Please pray for and send your condolence to my friend the Right Wing Gamer on the occasion of his mother’s death less than an hour ago this morning.
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We interupt this blog for a prayer request
Posted: August 13, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: condolences, mortality, prayer request
The news will still be there
Posted: August 11, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: family, pontificating, priorities
Yeah I’m up a little later than normal, but it’s always important to remember that there will always be a new headline and a new annoyance in the news to opine about on the hour ever hour, but the wife next to you is a precious gift.
Never forget that when you make a tweet and a snark more important that the person who shares your bed, eventually you will share it only with your laptop and the people you speak to from afar.
It’s the Islamic version of Fat Tuesday today…
Posted: August 10, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: ahmadiyya muslim community, islam, ramadan, religion
…as Muslims around the world feast in preparation for the fast of Ramadan.
After my post on the local mosque I picked up quite a few readers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. To those new readers and to Muslims everywhere I wish a happy feast and a blessed Ramadan.
Even when long unemployed and the financial future uncertain…
Posted: August 9, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: family
…it is still less scary than knowing your oldest is going off with somewhere where a friend is trying to set him up with a girl.
Oddly in the digital age you can look up said girl on facebook etc, doesn’t make it less scary for me.
It’s worse when you are Italian. He is at college on an academic scholarship and works 25 hours a week as well. You want as few distractions as possible since that Scholarship is the only way we will pay for college right now, but when you are of Italian decent the first instinct is “Why don’t find a nice Catholic girl and settle down?”
It’s a crazy time.
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