tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63710892011-04-22T01:31:24.571+01:00The story of me, an American in Edinburgh, Scotland finding my place as a musician, a husband, a father and a Christian.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.comBlogger2841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-61641067719941333212007-09-02T13:27:00.001+01:002007-09-02T13:28:45.904+01:00

Well, you've served us well, darkebeerisathrillride.blogspot.com, but I'm afraid your era has come to an end. Introducing: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-40864443205316996582007-08-31T23:56:00.000+01:002007-09-01T00:03:10.923+01:00

No, not for the baby, but for the new blog! Thanks for the suggestions, they got the creative juices flowing, but I ended up coming up with something on my own. It's not ready to be unveiled so you don't get to know what it is yet, but I'll give you a hint: it returns zero hits when googled in quotes. Care to take a guess?Also, for an update on the baby situation, head over to The Scot Vet.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-11378568429469277322007-08-30T23:06:00.000+01:002007-08-30T23:24:17.081+01:00

Here's a quick post, since I haven't gotten around to posting in a while. No baby yet, but that's not for a lack of...erm...waiting. We have an appointment at the New Royal Infirmiry tomorrow morning. They're seeing Jeni once a week now until she has the kiddo. The due date, by the way, is September 8. Instead of having a baby, we've been playing our new game Battlelore, which is pretty

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-51271300456776705182007-08-25T01:22:00.000+01:002007-08-25T01:42:45.084+01:00

So, I'm thinking of replacing this blog. While it has served me well on and off since 2004, I feel like it might be time to move on to something a little more with the times, with all that cool stuff like 'tags' and 'recent comments,' you know, the stuff all the cool kids are into. I also wouldn't mind ditching the once clever but now all to cumbersome 'darkbeerisathrillride' from my blog's

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-43838110687003911232007-08-22T23:50:00.000+01:002007-08-22T23:53:17.806+01:00

Dang, I'm feeling off the ball. Like, life-wise. I'm starting to have some vague idea of where I'm going, but I feel like I'm a loooong way off from it.Dang. No more late night Facebooking.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-63389246407915106982007-08-17T21:35:00.000+01:002007-08-17T21:39:27.405+01:00

Anyone out there use Skype? Jeni and I love it, when it's working, which hasn't been the last few days. Any one else having this problem? It won't sign in. It'll just spend about 5 minutes trying and then quit unexpectedly. The Skype website says something's wrong, but I'm wondering if it's affecting everyone or just us mac people, or UK people, or basement dwelling people... Also, if you

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-12714328402329815692007-08-17T14:13:00.000+01:002007-08-17T15:33:01.059+01:00

One feature of a healthy church is that the individual congregation members know each other and care about each other. In Christian life this is marked by prayer. Prayer is one of the glues that hold Christian community together.The first and foremost community glue in the church is of course Jesus, who through himself binds us to the Father and to each other as members of the body of Christ

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-47616451632073297332007-08-15T14:05:00.000+01:002007-08-16T11:28:07.341+01:00

As I mentioned in this post a few days back, I'm currently reading Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community by Wendell Berry, which was lent to me by my neighbor, Rob. The book is a collection of essays written in the early nineties, most revolving around the theme of respecting the land which provides our livelieness, something which Berry asserts that our current political, economic, and religious

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-5874956985139616672007-08-13T21:34:00.000+01:002007-08-13T22:33:01.692+01:00

Many people live in dwellings with flat walls that join each other at 90 degree angles. Many people live in dwellings with ceilings that maintain at different points across the room an equal distance from the floor, or lacking this, slope in a linear fashion from one height to another across the room resulting in a ceiling which is, in the same manner as the aforementioned walls, flat. I am not

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-46246037214744005602007-08-13T06:54:00.000+01:002007-08-13T07:21:21.042+01:00

"We must see that it is foolish, sinful, and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral." -Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & CommunityIn addition to the Oxford commas, there's a lot for me to like in this quotation. It links

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-7822060055963994292007-07-31T21:31:00.000+01:002007-07-31T21:58:59.968+01:00

So we went and got a phone today for the purposes of Jeni being pregnant/next year going to school way out in the boonies. It's a top of the line 5 years ago flip phone, nothing too fancy, normal camera phone. Phone was £34 plus £10 for prepaid minutes. Our idea was that we'd share the phone, with Jeni having it almost all of the time. In the UK all incoming calls are free on mobiles, so we

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-11324401917855853652007-07-26T22:14:00.000+01:002007-07-26T22:15:46.331+01:00

...in Scotland the name "Fiona" only has two syllables.

