The Criminal Investigations Division of the Graham Police Department put on a dodgeball tournament yesterday to raise money for Special Olympics of North Carolina. I don’t know how much was raised but I know eeverybody in the stands and on the floor had a great time. Eleven teams competed and there was time for fun [...]
Entries from July 2009
Dodgeball Tournament
July 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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GM & the Fed
July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Okay, so 61% of GM is now owned by the US government. The news also reports this morning that GM hopes to streamline its bureaucratic management structure. Okay. Good luck with that! Didn’t you get the news that the fed now owns you? They specialize in bureaucracy. Indeed, they may have invented it. They’re also [...]
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Back Pain
July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Okay; it’s official. I’m old.
I’ve been throwing out my back for over 30 years. It’s normally caused by some strenuous and repeated movement that days later makes the muscles pull on the spine. Recently, Susan and I have been laying pavers, building a large patio at our new house. Thousands of these concrete blocks are [...]
Excelling Grace
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
2 Corinthians 8:7-15 talks about grace in a little different way. We typically think about grace in terms of salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9). This passage tells of acts of grace and excelling in grace. I have long been compelled by the idea of receiving “grace upon grace” (John 1:16) so this idea of some excellent grace [...]
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$1.99 Verizon Data Charge
July 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This month, for the first time ever, each of our Verizon cell phone numbers were charged $1.99 for a data usage charge. After checking, a data charge of $1.99 is for connecting to the internet with your phone and using between 1B and 1MB of data. But we specifically asked to have internet blocked from [...]