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“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.” -E.B. White.
I love this quote. A simple line like this makes me wish I could have met Elwyn Brooks White for coffee (or maybe a beer?!)…
Filed by ob1 at October 21st, 2009 under humour, life
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Been thinking about this a lot, and I guess the options are:
1. The devil really did do it
2. God is disciplining us (we don’t like to include this one much, but it’s there in the Bible)
3. We’re dumb and did it to ourselves
4. Someone else was dumb and did it to us (directly or indirectly)
It [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 20th, 2009 under church, leadership
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There’s always a smart alec somewhere who will tell you in the midst of your valleys that “it could always be worse…”
And you usually just feel like smacking them in the snoz.
Last year, we had a very tough year financially as a church, and we really had to dig deep in the faith well to [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 16th, 2009 under church, leadership, life
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As often as any important business has to be done in the monastery, let the abbot call together the whole community and himself set forth the matter. And, having heard the counsel of the brethren, let him think it over by himself and then do what he shall judge to be most expedient….
Now the reason [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 9th, 2009 under leadership, life
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After experiencing a couple of random shutdowns on my iPhone this weekend, here’s another example of Apple needing to make a few lawyers redundant and find some more tech types to fix their software problems…
Had to completely restore Nic’s phone for some marginal improvements, but she feels like throwing hers against a wall regularly… [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 5th, 2009 under tech
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