Apparentley We're Civilised...

...and yet we still do this. I am glad that those doctors felt that it was unethical (although maybe only in part?), but am still disturbed that the USA constitution, laws and courts still think this is okay. May the person without sin perform the injection.

Ice

Graceful and Beautiful,
Charming and Poised,
The skates that glide across the ice

Sharp and jagged,
Cold and deadly,
The awsomeness of the mountain top

Cool and refreshing,
You quench my thirst,
When you sit in a ready glass

All these are one and the same,
yet so different,
Can they have one name?
And yet they do,
Their name is ice,
and they all have their charms,
and they all have their vice

Ice, written 21st Feb 2006, Martin Eyles

Temp Post - Fix for Catherine

Catherine, I hope this page helps.

Martin

PS. everyone else, ignore this post, it will disapear in time.

A Good Roasting

Did Roast Pork for a few friends today. Very enjoyable, will have to do again some time. My roast potatoes went down fairly well (I'm glad I did them properly rather then using the cheat frozen ones), but I think next time I do red cabbage, maybe a little less time in the oven will be better.

Blogging

One of the rules of blogging is you don't talk about blogging.

Maybe after church, the person pouring teas and coffees has shaky wrists from the typing of a comment much longer than the post it replied to, which went on until the original blogger had to admit they had a point.

You don't say anything because blogging exists in the hours between when blogging starts and blogging ends.

You saw the guy who works in an office in the same building, a month ago you saw this guy who couldn't pedalo in a straight line, but this guy was incredible, when he generated several huge discussions that got over 10 comments each, making counter points about many of the comments made until a consensus was reached. Every time you see this guy, you can't tell him what a great post he made.

Who guys are when blogging is not who they are in the real world. Even if you told the maths genius or maybe the part-time writer that he had posted a good comment on your blog, you wouldn't be talking to the same man.

Who I am when blogging is not someone my boss knows.

After a night blogging, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break the law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off.

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This post was inspired by this and this, and the text was adapted from this. I also reccomend the fine Chuck Palahniuk book that is Lullaby.

Hectic

Preparing for yet another trip (the second this week) down the M1 tomorrow. Yet another day in what appears to be an ever more hectic work schedule. Hopefully things will calm down in about 3 weeks.

Challenge

I found yesterday evening's sermon made quite a challenge. It was based on Jesus' Teaching on the law, on Murder, Adultery and Divorce. These are things that are not permited under old testament law. A lot of people don't take the old testament law as being important, and yet Jesus was issuing a challenge in his own words right there that we must be more righteous than the pharasies when it comes to this law.

This is where the challenge comes, in how we are more righteous. It is in going beyond actions, which the world may see, and looking to the roots of those actions, and the very feelings, which God can see. If we murder, then the whole world sees this, but if we hate, the world can turn a blind eye. God however sees this, and wants us to sort this out. The same goes for Adultery; the world can turn a blind eye too our lust, but God sees, and asks that we repent. I think though, that the challenge goes deeper than these particular points, and goes to our whole attitude. God knows our thoughts and wants them to be purified even more than our actions.

This is not to say that grace do not play a part. All our sins are cast asside by grace at the end. But the most powerful thing grace does, is go beyond wiping sins off our record, by changing us and our sinful natures to be more holy, that we may not be as shackled by the chains of sin, even in this life.

The Quest for Cheese and Endurance

Did the whole laser quest thing last night with Patrick & Lucy and Mike. Great fun, we lost the first game, but won the next 2, and Mike managed a high score somewhere.

Following this, and a short trip to the Jug in town we went back to becky and lucy's house, along with a few others. The idea was cheese on toast and playing pictionary, but the pictionary never materialised. Instead, we ended up with a random competition on how long we could hold plank position for (hands together, hands and elbows on the floor, tips of toes touching the floor and body lifted off the floor horizontally). This is a surprisingly tough thing to do. All this between about 12 and 2 in the morning.

Tim Bowker set the time of 1 minute, and I managed to beat this with 1 min 15 seconds, but then the experts stepped in. Becky making about 1m35s and Mike and Patrick put in suscesivley longer times, both over 3 minutes.

Still, nicely up in time this morning for breakfast at Zebs with the same crew. Full english, with extra cheese, and fresh orange juice. Nice stuff, highly recommended. And then Foppage, (my tenner went on Nitin Sawnhey - Human and Björk - Selma Songs, but I think Patrick did a quite nice job with 2 full series of Allo Allo for the same amount - Which he is quite cable of reciting from!)

Right that's enough of this random tale. Maybe next time I post will be more thought provoking...

White Lion Burned Down

Last night, I drove into Leam to be in a concert, and was suprised to see a huge queue of traffic comming the other way. This was because the Radford Road was closed, but why was it closed?

All was revealled, as I drove past the White Lion pub in Radford Semele on my way to university earlier today, to discovered that the entire roof has been destroyed, and probably the insides too. It appears to have been caused by a fire. Amazingly though, the outer walls still stand firm.

It is a shame, as this was a nice pub, which did nice food on a Sunday lunchtime. Let's hope it gets restored and re-opened soon.

You Muppet!

Scooter! You scored 57 Mood and 54 Energy!

You are cheery, energetic and achievement oriented. You are a hard worker and you are proud of your accomplishments.

This test tracked 2 variables. How the score compared to the other people's: Higher than 35% on Mood Higher than 23% on Energy

Link: The Muppet Personality Test written by TheLadyEve on Ok Cupid