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Eric Scheske

Monday Miscellany

I treated myself to a leisurely day yesterday, in hopes of re-fueling for the office fire: three short naps, a movie with my boys (Cloverfield [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809873032/info], not recommended, but not horrible either), practiced baseball hitting with my second son and sports fanatic, watched

Something for Sunday Morning

"Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow." St. Isidore of Seville That's a great general rule, though it's application is difficult. I can't study and live at the same time. More than once

Something for Saturday

Extreme wheelbarrowing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvASnyOy5B4]?

Looking for Blogs

I'm looking for "charitable blogs." Not blogs written with kindness, but blogs either dedicated to promoting charitable efforts or blogs that regularly/frequently make charitable appeals. Please email me (link on left) or post a link in the combox. If you write such a blog, don&

Friday

Brews for Friday. It's been a brutal week. I'm typing this at 6:20. I'll attend Mass sober at 8:30, but after that, all bets are off. Like most Fridays, I'm working out of my house today, which typically means I

American Idol

Possibly the best AI try-out ever [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeMbIrcnCo&eurl=http://www.ericscheske.com/blog/] . Slayed me. A friend of mine thought the guy was serious. If that's the case, it's too creepy to be funny, but if the guy

Bumped Again

7:30 to 7:30 yesterday, no lunch. Similar hours facing me today. But I did manage to watch American Idol with my family last night. During it, I remembered a David Letterman Top 10 list, "You're Watching Too Much American Idol? [http://www.cbs.com/latenight/

No Eudemon

Rough week so far. No blogging, except to mention a new C.S. Lewis blog [http://booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/]. It's serious CSL.

Monday Miscellany

Last night we finally had our first family dinner of 2008. We were sitting around eating and chatting about our upcoming summer vacation to the Black Hills and Yellowstone. I told the kids that we would be in the van for many, many hours, and thought that maybe we could

Something for Sunday Morning

"St. James tells us that this virtue comes from Heaven and that we shall never have it unless we ask it of God. We should therefore, frequently ask God to give us purity in our eyes, in our speech, and in all our actions." St. John Vianney