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Rants! & Raves! 1.18
It’s time for another edition of Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past.
Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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Rave! My choir is performing Verdi’s Requiem with a bunch of other (university) choirs and the university symphony, and we just got our scores yesterday. It looks so awesome! Wheee! The Dies Irae is the best part.
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My rant is against O’reilly. Last night, on his show, I watched him say the 200,000 American veterans living in the streets is a lie. On another show, they said there is a homeless shelter not two blocks from O’reilly’s studio that has to turn away dozens every night and that if he just went outside and walked around the block, he could meet some of those homeless veterans he says doesn’t exist.
Where does the 200,000 number come from? The US Government. He is awful.
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Wasn’t Galdariel the beautiful Elfen queen in The Lord of the Rings? Now she’s leading a choir. Congratulations! Which university is this?
Rave and rant: I mentioned before that one of my “hobbies” is transferring music I’ve collected over 50+ years onto CD so that I can listen to it again.
Rave: While messing around with my old tapes, I discovered that I had transferred some music to tape long ago. This is stuff I thought I had lost. Years ago, I had some music by J. T. Adams and the Men of Texas. You’ve probably never heard of them, but I thought they were great. LP’s put out by Word. (I think he was a professor at a small college at Stephensville, TX.) I only got four cuts:
I’ll Be Somewhere Listening
I wonder If I did My Best for Jesus
I Have A Longing in My Heart for Jesus
In Times Like These
Rant: These same tapes are so old that they have stretched a bit and it’s obvious in the instrumental part. Also, the dunce that transferred the music thought he could improve on the professionals who made the recordings, and he messed with the gain.
Still:
Also: Rave. Same time, I found that I had recorded an Eddy Arnold 45 rpm album that I gave away. I thought this was lost also. The tapes are good. I have lots of Eddy Arnold, but have never seen these anywhere:
Hills of Tomorrow
Lily of the Valley
Tempt Me Not
When Jesus Beckons Me Home.
You probably have never heard of some of these. I think they are great. Evidently no one else thought so. I Never hear them anywhere else.
But they are classic Eddy Arnold.
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Rant: The insurance company that has refused to pay for the only treatment of my wife’s chronic back condition has the audacity to increase our already high premiums an additional $360 per month.
Rave: Some of you have followed my saga and offered to pray. Thanks
Rave: I’ve been told Alpo casserole isn’t too bad. I’ll let you all know in a few months when my savings are completely depleted and I’ll be forced to choose between my wife’s medication and eating.
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I forgot a rant: Same time, I was looking through the old tapes, the J.T. Adams and Eddy Arnold find gave me hope that I might have an old Ernest Tubb LP on tape. Not so. It’s gone. I only remember two songs from that album:
White Silver Sand
A Guy Named Joe
I never heard them anywhere else. They were kinda risque by 1950’s stadards, but very tame now. Still:
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Metanoia: Sorry. Your problems make mine trivial. I will pray for you and your wife.
about that.
Metanoia is a Greek word, but I’ve forgotten what it is.
I notice that even with preview, I let a misspell get by. But lots didn’t.
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RAVE: For the Blue Bible Institute’s web site I found this week and have been accessing as I prepare to lead a woman’s retreat in April:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html
RAVE: the return of preview. Now if only my thoughts could be so easily tamed/organized . . .
RAVE: no rants!
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Rant: All right, this is (I hope) my last rant/rave about college football until September. But this is just too dumb to let go. Someone gave me a copy of an old Sporting News this past week. One of the minor features looked to the early favorites to be in the running for next year’s college football championship. They had some critiques of the front runners. For Georgia, the byline read something like the following: Don’t be too impressed by those 7 straight wins to finish out the season, since those opponents had a combined 31 loses (emphasis theirs).
Now, on the surface, that sounds like an impressive (or highly negative) stat. And it is true enough, until one begins to break it down and then observes some hidden bias. First, 7 of those recorded loses, of course, came against Georgia. Then, I started thinking of some of the other great teams from this season. I looked back at LSU final 7 wins of the season: the opponents had a combined 35 loses. Then I looked at USC: their final 7 wins came against opponents with 40 total loses. Now, where were those stats from The Sporting News?
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Rave: I’m going up to Memphis to spend the weekend.
Rant: A lot to do to get ready.
Metanoia if you’re ever in Birmingham come by for dinner. I’m not a great cook but it will be better than Alpo.
Rant: Cat’s back flicking her tail across my keyboard. I think she knows we are about to leave her behind.
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Chas: I forgot to tell you that I’m glad the little guy jumping rope is gone. If your gravatar is a picture of you, you look just like I expected you to look.
Metanoia: “To turn around, repentance”
KBells: Thanks for the invite. I may have to take you up on it.
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Rant: We spent over $700 last week in vehicle and furnace repairs.
Rave: For our “heating guy” who not only didn’t charge for the third visit (not their fault) but also took the time to say encouraging words about home schooling. He was a blessing!
