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If you’re a stats junkie like me, here’s an informative site:
Worldometers. The site has a whole bunch of stat counters, from the typical (current world population) to the eye-raising (spam sent in a day) to the sad (deaths from hunger).

It’s been almost a week since my last post…where’s the time gone?!? Thought I’d throw up a quick post of odds and end thoughts.
Work absolutely kicked my butt last week. It’s been a while since I’ve been that busy and that challenged. Wish I could say it made the weekend that [...]

And they keep on coming! Congratulations to Karen and Greg on the birth of Brayden Michael! He popped out this evening at 8lbs, 6ozs, 20inches. Mom, dad and baby are all doing well. Congratulations!!!

I woke up early this morning and was shaking. My first thought was “What’s wrong with me?!?” Then I realized the whole bed was shaking and the house started creaking. It took me a while to shake off the stupor, but I thought “Earthquake?” Surely not. I soon drifted [...]

Uh, oh, the
Flying Pig is only 18 days away - and I am NO WHERE NEAR ready for the 10k. I’m not even back up to where I left off last year! In June 2007, I ran the entire Redlegs’ 5k distance,
finishing in just over 30 minutes, both personal bests [...]

Via
FullyDevoted
How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?
Charismatics: Only 1; hands are already in the air.
Pentecostals: 10; One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.
Presbyterians: None; Lights will go on and off at predestined times.
Roman Catholics: None; candles only
Baptists: At least 15. One to [...]

April is regarded as
Financial Literacy Month. How financially literate are you? Test your financial IQ with the
Federal Reserve’s Personal Financial Literacy Quiz.
My classes, reading and listening to podcasts must be sinking in - I only missed two, #13 and #24. How did you do?
This test was given to high [...]

A couple weeks ago, in my Sunday morning Bible fellowship, we had an interesting discussion on the first miracle performed by Jesus, the Wedding at Cana when He turned water into wine. Read about it in
John 2:1-11 (ESV).
During the course of the discussion, the question was asked “When and where was the [...]

Congratulations to
Nick and Ashlee on the new addition to their family!!! Noah was born at 3:07pm today, 9 lbs 5 ozs and 21 inches long. Yay Pendleys! Congrats!

BattleBots Return
I used to love watching
Robot Wars on TechTV back in the day (back when TechTV was good, before G4 took it over). Now BattleBots, Robot Wars’ spin-off, is moving to the big time - ESPN2. I like the direction they plan to take it in - less flashy and showy [...]