This is a picture I just found again that Dan drew for me of my secret Hideout, it is a castle, surrounded by coniferous trees and it has a secret tunnel through a waterfall from which I navigate gondollas with bards playing me music and I have a cape, and of course bears with kalishnikovs.. those are essential to keep the paparazzi and UN away. yep. that's the dream... I … [Read more...]

I have to run out the door to work but I figured I'd let St. Athanasius do the talking for me and remind us of a central (not THE central) figure in the Christmas story, that's right a little holiday Marian devotion from the Father of Orthodox Theology:"It becomes you to be mindful of us, as you stand near Him Who granted you all graces, for you are the Mother of God and our … [Read more...]

So today was my one day off work this week, tomorrow it's back to the acid mines / Deli for me. Today was an ok day. I listened to Ravi Zacharias this morning which was inspiring as usual and reminded me of the fact that I believe in an Augustinian view of Original Sin. Then I got lost in the snow of downtown St. Catharines trying to find parking at my Church. After getting … [Read more...]

Last night was the worst night I've ever had at work. I'm so tempted to make this post just a list of hyperbole's about how terrible it was, but I'll just leave it at: worst. Then I got home and told my parents about the night and they promptly left the room. Today my mom told me in more or less words that she doesn't like me. heh that makes two of us. But I'm angry all the … [Read more...]

So today I was reading Edward Gibbon the Enlightenment Historian and a fellow convert to Roman Catholicism ...though he relapsed to Anglicanism and was in all honesty a Deist - making him overall a man after my own heart as he has endeavoured in all my favourite religions and pastimes. Anyway, I was reading his famous "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and I figured … [Read more...]