Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Two words: I hate math.


The people are the best part. Sometimes they're the hardest part, but they are also the most important part.
And of all the people parts, family are at the top of the list. In our case that can mean doing hard stuff, but as long as it's always done like we do it - love and mutual respect - even that is good.
T'ank you, Fadder, for my family.

I've been in Michigan for 24 hours. If I hate the boring and inane (and I do) it's been a very good day. And it's just beginning. I had dinner with Pam's mom, brother & wife. Good stuff. This morning I enjoyed a wonderful breakfast - the food was good, too - with one of my VIP. I drove to Holland, 40 minutes away, to have lunch with a former student I don't think I've seen since he graduated 15 years ago. That two hours flew by! Then a cup of coffee with a great guy going through a hard time, and doing his best to handle it in a godly way.

Let me see if I've got this right. We're working on a deal with the Iranians re. their nuclear program that would mean lifting sanctions at the same time we're sending warships to intercept their delivery of arms to the rebels in Yemen.
Doesn't this seem a little crosswise to reality.

And as long as we're talking non sequitors, Have you ever thought about the fact that we put gas in our cars but it's really a liquid? Why do we call it gas?
And then there's those trucks carrying "liquified natural gas." Either that's a personal problem we don't need to know about or it's an oxymoron. If it's liquified it's not a gas, natural or otherwise.

It may be late April but west Michigan thinks it's February. That four-letter word that starts with s and ends with w is in the forecast for tonight.

Today I learned about SIP's, Structural Insulated Panels, a construction technique that's been around for 50 years but is finally taking hold. I'm impressed. Walls and a roof in less than one day, and with an R-value far exceeding stick-built construction. It works better in some applications than others, but where it works it sure makes sense.
Question: does in work in a tiny house?

My head is too full of too many things. I better stop writing before this post turns into ADD-laced drivel.
Too late, you say?

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