Lessons and Carols, followed by dinner
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Busy Weekend at Church
This evening St. Mary’s is having a Service of Lessons and Carols, followed by a festive dinner. Yesterday I was at the church all morning helping to decorate and move furniture.
Mia stayed home this morning, but I came in for the service. I did not want to miss an Advent Service, and I wanted to satisfy my curiosity about a bit of liturgical trivia: Continue reading
Cell Phones, Blackberries, Laptops, etc. in the Classroom
A Busy Morning
I have color-coded the in-box on my e-mail system (Lotus Notes) here at work. A yellow background indicates a message from a fellow sufferer DBA. A red background means a message from my supervisor or my manager. This gives me a quick assessment of the threat level urgency of what is waiting for me there.
From this morning: image behind cut
Monday night Irish Class, December 10, 2007
Irish Class, December 10, 2007
First notes toward a scéal which I did not present this week, but
might sometime.
Tá strus mór orm ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc.
We looked at some Christmas carols from Carúil
na Nollag – Irish Christmas Carols. Given the Irish, we tried
to translate them. The standard English versions are included
here, which do not necessarily match a translation from the Irish.
Also, I do not entirely trust this site–A couple checks in
Foclóir Póca found some fadas were missing.
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Tom in Church
Religious thinking
Following a link from GetReligion, I saw that a Seattle Parish Offers Astrology Workshop.
I am not happy about this. I can handle all sorts of unorthodox thinking in the Episcopal Church. E.g., for decades I have been going to churches that are very welcoming of gays and lesbians, and sometimes have gay and lesbian clergy.
However, this is different. I do not consider astrology to be thinking.
Weekend so far
Work Update–Biblical Reference
I was thinking about my manager at work, who has made my job so unpleasant in the last 18 or so months, and about his new boss, who promises to be even worse. This verse (1 Kings 12:11) came to mind:
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 