Yesterday, I bought the Kroger store-brand equivalent of Triscuit crackers, and the brand name is “Weavers.”
Having just watched a documentary on Pete Seeger a few weeks back, several slogans for this product immediately came to mind:
There aren’t many people who could be interviewed by both Christianity Today and the Onion AV Club and sound completely at home in either place.
I may have to go see Wall*E tomorrow night.
Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
Thanks to my West Coast brother, who can’t blog this because he isn’t a blogger.
I had some time off from work this afternoon, and one thing I did was go shopping. Mostly, I was looking for things to take for the soapmaking workshop, but I picked up a few other mission trip essentials en route.
One, and I think I’ve blogged about it before, was travel toilet paper. They used to sell this as “Charmin TO GO” in the sample-size product aisle at Wal-Mart; I haven’t seen it there lately, but they sell pretty much the exact same product, sans the familiar brand name, in the outdoors department with the camping supplies. It’s a roll of toilet paper about 1″ in diameter — wound all the way to the center, with no inner core or spindle — which comes with a little clamshell plastic dispenser. When you travel to the developing world, in places where indoor plumbing is not a given, TP is also not a given, and it’s a great idea to have one of these travel rolls handy. I carry a backpack on trips, and so it’s always in my backpack.
I also looked in the sample size aisle for Tide sink packets — which I know I’ve blogged about before. These are little packets, about 1 1/2″ square, containing just enough of a liquid detergent for hand-washing clothes in a sink or large bucket. On a mission trip, you have to pack light. Sometimes your hosts will offer to do laundry for you or there will be someone in the community to pay to wash your clothes. Often, however, you’re on your own, and if you want clean clothes after the first day or two, these packets are a godsend.
The shelf location which was supposed to have the Tide sink packets had a completely different product — larger packets containing enough liquid detergent for one load in the washing machine. (And that’s a completely different product — the tiny packets are specifically formulated for hand-washing, while the large packets are the same stuff you would find in a jug on the laundry aisle.) Buried underneath the large packets were two small three-packs, one of them damaged, of the sink product for which I was looking.
I didn’t bother buying the one intact three-pack. Instead, I came home and found the sink packets online, at the Walgreens web site. I ordered enough for myself and some extras to share with my teammates if necessary.
I highly recommend these. They’re probably a good idea even for an extended vacation here in the U.S.
… virtual bubble wrap, of course.
Hat tip to GingerSnaps.
Well, Monday afternoon, not too long before I was supposed to leave work, I felt a crown on one of my lower left molars wiggle a little, and then pop off. My dentist, Jay Davis — who’s also a good friend of mine from church — has his office within two blocks of the newspaper, and so I stopped by and they glued the crown back on.
Today, a few minutes after leaving work, I was nibbling on a piece of (soft!) cheese when I felt the same crown pop right off. Again, I ran by and Jay glued it back on — using what he said was a different adhesive this time, and trimmed it a little to make sure the tooth above wasn’t putting undue pressure on it.
I’m just happy it came off here and not during my trip to Costa Rica ….
Carolyn Schussler, one of four members of the Costa Rica team, has had a family medical emergency and is going to be unable to make the trip. Please keep Carolyn and her mother in your prayers.
I am going to have to take over teaching the soap-making workshop. I know it, I’ve done it before, but I wasn’t preparing to lead it this time, and so I’m going to have to put together the equipment and supplies I need to take.
To whet your appetite, Turner Classic Movies has posted some great clips of this week’s “Essentials Jr.” movie, which I blogged about yesterday.
Here’s a great idea: the folks at “Late Show with David Letterman” have taken a nice, extended arrangement of the theme song (like the one you sometimes hear when they run full closing credits) and turned it into a music video of sorts to showcase the band.
Last summer (I think — it could have been two summers ago) Turner Classic Movies ran a Sunday-night series intended to showcase classic movies that could be enjoyed by the whole family. It was called “Funday Night at the Movies,” and it was hosted by Tom Kenny (the voice of Spongebob) with a group of kids in a sort of classic kiddie-TV-show mode.
This year, they have the same kind of family-film showcase, again on Sunday night, but with a very different presentation: “Essentials Jr.,” hosted by Chris O’Donnell and Abigail Breslin (apparently chosen to promote the “Kit Kittridge” movie, in which they both appear). They introduce the movie in much the same way that Robert Osborne and Rose McGowan introduce “The Essentials” on Saturday night. (If I had time, I’d figure out which couple has the greater age difference — Osborne & McGowan or O’Donnell & Breslin.) I haven’t seen any of the intros yet, but I have to say I hate the title — as if any child is going to have even heard of “The Essentials,” much less say “Gee! I wish there were a version of ‘The Essentials’ just for me!”
Well, regardless of the packaging, next Sunday night I will definitely have to tune in to TCM, and I suspect my West Coast brother will do likewise (or at least fire up his TiVo). The next “Essentials Jr.” movie is “Harvey,” with Jimmy Stewart.
Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.
My brother once played the lead role of Elwood Dowd in a stage production in Texas.
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My pastor, who will be on vacation the next two Sundays, asked me to give my sermon from Annual Conference next week.
This means that I and my father will be preaching at First UMC on consecutive Sundays — but he will be in Louisville, Ky., next week while I’m preaching, and I will be in Costa Rica when he’s preaching.
My parents are traveling to Louisville next weekend for my mother’s 50-year high school reunion, and they’re really looking forward to it. As one of the activities, class members will watch the racing at Churchill Downs from “millionaire’s row,” which should be fun.
Here’s a link to my video of the Moon Pie festival (I can’t embed it because of the way the AP video player is set up).
Here’s a link to my photo gallery.
If I’m taking my first chloroquine tablet — and I am — it must mean that the Costa Rica trip is two weeks away. Two weeks!
Chloroquine, by the way, is an anti-malaria drug. You take it once a week for two weeks before your trip, once a week during the trip, and once a week for a month after the trip. Chloroquine can be used for trips to Central and South America; if I were going to Africa this year, I’d be taking a different and stronger medication, because the malaria there has become resistant to chloroquine.
I have never had any side effects or problems from any of the malaria drugs I’ve taken on trips, and hope this year will be the same.
If you plan to take a mission trip, or any kind of foreign travel to an undeveloped area, make sure you go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention travel web site. It’s got lots of good information about vaccinations, malaria drugs and what have you. Print out the pages about the country you will be visiting and take them with you when you see your doctor.
I have been a long-time subscriber to the Wittenburg Door, and I was a long-time contributor until a few years ago, when I just sort of drifted away. I still may write for them again one of these days, if they’ll have me, but I haven’t been doing so lately, and I have nothing on the table.
Anyway, all that is neither here nor there. I got an mass e-mail today from Robert Darden about someone, who has been one of the key players for the magazine ever since it was transferred to the Trinity Foundation. I don’t think that Bob would mind me quoting from it:
Harry Guetzlaff, The Door’s wonderful managing editor, who I have worked with on a daily basis since Trinity began publishing the magazine, is apparently in his final weeks. He has Stage 4 lung cancer and the most recent MRI found new masses on his brain and spine. He is in great pain and only lucid for a short period each day.
I dealt with Bob more often than I dealt with Harry, but I did deal some with Harry, and he was unfailingly kind, cheerful and upbeat.
The magazine’s staff is so small and Harry was so central to it that the print version of the magazine has been running behind schedule and its future may even be in question. But that’s secondary. Please take a moment to pray for Harry.
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