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Thanks to all of you who have been reading these posts and leaving comments. If you haven't read either of my previous posts on this book, here's the first, and here's the second. Ln, I do plan on writing a bit more about my thoughts on Christianity as a journey, but I'll leave that untill after my last few comments on this book.The second half of the book recounts ten services held at Ikon,

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The Emergent movement is not at its heart about changing what we believe, but is about changing the manner in which we believe. Rollins describes the Emergent movement as a revolution in which "nothing changes and yet the shift is so radical that absolutely nothing will be left unchanged." As one would expect from this introduction, Rollins writes in such a way as to challenge the conventional

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-31707548989596991602007-06-24T07:51:00.000+01:002007-06-24T08:02:40.159+01:00

The post I put up yesterday about Rollins' How (Not) to Speak of God was the first part of several pages I wrote in a Borders in Santa Monica after finishing the book. (You all know we're in L.A. for a month on holiday, right?) My original plan was to just post that document in several chunks, but I've decided to take a little while to expand on it and address whatever comes up in conversation

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The Emergent conversation is something that I know very little about. Andrew has been involved with Emergent get-togethers in So Cal, as he has mentioned on his blog, and Jeni and I even attended a church which described itself as “emergent” for a few months in Spokane. I know that the Emergent movement isn’t an attempt to create a new denomination or religion, nor is it an attempt for another

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-20620151688338670702007-06-09T14:03:00.000+01:002007-06-09T14:10:58.393+01:00

Here's an old song that's kind of appropriate to have stuck in my head before heading off to L.A.Without a ScreamAnother morning, in bed againWarm and snug with blankets pulled up to my chinA cold December I've never seenMy Southern California sun shine down on meI know that somewhere someone's coldSomeone's lonely, someone else is growing oldIf I could only get that through my head I might find

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-47149845251753570362007-06-04T15:01:00.000+01:002007-06-04T15:16:00.800+01:00

Here's a new song for y'all, this time in glorious mp3 format for easy access by all the peoples. I didn't know until just a minute ago when I checked Anastasia's blog that yesterday was Trinity Sunday, so the timeliness of this song is naught but a happy coincidence. This is a simple little Trinitarian song that doesn't try to plumb the depths of the nature of the Trinity (seeing as how I only

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-71252340879619815022007-05-28T09:16:00.000+01:002007-05-28T09:30:19.027+01:00

Oh, you know. I've been here and there. I've mainly been helping Jeni study for her finals. I've been trying, and failing, at keeping our house in order between study sessions. In the time left over after all that I've been working on music. Oh! I also had coffee for the first time in my life. I think I'll post about the experience over on the Scotvet later today once I wake up a little.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-38894377619135418742007-05-07T22:03:00.000+01:002007-05-07T22:31:13.737+01:00

This short post probably belongs in the comments on the post from two days back, but I didn't want it to get lost back in the shuffle.Nelle said:Liturgy does nothing for me. (Probably because I've never heard it done right.) So it looks like we won't be sharing a hymnal anytime soon.I want to do a quick term definition, or at least a clarification of how I use the term "liturgy." Liturgy is a

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-63858818952030519052007-05-06T23:07:00.000+01:002007-05-06T23:23:39.117+01:00

The style of worship here in Scotland is generally different than in the states. Now, to explain that fully is a longer post than I have time to write right now. I would also need to do it before two beers instead of after. (I was talking theology with Rob during the consumption of said beers so, you know, iz all good.) I will say that the difference is not in musical style, although most of

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-21887224778806356422007-05-05T16:07:00.000+01:002007-05-05T17:41:09.599+01:00

WARNING Extremely long post ahead! If you just stopped by to goof off at work you might want to wait until you get home to read this. If you are procrastinating studying for finals, carry on.I think the advice Miranda gave in her comment on the last post, "pick a place and plant yourselves there no matter what (unless their theology is beyond wretched,)" is generally good advice and it was the

