Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:26

i watched Iris last week (i dunno whose it is.. wayne's??) - it's about this headstrong woman who becomes a famous novelist, and in her later years starts losing control of her mind to Alzheimer's. One evening, before she is diagnosed, she finds herself having trouble even spelling out words as she tries to finish up what would be her last novel. She turns to her husband who's nervously watching her and says something about going mad. "How will we know if we're going mad? ..People would tell us. Wouldn't they, John?..."

british movie i think.

there's something refreshing about foreign films.
in general, they're more real, and less spelled out for you. at least from what i've seen.

{how do you say 'yes' in japanese? or 'yummy'}
black and whites? mt. vernon's a great place for pics.

dude i don't know what's wrong with me, i've been so out of it. i fear for my life when i'm behind the wheel these days, i have such a hard time concentrating on the road. it's like, if i'm going to get sick i'd rather just get it over with, i don't know what's up with this weird chronic fatigue and ghost symptoms.. (is that how you spell symptoms? symtoms? it looks WEIRD)

sorry fro, are you buried in your reports? i just dug myself out of a pile of schedules.
targets, floats, costs, dates, dates, dates...

Langkawi looks lovely.
i like that 5 more islands pop up at low tide :)

Baltimore.
a new Arts & entertainment district.
the State of the City.

wha? you no stupid.
but funky junk is no good.. why don't you try to leave soon, so you don't relapse or anything. sounds like everyone's getting sick, it's scaring me.

wow that's a big head. but cute.

i think i'll stay a bit late today.. keep U company for another hour or so...

see, that's what people say, and i thought so too, but you live with C for a while and you get to wondering. i'm telling you, sometimes i get a brown carbonated water craving. can't explain why.
actually until more recently i never drank diet sodas.
i'm not really sure what happened..

.. and did you say ralphy?
(i'm sure you mean no offense, right? :P )

oh, sad.. she was telling me last night that she felt kinda weird.
*...hope you get better quickly, hon...*

soda pop.
I like fountain sodas. I love mixing them: you make your own drink. you get to decide your own calories/sugar & caffeine content, and come up with a new taste. like Diet Pepsi with a hint of Cherry coke. (that way it's not too sugary or too cherryish, and you still get that crisp diet pepsi flavor.)
or Sprite spiked with Mountain Dew :D

otherwise, I guess i'm not too big on sodas, but i'd have to say pepsi beats coke any day. (I noticed at superfresh yesterday that it comes in weird packaging though. like for coke they sell six-packs of cans and eight-packs of 20-oz bottles along with the bigger boxes of cans, but for pepsi it's just a six-pack of these weird extrabig (25-oz?) bottles, or the big boxes. i wonder why that is.) Well, once in a while i see the value of caffeine-free diet coke, which i don't think there's a pepsi equivalent for.

omg am i going mad? these past couple hours i felt like my iq suddenly dropped to a single digit.. ever have one of those days? i'm like taxing the limits of my intelligence trying to print a collated, coherent document right now. it's really sad. don't watch.

...
oh, stop, fro. and don't scratch *that spot* on your right arm either..

here is an article.
(i suppose we'll have to record the state of the union address
if it starts at nine)

I'm kind of going off on a tangent, but this got me thinking about Leadership. Even without requiring that one leads well or in a Godly way, just being one of the Select Few who have to call the shots and draw lines where there's often only massive gray area -- especially where the consequences are measured in millions of lives -- cannot be an easy burden to carry.

A random thought that kind of gripped me as i was going to bed last night was that if we could ask for only one quality in our leaders, we should ask that they be God-fearing.
Anything else is really secondary.

haha, you keep saying that about the dozen cats.. I think you just want a dozen cats ;D
...
yo. i claim no responsibility for the.. interesting Chicken link.
It looks like a handful of someone's kitchen trash wrapped in chicken skin! (mais, bien sur, i'm sure it's tasty)

has anyone heard of Christian artist Nicole Nordeman?
i just ordered her latest album, it seemed to have good reviews.
(Also got POD and John Coltrane's A Love Supreme :) yeah, bmg.)

crochet is cool. (proof courtesy of L, and NY Times online)

just wanted to make that announcement, for everyone's information. There seems to be rampant and unfair stereotyping of crocheting and knitting as Frumpy Old Lady Occupations (FOLO). [L and I considered working on our current projects during the superbowlfest -- and there would have been NOTHING wrong with that -- but could only imagine the amount of teasing we'd get!] I mean, just cuz yo' granny happens to crochet doesn't mean it's not hip, right?

[staash man, the addiction has only been s p r e a d i n g since you first started us on it.] hopefully this will also help justify the number of crochet links we have on our site..

aww, poor flodo..
feverish
(and still going to your dentist appointment?)

*...thinking of you and hoping you get better soon...*