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, 2004

Some stuff about decisions

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How do you make a decision? Do you have a process, or do you just wing it / go with your gut feelings? I’m an intuiter (is that word)…or intuative that is, so I often will go with my gut and rationalize it later. Usually I don’t have to rationalize because my gut leads me [...]

Oh Happy Day

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My dreams are becoming a reality. Read this article about controlling the computer with your brain. And Da Bears won and I got to watch the game…and the Vikings and the Pack lost…..what a wonderful day this will be…now only if it would stop raining and snowing. Also, I’m only about 15 episodes from being [...]

Better than Expected

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I dropped a lot of bombs. I was calm, I was nice, I said really positive things in with my negatives. They are looking into the idea of Lauren’s Mom having issues, and the possibility of us all sitting down at some point with someone else there (to supervise / referee, or to pray if [...]

Rumble in the Bubble

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Ralph said Saturday would be fine so we postponed the call until 3pm tomorrow. Not looking forward to that, but I am looking forward to the Christmas party tonight. I still need to call my clinical psychologist cousin for a little advice on how to approach a situation where the other party is in denial, [...]

Brokenness

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Last night at small group Jeff asked me if I was confronting Laurens parents for me or for her, because she is really worried they are going to say awful things about her, and she has been down that road already. I don’t know what the answer to that is. The best I can come [...]

Two in one Day!!!

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Well, Laurens Dad text messaged me today. He said he would call on Friday at 7pm. That should be fun, I’m pretty sure I managed to piss everyone in that house off at me. And if not everyone, than I’m sure Ralph and Laurie are mad at me. Probably should be though, I pointed at [...]

Google News in the Morning

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It’s Aids day….or thus Google tells me with the Ribbon on their front page. So here is an article about Dying kids in developing countries. I haven’t read this whole thing yet…but I figured people would be interested. Also, for Jeff, if you get Firefox you can add Live Bookmarks which I found a great [...]