New England Patriots vs Miami Dolphins
1:00pm EST

The New England Patriots have a tough game ahead of them against the Miami Dolphins. They have given the Pats fits. But with the extra time with the bye week, Bill should have something good for the Dolphins.

The wildcat will be in full play again. Can the Pats stop the gimmick plays? They certainly were able to stop it dead last time. But I'm sure the Dophins will come up with something new with it. Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams have been dangerous and continue to run well. One thing I did notice is the defense has to wrap up these guys and not just hit them.The Pats defense better be ready for it.

The depth of the defensive line took a hit when Jarvis Green had surgery on his knee. He'll be out for about a month. Even though he wasn't as effective as he was in the past, it does force the younger players to play better. Mike Wright has played well in his place.

Chad Henne has a good arm and has shown signs of being a decent QB but he's still young. Ted Guin Jr? I don't think so. The other Dolphin receivers have been ok but the Pats corners should be able to hold their own. The Pats will hopefully be able to confuse Henne and force to make bad passes.

The Pats offense has been on a roll and they should continue to do well. The offensive line has to play well though. Tom Brady has to be protected against Jason Taylor and Joey "dumbass" Porter. smirks. If the Dolphins can get to Tom, it will be a long day. Jason Taylor doesn't have Matt Light to pick on but he does have rookie Sebastian Volmer. Volmer is a bit dinged up but has played well in Light's place.

Randy Moss could have a big day since the Dolphins are playing rookies at corner. And I think Wes Welker will have a good game too.

Finally, the Pats will have to pay attention on special teams. Ted Guin Jr showed how effective he was last week against the Jets. The guys will have to kick the ball away from him and make sure to wrap him up when he does get the ball.

The Pats should win this game. They're coming off a bye week and hopefully there isn't any hangover from London. It'll be a hard physical game and I do hope there are no injuries. Its going to be a tough tough game.

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Who will win today's game?

Will the Pats stop the wildcat?

Who will be the player of the game?

Go Pats!!!

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How can a healthcare reform bill cost 1.3 trillion dollars and yet require us to all purchase our health insurance? Oh, except for low income families, although the tax plan supposedly won't be touching people who make anywhere under 500k a year. Does it really take that much money to tax rich people?

From what I can tell, all this bill is is what the state of Massachsuetts has already passed. Not improved health care by any stretch of the imagination, just making it mandatory unless you want to suffer a tax penalty.

Now, I'm not worried about "death boards" or any of this other nonsense that the Obama opposition has been blustering on about in regards to this bill and, truth be told, I don't have the actual document in front of me to look through at the moment. All I know is what the news will let me know with the utmost of positive spin (or negative depending on the source).

From what I can gather given the cost and the synopsis of the bill I just read, it strikes me as a huge scam and I just want to know who's making the money off of it.

At any rate, I've got about 4k words to write today so I had better get started. Oh, and the chocolate stout is gestating well in the fermentor. The airlock has been merrily burbling at me all morning.

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I totally forgot to post this really creepy Funeral Home ad. And don't forget to check out the other photos I uploaded today, including a masonic lodge!

Today has been a rather productive day. Ran our errands and brewed our beer (with a pit stop at our favorite restaurant for a swanky little lunch date) and I managed to hit the 10k mark with my novel. That still leaves me almost 2k down for today, but not bad for having been at 7200 this afternoon. I'm hoping that tomorrow will be another productive writing day and that I might actually be able to catch myself up.

By the way, since I just allowed myself to write without really paying attention, my novel now contains a Commodore who isn't making enough money off of piracy so she has instead opened up a pirate cruise line to tourists.

Time for some sleep I think.

I've been here for nearly a week now, and I feel I can make some pronouncements:
1) There are a whole lot of pawn shops, loan companies, title loan companies, and such. I guess that speaks to the poorness down here? I wonder how many of the people that patronize these institutions could save tremendous amounts of money by not doing so.
2) Rush hour here moves much faster than back home. You'd think this would be a good thing, but it feels just as congested as the NYC metro area, just we're going 60 instead of 5. This, plus the construction, makes for very stressful driving
3) I still feel a little weird watching soldiers go by. Like they're too conspicuous, so I have to look away, just like I did in the city. I suppose after some more time, I'll get familiar with them, and this will go away. It'd be best if this went away by Monday, though, when I have to give a class to 25 of them. (And again on Thursday, and again on Friday.)

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Tv shows: Lost, The Office.
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http://dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com/2009/11/biggest-flake.html

I found the largest flake I had ever seen in my cereal.

Something scary happened at the library today.

Emilia and I were playing with the other kids in the children's section of the Moorhead Public Library. Mostly we were playing with the large collection of puppets. A three-year-old who was there with her baby brother, two older siblings, and mother was showing Emilia and I a good time. We were making all the puppets talk and play with each other.

Then the little girl, Elizabeth, wandered toward her mother across the children's section. A few seconds later, she was running back toward us when she tripped and fell over. I've seen Emilia do this a thousand times, so I was puzzled when Elizabeth's mother rushed over, baby on her back, and frantically said, "You're okay! You're okay! Annika, come quick and take the baby." I thought she was overreacting to her child falling and certainly inspiring a soon-to-be tantrum. Then she said to Annika, her oldest daughter, "Elizabeth is having a seizure."

So I jumped up from where Emilia and I were playing and rushed over. The mother, Jenny, told me I didn't need to call for help. She cradled the shaking girl on the floor through a five-minute seizure, and then said the girl was asleep. I helped her and the kids out to the car, and then Jenny went back in to check out their books while Emmy and I hung out with their sweet children, aged 8 to 9 months.

Jenny thanked me for helping her. What could I say? How could anyone have been there and NOT tried to help?