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Man, guys. I'm not really doing so hot here right now. I feel like I've been a serious jerk to everyone I've come in contact with for the last few days. I feel like I'm being a real bad husband and that I don't understand the concerns of my wife. Life feels hard in Scotland right now. I long for what I claim to hate, things like tract housing and national chain retailers. I don't really

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-5505370889838066822007-04-16T15:23:00.000+01:002007-04-16T15:47:25.445+01:00

So this comic thing is sort of fun. If you've been reading my blog for a while, and you probably have been, then you know that I've tried, and failed, at making comics a few times. We'll see how long this latest attempt lasts. As you can probably guess I'm just transcribing bits of real life conversation in comic form. I'll just post them here as I make them above the blog posts.So my first

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-5921658498123579072007-04-14T20:57:00.000+01:002007-04-14T21:03:56.727+01:00

Look, it's just like you're right here in Scotland with us! Just ask AJ and Rachelle, they'll tell you it's true.(By the way, AJ and Rachelle, my UK driving skillz have increased a bazzilion-fold since our little jaunt down death lane.)

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-50835182743368098362007-04-13T20:51:00.000+01:002007-04-14T07:58:38.434+01:00

Stuff's been crazy. A post re: stuff ie: craziness may come soon.

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I know some of you are! One thing you should be ready to do in Edinburgh is a whole lot of walking. Yesterday was a good example:Walking Jeni to her bus stop first thing in the morning so she can go play with dead hens: 1 1/2 milesWalking to the accommodations office to pick up keys to look at a new flat: 2 milesJogging in the Meadows, a large park in the city center: 3 milesWalking back to

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-16225181759085471922007-03-20T21:20:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:23.403Z

Well, it's come to my attention that some of you might not be happy if this were to turn entirely into a mediocre food blog. So, how about a mediocre knitting blog? Knitting? What the crap?Above you see a picture of my first 'real' knitting project in its infancy. Before then I had made several squares getting used to knitting and purling and trying out different techniques like ribbing and

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-33627758679410049562007-03-03T19:45:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:23.720Z

Well, it's time for the obligitory weekly food post. Tonight's dinner was pan-seared cod sandwiches with spinach. One of the things Jeni and I looked forward to about moving to Edinburgh was the abundant supply of fresh, beautiful fish. Of course when we got here we realized that neither of us had ever cooked fish before (aside from fish sticks or those frozen fillets you do in the toaster

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-55440226292792794092007-02-24T09:31:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:24.651Z

I've never gotten one of these before:I couldn't sell this back because I don't have it here with me in Scotland. Do you have my wah, AJ? We should talk about music stuff you should bring over on your trip.

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Man, it doesn't happen often that I just can't sleep, but it's happening tonight. I can't really complain, I know why I can't sleep and I really brought it upon myself. First of all, Jeni's been feeling poorly, both physically and emotionally, from being pregnant. Out of frustration with the havoc Nessie has wreaked on her digestive system, Jeni laid down for a nap. I came into the room about

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-62414154248970704732007-02-23T23:02:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:25.307Z

Here's the stack of pancakes, such as those I described in the last post, which made up tonight's Breakfast for Dinner. We don't usually do b4d twice in three days, but somehow we ran out of money in our weekly food/general expense budget this week, so rather than raid next week's budget we decided to make do with what we had. Our weekly budget resets on Saturday, so tomorrow we'll be swimming

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-30159340244701114182007-02-21T20:00:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:25.632Z

Breakfast for Dinner has become something of a Price family custom in the last few months. We started by having breakfast burritos once a week or so. After I picked up a big bag of Krusteaz buttermilk pancake mix, pancakes were often on the menu. We were supposed to have beef stew tonight, but when I realized we had run out of money to buy the ingredients I changed tonight's entry on our

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-88183380067911780912007-02-17T11:10:00.000Z2007-02-17T11:13:33.637Z

So, I think there may be a few of you who read this blog who don't read the scotvet. If that's the case then you might be unaware that Jeni and I are having a baby! That's right, come September there will be another Price in the world. (Look out world!) Read all about it at scotvet.net, staring with January's posts.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-86562682693854460132007-02-17T10:38:00.000Z2007-02-17T11:09:59.545Z

