Currently I’m waiting to get on my plane back to the Midwest, St. Louis specifically, and while I had a good time I’m glad to be going home. No one killed anyone else, and nothing major blew up on us, so all in all, it was a good trip. It was a little long for [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in December, 2003
There, I think I used up my alloted number of times I can use the word “awesome” in a post about church stuff….so I will attempt to use other words now…mostly for Rob’s sake. Also, let it be known, that I have no spell checker here, so ignore misspelled words untill I have time to [...]
Well, I’m home…..home sucks. I have no friends here, that sux. Mom and Dad like to tell me things about the wedding, and sometimes they annoy me about it. Also, I’m tired of getting dumped on about wedding stuff in general. It isn’t like I don’t want to do things for this wedding. In fact, [...]
I love the days right after finals. It is a bit of a tradition for Dirk and I to linger after all our finals and be completely lazy. These are the days of sloth and gluttony. The days immediately following our last final is when we were most likely to drink ourselves stupid. This was [...]
So, finals are over. I don’t know how I did, it could go either way. I don’t know if they are going to kick me out of school yet…..like I said, I’m riding the fence. I’m reasonably sure that I am getting an A in my B&TW class, so I can fail my MatSe class [...]
Found this while taking a break from studying….it has been a slow day. Hard to study after that test last night. But anyway, the link is interesting to me. Especially the quote: “Daughters are a major target of abusive women. The anger and resentment that abused women carry in their hearts provide the fuel for [...]
I just watched the last DVD of “Now and Then, Here and There” and I really liked the show. I liked the end, because it had the cheesy ending without being completely cliche. I really enjoyed the way it ended in a lot of ways, but there were some things that I thought it was [...]
OK, so today they made it free to get new LJ accounts, so you don’t need an activation code anymore. So, I decided to check out how they check inactive accounts, and I found out if you are actively commenting on other people’s blogs they won’t delete your account. So this will be my only [...]
So I was looking for some stuff about leaving people who are hurting you in the Bible. I know that it is proven to be therapeutic to leave someone when they are abusive, and to make sure to cut off contact with that person, so as to avoid further abuse. One thing I did like [...]
It’s shirtless o’clock, do you know where your beer is? I do, and I don’t have my shirt on. If you are reading this it is shirtless o’clock somewhere, so you should take off your shirt. So I don’t have my shirt on, and it feels good. Shirtless o’clock is great, it was even better [...]
If I were an animal I would be a monkey, because then I could fling poo and not get in trouble for it. And I would have a tail that acted almost like another hand….how cool would that be. I wish I had a tail now…I would be a better solderer if I had a [...]
So why is it that when it rains it pours? Haven’t I had enough? Isn’t school enough by itself at the end of the semester that I shouldn’t have all these other problems? Why is that a sick family can’t see past themselves to get help? Why is denial such a powerful inhibitor of regular [...]
OK, so as many of you know, I personally know the guy who started the New Horizon Methodist Church in Champaign, and I was just looking at websites of some of the local Methodist churches because I was looking for the Faith United Methodist website, and I ran across the website for new horizon. Now [...]