Rave: We had three inches of snow Thursday!
Rant: It didn’t stay long.
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blog fluff pieces having nothing to do with politics,that are designed to subtly endorse a particular candidate…without actually endorsing him. You know…that “let me just say some things about what nice common-folk people they are” line that is getting so very old.
rave
writers who are up front about who they support politically
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Rave:
I’ve gotten several therapy sessions for my back and neck pain.
Rant:
They’re very expensive. Thirty bucks a pop twice a week. Hopefully I can cut back once I get my evalution next month, and perhaps substitute something closer to home and less expensive.
Rave:
I think we’ve been granted a reprieve on the expensive septic system replacement ($10K). I think we may have a lot lower bill with just a repair.
Rave:
Preview is back! Whoo Hoo!
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Cameron,
How do you clean out the kitchen disposal? Ours gets pretty gunky. At least a strainer can be taken out and washed (in the other side of the double sink). I’ve seen stuff at the store that says it’s for cleaning disposals, but I hate paying several dollars for a little bottle – like paying for the special cleaners for coffee makers or humidifiers, when I know I can use white vinegar, and bleach (not together!).
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Friends,
Some of you might be familiar with one David Kupelian author of “The Marketing of Evil” and editor at WorldNetDaily. He pens an ironic article about why so few folks are “real Christians,” and tries to peddle his theology, which according to you folks isn’t Christian at all.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59745
He’s actually a follower of one Roy Masters, a biblical Arian (denies the Trinity) who quotes from the Gnostic Gospels, and promotes “Christian mysticism” and reliance on a meditation exercise as essential for salvation.
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MiM – How long does your therapy session last?
I’m comparing it to paying $30. for a 1/2 hour massage – to me money well spent!
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Rant: A big check is overdue, and I had to borrow from the home equity line of credit (which I’m trying to avoid ever doing again) to pay the “estimated taxes.” Nothing like borrowing from my home equity to pay the govenerment’s non-optional “retirement savings plan” of social security, which I’d opt out of in a heartbeat!
Rave: I’ve made a lot of progress this week on organizing my home, which isn’t fun for me, and it’s a smallish home–so storage has to be creative.
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Chas, you would like an early Saturday morning show on KVET dotcom. Its “Country Gold” hosted by Tom Allen and he plays “all the all-time greats done by the all-time greats” such as Tubb, Jim Reeves and others you seldom here on so-called Country radio these days
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Pauline,
Small amounts of ice can act as a degreaser. Run several cubes through your disposal once a week or so. Grinding citrus like lemon (including the peels) can also work and leave your disposal smelling better, but I’m allergic, so I leave that to TJ. Make sure the water runs for a few seconds after you stop the disposal after regular use to clear out any residue.
I’ve never seen the specialty cleaners, but ours doesn’t get that gunky–just two of us rinsing off dinner plates, usually.
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Coarse coffee grinds are good for cleaning the garbage disposal. Abrasiveness helps. Drop some citrus rinds in there afterward unless you want your sink to smell like Starbucks.
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VS,
Therapy session is 45 – 60 minutes. I’m not feeling total relief yet either. The idea is to strengthen core muscles (Transverse abdominals, and Multifidus muscles, which are best trained for endurance rather than strength) in order to stablize the joints. When those muscles have been injured the “mover” muscles take over, and the core muscles tend to atrophy. The pain you feel is when things don’t line up anymore and you get either a ruptured disc (none of mine are thankfully) or facet joints not lining up which cause pain in the soft tissue (that’s where I have the problem). It takes time to retrain all the muscles to work together like they should….
Jon Rowe,
You have something to rave or rant about? You may want to post that subject in “Whirled Views” instead.
Pauline,
I use citrus peels. I cut them up into smaller chunks and run the water and disposal until it’s all processed. Rinse well.
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And if you’re on a septic system, it’s recommended NOT to have a disposal!
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MIM,
Actually, I’m starting to see “septic-safe” disposals. I did it when I was single; I didn’t put enough down it to matter, and used Rid-X monthly. The size of your tank matters, too.
Speaking of septic tanks, have you had any of your trees removed?
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Rave: That we were able to switch from our septic tank to the sewer system a few years ago. At which time we found out there was a problem that would have eventually been very costly if we had not switched to the sewer system.
Rave: My mom lent us the money for the switch-over, then cancelled the debt a while later.
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Rave: My first ever article has been published!
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RDEAN – What O’Reilly was talking about last night was that it was being alleged that the homelessness of the vets was due to the economy [solely], not that they weren’t homeless. His contention is that the majority of homeless people [vet and non-vet] are living on the street due to mental illness and drug use. As I have not made a study of homelessness, I don’t know how accurate that is.
He also made a point of commenting, though, that the vast majority of vets come back to live good and fruitful lives. Those people, however, don’t make good copy for the Old Media.