I was shocked that nobody on the library staff rushed over at the commotion, and one of the other parents in the children's section was staring horrified and asked me if I had called 911. She didn't move to help at all, but maybe it was clear that Jenny didn't need help? All I could think was, if this had happened to me, I would have wanted help.

Jenny was shaken up, but she said she would be okay to get the kids home. It was Elizabeth's fourth seizure.

I was pretty shaken up, too. I wish there was something I could do. What could I have done differently?

Now we are home, and I can only think, how lucky we are. How very lucky we are.

Accidentally ran into a parade today. Thought you might want to check it out.

[12]How I met your mother
[14]Smallville
[30]Supernatural
[18]Gossip girl
[5]Greek
[29]Lost
[1]Lost cast(Matt&Evie)

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http://manunderdamoon.blogspot.com/2009/11/magnetism.html

The left side of my body has recently become highly magnetized. Maybe it's the fact that I consume plenty of iron and work in front of a computer, maybe it's the fact that I sleep north-south, or maybe, it's because I love my ladies and they adore me. :)

Annabelle is on a solid, mixed diet of food and milk. This morning at around 6:30am, she had exhausted the milk supply. Cheryl, spectacular keeper of the watch that she is, struggled out of bed to fetch some more rice milk from the fridge. No sooner had she left the bed than I felt *bumbadum jiggle jiggle oomph*. The baby slid all the way from the other side of the bed, firmly attaching herself to my left side... still asleep. :D We slept for another 20 minutes then got up for breakfast, books, and the wonderfully creative world of our two year old. :)

Night before last, I went to bed before the ladies. This happens fairly frequently because Cheryl is usually on a project or enjoying the downtime by the time I resign, so she stays up 20-30 longer. She had been working on a sewing project, so she made it to bed well after I was asleep. When I woke up in the morning, she was fast asleep in the crook of my arm, (the same area that Annabelle frequents). (Side note: between the period and this side note, Annabelle called me over for a brief tower building session on "Daddy lap! Daddy lap. :)".)

I love that my ladies like to cuddle whenever I'm around. :) I'm one happy dude. :D

I'd be totally amused and he'd be the same if reversed. Sorry, kids, we take our marriage seriously but it's a requirement to laugh everyday in this household. Being that I'm married to a man he, of course, would like to see me with a female celebrity, respected or not (broad generalization there, eh?). Did you really want to know this? I don't care who he goes with - at least I get a rest. >:O

^Do I think this would ever happen? Lemme think... um, no.

In other news: Jess is better - HUZZAH! I get older tomorrow... well you know, the alternative sucks. And I'm off to treat me and the child to breakfast out! Have a great weekend.

So, a special request from Josh's boss was put in for us to brew a batch of beer for the Freedom Trail holiday party. This works out well because I had also wanted to get started on brewing beer as holiday gifts along with a plate of cookies for all of my extended family.

Considering the winter season, I thought it might be fun to try making a chocolate stout and have been online for a good chunk of the morning trying to find a recipe.

All I seem to have found are complex chemistry instructions and I'm simply not awake enough to dissect them with a beer-brewing dictionary of terms.

Why on earth can't they write these like recipes? After all, I am preparing a food-stuff of some kind, what's up with the bizarre terminology? This is what I get for wanting to do my first scratch recipe seeing as the past batches were all kits that I took a few liberties in what I added.

Even if I do just go with a stout kit, I can't seem to figure out if cocoa powder or baker's chocolate is better (because there is an endless amount of opinion on that one) and I also question how much the beer will suffer in flavor if I can't come up with a chocolate malt to proportion properly with the other necessary malt extracts. The place we've been going to isn't exactly the best for this sort of thing, but it is the closest.

Apart from that, I also need to think about a second kind of beer to start brewing the week after I transfer the stout to bottles, seeing as I know the majority of my family are not stout drinkers. In fact, much to my brewing dismay, they're primarily lager and pilsner drinkers and I simply don't have the facilities for cold fermentation. I suppose I could just go with another pale ale and call it quits.

On a side note, I'm 7,767 words in and I really don't want to know where that points me in the grand scheme of things at the moment. I hope to get some serious writing done today between errands and brewing.

Edit: Found it! Should have gone to Allrecipes.com in the first place. All I need to do is add about 2 tsp. of either cocoa powder or baker's chocolate in at the end, which it surprisingly enough doesn't call for.

Here's hoping I can actually find dry chocolate malt grains...

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Dang, Margaret Feinberg rocked the casbah at Catalyst.

In a bright red coat that made her look like a super hero and a book that sounds awesome, she just tore it up when she was handed the mic.

Her new book was years in the making and has perhaps my favorite subhead ever:

“Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey.”

She basically spent time with a shepherd, a beekeeper and vintner to try to bridge the gap between the ancient world and her own as she pursued the mystery and beauty that lurks within the Bible.

She said I could give away five copies of the book to readers of Stuff Christians Like.

Let’s do a comment contest.

Post a comment to the question:

“Where do you find God?”

It could be at the ocean, at the grocery, at the moment when you read your kids a bedtime story. He’s everywhere so I imagine the comments will go all over the place too.

Respond until Wednesday, November 11 and I’ll pick five winners at random.

Where do you find God?

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Most of what I write about, speak about, laugh about is just an offshoot of what I saw my dad do first. That’s why I’m excited that he started a new church in Durham, North Carolina called the Gathering Church.

Tomorrow is their first Sunday. If you live in the area, visit and tell him I sent you. For more info visit their site, allgather.org. Details about Sunday are also pasted below:

Gathering Church

Starting at 10:30 am.

Creekside Elementary

5331 Ephesus Church Road

Durham NC 27707

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