I'm sick. It looks like I caught rotavirus from our upstairs baby neighbor. It's not too bad, and it should clear up in a day or two. At first I was worried that I finally caught crypto, the parasite that Jeni got from those cows about a month back, since Jeni's crypto-mud covered boots are still in our hallway. Fortunately it looks like it's not that and will be a lot milder.I promised a

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-28217923801906702052007-02-13T12:36:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:25.952Z

This is the first time I can remember this winter seeing the same temperature in here and back home. Of course, note the times in the pic. That's 12:35 pm here.Could be worse. Could be Spokane.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-64235470927802787932007-02-08T22:42:00.000Z2007-02-08T06:06:39.221Z

Thanks Miranda and Pappy for your comments on the last post. I'll likely comment a bit more on the question myself soon, but for now I'd like to get a few more responses if anyone else has something to add.In other news, AJ sent over a package containing a copy of Windows XP ordered from newegg.com, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap borrowed from Bobby Woo, and a copy of Brain Age no doubt

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-52807477878018787812007-02-06T21:57:00.000Z2007-02-06T22:06:16.663Z

Why do we do theology? As Christians, whether in universities or informal Bible studies, we always seem to be studying and doing theology in one way or another. The question on my mind today is simply, why? And to follow up, are there different reasons for academics and for lay people to do theology? I figure it's not so we know the right thing to believe so we can be saved, since we are

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-55981432864655076722007-01-21T19:43:00.000Z2007-01-21T19:44:08.731Z

I just made the best chicken soup EVER.

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Hmm, no new post in a while, huh? I'm tired but for some reason I haven't gone to sleep yet, even though I brushed my teeth hours ago. Jeni is really sick, possibly with a parasite contracted from the school cows. I have a sore throat. I just scored a 5 out of 8 on this quiz. I also just won this ebay auction that AJ pointed out to me. Seriously, it's time to sleep. For real post coming

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-41024518487433421172007-01-05T20:37:00.000Z2007-01-05T20:51:43.664Z

Seriously, I don't know how else to describe this movie. I made it with iMovie and the iSight camera, since Jeni is gone for the week with our real camera, and I wrote the music in Garage Band. So, without any further ado, The Food Movie:The Food Movie on VimeoHere's a link to an mp3 of the music.Well, there you go. Aren't you glad we're back to being nonsensical and goofy after that serious

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-53027249994896207352006-12-31T18:40:00.000Z2006-12-31T20:06:28.319Z

If you think you'd laugh at a horse's desire to torture himself nightly with vivid and disturbing nocturnal hallucinations, check out Horace. If you don't think you'd laugh at such a thing, then tough luck, cause there aren't really any laughs in today's post.Our good friend Rob who lives upstairs from us here in Scotland has just started a blog! Rob has a lot on his plate right now, mainly

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-86154390819476407642006-12-21T10:54:00.000Z2006-12-21T11:06:19.334Z

Along with the benefits there are also some, how should I put it, inconveniences inherent in reading theology. While many theologians have been blessed with great understanding, fewer have also been gifted wordsmiths, especially when it comes to clarity, directness and concision. Take for example this sentence from John Murray's Redemption Accomplished and Applied, which I find dificult to read

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-44939720072010688482006-12-18T13:24:00.000Z2006-12-18T13:42:56.983Z

"In 1983, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was formed by the reunion of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Integral to reunion was the preparation of a brief statement of faith."-from the PCUSA Book of ConfessionsThe 1983 Brief Statement of Faith starts with this:1 In life and in death we belong to God. 2 Through the

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So, you may have noticed that my blog has become kind of shallow over the last few months, and there's a reason for that. I hope you've been enjoying the light-hearted and funny stuff, but I'm ready to get back to giving you more.A few months ago, pretty much concurrently with the shallowification of this blog, I dropped out of the guitar program at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-58739467788178709152006-12-10T19:35:00.000Z2008-12-10T03:23:26.409Z

One of Jeni's big projects for the semester has been putting together a lab book, which includes various labeled photos such as the one above. (MUCH GRODIER photos available on request.) We realized today after I had some of the photos printed at ASDA, the UK Walmart, that the photos ended up at a really low resolution and didn't look too great. Jeni had developed a technique for producing

