http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords i want to say what i dare not say Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:42:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Saturday (June 21) we had some big thunderstorms that came through our area, and the lightning strikes from the storms started fires in the wooded hills and mountains surrounding our town. In fact, lots of fires started - over 100 different fires in our county, and over 600 in ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=123 Last night Emily and I watched a movie that was recommended by a friend - The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally-ill cancer patients who decide to create a list of activities that they want to accomplish before they "kick the bucket"... a list that ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=121 After keeping his mom and the rest of us waiting for almost two weeks past his due date, baby Elliott decided it was time to meet the family, and he made his appearance at 6:29 this morning, weighing in at 10 lbs. 15 oz. (Yes ladies, I said 10 pounds ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=119 We were in Sacramento last weekend, waiting for baby Elliott, and I had a craving for a Krispy Kreme donut. Unfortunately, and this is old news to Sacramento residents, there are no longer any Krispy Kreme donut shops in Sacramento. There used to be several stores, but apparently the Krispy ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=122 My daughter Cyndi is pregnant. Very pregnant. Possibly 10 months pregnant. OK, maybe not 10 months, but pretty close. And she is quite ready to give birth. She was ready back at the beginning of June, and she really did not want to still be pregnant in the middle of ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=116 Back in the middle of May, I caught a head cold. No big deal, I thought, it'll be over in a few days. But it wasn't... a week later I was still blowing my nose and coughing. That's OK, I thought, I usually get over these things quickly...just a few ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=111 This November, America will elect a new president. And most voters will go to the polls and cast their vote for either John McCain or Barack Obama. And on the evening of November 4th, the major news networks (and CBS) will be competing to be the first network to declare ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=97 Another science fiction movie I've always enjoyed is Silent Running, which stars Bruce Dern and three small robots called "Drones" that pre-date R2D2 by several years. The premise of the story is that, because the Earth of the future has been developed to the point that there are no longer ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=113 It has been less than three months since Christian music pioneer Larry Norman passed away, and he has already found himself (posthumously) at the center of a controversy. An Australian woman named Jennifer McCallum has accused Larry of being the father of her now teen-aged son, Daniel. Jennifer has posted ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=95 Several years ago my then co-worker Jonathan told me about a movie he thought I might like. He described it as a murder mystery, but he said that the movie was unusual in that the time lines of the events in the movie were edited so that one of the ... http://www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/?p=114