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A Eulogy for My Membership in the Mormon Church

Posted on: 13 May 2021 /

Categories: Personal History, Religion

The LDS church is no longer part of my life. It seems like a good time to compile the good parts and put that chapter to bed. I’ve been mostly Mormon for my whole life up until semi-recently (2020), where by “mostly Mormon”, I mean… I dunno. I usually (not always) went to church, only

Narrows IV: Riding the Lightning

Posted on: 30 April 2019 /

Categories: Hiking, Religion

I’m not quite a year behind on travel posts yet. Last summer, I went with (led?) the River Heights 4th young men on a trip through the Narrows. This marked the third consecutive year of doing a trip through the Narrows (c.f., 2016, 2017). I didn’t take my camera on this one because I was

Things That Are No Longer Interesting

Posted on: 9 June 2012 /

Categories: Humanity, Self Promotion

This is a sub-set. Zombies. Their day in the sun should have ended with Shaun of the Dead, which came out in 2004. The zombies’ 15 minutes are up. Adding the word “apocalypse” does not grant the zombie idea any new freshness. “Bacon” as a topic of discussion. Eating bacon is still fine. It’s also

Custer’s Last Stand, My First Stop

Posted on: 8 August 2011 /

Categories: road trips, Travel, War

Which is a little misleading in that I stopped in Chicago and spent the night at my brother’s place, then stopped the next night in Spearfish, So. Dak. and stayed at my other brother’s place. I also stopped at some gas stations, some fast food restaurants, and bought a new tail light off of Amazon.

Book Report: China Marine

Posted on: 14 February 2011 /

Categories: Reading, War

I read this book. This was the “follow up” to With the Old Breed, which is the greatest first-person account of war I’m aware of. It was written by the same guy, Eugene Sledge. Unfortunately, it turns out that 100 pages of musings about sitting around in China after the war isn’t quite as gripping

Causes of Death, 2001

Posted on: 16 November 2010 /

Categories: Fascism, Humanity

I’m re-posting this (originally compiled this list in ’04 or so). Seems ever-useful. These are the number of deaths in 2001 by cause and IIRC there were some other causes in the 10-14 range that got omitted because they started getting redundant and/or uninteresting (there are many types of cancer). Lung cancer: 157,400 Car accidents:

Yorktown, Petersburg, and Old Confederate Cemeteries

Posted on: 30 August 2010 /

Categories: road trips, Travel, War

I was gonna do some big write up about the CSA, but I guess I don’t care that much. Going to the south is like going to a foreign country where they speak English. They have their own history and aristocracy and culture and symbols and clearly none of these are mine/yours (unless you’re from

The Museum and White House of the Confederacy

Posted on: 10 August 2010 /

Categories: Museums, road trips, Travel, War

Main reasons for going to Richmond: (1) I’d meant to spend a day there on my road trip last year, but it got squeezed out; (2) $36 a night at a newly renovated Holiday Inn. Also it was within a six-and-a-half-hour driving radius from Pgh (barely). Plus there’s nothing to do there that requires you

National Museum of the Marine Corps: New Addition

Posted on: 21 July 2010 /

Categories: Museums, Travel, War

Went back to the Marine Corps museum when I was in NoVa a couple weeks ago. They added a couple new areas to it since I went there last year, one on “the early days” (pre WWI) and one on World War I. Now that those areas are open, it’s hard to imagine the museum

Things I Now Know About the Guy Who Sold Me His Aunt’s Washing Machine

Posted on: 19 May 2010 /

Categories: Home Renovation, Humanity

Nice guy, actually. I think I probably overpaid for the washer by $45, but there just aren’t many used washers available on the Pittsburgh Craigslist right now. I should probably have waited for the semester to be over, but I haven’t been able to locate a laundromat that isn’t in a scary ghost town part

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