I've been working on trying to optimize the new platform for MormonShare.com over the past week or so, and it hasn't been easy. Sure, the new features of the website are phenomenal, but it's really taxing the server it's running on and I haven't yet been able to figure out why. Please remain patient as […]

Did my weigh-in yesterday at the gym and almost had a heart failure. 146 lbs! How could I gain 10 lbs in a week? I knew something had to be wrong, so I put away my stuff and went to work out anyway. Turns out "put away my stuff" was the operative phrase. I had […]

Did my weigh-in yesterday at the gym and almost had a heart failure. 146 lbs! How could I gain 10 lbs in a week? I knew something had to be wrong, so I put away my stuff and went to work out anyway. Turns out “put away my stuff” was the operative phrase. I had […]

We put in the last 100 daffodil bulbs plus the 50 "blue" bulbs I ordered. I cleaned out three of the raised beds. The fourth is covered with junk and the middle one has strawberries in it that I want moved. I may wait until spring to transplant them, since that's when I'll be cutting […]

I went to the gym today, and weighed in like I planned. I wasn't expecting to have lost anything yet, but I'm down 1.5 lbs to 136.5! That's exactly where I want to be: 1-2 lbs/week. I lost even though I could only go to the gym 3x last week! On Tuesday I voted and […]

Between the kids and I working yesterday, and Paige's help on Wednesday, we've planted 400 daffodil bulbs! I can not wait until next spring to see how they look. I've planted some by the gate, on our side of the fence, and some in drifts by the road. the last 100 will probably go along […]

I have decided that presidential elections are like that TV show Survivor. The best candidate never wins, because the other contestants attack them and beat them down early in the game. The worst candidates get ignored. So what you're left with is the mediocre middling candidates without any major flaws: not _too_ good looking, not […]

Good grief. I booked a great price on RT tickets to Orlando during the slowest week of the year on AirTran so our family could use up the rest of the un-expiring DisneyWorld tickets we bought back in 2005. So far our entire itinerary has changed 3 times (by the Automated System "that we don't […]

"Dream" Relief Provided in Louisiana - More than 1,400 Mormons from six surrounding states converged on southern Louisiana September 27 to help Houma residents dig out from the aftermath of two September hurricanes. Hailing from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, they joined volunteers from the Realizing the Dream Foundation, the AFL-CIO, and local […]

I bought a copy of the Old Testament Institute Manual to help me with my study of the OT. It's been really helpful! Sometimes the commentary is not terribly useful (like the section on is it appropriate for a prophet to use the phrase "piss against the wall" in the Bible--???), but most of the […]