A Slower Pace

“As soon as God saw you —
it was love at first sight.”

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Since many of y’all reading this probably didn’t know us until after our arrival in Kentucky, you probably don’t know about our fun family road trip out here (referred to as something else by my wife). So why not take the time to scroll down a bit and read about our family adventure move. I am trying to repost a week’s worth of blog posts at a time (each day?) so you’ll have some good reading material as our story materializes in front of you.

And, of course, I am going to get back into the swing of posting new material each day — at least that is my goal: one post per day.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Wow! This blog rebuild is going to take quite a long time. Unfortunately because of the incompatibility of the blog software and databases, it cannot be directly imported. I have backups and will be working at semi-manually reposting all of the last 5 years of our Slower Pace journey.

An interesting benefit of such reposting is the review of each post, what was going on at the time I wrote it, and the reliving of many moments. I’m sure that will actually slow the entire process down but I think I will enjoy the throwback.

Of course, while I do that, I will be sure to post new material moving forward. And this is also a good time to ask y’all to forward on this blog if you like the premise or content. I’m sure for the month the blog was dark, I lost a few readers. It would be good to gain them back and then some.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Well, A Slower Pace is finally back online, no thanks to the clowns at GoDaddy. I could complain about it or do something about it. So I found a new host worthy of my business. Thank you to Dawn at American Discount Web Hosting!

Anyway, my plan is to spend the next several days getting things back in order and going. Stay tuned.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Last Friday I posted about a July temperature record Kentucky broke. Well, today Louisville broke another weather related record — except this one wasn’t much fun in breaking.

Louisville set the single day and single hour records of rainfall today. A nasty morning storm followed by an afternoon storm torrented the area with Noah-like proportions. Much of downtown and surrounding areas were under feet of water. Some areas received 6 inches of rain in 75 minutes. A record was set with 5 inches of rain falling in one hour. At the airport, a previous record of 3.76″ (set back in 1879 mind you) was easily bested to 4.50″.

I’m going out to start work on my ark.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

I took my lovely wife to see this tonight. I thought it was great. Look for a review when I have time.

But don’t wait for my review. Just go see it.

…..Dan at aslowerpace

This was what I saw on the way home from work yesterday. It is the first time I have turned a vehicle over to 200,000 miles. I took a picture of it with my cell phone but somehow lost it in the transfer. So below is a current snapshot. I think it’s pretty cool.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

My dog is really sick. I took her to the country vet this afternoon. Her breathing is labored and she’s not eating. I will be taking her back there first thing tomorrow morning so they can figure out specifically what is wrong and run some more tests. She is old — 13 or so; I don’t know specifically because we got her from a lab rescue. But she’s been a member of our family for so long — longer than 2 of our 3 kids. I just kinda puts a damper on the weekend.

On a different note, a got a cross-post from Lt Col Patrick over at Duty In The Desert for my post yesterday on the “Person of the Week”. Go over and check out his site — not because he cross posted to me, but because he has an interesting and varied blog with a consistent pace of posting. Plus, he just came back from serving in Iraq and we owe him our thanks.

Thanks for the link, Lt Col Patrick. Enjoy your weekend.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

I stated before that I would revisit some posts from this date one and two years ago. One year ago today I took the day off and joined the kids at the Science Museum. Two years ago today was the second time we visited our current church. The post had some good meaning. Reprinted below with permission.

This morning we hit the late service and it had about three times the people as the first service last week did. We stayed for a pizza luncheon afterwards and met quite a few people. More baby steps for us.

A quote during the sermon resonated with me.

“You may be the only Bible some people read.”

It goes hand in hand with a prayer I routinely ask — to be a disciple of example. I don’t like people cramming their ideas down my (or anyone else’s) throat. I figure it is much more effective to speak with actions rather than speak with words. Words without action are useless blabbering (kinda like this blog). Actions by themselves are powerful.

The rest of our day was spent as a family doing some errands after church and a few chores before an early dinner. It is now early to bed to prepare for the beginning of the week. That will get us a good night’s sleep which is our first step to a good day and getting it off to a good start. Again, school attitudes are positive this Sunday night which is important but I am also prepared for a step backwards if it happens. If it is two baby steps forward, one step back, that is ok. It will continue to take time acclimating. Going to church today was one more piece of the routine puzzle.

On another positive side, my wife took the freeway to the Kroger’s this afternoon. If you recall from a post on our trip out here, she had trouble driving and has been apprehensive ever since. She has warmed to driving the country roads, but hadn’t conquered the freeway until today. We’re getting there.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot com

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

Below are 25 questions about things we see every day or have known about all our lives. How many can you get right? These little simple questions are harder than you think. It just shows how little we pay attention to the commonplace things of life. The average person only gets 7 right. This is based on U.S. info, so use all lobes of your brain. This can be more difficult than it looks – it just shows how little most of us really see!

RULES: Put your thinking caps on. No cheating! No looking around! No getting out of your chair! No using anything on or in your desk or computer!

Can you beat 20?? (The average is 7) Write down your answers and check answers (on the bottom) AFTER completing all the questions.

REMEMBER – NO CHEATING!!! It doesn’t matter if you cheat, actually, because if you have to cheat, then you don’t know the answer, thus, you’ve already missed the question! BE HONEST!!!

LET’S JUST SEE HOW OBSERVANT YOU REALLY ARE. – If not, just have fun!

1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

2. How many states are there in the USA? (Don’t laugh, some people don’t know.)

3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty’s torch?

4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell’s soup label?

5. What two numbers on the telephone dial don’t have letters by them?

6. When you walk does your left arm swing with your right or left leg? (Don’t you dare get up to see!)

7. How many matches are in a standard pack?

8. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?

9. What is the lowest number on the FM dial? (Don’t look at that dial!)

10. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise? (Get out of the bathroom!)

11. Which way does a “no smoking” sign’s slash run?

12. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?

13. On which side of a women’s blouse are the buttons?

14. Which way do fans rotate?

15. How many sides does a stop sign have?

16. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side?

17. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?

18. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?

19. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who’s missing?

20. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?

21. On which playing card is the card maker’s trademark?

22. On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?

23. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?

24. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?

25. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?

Email me — dan at aslowerpace dot net — for the answers.

…..Dan at aslowerpace