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Wow, I’m really flaky lately, saying I’m going to write some posts, then not doing it, then showing up again to say I’m going to write some posts then not doing it and so on. I’ve been double-plus-ultra-mega-super busy lately (I’ve done at least two youth groups of some kind Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this...
Being lactose intolerant is hardest in the summer – ice cream – and the winter – egg nog – and those lactase tablets do nothing for me (and yes, I’ve tried the Ultra Lactaid with no success). So Raymond went on a quest to find an iced treat I could enjoy without the agony and...
I didn’t realize that being away from work for four days would lead to such busy-ness! Sorry there haven’t been any new posts. I wrote a ton of them while I was on holiday, but they all need links and pictures and other things that take up time that I don’t have right now, so...
A huge thank you to the readers who wrote to me to ask if I was okay – I am! I thought I’d put a post saying I’d be on holidays this week, but it turns out I didn’t! We enjoyed what is being called a stay-cation, and I took the time to reorganize the...
This has been one annoying cold. I lie down and I think, hey, I’m feeling good, let’s go do somewhere or do something! Then I sit up and a few minutes later I’m feeling quite tired. I don’t think it’s a cold, though. I have some congestion, but it’s mostly just exhaustion, headache, backache, muscle...