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New Post Coming Soon
By James
Posted in featured on 13 November 2009
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I am working up a new post entitled “Why I am not a Blogger”. Post release date is scheduled for early 2010. I hope you will look forward to reading it.

Summer is near its end
By James
Posted in featured on 23 August 2009
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It has been a fast summer. I’m not sure where to begin. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything at all and a lot has happened I doubt I’ll be able to recall everything. Nor is everything that has happened worth recalling. As you may gave noticed if you visit my sight on a [...]

Summer school
By James
Posted in news on 25 June 2009
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So 4 days into summer school. It’s pretty fun I have 9 second and third grade students that i’m instructing in math and reading and some language as well. I only work from eight to non so it’s a really quick and enjoyable day. The kids are fun and I’m learning how to balance [...]

Owner of an iPhone
By James
Posted in featured on 22 June 2009
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So last night I was asked to go talked to pastor Matt. When I did he said he wanted to give me his first generation iPhone. I was excited and speechless. So I am now an iPhone user. In fact, I am writing this post on my iPhone since I don’t [...]

Famous Dave’s Field Trip… and more
By James
Posted in featured, news on 12 May 2009
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I know the what more important is the “and more” so I’ll start there.  About 8:45 this morning I was told I needed to call my father at home.  In my mind I immediately knew what I was going to be told.  My Grandmother was just recently diagnosed with Lung Cancer and had been under [...]

Entirely Way Too Long
By James
Posted in featured, news, pictures on 7 May 2009
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It has been a long time since the last time I blogged, especially since I said I was going to blog the day after my previous post.  I guess I should make promises I cannot keep.  I will admit I have been working on redoing Bethel’s website. Although the final version still maybe upwards of [...]

Spring Festival and Iron Chef
By James
Posted in news on 25 April 2009
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Last night was Bethel Baptist School’s Spring Festival 2009.  It was a blast.  We had a 30 ft. inflatable slide,  a jump house, a splash zone, can knock down, ping pong ball toss, dunk tank, and a ton of food.  I was asked to volunteer for the dunk tank, so why not…  just 15 minutes…  [...]

Three 3.0+ Earthquakes
By James
Posted in just for fun, news on 23 April 2009
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Probably my first memory as a kids was an earthquake.  The Loma Prieta Earthquake 10/17/1989,  I was not even 4 years old yet.  My mom was cooking dinner, my Dad was doing some work in a library, and my older sister and I were probably playing.  And it shook hard.  Nothing broke in our house [...]

Chicken Potato Soup
By James
Posted in just for fun, recipes on 18 April 2009
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Thursday night I was in the mood for soup but not wanting to stew something for 3 hours to get it.  I wanted a quick and easy soup. I looked at a couple recipes but nothing fit the bill.  So I got my brain working.   I looked around to see what I had…  I had [...]

Spring Break
By James
Posted in featured, news on 16 April 2009
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So this week has been spring break.  A chance to just relax before the last 8 weeks of school,  yes it’s coming to an end quickly.   Monday Renae and I picked her brother Tim up from the airport, and then hung out with her parents for the evening and had coffee with ruth a little [...]