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Earlier today our neighbors Rob and Emma stopped by with their two toddlers and baby. Rob was using the Mac when Isaiah, their nearly two-year-old, pointed to the glowing logo on the lid and said, "Apple!"Man, that's how you build a brand. They're not paying preschool teachers to drill "A is for apple" into these kids's heads either, they just get that exposure for free. I bet that no toddler

Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10390048204597184850noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371089.post-1165105739596402152006-12-03T00:01:00.000Z2006-12-03T00:29:38.763Z

Hey blogger! Long time, no, um, blogger. My blogging energies as of late have been directed primarily at Horace and Friends, which celebrated its fourth installment on Friday, and at the Price family Christmas letter, coming soon to a mailbox near you! I'll post a copy here closer to Christmas, so if you're not lucky enough to be on our somewhat limited mailing list, you can still get in on

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You need to check out emohorse.blogspot.com. It is a new comic venture by myself and my lovely wife. Jeni's doing the drawing and I'm doing the writing. The trick is that Jeni draws the comic first and then I think up dialogue to fit her pictures. Hopefully it will be awesome!

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I have more food-is-weird-in-Scotland related stuff which was going to go along with this picture, but I've decided to post it on The Scot Vet since I haven't really been pulling my weight over there.On another note, nothing makes me sadder than to see a playground in the park, upon which children were playing just yesterday, getting torn down today.

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It came! It finally came! At this point, it should be obvious that this post was part one of the Mysterious Package Series.To be fair, I did not order Barth's Roman's commentary, it was my Dad's copy and has been sitting on my bedside table for weeks. That was what actually made Amazon.com's suggestion funny to me in the first place.While across the pond it may be Wii-Day, it's DS-day over

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My mysterious package has experienced a mysterious status:Sometimes I just wonder about the people who choose the wordings for these things. "Experienced an exception?" That sort or cryptic mumbo-jumbo is the last thing I want to see when I'm obsessing enough about my mysterious package to bother checking the tracking website. Turns out in this case that "exception" just meant a bad weather delay

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Drew, whom we all know and love, has had the same blog theme and template for way too freakin' long, i.e.: FOREVER. It is time for this situation to be remedied. Since it seems unlikely that Drew will decide to change on his own, I feel it is the responsibility of the community to facilitate this change. Here are a few of my own ideas of possible new faces for Drew's blog.First, perhaps a blog

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The title of today's post is a tribute to the friendly graffiti which recently got washed off by guys from the city with a pressure washer. The left the swastika on our stairs, though.So, you may have noticed the lack of posts of substance recently. I won't deny that this has been the case. There is a reason of substance for my current state of blog-standoffishness, several actually, but today's

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Amazon.com knows:

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1. It runs much of the interwebs2. I never have to use it3. This commercial: (Note: It is worth taking your time to watch this minute and a half long commercial only if you have personally or are intimately knowledgeable of the Price sense of humor. Consider this a test!)

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Firefox 2.0 sucks. New tabs and spell check are cool, but the browser randomly freezes and often maxes my CPU. This renders the browser unusable. Unfortunately, poking around just a bit on the internet confirms that this is a widespread problem , which isn't confined to this 4 year old lappy. I spent about 15 minutes just trying to post a comment on Drew's blog before I broke down and did it with

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...that one could even make the statement that battery operated penises are more socially acceptable than battery operated vaginas.Context available on request.

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Knowing that it's part of my official title certainly makes me feel more secure in my masculinity.

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Just thought you might want to know. I won't go too deep into detail about my existential crisis du jour, I'll just say it stems from the fact that I'm now applying for the master's program at RSAMD and their application is asking me things like this:I don't really know what benefit this master's degree will bring me if I decide to go through with it, gaining future occupation-wise. Most days I

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Sorry about the lack of posts of substance recently. My excuse isn't that nothing has happened worth posting about, it's that so much stuff has been going on that I've found myself somewhat overwhelmed. What's going on right now is that Jeni and I are sick, so I'm using the down time to put up a few photos we've taken recently that I like. Here they are!We were out walking the other day and

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November 2004 to January of 2005 compose what may be considered the start of the Golden Age of ihaveibs.blogspot.com. Today's best of excerpts are presented with links back to their original posts so that they may be enjoyed in their entirety, which is especially important for gems such as the 'Kerry Got Rocked Dragon."====What if she was saying Shredder, not shredder? What if she was offering

