Will's Belated Birthday

Monday: left work at five. Arrived home 45 minutes later to a madhouse. Earlier this year we had kept a little dog Ellie that was well-behaved, but this time with Winnie around both dogs were having a ball, running around and playing. I got a nice scratch on my arm as soon as I walked in. I took Winnie outside, then we got in the car to get ready to go to W&MC’s. Winnie couldn’t calm down until C finally got in and we got on the way.

Traffic wasn’t too bad. Took 75 south to Northside to MLK. Arrived at seven. Matthew arrived, and then Anna, returning Okie after dog-sitting. Anna rocked her purple Crocs.

Around Okie, Winnie was relatively calm, having such a tiring afternoon playing with Ellie. W fired up his grill while M made the burger patties. W smashed and grilled the burgers, as well as some onions. C had made a tomato & corn salad as well as baked bits of potato & sweet potato.

M had also made a delicious birthday cake at his home, this one non-gluten-free. Very thick, iced and decorated perfectly, with a fruity cream filling in the middle. Couldn’t get together on Will’s actual birthday because several of our work schedules.

Got home late. C went to bed with Ellie. Me and Winnie missed the Home Run Derby but watched most of the celebrity all star game. Two guys wore Braves jerseys, which was nice. Vinnie Castilla, Von Miller, Hunter Pence, Jenny Finch, CC Sabathia.

Since Ellie was upstairs, I tried to get Winnie to sleep with me downstairs. That worked until 2 am. Ellie paid us a visit, and I took both pups outside for a pit stop. Both were anxious to get back inside to see what the other dog was doing. Finally put Winnie upstairs in the bathroom, where he normally sleeps. Both dogs remained peaceful. I went back downstairs to sleep.

Read online that people are lobbying for a 4 day / 8 hour work week, with workers receiving the same pay they’d previously received for a 40 hour week. That’s a 20% pay increase. Most of the supporters made comments showing they’d obviously never worked in a real industry before. Sure, working four days instead of 5 would increase the quality of my life. Not sure I would be as productive, as the supporters claim. No way I could get 5 days’ worth of work done in four. At some point someone actually has to do the work. Not sure how goods and services can be produced and delivered to market when workers are working a fifth fewer hours. Right now businesses are already having a hard time staying open, filling jobs, meeting payrolls, and getting goods for their shelves. Unlike the government, private businesses can’t just magically print money.

Stephen A Smith put his foot in his mouth again. He’s paid to espouse contrary opinions, but in this day and age that can be a slippery slope. This time about the Angels star from Japan needing an interpreter. Kinda blind considering how the world today is becoming increasingly global, for better or worse.

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GEORGE BRETT  [SABR Bio] had his record for the highest qualified batting average in the expansion era broken by Tony Gwynn. Brett hit .390 in 1980. Gwynn hit .394 14 years later. The year he led the league in total bases was not his MVP season, even though his total bases total was identical. Had 298 TB in 1976 & repeated in 1980 although that total was only good for 8th place in the AL then. His career high in TB was in 1979 when he had 363. He was the first player to appear in twenty-five career ALCS games. Played in 27 ALCS games, all with Kansas City.

2 Timothy 4:3–4: The time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Denison: it has become conventional wisdom in our postmodern culture that all truth is personal and subjective. This claim that there are no absolute truths is itself an absolute truth claim. It fails not just logically but practically—if all truth is subjective, how is the rule of law to be enforced? What makes one ideology (such as radical jihadism) wrong and another right? This denial of objective truth is metastasizing through the body of our society. It renders the Bible a diary of religious experiences that Christians have no right to "force" on others. If I were Satan, I would follow precisely this strategy in separating American culture from the Biblical worldview upon which our nation was founded, and the Biblical morality that is essential to our flourishing.