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Blog News: New Roman Missal Translation Page

I'm convinced that the new English translation of the Roman Missal is an issue to which I should devote some of my attention, at least for the time being.  Perhaps it will be moved to another blog or someplace else later, but for now, I've added a page here.

Blog News: Spirituality Forum

A new article has been posted to the Spirituality Forum.

Blog News: Spirituality Forum

A new article has been posted to the Spirituality Forum.

Blog News: Editorial Forum

A new article has been posted to the Editorial Forum.

Blog News: Spirituality Forum

A new article has been posted to the Spirituality Forum.

Blog News: Social Media Madness

Today, I resolved to take greater control of my life by scrambling the Department of Overwhelm Management to unleash a can of whoop-ass on my Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.  Wish me luck.  These "communication" tools seem to demonstrate the 80/20 principle: 80% of the material comes from the people I am only 20% interested in hearing from.  Secretly, I'm waiting for the first animated GIF of people humping on hump day (get it?  It's hump day, so they're humping) to give me an excuse to plonk Facebook altogether. 

Blog News: Spirituality Forum

The Spirituality Forum page has been updated with an article that will no doubt be added to in the days and weeks to come.

Blog News: Facebook Group

Earlier this year, I had grand designs for increased Facebook integration of this blog.  I started a group (link; I'm not sure whether this link will work or not) that soon kind of fell by the wayside, mostly because the Facebook redesign made groups difficult to find.  Tonight, on a lark, I checked the group, fully expecting all other members to have left.  In reality, I'd actually picked up a few!  I was tickled to see that local radio personality Patti Genko is a member (hope she won't mind my posting this).  I see that she runs a voiceover agency now.  I always wanted to dabble in voiceover work.  Listening to the audio samples on her site, however, I don't think my voice is deep enough.  Darn.

Number 1000

Well, I wouldn't exactly call it 1000 victories, but this is indeed the 1000th post.  Not my 1000th post--keep in mind Mary's hundreds of contributions, in addition to those of the several guest authors who have contributed along the way.  I thought of how to mark this occasion, and had intended to do so in a typically earnest fashion.  But "I don't wanna. . .Not right now."  For earnest, I refer you to posts 1-999 (OK,  not exactly).  I'm in a loose kinda mood, and I walked into Alterra on Prospect intending to try the Jose Afredo Zeledon as drip coffee, but I saw that one of the more, ahem, attractive staff members was working the espresso machine.  I felt like taking the risk that my worldview might be smashed--she can't be that hot and pull a great espresso too, can she?  Well, I needed a new worldview, and I got one, served up in a 4 oz. demitassse.  This was the first straight espresso I've had of this week's coffee/espresso of the week, so I can't really compare apples to apples.  Still, compared to all of the espressos I've had at this location--and most or all of my best Alterra espressos have been right here--this was one of the better ones.

As is often the case on weekend evenings, a sizable middle-aged crowd is here, socializing merrily.  One woman has a haircut, tan and body habitus eerily similar to my own.  I mean, she could play me in the movie version of my life.  Note to self: butch up.  (Though I'm not quite sure what I mean by that--a small earring is pretty much her only non-butch attribute.)

I can actually relate some almost breaking news.  When I was walking here across E. North Ave. from my apartment, the street was being blocked off due to an accident.  The victim or one of the victims was on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance.  I've been feeling grim for weeks--well, to be honest, all year.  I have the "luxury" of imagining and exaggerating ill until it becomes real, and I'm at the physical therapy clinic having the negativity excised from by body.  (Or so I theorize.)   I'm really eager to draw some kind of a dividing line on this date and say that the rest of the year will be different.  I'm not sure if this is grim too, but I will indulge in this much earnestness in this post: I resolve to consider every day in which I leave home on my feet and return at the end of the day still on my feet--having done no harm to others and, indeed, maximum good--a good day.  For as long as that holds true, I will consider my life 99.9% successful.  Everything else is really just 0.1%.

Sprituality Forum

A new page has now been launched on the blog, called Spirituality Forum.  It will be a place to collect blog posts of a religious nature and to interact with readers on this topic.  Also, I had failed to notice that it is possible to open blog pages up to comments, so I will do so now.