Posted on July 25, 2008 by matt
If you have read this post from last week you will remember me talking about the pressing need I feel to make money for my fast growing family. This is an area that has been a phenomenal source of stress as my wife and I are entertaining business opportunities, moving into a new home and [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by rymk
Tomorrow morning I will hop a flight to Seattle with my lovely wife Crystal. We will be meeting up there with Crystal’s parents, sister and her husband. We will then get to spend a few days in Seattle which is one of the coolest places I have ever been. I would move there if I [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by matt
In preparation of impending fatherhood I have started reading a wonderful book entitled Grace Based Parenting. Vicky thinks I should focus on books that will prepare me for how hard it is going to be with twin babies. I find that idea to be quite superfluous. I mean, I don’t need a book to tell [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by matt
Inside my wife’s uterus are two little babies. For some reason they have chosen to rest one on top of the other in a way the medical staff oft refers to as “bunk-bedding.” One baby rests down close to the cervix (Baby A) while the other rests comfortably of top of it’s sibling (Baby B). [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2008 by rymk
I went with a group of friends on Friday night and say the new Batman movie. We went to the 10pm showing and I was a bit tired from the start. Lucky for me the movie was enough to wake and keep just about anyone’s attention.
Going into the movie I was a bit skeptical. The [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2008 by rymk
I was watching Sportscenter and the showed a picture of uber-talented Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain. I swore when I saw him I thought they had mistakingly showed an image of Mark Driscoll. Is it just me or do they look just alike?
ryan
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by matt
So says the Bob Dylan song. So is my life.
11 weeks ago I found out my wife was pregnant. 10 days later I found out that there were two human beings forming inside her belly. Being a father changes one’s outlook on life. I do not know this from experience, I have just been [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by rymk
I get a subsciption to TIME magazine and they recently had a sensational article about how a stone had been uncovered that proved the resurrection story of Jesus was a rip off or borrowed tradition from earlier Jewish tradition. Here is a picture of the stone.
Pretty impressive huh?
The scholar consensus seems to be that the [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by rymk
If you do not remember Shawn Kemp he was one of the best basketball players of the early nineties. His nickname was “The Rainman” and he led the Seattle Supersoncis to the NBA Finals. In his heyday he was truly one of the most athletically gifted players to ever play the game. He could jump [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by matt
“We’re trying to get to the Final Four. I definitely think we have that
type of team. We’re capable of beating any team we play,” Rougeau said.
“We’re in some preseason top 25 polls, and we can sneak up in that top
10.”
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