Archive for August, 2007

It looks like those posts still get quite a bit of traffic. I slacked off on it a while back, and I’m thinking I should pick it back up again. Thoughts? Anyone?

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webseitler.com is now with BlueHost, and I can already tell this is running much more smoothly.

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I hate getting charley horses. I tend to get them in waves, too.

I woke up this morning at about 4am. I had about five seconds from the moment that I was awake and knew a muscle was pulled, and the start of the pain. This was the worst one I’ve ever had! It was like I’d been stabbed in the calf, and someone was twisting the knife over and over again. And it seemed like multiple muscles in my calf were getting pulled–like how one power supply goes down and puts a strain on the whole system, eventually shutting everything down. Steven Subotnick, D.P.M. says:

“This out-of-the-blue leg cramp is as intense as a kick from a palomino. You’ll be lying in bed or even asleep when you get this terrible knot-usually in the calf but sometimes in the thigh or the arch of your foot.”

Apparently if I get out of bed right away and stand on that leg, it’ll make the pain go away quicker? (That and drinking more water, of course–I hate drinking water!) I wish I’d checked Wikipedia before today.

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Nicole and I are having a friendly competition: we’re both making Squidoo lenses on each of the kids. Here’s mine for Katie and Joshua. Check ‘em out (and ask Nicole about hers)!

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Okay, so it seems like it’s not obvious enough when I’m quoting other people’s stuff here… so let’s all be perfectly clear on this: I think this article written by someone who is not me has some good food for thought, regardless of whether you or I completely agree with it or not.

See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah). — Colossians 2:8 (AMP)

I regularly refer to thoughts with which I do not necessarily agree. It is in dealing with those opposing thoughts and their implications (as well as the blind spots they reveal in our currently-held beliefs) that we truly learn–to do otherwise is to subject yourself as a captive of one man’s (or one group’s) “crude notions.” If you can’t handle reading anything that doesn’t echo what you already believe, then you either think you know everything (arrogance) or you have no desire for knowledge (foolishness). Either way, this blog will probably be nothing but an exercise in frustration for you.

That is all. Thank you.

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