Grave Descend by John Lange18 February 2011
17 January 2011
Monday Mind Maneuver 2
Today's MMM is another cryptogram, mainly because it's an easy fallback thing for me to come up with so quickly for this morning.
AMWEORCC JMOOZB AWUPR ZFB AMWEORCC;
ZOGX GUINB JMO AZ BNMB.
ANSWER
Highlight the space between the brackets below.
[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.]
MMM Cryptogram #2
Clue: M = A
Clue: M = A
ZOGX GUINB JMO AZ BNMB.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
ANSWER
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[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.]
10 January 2011
Monday Mind Maneuver 1
Just for fun, I thought I'd do a fun, start-of-the-work-week brain booster, which I hereby officially name the Monday Mind Maneuver (and I cannot tell you how difficult it was to find a word beginning with M that actually worked there to complete the necessary three-fold alliteration). I'll try a whole bunch of little things here to get your mind going, perhaps with riddles, cryptograms, logic questions, research dissertations, and the like.
Today's MMM is a cryptogram. In case you're not familiar with cryptograms, this is a phrase wherein all of the letters have been substituted by a different letter. For today's cryptogram, your clue is H = L.
UA FGW ZLB KSLI YJUD, YJSB FGW JLXS
DWZZSDDAWHHF DGHXSI YJS AUKDY
ZKFRYGMKLT AGK YJUD EHGM. ES DWKS YG
YSHH GYJSKD LEGWY UY.
ANSWER
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[If you can read this, then you have successfully solved the first cryptogram for this blog. Be sure to tell others about it.]
Today's MMM is a cryptogram. In case you're not familiar with cryptograms, this is a phrase wherein all of the letters have been substituted by a different letter. For today's cryptogram, your clue is H = L.
MMM Cryptogram #1
DWZZSDDAWHHF DGHXSI YJS AUKDY
ZKFRYGMKLT AGK YJUD EHGM. ES DWKS YG
YSHH GYJSKD LEGWY UY.
- An original quote by LeviSamJuno
ANSWER
Highlight the space between the brackets below.
[If you can read this, then you have successfully solved the first cryptogram for this blog. Be sure to tell others about it.]
05 January 2011
Book Review: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book Review has been moved to this post on LeviSamJuno Reads.
03 January 2011
Book Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumPictures by W.W. Denslow
Book Review has been moved to this post on LeviSamJuno Reads.
2011 E-Book Challenge
The 2011 E-Book Challenge is being hosted by The Ladybug Reads. I don't have an e-reader except for an app I downloaded to my computer from Google called "Reader Library" that allows me to download and read books from the Sony ReaderStore, including access to the free public domain books from Google Books.
Click the image above to go to the site of the challenge host for more information and to sign up for the challenge. I am going to start small and try for the "Curious" Level (read 3 e-books), but I may surprise myself and reach one of the higher levels: Fascinated (6), Addicted (12), or Obsessed (20).
Books I've Read for the
2011 E-Book Challenge
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.
01 January 2011
Bible in a Year 2011
With a fresh year ahead of me, I pray that this will be the year I read the Bible all the way through and hope to grow closer to God and learn more about Him and my role in His kingdom in the process. Using the plan from the Bible Reading website, I am once again going to attempt to read the Bible in a year (BiaY).
Last year I started out really well until I started missing a day here and there and trying to catch myself up before missing a few days. Before long I had missed whole books and then abandoned the effort entirely, going right back to where I started.
At the top of my sidebar on top of the rest of my reading challenges this year is my tracker for the BiaY. I am tracking it by number of chapters read (out of a total of 1189 chapters in the King James Version). Fortunately the ubiquity of the Bible in many places makes missing a reading difficult to accomplish: I have used my pocket Bible, BibleGateway, and the Bible reading plan website to catch up on my reading in the past. So, admittedly, I have no excuse to not do this.
Feel free to join in with me, too. I need the extra accountability and support.
Greetings, 2011!
What a year was 2010! I started out the year with the 2-week-old news that I was going to be a father, something made all the more real by my wife's constant morning (and afternoon, and evening) sickness. Silly me, I thought I could handle a 100 book reading challenge, regular book reviews, Bible reading updates, and other normal blog updates while finding a house, trying to rent out a house, preparing for a baby, and taking care of Rebecka. A quick look at my updates from 2010 shows how well that went.
With the year beginning with plans for a baby in the late summer, we worked busily to get everything in order so he would have a place to stay. At the time we lived in a two-bedroom apartment where the second bedroom was my wife's work-at-home office, leaving maybe a drawer for our coming son to have as a bed were we to stay there. So, we upgraded our house search to level orange.
Meanwhile, Rebecka has a home near Cleveland where she lived before we got married and she moved down here to southern Ohio. It was at the time occupied by some of her family members and her mortgage was taken care of and everything went well. However they found themselves a house, which then required us to prepare that house for rental. We had tried selling it before, but the market for houses was historically dismal, so we took a week in the spring to fix up little things here and there and put it up for rent. Renters finally in place, we no longer had to worry about that house (except for, of course, the problems arising from being a landlord), and we pressed on to find our new house.
Through what can only be a divine intervention, we found a house that had been on the market for only a week and that was only being sold by the owner instead of through a realtor. The owners, however, had found that house through the realtor we were using to buy a house, and things just fit together just right for us to get the house: a 3-bedroom with 2 garages and a nice, fenced-in backyard with a swing set already in place.
The main obstacle then was the fact that we had two months before our son was due and had to move from our apartment to the house and (the nesting urge so great in Rebecka by now) prepare his room. Of course, new obstacles arose (getting rid of a pest problem, having to replace the carpets, moving in and out of the garage several times), until we finally had everything in place nearly a week before Samuel arrived.
Ah, yes: Samuel, our new son. First-time parents never expect that first month, and I was not at all prepared. It (the whole parenting thing) has gotten much better since then, and he's so fun now with his smiles and learning to laugh.
So, forgive my absence this past year. This year promises to be bigger.
With the year beginning with plans for a baby in the late summer, we worked busily to get everything in order so he would have a place to stay. At the time we lived in a two-bedroom apartment where the second bedroom was my wife's work-at-home office, leaving maybe a drawer for our coming son to have as a bed were we to stay there. So, we upgraded our house search to level orange.
Meanwhile, Rebecka has a home near Cleveland where she lived before we got married and she moved down here to southern Ohio. It was at the time occupied by some of her family members and her mortgage was taken care of and everything went well. However they found themselves a house, which then required us to prepare that house for rental. We had tried selling it before, but the market for houses was historically dismal, so we took a week in the spring to fix up little things here and there and put it up for rent. Renters finally in place, we no longer had to worry about that house (except for, of course, the problems arising from being a landlord), and we pressed on to find our new house.
Through what can only be a divine intervention, we found a house that had been on the market for only a week and that was only being sold by the owner instead of through a realtor. The owners, however, had found that house through the realtor we were using to buy a house, and things just fit together just right for us to get the house: a 3-bedroom with 2 garages and a nice, fenced-in backyard with a swing set already in place.
The main obstacle then was the fact that we had two months before our son was due and had to move from our apartment to the house and (the nesting urge so great in Rebecka by now) prepare his room. Of course, new obstacles arose (getting rid of a pest problem, having to replace the carpets, moving in and out of the garage several times), until we finally had everything in place nearly a week before Samuel arrived.
Ah, yes: Samuel, our new son. First-time parents never expect that first month, and I was not at all prepared. It (the whole parenting thing) has gotten much better since then, and he's so fun now with his smiles and learning to laugh.
So, forgive my absence this past year. This year promises to be bigger.
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