"Women like silent men. They think they're listening." - Marcel Achard

I've been busy all day and tonight I'm tired.

I started cleaning this morning, got the kitchen and living room vacuumed and moped, and cleaned up around the wood stove. I spent most of the rest of the day working on a special project that I ca't identify at this point because there's a chance Pam may be reading my blog while she's in Michigan. (She doesn't bother when she's home but when she's away it's a means of checking up on me.)
I didn't get her approval for this project, something I almost always do for something of this ... significance.
Sure hope she likes it.

If you're reading this, dear, remember how much you love your husband. 

When we lived in CA I was a solid Dodger fan but I'm sitting here watching game 7 of the National League Championship Series and pulling for the Brewers. How can I not want Bob Uecker's team? I didn't realize until the other day that he's their announcer and has been adopted by the team as a kind of mascot. 
And I'm watching this game because the WSU Cougars are putting a beatdown on the Oregon Ducks.

That Nash Metropolitan went for $10,500. That's a great deal for a 1960 Met, the penultimate year of production. And it was a convertible. And it was in Washington.

We spend the first half of the Bible Reading Project class discussing what they read last week. In this case they've read about Jacob and his descendants moving to Egypt under Joseph (the end of Genesis) and the exodus under Moses. Talk about powerful narrative, including the story of the first Passover.
Then I give them some background about what they'll read in the week ahead, which this week will be arriving at Sinai and the first part of the Mosaic Law.
In preparation for that discussion I read up on the monastery at Sinai and the discovery of Codex Sinaiticus by Constantin von Tischendorf. It's a cool story. The monks at the monastery where burning old manuscripts they thought were worthless to keep the place warm. Tischendorf looked in the baskets where they had them sitting, read for the fire, when he spotted what is now recognized as one of the two most significant manuscripts of the NT.
You can see a digital image of the entire MS here.

Pam will call in a few minutes. We talk each evening just before she turns in for the night and it's coming up on 10 p.m. there. After our phone call I'll do the dishes and maybe some more vacuuming.
Or maybe I'll just have a cup of coffee and call it a day.