Notes from the Trail

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I’ve been wondering about the folks that visit my site… If I had to make guesses from reviewing the excellent tool provided by SiteMeter, I would say that I know about 75% of the visitors personally. So here’s a quick poll for you readers and lurkers out there…

For those of you like me who have a growing and changing list of blogs that you like to check out regularly, I’d like to encourage you to check out BlogLines. Set yourself up an account there, and under the “My Feeds” section, start adding the blogs you like to read.

What you’ll get is a very nice interface, with your blogs on the left, and a window for reading them on the right. When one of your blogs has been updated, it becomes bold, and the number of new entries is shown out beside it. You just click on it, and you can read the entries in the window to the right… Very nice! Props to the folks at BlogLines for this nice interface.

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My mom sent me these same pics in an email today. I was pretty surprised to discover the Greenhead Blog had a whole post dedicated to the artist, Julian Beever. They’re amazing. I found the Greenhead Blog by going to BlogHop and checking my blog’s poor ratings and then clicking on “highly rated” blogs… (vote for me, will ya?! The link to do so is in the left column under “BLOG BITS”)

Who would have ever thought you could communicate scriptural stories with intricate Lego creations. Well, this guy has done it. It’s pretty amazing. And some of his pictorial creations will hit your funny bone. Check out The Brick Testament. I’ve used some of these illustrations in my sermon presentations before. And if you’re doing the Patriarch’s Bible study with us (see the blog link to the right), you’ll recognize a few of them.

Dangit. I just had to shave my ears again. For those of you first visiting, it’s not as if I talk about this often, but if you’d like to track with me how often I have to do this, my first comment about it is here. Maybe by tracking these posts, I can determine how long it takes for my ear hair to grow… It could be a real scientific study. Maybe I’ll get some grants? Then I could hire some aides… (get it? aids for my ears? hearing aids? heh-heh.)

Anyway, you’re also probably wondering why in the world I took the time to take pics and all. Well, I’ve got some down time right now waiting on a few things and I DID have to shave my ears. It’s such a unique and random thing, I thought someone would appreciate it. I mean, of all places for my hair to decide to START growing… why my ears? Why couldn’t it grow on the back of my head?

Anyway, here’s a pic of my new hair tools.. It’s so depressing. And in the middle of all the ear-shaving-picture-taking, I dropped the nose hair attachment in the crapper. Aaargh. Of course, this has all happened in the context of me avoiding some house cleaning. Caro and Kristy Hales are out cleaning the studio in preparation for Caro’s sis visiting with our twin 5-year-old nephews and 6 month-old niece.

So… the ear hair gods have smited me by making me drop by nose hair attachment in the commode.