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Yesterday was Easter.  And with it came an end to making a blog post for each day during this year’s Lent.  I’m in a bit of surprise that I was able to pull it off.  There were times when I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it.  A number of close calls, like having to post from my iPhone while at a hospital with a client.  But somehow, I was indeed able to make one blog post a day throughout Lent.

Forty-seven days ago, things were very different.  I was having a severe depressive episode.  Worse than that, I was feeling a lack of faith.  But circumstances are better now.  My faith in God has drastically changed.  This season of Lent, was one where I focused on God more than I really let on with this blog.  Some aspects of my life have been altered: for the better, I ...

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Last night I was on the phone with a friend and, as has happened with a lot of our conversations lately, it turned to spiritual matters.  And that led to me sharing a little (I say “little” because the entire story runs WAY too long for a phone or blog post) about how I came to follow Christ, now a little over twenty-five years ago.

I haven’t said very much about that, either here or elsewhere.  I guess as with so much else it got washed away in the flotsam and jetsam that comes in the wake of persistent mental illness.  So much that has been forgotten about while flailing my arms, trying my hardest to keep my head above the dark water.

But, I am a Christian.  Deeper than that, I am a follower of Christ.  It’s not enough for me to simply go to church on Sunday.  For ...

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Today is Good Friday: the commemoration of the day that Jesus Christ died at Calvary.  It’s only fitting, then, that today’s installment of “blogging for Lent” should be mindful of that.

Good friend of this blog and all around amazing guy “Lowbridge” found this a little while ago and shared it on another forum.  I decided it was well worth passing along to this blog’s readers as well.  As good a thing as any for the occasion.

Longtime television viewers will recognize Agnes Morehead for her portrayal of Samantha’s mother on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched.  What I didn’t know until just now was that Morehead was a devout Christian.  She grew up in a Presbyterian house where her father was a minister.  It’s been said that Morehead brought her Bible with her to work every day, and would read from it between scenes.  It also goes without saying that ...

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I got pulled over this morning!  Now that’s pretty impressive, since it’s been over ten years since I last got a ticket.  Actually it was three tickets in the span of less than a month and a half (what can I say, I was eager to see my girlfriend in Virginia).  And then you factor in that during that time I’ve driven across America and back for a whole year, and all the states that we passed through.  That’s pretty close to 100,000 miles on the car without getting pulled over.  Not too shabby.

Anyhoo, he let me go with a warning ticket.  Won’t have to pay a fine or get points on my record.  But I thought this was an occasion well worth remembering.  So in honor of my first ticket in more than a decade, here’s the trailer for the 1976 motion picture Eat My Dust (starring Ron ...

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Wow.  Where did the years GO to?

A few weeks ago, for whatever reason, I popped in the Blu-ray of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.  It had been quite some time since I’d watched the second chapter of the saga’s prequel trilogy.  Actually, I think it might have been since before The Force Awakens premiered, and that was in late 2015.

A few minutes into it, I realized that this May marks the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release.  A week and a half before Episode II premiered, I was at Star Wars Celebration II in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Not just as an attendee but as a member of TheForce.net’s staff.  We had our own booth and everything.  We even got to attend the dinner with a lot of Star Wars notables on the night before the event’s opening (Kenny Baker, thank you for forgiving me for ...

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Gonna be WAY easy to post today!  The trailer for Stranger Things season four dropped this morning.  I may or may not have watched this a few times at the office today.

Holy smokes!  Hard to believe it’s been three years since season three.  Looks like the wait will be worth it though.  Love the use of Journey’s “Separate Ways” in this.  Just… epic, man.

War is coming indeed.  And did you catch Robert Englund’s character with the gouged-out eyes?  What the heck?!

Stranger Things season four hits Netflix on May 27th. 

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When I started “blogging for Lent” almost a month and a half ago, it came during a lesser moment for me.  I had taken a serious blow.  Depression was about to swallow me up again.  I couldn’t see any possibility of life taking a turn for the better.  God?  I could see Him working in the little things… but I confess to harboring doubt that He had heard my most desperate prayers to Him.

And now?  Now…

I’m less than a week away from completing making one blog post each day during Lent this year.  And in looking back since beginning this lil’ endeavor… I do so able to honestly declare that I’m happier than I can remember being, in a very long time.

This is also the closest that I’ve been able to draw to God, in years.  The past several robbed me of too much of my faith, ...

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 It’s Tammy’s Tenth Birthday Party!!  Here are some of the pics from the event, which was attended by two dogs and their collective three humans.  Including photos of the cake I baked for the occasion.  And a good time was had by all!  Click to embiggen:

The birthday girl and me 🙂

Tammy’s friend Sasha

Tammy did NOT like the idea of wearing a party hat!

The cake

Tammy couldn’t quite blow out the candles but it wasn’t for lack of trying!

Sasha enjoying some cake (which was tasty by human standards too)

Tammy eating her birthday cake

Tammy’s new toy, courtesy of Sasha’s person Melody.  It took her all of ten minutes to destroy the squeaker!

Incidentally, if you want to bake a cake for your dog, here’s the recipe I found courtesy of Dorothy Kern at Crazy For Crust.  The main ingredients are peanut butter, sugar-free applesauce, ...

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This was such an action packed week that I wound up sleeping until just after four this afternoon!  Lots of stuff at work, some things not work-related and then a VERY awesome day yesterday.  I am presently baking a birthday cake for my dog Tammy, for a party some friends and I are throwing for her tomorrow (Tammy’s good buddy Sasha will also be there).  The ingredients of the cake include peanut butter, applesauce, and honey.  This may be the one time I do not lick the batter.

Meanwhile as the cake bakes, I’m rewatching the first season of The Chosen (mash down here for my earlier review).  This time it’s being streamed to my high-def television.  AMAZING series.  This is easily the most high quality series that I know of in current production.  I’m really hoping it goes the full seven seasons.  If Stranger Things can finally ...

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