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So, on the ol' interweb today I clicked on this link:And was taken to this page:

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Jeni and I are members of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which means that we can go to the zoo as much as we want! Edinburgh Zoo's claim to fame is a great big (maybe the largest in the world) penguin enclosure. Every afternoon they have a penguin parade where some of the penguins come out of the enclosure and strut their stuff for the zoo's visitors. Sounds like a lot of fun, right

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Today had its ups and downs, but it ended with an up, which is always a good thing. I spent most of my day wrestling with an experimental ice cream cake. Perhaps in a day or two I'll come up with an embellished and obfuscated version of the events and post them as a short story that touches on the core struggles and truths of our shared human existence. For tonight I'll merely say that having

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The second post today! And this one's a video!!! Hooray!!!Invasion of Privacy on Vimeo

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Well, sorry I dropped off of the interweb for a few days there. I'm doing my best to get something up here at least every other day for to make me peoples happy. Here's a little update:Even though we both still feel like foreigners, Jeni and I are starting to settle in Edinburgh. Now that each day is composed of more than just a frantic effort to survive to the next, we have found ourselves

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This post started as a reply to a comment Ryan made about this post (I'd love if you commented on it, too, especially re: our church situation) which I think deserves its own post.Here's Ryan's comment:I agree with you on the table practices. I am bothered by the representational perspective. Is it not a celebration of what Christ has done and is doing? That is my understanding of the reformed

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In front of our building they are putting in a new sidewalk. Because of some sort of we-must-keep-our-city-looking-old-so-tourists-will-keep-coming-here ordinance, our sidewalks are not made of poured concrete but of paving tiles. This means two things. On a day to day basis, one finds oneself tripping way more often than one should on the edge of a tile which is not sitting flush with its

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Yeah, I can't really say what is up with that. I just feel pooped, drained, lethargic, uninspired, beat, worked, zoned, konked, wonked, zonked, etc.Jeni and I are in the 'getting to know you' phase of church shopping with one particular church. It's tough because neither of us have ever really had to do the church shopping thing before. My first instinct is that you should find a church which

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Here's the scoop. Last Friday I went to RSAMD in Glasgow to audition for their continuing education program. My playing was perhaps the most mediocre it's ever been, and my sight-reading could only be described as a crime against humanity. In spite of that, they're going to send me an offer and I'll start studying in just a few weeks. The continuing education program consists of weekly

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I spoke on the phone today with the guitar guy at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) and set up my audition for noon tomorrow (that's 4 a.m. for those of you on the west coast). I'll let you know how it goes!

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Portobello is a mile or two east of us. We'd heard that it has a beach, so we figured we'd hop on the bus (route 26) to check it out. Here's what we saw.Clothing Stores of Dubious Quality:Mildly Racist Auto Repair Shops:Redundant Street Names:Everyone's Favorite Game Show:And Finally, a Beach with a Nice View:It was great to get out and walk by the water for a while. Jeni and I both felt

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Jeni and I had a great trip to the beach this afternoon and I'd love to show you all the great photos we got, but the internet is being stupid. Jeni is consulting our tech-swan now so hopefully we'll have this all cleared up by tomorrow.

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Click to play this short video. I know I promised a real Scottish vidblog ages ago, but this will have to satisfy you for now. Awesome Dice on Vimeo

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Ok, I was just sitting here in our flat, minding my own business when someone outside on the street started doing decidedly unholy things to a set of bagpipes. After about ten minutes of general squealing and honking they are now playing the theme from Star Wars for everyone within half a mile to hear.

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Thanks for all the comments for yesterday's post. It feels good to know that people are out there and caring. So, feel free to stroke my ego whenever you have a spare minute. Also, if you haven't read yesterday's post yet you should to put this one in context.I want to reply to the anonymous comment (please reveal yourself, if you would be so kind) because I think the poster may have

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A few weeks ago I put up this post about the crossroads I have found myself at in life. To recap, the question it posed was: Should I pursue further training and a career in either academic religion or ministry or should I continue down my path of becoming awesome guitar-man? It also posed the question: Can I do both? Well, as I disclosed a few days ago, I am now applying to the Royal Scottish

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Please note that bfbwv.com is actually located at darkbeerisathrillride.blogspot.com.In other news, from an email recieved today:Good afternoon,Your application for the Continuing Education course at RSAMD has been received. However, you did not enclose the Audition fee of £35.Oops.

