For this blog, anyway.  I just don't have the time to keep up with it anymore.

I've enjoyed writing in it and I wish all of blog friends a fond farewell.

Just a quick note to say "howdy!" to everyone.  Still alive.  Still playing games.  Seminary starts on Tuesday.  Life in Wilmore is great!

Later!

Today is moving day for us.  In a few hours the computer will be packed away and I won't be able to leave you any updates, trivia, or commentary.

Lucky you. ;)

Take care.

Until we move!  Yay!

Just so you know, we'll be off of the Internet for awhile.  It's been free the last two years because we've been living on campus.  It could be as late as September before we're back.

Anyways, we'll be around the rest of this week until Friday.

I just read that Battlestar Galactica will be ending after its next (4th) season.  Boo!  Hiss!  First it was Enterprise, now this.  Weak.  Yet, somehow, Stargate television shows keep getting made...

I just read an article about a Walmart employee who was fired for something he wrote on his MySpace website.

Yesterday, an article ran in the local paper about an EMT in western Kentucky who was assaulted by a family of an accident victim because he had posted pictures on the Internet of the accident.

Also, locally, police officers who pulled over an erratic driver were reprimanded when they posted pictures and comments about the arrest on their MySpace websites.  Incidentally, the driver had been drinking and turned out to be the country singer John Michael Montgomery.

Finally, some of the military personnel released from duty for violating the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy were ousted because of comments they made on their own websites.

So, is the Internet really a haven for free speech?  Not according to these examples.

Your thoughts?

Over the weekend Robin and I entertained our families with cookouts which started on Saturday and ended late yesterday afternoon.  I fixed over twenty burgers and hot dogs, and there was potato salad, Amish cole slaw, chips, dip, and more bottled soda (including Kentucky-centric Ale 8-1, Orange Crush, Jones Cream Soda, IBC root beer, Pepsi and its diet version) than you could shake up and spray at each other.

Chas and Bill were over on Saturday.  I think they ate the most, heh.  Afterwards, we played Guitar Hero for an hour or so.  Sunday was my Mom and Dad.  Mom brought a homemade strawberry pie.  Finally, rounding out Memorial Day weekend, Robin's Mom and step-father, Stephen, arrived with the biggest chocolate chip cookie I've ever seen.

By that last cookout, I had personally consumed four hamburgers and five hot dogs over the course of the weekend.  I suppose that's not too bad, in hindsight.

It sure was good eating and great company, and a nice way to end our time here in EKU's family housing.

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Robin's all excited because her Mom and Stephen brought us many, many more boxes.  There's not nearly enough left to pack, but I suppose she'll go through the pantry and some of the cabinet space and find several more boxes worth.

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Sometime between now and early next week we still have to pay the deposit on water, sewage, and trash pick-up.  We have to pay the first month's rent and get our keys, too.

Then all we have to do is wait for the moving day.

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We have managed to play a few games during all of the packing and cookouts, and they've been pretty exciting and tense.  Small games, like Gheos, Through the Desert, and Roma have seen a lot of table time.  Our longest game time has centered on two games of Tigris & Euphrates.  I like having only 18 games at our disposal...

I would still like to get Hammer of the Scots or Twilight Struggle to the table in the next week or so.

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Happy Belated Birthday to Star Wars!  30 years old this year, which means I turn 40.

Interesting.  Not sure how long it will last...

When I was born in 1967 a gallon of gas was .33 cents.  When I started driving, in 1983, it was $1.20.  Now, it's just crazy...

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I noticed that Robin forgot to mention that we'd played Empire Builder this past Saturday.  In the game you're trying to earn $250 million and connect six (out of seven) major cities by building a network of railroads across North America.  You make money by hauling various goods from city to city, with each city needing certain goods and producing others.  The novelty of the game comes in with using crayons on the board to mark your rail lines.  I was worried that Robin may not like the game, so I suggested we only play an hour.  When the time was up she wanted to keep playing, and though we were only given another 30 minutes (before the boys sounded like they were really tearing up their room...) she really liked the game.

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On Monday, after we returned from finding a place to live in Wilmore, Robin started packing for the move.  I joined in on the fun yesterday.  We have packed over 20 boxes, and 11 of those are filled with books, and we have more boxes of books in storage at my parent's house!  The rest of the boxes contain clothes, chiefly winter clothing, and there's still more clothes to be packed in the boys' room and in our closet and dressers.

Then we have the multitude of games and DVDs and kitchen stuff...

Where'd we get all of the stuff?

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Hmm.  In three years we've moved three times, though we did live in a small one-bedroom unit for five months while awaiting a two-bedroom, so in reality we lived in one place for one year, another for several months, and the remainder of the time in our current locale.  It will be nice to live in the same place for the next three years.

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I will comment on your comments regarding Christianity.  I promise!  Robin's right, though: I type old school, using two fingers, so I need some time to write my thoughts out...

But for the time being: