I’m working my fingers to the bone at the moment so posting will be light. Normally I wouldn’t, because we’ve scaled back in order to reduce our tax burden, but in the last week work for me has just unexpectedly piled up. Yesterday someone called out of the blue, wanting a website right now. I don’t advertise and it was not a referral… just someone who saw another site I built, clicked through to my company website, ignored the “thanks but we’re not taking new clients right now” message and called anyway. Yay God, because our son in law’s unit has been mobilized and is about to ship out to Iraq.  We’ll be able to get him a better laptop than we expected.

At 4pm, is it too late to say blogging will be light? More like it has been. I had several things I intended to blog about, starting with the spoiled brat protesters at Berkeley who literally rioted with torches! and trashed the Dean’s house.  Punks.  What do you expect after decades of tolerance for this sort of nonsense?  Oh, look how cute!  The kids are protesting just like we used to back in the 60s!  Aw, look how they want to stick it to The Man!  So precious… of course these jackasses fail to understand that they are now “The Man” and so are the rest of the taxpayers who subsidize these brat’s educations.  Hey, if you can’t afford Berzerkely, get thee to a community college or get a job, save, and come back next year.   (My husband spent six years in night school and held down a full time job – while still keeping up with his family and church obligations.  So don’t tell me it can’t be done.)  But I had to run errands this morning and by the time I got back to write the post, Michelle Malkin had already done so. And hers is better, because it’s chock full of video goodness. So go look at that. [Read more...]

So we’re back in the hospital – hopefully this will be the LAST surgery my husband has to undergo… Blogging may be light the next few days.

Update: All is well.

I’ve posted probably half a dozen times over the last couple of years that I’m increasingly unhappy with the name of this blog.  When I first started this blog in 2004 it was almost exclusively bible studies and devotions.  And I began to acquire readers, which was exciting, but began to be a bit scary – I am not called to preach or teach and I don’t want that responsibility.

So I began writing on other matters and phasing out theology.  My perspective includes my faith – it is the most important factor in forming my opinions (and when it’s not it should be) so Christianity has been present but more in the sense of me working things out in my own life rather than dishing out hermeneutics. [Read more...]

Drew, Ken and Nick may guest post as the Spirit moves them, but for personal reasons I won’t be blogging for a while.  I’m not sure for how long; a week, a month, longer?  If you want to be notified when I come back or about any guest posts, there’s an “eNews & Updates” section in the top right corner of the screen where you can enter your email address.  Feedburner will email you links to new posts as they come out.  You could also subscribe in your RSS reader.  If you need to reach me for anything, try email: laura  — at — pursuingholiness.com

If you’re the praying sort, please pray for my family and me.

Granted, it’s anecdotal, but I say liberals are much more obnoxious than conservatives and they lack our self-control when dealing with an opposing viewpoint. Case in point – my husband and an employee of one of his customers were having a pleasant chat about how they had spent Independence Day. To the employee, “the Fourth” – proving she was a historically-bereft, lazy, pop-culture jackass, because the name of the holiday is Independence Day!!! Every country has a fourth of July on the calendar but only the U.S. celebrates our Independence on that day. And I really don’t care what the losers in Mexico do on Cinco de Mayo; if they’re not bright enough to come up with a real name for their holiday it’s not my problem. Err… what was I saying? Right, talking about Independence Day.

When she asked how he’d spent the day, he told the truth: we had guests over, barbecued, and then caravaned to the Tea Party in Baton Rouge, where a good time was had by all.

She proceeded to shriek her outrageously outrageous outrage at such behavior, demanding to know where my husband was when Bush was running up a deficit and getting us into a useless war and on and on and on and on…. never stopping to hear a response, just yapping out the Daily Kos/Firedoglake/TPM talking points. [Read more...]

As long as up I’m at twenty to four, I might as well be posting, right? Pathetic… but this was an amusing blast from the past.

Posting is light, because I’m busy enjoying my new dual monitor setup. I’ve actually got three monitors on this setup, because I still have a walkstation setup so I’m not stuck in a chair all day. The walkstation monitor is just a split of the right side monitor, which my husband recently scavenged from a dismantled system at work. I love free. And even though the extra monitor had Mafia Wars on it when I took the pic, I’ve actually been working hard today doing some very tedious database work. Which I’m now going to get back to… until my husband gets home with the sushi, and then it’s dinner and a movie in our home theater. While we have a modest house – 3 bedroom, 2 bath in a middle class ‘burb – we have spent considerable time arranging things just the way we like. Life is good.