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- Some ups and downs in the first back-to-reality week of 2011, but mostly satisfying. Still, I’d be all right with getting pounded with snow again at the end of the weekend. Hasn’t happened for real in so long; could we really get it twice, practically back to back?
- I wish I had the sleep that I forewent to watch the end of the Sugar Bowl. Boys, if the ball hits your chest and both of your hands at the same time, you have to catch it. I’d guess that might have been the most frustrating game of Ryan Mallett’s career.
- Built another pizza with the boys tonight. Tried the frozen Pillsbury dough last time; Boboli tonight. They’re both okay, but I think I’m headed for trying a dough recipe for the bread maker next.
- Fox News is fond of calling a helicopter a “chopper,” and I’ve gotten sensitive to it, because I’ve never encountered anyone in the rotary wing community who calls it that. It’s “aircraft” or “bird.”
- I haven’t seen it in the metal yet, but in photos, the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is one of the sexiest mainstream sedans I’ve ever seen. I think that front end is going to be love-it-or-hate-it for folks. I love it.
- Just saw Heart’s “What About Love” used to sell a floor mop (and it was the real cut, not a re-recording). All right, fine. It’s only my formative years going up in a cloud of cheap commercial smoke. How good could that money possibly have been, Ann and Nancy? Is it okay because that’s your “pop period”? I still love that eponymous 1985 Heart record top to bottom.
- I’m really loving my daily time with the Bible so far. It’s a chronological plan, not a straight-through one, so after we read the first eleven chapters of Genesis we plunged into Job. I haven’t spent any significant time in Job in years, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never read it all. It’s like a classical Greek play. I keep semi-expecting the chorus to chime in.
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I read the Bible all the way through a couple of years ago. It was one of the most satisfying accomplishments of my life. There’s so much that I don’t feel that I truly understood, so I’d like to go through it again and really spend some time on it. My favorite books were Isaiah, Paul’s Gospels, and Revelation. Psalms, while beautiful, is a bit tedious for me. Probably another area where I just need a little more context and understanding.
Jenny, how awesome! Congratulations. I hope to say I’ve joined you this time next year. Right now I estimate I’ve read two-thirds of it total. We line up on favorites, perhaps not surprisingly. Right now my favorite books are Daniel, Isaiah, Luke, and Revelation. I’m really excited about filling in all of the gaps.
I had a great great aunt who memorized the Bible. All of it. No kidding. I never knew her, but I still think of her occasionally when I’m faced with difficult circumstances. “If she could do that…”
I still have that album on vinyl. Best songs for annoying one’s kid brother with when belted at top volume.
Kemtee, there isn’t ten seconds of filler on that whole record. Most of it is premium power pop, but there are some reaches back to Heart’s hard rock days too.
I LOVED that album! The most underrated song on it was (if I remember the title correctly) “The Wolf.”
Falcon, it’s a great record that stands up even today, 25 years later. “The Wolf” closes side one, and is the heaviest cut on the album.