Archive for November, 2006

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Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Remember The King’s last King Friday post? He wanted to hear what wisdom you’ve learned in your life. Not only did he want to hear it, he was offering a very awesome prize for the “best wisdom”.
Dude, he’s offering his best prize yet.
(Past winners of awesome prizes can verify that The King gets [...]

Was that you?

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I got to work this morning and began my usual routine:

take off my coat and get my laptop out of my backpack
turn laptop on
while laptop is “warming up” go into the office kitchen
make a cup of hot chocolate
make a bowl of instant oatmeal
fill up my water bottle
come back to my desk and open the internet
begin [...]

Canada, eh?

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I love going to Canada. Once you cross the border, everything changes. Your cell phone automatically changes to Canadian service, the road signs are in meters and things are written in both English and French.
Things are just different and I love it.
Unfortunately we picked a bad weekend to go. Vancouver had been [...]

Say a little prayer

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Last Sunday in Church they asked us to try to say one prayer this week where we didn’t ask for anything. We were to simply thank the Lord for our blessings. No more, no less. I think they thought this would be hard to do. It’s wasn’t hard at all.
This past [...]

Where in the world is Ben?

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

When I was in high school I had a car. Which means I ended up giving rides to school to kids in the neighborhood. There was the girl who lived a few houses down that showed up early in the morning with her blonde curls and book bag. I was pretty jaded, [...]

‘Til death do us part?

Monday, November 20th, 2006

My cousin and his fiance girlfriend are in town this week. They originally planned this trip to come and see family for Thanksgiving and check out the plans for the small open house my aunt will be throwing them in Januaray after their December wedding (which is was scheduled to take place in a [...]