year, worthy of the season.

I lost a friend last week. The wife of a friend. I traveled to Boston for her funeral. For what it's worth, I'm ready to move on, but I told her widowed husband -my friend- I'd call him tomorrow.

http://soniabelcher.wordpress.com/

Just read Lawrence Lessig's account of how he lost Eldred v Ashcroft. I don't know why I find law so enjoyable, but I do. It's really enjoyable. After I get the usual expenses of life paid off (school debts and mortgages and such), I'm seriously thinking of going back and studying law. Have to be a husband first and all that.

I used to enjoy certain writers with whom I disagreed. I found them wrong but entertaining and intriguing. There are still writers like that. John Derbyshire comes to mind. I agree with almost nothing he says and enjoy every word.

When it comes to Orthodoxy, however, I find that if I disagree with someone, I find them very tiresome. There are a lot of tiresome people opining in tiresome fashion on things Orthodox. And I am tired with them.

I gave the missus her valentine's day present yesterday.

"How am I supposed to compete with this? Now my present is going to suck"

Score 1 for the husband.

The big UPS freight truck showed up today, with a half dozen boxes of the new Orthodox Study bible. I'm excited. Maybe I should liveblog the Bible? Haha. Liveblogging. What a word.

In other news, the folks made it across the Atlantic; they are safely in Kuhberg. Dad is tired.

Doxa soi Kyrie, doxa soi.

I got noodles for lunch. Tuscan fettucine.
I took the folks to the airport. They should be over the Atlantic right now.
Then I made a hospital run. Somebody had a heart attack.
Then I got a sammich for Zohr, cuz she's sick.
She gave me her sick. Unwelcome.
I went home and took a nap. Then we went to get things and food.
Still having the sick. I can barely work up enough energy to finish this post.
Nope, i can't.

Dad collapsed during Liturgy. I was at Holy Trinity covering for Fr. Jim. I met him at the hospital as they brought him in. Turns out he was dehydrated from diarrhea earlier in the morning. The meds that he takes for his stent lowers his blood pressure, and made him more susceptible to fainting. He still wants to travel to Austria come this Tuesday. I think he should. He seems to be doing fine.

I like Ron Paul's policy buffet a lot. And he seems like the genuine article if I've ever seen it. And a good guy.

But he's squeaky and small, and somehow manages to make good ideas sound petty. And too many of his followers are lame. The sane, normal ones need to find a successor and anoint him for 2012.

I'll give this another try.

I went through a friends livejournal. He's had it for eight years now. I had a livejournal way back when, but I deleted it, and started another. Then I deleted that one. I remember why. Very clearly. But I do miss being able to go back and read the cringe-inducing thoughts of my college years. Maybe this time I'll keep it around for a while longer. Maybe not.

I'll let you know.