Good Friday

To follow is a post I wrote on Friday that I didn't get around to posting until this morning;
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As many of you know, I am an agnostic. Most people confuse being an agnostic with being an atheist. They are not the same, and in my opinion are not even close. But the purpose of this post is not an expression of my personal beliefs.

On my way home from work today I was listening to Glenn Beck, which I do every night on the way home. I seldom agree with his viewpoints but I respect his intelligence and humor. Today he played a piece about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was one of the most powerful things I have ever heard in my life. Ever.
I was driving home with tears running down my face. I believe that Jesus Christ existed. It is fairly well documented. I do not know if he was the "son of God" but I believe he was a great man. I believe a great many things but I do not know them. The treatment he had to endure breaks my heart. The influence he has had over countless generations of people, Christian or otherwise, is amazing. I encourage you, if you are a person of faith, to embrace your faith and your beliefs. Live your religion. Be the best person you can imagine being.
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I wish I could have shared the experience with all of you. I listened to it again this morning and wow. It is so well done. It's not preachy. It's not presumptuous. It is a retelling of one man's tortuous ordeal two thousand years ago. If you already listen to Glenn Beck then you probably heard it. If not, I'm sorry. I have put in a request for permission to link it here but doubt it will be granted. It is part of the Insider services which is a premium subscription and I am pretty sure my subscription doesn't give me reproduction rights.
I will let you know.

Bush's War of Terror!

Jeff recently completed a project for his history class that had him discussing two of the wars that America has been involved in. He chose the current Iraq war and Vietnam.
No matter how hard I tried, I could not get him to refer to the war as "Bush's War of Terror." He continually tried to correct me and tell me it is the war ON terror.
So, of course I said how can this man:








fight a war on terror? At least I convinced him to use that picture in his project. I didn't even try my favorite.








Oh well. Smart kids are sometimes sooooo serious.

At least I think I'm funny.

I got nothing.

Many thousands of apologies to the 6-7 people out there that read this.
I know I haven't been blogging much of late and I have many excuses that suck and I won't bore you with them.
OR will I?
First of all, I work for a living. For some reason, that has to take priority over this blog. I know it isn't fair but things have been busy and seem to be slowing up a bit. Hang in there.
And you say you want a lamer excuse so here it is.
I'm still using blogger.
Mostly because I haven't found anything better that is free.
I have found better, and believe me, I have found worse.
But nothing that I have seen that is *free* is any better than blogger.

Damn.

So that means I will still have problems posting videos of my super awesome kids.
It also means that I can't do some of the other things I was planning unless I break down and shell out some moolah. (Which I am too cheap to do.)

On blogger we stay....for now.