The starting point for his comments was the NY Times story that implied that many soldiers come back from Iraq and become murderers, when the actual figures show that they commit far fewer murders than people in the same age group who never were in the military. The Times did not include comparative information in the article.
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Rant: I’m trying to switch my meds from a local pharmacy that has become more and more incompetent since the original chain was taken over by another, only to run into more incompetence from the mail-in service that I’m switching to.
Rant: Grandson goes back to college Sunday morning. I haven’t seen enough of him this trip [24/7 wouldn't have been enough
] and he won’t be home again until summer.
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“Speaking of septic tanks, have you had any of your trees removed?”
Working on that…
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Mea Culpa wrong thread.
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Klaski,
Congratulations! (I’m hoping that I’ll have a rave of a new book contract by next week’s rants and raves, but it’s OK if it takes a little longer if it’s a yes, as I expect it to be.)
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Klasko…congratulations! I remember my first published piece. I ran around on top of our living room furniture hooting like a conquering Scot.
Where does your piece appear?
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Cheryl D. and Lynn – thank you for your well wishes.
Cheryl D. – Best Wishes for your success with the book contract. Let us know when you get it.
Lynn – It’s the first article in the DJ plus section of Discipleship Journal, “Connecting Calls.” My first paying market.
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Congrats KLasko.
Sawgunner. I will listen in if I remember tomorrow morning. ON WAMU, in Washington, DC they used to have the “Jerry Gray Show” who played country western from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s from “the Gray collection of gramaphone greats.” Also, Eddie Stubbs (who is an announcer for the Oprey) had/has a program of old country and bluegrass. I listened to both faithfully. I tried to remember their program on the website when I moved, but as I said to Jerry in an e-mail when I moved, “You can’t take a computer into the yard and listen while you are digging or raking leaves”. I’m usually doing something else while listening to music.
But I’m adding to my collection. I just sent off for CD’s of Jimmy Davis and of Porter & Dolly.
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Rant: The preview is not without shortcomings. I feel so stupid when I try to make the correction on the preview. I should be used to it by now.
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Rave! No school on MLKjr day!
It’s at Arizona State University.
Oh, and I’m not LEADING the choir. I’m just a second soprano.
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Rant: I have SO MUCH grading to do.
Rave: I get Monday off! As an exhausted first-year teacher, that’s extremely exciting.
Rave: I do truly love my job. Middle schoolers can be difficult, but I enjoy them and the subject (English and literature) so much.
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Katie, it gets MUCH easier after that first year. Like you, I felt like I had to grade everything, and it just snowballs. I remember one Friday night that first year, I was so exhausted that I lay on my living room floor for just a few seconds, and the next thing I knew it was about 3 in the morning.
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Chas 37- If you hadn’t have told us, we would not know your error!
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Klasko,
Congratulations! That’s great.
My Art teacher asked me to be his T.A. (teaching assistant). He also said he thought I had talent.
His comment was 100% unsolicited, so it was a great affirmation and encouragement.
Now that guests are gone, my husband and I are tightening our belts and losing holiday weight. The idea of dieting (even though thats not what we’re doing) makes me a little food crazy.
It looks like it was only a 2 lbs. holiday weight gain for me!
I like splitting an entree at a restaurant. It saves money, and it’s kind of a togetherness thing.
It’s been a long time since I’ve taken a walk. I was too preoccupied. I hope to start soon. It was raining today, though.
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Chas and EYG – Thank you.
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I ran around on top of our living room furniture hooting like a conquering Scot.
She was 6 at the time, a prodigy.
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Rave: Preview is back!
Rant: Still no poker thread!
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Lynn,
Sad as it is, I’m not sure I remember my first published work with my name on it–unless you count two letters to the editor published in the Phoenix paper when I was 14-16. After that, my early published work for a long time didn’t have my name on it (book reviews in Moody magazine, book covers, press releases, etc.). Somewhere in there I got some stuff with my name on it, but then I managed to do something few people do: I got a book published before I ever published a full-length article with my name on it.
Oh yeah, I had published pieces in my college yearbook and newspaper, but that didn’t really seem to count as real publishing.
Anyway, I probably rivaled your enthusiasm when I got my first book contract, and I’ll probably be swinging from the chandeliers if and when I publish one book I’m working on that really has my passion in it (a different book from the one that is a step or two from a contract). There’s nothing quite like having a publisher decide that one’s work is worthy of print.
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RANT:
I continue to be logged out in the middle of posting.
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Rant:
Ditto the above.
Rant:
People who post really long URLs which ruin threads so you have to scroooooollllll back and forth to read them.
PEOPLE! LOOK HERE!
http://www.tinyurl.com
You can make the longest URL (website link for those not internet savvy) into a really short URL. Just cut and paste your endless URL in the form at the above site, and it will make it very small.
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Rave: wonderful friends who sold us their van for half what it is worth
Rant: returning health problems that kept me home from worship today
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