Author Archives: Thom
Cool celebrities
Jason Mraz is someone I suspect I could like a lot if I got a chance to know him. He seems to really enjoy his audiences and interacting with fans, as evidenced by this concert video where he spots a young man … Continue reading
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Hug someone today
Muslim extremists murder a dozen people at a French magazine office. A father throws his five year old off a bridge. Boko Haram kills over 2000 people and burns an entire town to the ground. A jet crashes, taking all passengers … Continue reading
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An Inconvenient Policy
The company I work for requires that we change our passwords every 60 days. There are some 40 different systems, servers, etc., which require a password to gain access. It takes me close to half an hour every time I … Continue reading
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Thank You!
I had originally started a post bemoaning our headlong, competitive race into the cesspool, and then I changed my mind. Been there, done that. Society doesn’t care. I’ll probably just wait for another year or two until the prudish becomes … Continue reading
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Writing Goals for 2015
On the latest episode of Writing Excuses the gang challenged us to review what we learned or accomplished in 2014 and state what we are hoping to learn in the coming year. Since this smacks of “blog post”, I’ll actually … Continue reading
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Book Review: Five Kingdoms – Rogue Knight, by Brandon Mull
It’s become something of a tradition around our house that I read the latest Brandon Mull book out loud to my kids. Even my oldest, nearly-fourteen-year-old hasn’t decided she’s too old for them yet. Which is fine with me. We … Continue reading
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Welcome to 2015
I haven’t posted for a while. I took vacation through the holidays, and that included, to a large degree, blogging. To be honest, I didn’t miss it. Somewhere in the last month or so I’ve decided I’ve run out of … Continue reading
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Alex Boye – Wayfaring Stranger
I became aware of Alex Boyé from his cover of Coldplay’s “Paradise” with The Piano Guys, and paid attention to a few of his other videos that came out after that. Mostly what I’ve seen is kinda quirky, a little … Continue reading
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Families online – Pros and cons
The weekend provided me with a couple of online incidents that are at odds with one another. I’m not sure why I’m even mentioning this, since I don’t come to any real conclusions from either. Perhaps it’s just this: We … Continue reading
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O Come, Emmanuel
This is still one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. And this is one of my all-time favorite arrangements thereof:
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