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Dear library
Dear Library, I will not be voting for any tax levy. I suggest that you come up with a better way to balance your budget. Times are tight for me too but unfortunately, when I asked my employer for more money, they said “No” (though at least I didn’t get laid off!) But taxes just…
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Increases in children of record
So, in my continuing series on General Conference talks, this week I decided to combine the Sustaining of Church Officers, the Auditing report, and the Statistical report. I always find the statistical reports interesting (of course I do!) One thing that was interesting to me was the difference this year in the increase of children…
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Facebook friend weirdness
So, I like Facebook. One of the things I do occasionally is look at the “Friend suggestions” of people that I might know. For the most part, they are either: People I know but don’t want to be friends with (old mission or high school people I barely knew then) Stupid things like “Laughter” or…
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Amazing Race!
So, one of the things my company does is that every year they have a National Employee Health and Fitness week. As the name implies, this is apparently some sort of national thing, though I’ve never seen it done at any other company and everyone that I tell it to thinks it’s just one of…
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One free luxury
So the folks over at Budgets are Sexy (an interesting budget / personal finance blog) had a post today asking which luxury you would choose, if you could choose one and only one. The choices were: * 24/7 Personal Chauffeur – Your own driver (and car) to take you anywhere, anytime, no questions asked. Great…
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Health Miles step challenge
So, I’ve been in this Health Miles program at work for almost a year now. Click the link where I explain it more but basically they pay you for being healthy and walking. So for the month of April the company has been doing a step challenge. Basically whoever takes the most steps wins. Plus,…
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2009 Miami Triathlon report
Okay – once again, I raced this year in the 2009 Miami University Student Foundation report. The people have been clamoring for my race report, and I shall deliver! You may also be interested in my 2007 MUSF report, 3 pigs triathlon report or my 2008 MUSFreport I once again woke up ear-lie in the…
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Conference talk – Respect and Reverence
This week’s talk is called “Respect and Reverence“, by Margaret Lifferth, who is in the Primary General Presidency. Just as a note, I don’t put a blog post each week when I read talks (though maybe I should!) But sometimes I don’t feel like anything jumped out at me. It’s not like the talk was…
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Conference talk – living providently
So it’s conference talk time yet again! I find it interesting that, if you don’t count the auditing and statistical reports, and not counting the Sat. evening Priesthood session which I attended in person (well “in person”), there are exactly 26 talks! Just enough to read one every week till next conference. This week’s talk…
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I tried to save the environment!
So I was trying to be good – trying to save the environment by combining trips. I’ve had a few things that I’ve needed to do for awhile but was just looking for the best way to combine them. Yesterday it seemed like it was all going to work out. But…. it didn’t turn out…