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This past Friday, I ordered two rabbit bowls from Amazon.

Their bowls are made of crockery and can’t be turned over as easily as the bowls that are currently in their homes.

Our rabbits main food is hay, but we do keep dry rabbit kibble (hay is the #1 ingredient in the kibble) in their homes too.

They arrived yesterday…. in pieces. The mail lady alerted me of this, by knocking on our door and telling me it sounded like whatever was in the box was broken. Because of that, she explained she had marked the package as possibly damaged. How awesome is that? The tinkling of the package as she handed it to me, made me think she was correct also.

When I opened the package I saw what you see in the above picture. It makes me wonder what in the world was the person who packed this box thinking? Seriously, someone needs to learn how to pack breakable items. Common sense was not present when they just dumped breakable bowls into a box. They should have been wrapped individually with wrapping paper or bubble wrap.

Amazon has a great return policy, so I’ll be getting my replacement today. I’m hoping it does not arrive in pieces. 😉

I believe this would have been appropriate for my Halloween post.

 

Pet Sematary was probably the fourth or fifth book I read by Stephen King. Yes, the name is spelled incorrectly. The sign was made by children.  I was either thirteen (or going on thirteen) when this book was published. By that time I was already a die hard Stephen King junkie consuming anything that was released by him.  I loved the story line for this book and often wondered if it would be released into a movie.

Well it was… Of course, I watched Pet Sematary shortly after it was released in the movie theater. Thanks to the movie, I was introduced to an awesome band.

 

A few of my friends, that read my personal blog, ask me how I manage to stay on top of my posts. They know how active I am with my daughter, work, and the various Lutheran outreach ministries that I’m involved with and some used to wonder how found the time to write almost daily.

The answer is simple, I take advantage of scheduling my posts in advance. I love this, since it means that I’m not writing daily, even though it might appear that way.

In 2003, when I decided to have more than just websites (I started websites in 1997) and start actively blogging, this lovely feature wasn’t available. It didn’t take long for one of the creative folks, behind these amazing Word Press Plugins that many of us enjoy, would come up with an Advance Post Plug in.

Because of this plug in,  I can schedule my posts in advance. Some days I write a lot of articles.  When that happens, I don’t just toss them all up on the same day. If a person is as active as myself, they most likely would not have the time to read through all that anyway. Personally, I think it’s much better to space those posts over a period of several days.  In doing so, I still have something new appearing on my site even on the days when I don’t have time to write.

Currently I have a months worth of posts sitting in my Pending Queue.  There were times when I had over six months of scheduled posts. I’m slowly adding to my ‘Pending Post’ pile, so eventually I’ll have that amount of posts scheduled in advance.

 

 

Last evening, I could not get to sleep and so I stayed up and read and then I did something I have not done in a while.

Just a warning this post won’t mean anything if you aren’t clued into gaming, more specifically, MMORPG’s, but I’m writing about this anyway.

Anyway, last evening, I played a MMOORPG, for about thirty minutes. My MMORPG of choice was World of Warcraft. I still pop on occasionally to play with a few of my online pals.

I will say that because of the game, I have met some great connections both online and in real life. One of my favorite pals, is a retired naval office. He’s much older, but I enjoy chatting with him when he’s playing. I also correspond with him outside the game. He’s good people!

But back to the game…

last evening around 11:30 p.m., I was on my level 75 Mistweaver Pandaran Monk. She’s my engineer/mining. I was at Fitzcrank Airstrip, specifically “grinding” for the Schematic: Jeeves, and it dropped within thirty minutes. I was able to “salvage” it the Scavenge-bot 005-B6. The drop rate from that robot is very low, 0.4%.

 

Almost two years ago, when I was playing my Paladin, I never saw this schematic drop. I actively looked for it (easily over ten hours over a period of days/weeks) while it at this same airstrip and over in The Storm Peaks, and still came up with nothing on my paladin. So, I must say that I’m glad I scored it on the monk.

Perhaps the persistence has to find this recipe has to with my daughter interest with the game? I told her if she continued to do well, that I would get another WoW subscription for her.

I rarely play the game, because that would be time taken away from us. But since she’s still maintaining an A+ average, I’m getting her a WoW subscription this December. Maintaining that average, takes A lot of dedication on her part, and I’m right there to help her whenever she runs into issues. Jeeves will come in handy running her through dungeons, etc.

Even when she has a WoW subscription, we won’t be gaming too much. There are so many things that we enjoy doing, that during our free time we are rarely glued to a technology gadget. But it will be nice to occasionally meet her within a game. I love video games, but finding the time to actually play one is the challenge.

Funny video of Vin Diesel stating that he has played WoW, you can see that bit around the 6:20 mark.

 

I first heard this on Toby Mac’s Facebook page…

I love this song…

It’s been a busy few weeks but thank goodness, I’m starting to breathe… just  a bit. At last evenings board meeting, I had a wonderful conversation with the director of the Homeless Shelter Ministry that I coordinate. I mentioned doing more things besides providing home cooked meals for the guests. He was very interested. I chatted with him for quite a while talking about the ideas I have and am looking forward to seeing some of them finally coming to fruition.

More on that later…

One of the many things I love about my Lutheran church is how they seem to include so many things into their church home.

We have ministries that deal with the elderly, hospitalized, those suffering from addictions, homeless, people not having enough to eat, groups for children, teens, women, men, couples, ect., You name it, my Lutheran church seems to have that covered. This Sunday, there will be a special feature in our church services (we have three of them; one on Saturday and two on Sunday.) It’s time to Bless the Animals. In years prior, the animals were physically brought to the location but this year church members will submit their pets and the animals will be presented in a Power Point presentation. Naturally, I’m submitting pictures of Angel, Mr. Bentley, Gracie, Oreo… and my honeybees!