Toontown Rewritten — Introducing Master Alvin Wonderbrains

Well, I signed up for a play slot on the semi-open beta, and it started at 7 p.m. tonight. I managed to create my new character -- Master Alvin Wonderbrains -- an homage to my former character, Prof. Alvin Wonderbrains. He has a look as close to his inspiration as I could do. The … Continue reading Toontown Rewritten — Introducing Master Alvin Wonderbrains →

Helping My Son With His Summer School Homework

Today I had Betsy drop Nathan off at River Market Cyclery, to meet me there after work. I had taken his bicycle in for brake work and seat adjustment two Saturday's ago, but had forgotten about it until yesterday. I called this morning to see if the bike was ready -- it was scheduled for … Continue reading Helping My Son With His Summer School Homework →

Pentecost Sunday at AUMC

Today was Pentecost Sunday. It was also the day that our church Confirmands took responsibility for helping with the service. Our pastor was at Annual Conference this weekend, so Mark Whittaker, youth and communications coordinator led the service, assisted by the confirmands. For me the service was memorable for many reasons, the top two being … Continue reading Pentecost Sunday at AUMC →

Sorting the wheat and tares in my garden of ideas…

As I sit here on, what is for me a rainy Saturday morning, deciding what to blog about, I found this blog by Cedar Sanderson on Mad Genius Club about "Building a Blog". I found it while doing my daily WordPress reader cycle, and went and made a long comment about my own peculiar strategy … Continue reading Sorting the wheat and tares in my garden of ideas… →

Toontown Rewritten

Regular readers of my blog might remember my prior posts decrying the demise of Disney's Toontown Online. Well, enough creative people wanted Toontown around to create ToontownRewritten -- a free version of the game rewritten by fans of the game. It is currently in semi-open beta testing -- players are allowed to create an account … Continue reading Toontown Rewritten →

Journey to a High School Reunion — 11th Grade

The 11th grade yearbook was dedicated to Mr. Schultz. I have good recollections of his perennial presence at the school during regular maintenance and special events like the senior play. Does anyone have any specific stories they would like to share? I always remembered that we graduated with 28 people, but maxed out at 34. … Continue reading Journey to a High School Reunion — 11th Grade →

New Bicycle — First Flat Tire

Monday morning I rode my bicycle down to the community center to swim, and then took it via bus to the RiverMarket Cyclery shop. Since they open at 10 a.m. and this was 7:30 a.m., I left it hooked up to their bicycle rack outside, and gave them a call at 10 a.m. so they … Continue reading New Bicycle — First Flat Tire →

AUMC Book Club Publishes Upcoming Season’s Titles

The Avondale United Methodist Church Book Club Has published the below list of books that we will be reading and discussing over the coming year (listed alphabetically by title): Title Author Bring on the Blessings Beverly Jenkins Murder by Peacocks Donna Andrews One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson Orbit John J. Nance Palisades Park Alan … Continue reading AUMC Book Club Publishes Upcoming Season’s Titles →

The Voice of The Serpent (?) — Edit Those Hymn Lyrics

My wife (complementary relationship) reposted a blog by TXRed on her blog yesterday about the updating of hymns and hymn texts/lyrics. I made some comments there more specific to the hymns themselves. Here, I want to link this all back to another post I made back in April about symmetrical vs. complementary. I think a lot … Continue reading The Voice of The Serpent (?) — Edit Those Hymn Lyrics →