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...doesn't mean it can't be friendly.Also, no matter what continent I'm on, I make good chicken..

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We're shooting for quantity, not quality.If you wanted to make a rude pun out of the word quantity, you'd probably have to include some thoretical physics, so I'm not even going to try.

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A car alarm had been going off for about twenty minutes but just stopped.It had just become comforting to me.The silence hurts my ears.

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I don't know squat about cricket. All I do know is that Engalnd seems to have been playing Pakistan ever since we got here. What the crap. I don't understand what's going on and it's really starting to make me angry.

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The world is a big, cold, cruel place. That's why I'm in bed with my laptop and vodka at 6 o'clock. I think I'm going to change the name of my blog to "Blogging from Bed with Vodka." I'll sell t-shirts. I'll make millions. I'll never leave this bed again unless it's to ship out t-shirts or to buy more vodka.

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I'm really not doing anything as well as I should be. You may have noticed the "Matt Reads the Bible" link that was added last week to the sidebar. Turns out I actually don't read the Bible. I am a creature of habit. I learned this about myself in college and I think it's something that I can't change but need to learn to embrace and use to my advantage. For example, in college I didn't

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Seriously. So here's a new template. Also, after probably about a year's absence, links are back! Now it'll be even easier to leave my page!

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Matt Prepares to Roll:An Eight!What Resources Might be Collected?Matt is Pleased!A Powerful Hand:Jeni Knows She has Lost All Hope:She Chokes Back a Tear:

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Kenya believe we've been in Edinburgh for over a month? We just got done with a game of Settlers of Catan (which I happened to win, as well) with our upstairs neighbors who are really great people. That was a whole lot of fun. I honestly don't know how long it's been since I just plain had fun without worrying about one thing or having just a general cloud of dread hovering about me.In our

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Ok, blogger is not letting me post photos, probably because it somehow knows that the photos I want to post are absolute nonsense. How can they even tell?!? Well, I don't know but they obviously can. Anyhow, there are these things over here called flapjacks, which are basically like Rice Krispy treats but made with oats and no marshmallows. Marshmellows. Anyway, you basically get the picture

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...when I really don't understand why I'm here and none of it makes sense and today is one of those days.

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Today we present the seven months of Sears, cycling and Subway from March, 2003 to October, 2004.Much to my dismay, Peter has not grown Brokaw's head on his shoulder.====Also, for the first time in my life last night I got a Fortune Cookie fortune that was not only way too specific, but just plain bad advice.“Participation in sports may lead you to a lucrative career.”... I much prefer a fortune

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"This is mic number one...."Those immortal words introduced what was to become an internet phenomenon. Though today ihaveibs.blogspot.com consists only of rarely updated, disconnected, nonsensical posts, it once was a rich paradise of frequently updated, disconnected, nonsensical posts. In this edition of Matt's Blog, we'll take a look back at the genesis of ihaveibs.blogspot.com with quotes

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Well, nothing new here, but I did write a substantial post over on Scotvet.net, the site chronicling Jeni's experience in vet school. Check it out, and be amazed."Chronicling" is a freaky looking word!He couldn't look her in the eye. Whether it was shame, or something else, some longing to be more for her than he could, it didn't really matter. It had finally come to this point and he knew

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...that someone graffiti'd the word "FLAN" on the wall across the street from our place.

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Consider your curiosity: satisfied.

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I'm in a tough spot right now. Life has been chaos for the last few months, especially the last month and a half. Now we're in Edinburgh, mostly settled in, and the smoke is starting to clear. I'm coming to realize that I don't have any clue what I'm doing with myself. Over the last three years I came to identify myself as a student, first and foremost. Now, I'm not a student anymore and I

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As I was eating my frosted flakes (a.k.a. Frosties over here) out of a ridiculously small bowl with a ridiculously large spoon I though to myself, "I should probably do dishes today."So now, *cough cough* 2 days later *cough cough*, I'm doing dishes. Yaya for me!(Do you think the comma should have been placed inside the 2nd asterisk? Does MLA/APA/CMS even cover that? How does one go about verb

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