Category: Me

The Odessey Begins

So last week our Saturn blew its engine and we need to get a new car. Honeybun was still in Las Cruces, NM with my in-laws helping her sister with our new nephew. Of course she has our Envoy there. I’ve been without a car for a week now. Thankfully Honeybun found a great deal on a new Hyundai Elantra down there (she’s a great deal maker).

So this morning I’m taking a Greyhound bus down to Las Cruces and Honeybun and I will drive both vehicles back on Friday. I’ll see if I can blog a bit by cell-phone with a few pics to document my trials and tribulations. I believe Dante designated a 14-hour bus ride as the third circle of hell…

Happy Birthday…to me

I’ll not dwell on how bad I’ve been feeling the last couple of days. (Wait, was that dwelling right there?)

The good news is that I was able to enjoy a quiet birthday celebration this evening with Honeybun and my mom and brother. This was number 36 for those of you keeping score.

Honeybun gave me the 60 GB video iPod. The black one. Together, we have about 500 CDs that I had already copied to our computer. Tonight I transferred them to the iPod – all 5022 songs and I only reached about 18 GB. Cool. I’m going to have to download one of the Pixar shorts next. Just because I can ya know?

Oh, and this is the only time I can ever having a “white birthday”. Isn’t living in Colorado great?

What kind of catholic am I?

The results from Quizfarm.com:

  You scored as Neo-Conservative Catholic. You see that the government of the United States was originally founded on recognizably Catholic natural law principles and reason in the tradition of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and the freedom of religion acknowledged in the Constitution has allowed Catholicism to flourish in this largely Protestant country. You recognize that the American system of government, even with its faults, is the most moral social order developed in history. You are committed to being a Catholic active in society. 

Like the Liberal Catholic, your views might be too determined by American culture, and you may uncritically accept many theories that may be harmful to yourself and society; instead you may need rediscover traditional Catholic teaching. You should emphasize the love of your neighbor, especially love for the poor, in your everyday business dealings.

Neo-Conservative Catholic
 
76%
New Catholic
 
67%
Evangelical Catholic
 
64%
Traditional Catholic
 
45%
Radical Catholic
 
43%
Lukewarm Catholic
 
43%
Liberal Catholic
 
26%

What is your style of American Catholicism?
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Hmmm, seems pretty accurate. I’ve even mentioned in conversations with others how the faith of American Christians in general is shaped by American culture. I don’t see that as all bad as this is the greatest nation on God’s green earth. Yet it is something to be aware of.

I do disagree that I uncritically accept theories that are harmful to myself. I suspect they are talking about thing like “tax cuts for the rich”. In Colorado, we are voting on referrenda C & D in November. The referrenda are state tax hikes. My voting against it (which some would say is against my immediate self-interest) doesn’t mean I did so uncritically.

School daze

The new semester started this week. It starts for me today. I got my pens and paper, same old computer. I’m buying books today. I think the only thing I’m missing is an i-pod…