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It can be tricky. I heard something of a conversation at my last church about upgrading the bathrooms - the men's room has a wide stall (I assume the women's does too) but apparently it doesn't meet current requirements. To make it wider would mean either losing the other stall completely, or...

Yes, I remember that now you mention it.

I went for speed repeats yesterday. I started out wishing I had an extra layer and finished up wishing I had chosen a cooler layer. I have a few cycling jerseys that keep me warm, and keep the wind off my front. Obviously running is slower so a tail wind can be sapping but if the wind is that...

Don't know who is behind them, although it does remind me of some inventive ways drones have been removed from service. I read one article about a family who got tired of their neighbor bothering them with a drone while they were enjoying their (private, fenced) pool. In the end they managed to...

Wishing it was warmer, running in this kind of cold isn't a lot of fun. Wishing there was a gym closer to home - a previous winter we looked for gyms but most of them are either further than we'd want to drive for it, or require a long term commitment, or impose a joining fee. I don't really...

Never heard them called that before. It sounds like something my mother used to make when I was a kid, although that was a few years ago now so I don't remember much beyond enjoying eating them.

I don't even know what Spritz cookies are. My wife made a load of cookies today with her aunt, and I got the job of quality testing them. It's a dirty job but someone has to do it....

My last church is doing much the same. Lots of grand ideas for fixing the physical building, few if any ideas for fixing the declining attendance. Still, at least they'll have a thriving building even if they have a dying congregation.

The leadership structure, and a couple of people in particular within it, have been an abject failure. Sadly the people who aren't good for the church have managed to cement their position so it's all but impossible to get rid of them.

Got a bit of fiddly electrical work done. I'd used 14/2 cable to run a switch loop for the lights in the spaces that will be closets. Current code says light switches should have a neutral wire so they support smart switches and although it doesn't technically apply because what's there is...

It does seem that churches have a depressing tendency to either resemble businesses or social clubs, and usually fail badly when they do. Outside activites don't necessarily have to be limited to Bible studies but when there are limited resources to host it makes more sense to do what the...

This can be a tricky one. I think sometimes small churches can try and run all sorts of programs that they can't support, although if they run too few programs it's potentially more likely that they'll struggle to retain visitors. Small churches may suffer with problems relating to very small...

Hard to say, and generally I prefer not to speculate on what people may or may not have done.

It's possible that it's worded specifically to cover things that have yet to surface. It's also possible the wording is intended to shut down any attempts to throw mud in the hope some of it will stick.

Hm. I wonder why Jesus bothered to ask "take this cup from me". I wonder why Abraham bothered to ask God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah. Frankly your comments about "being honest with yourself" sound like they come from a cult leader rather than anything useful. But hey, keep blathering on about...

Home network upgrade. My laptop is a bit of a dinosaur but to replace it with something even comparable in specification would cost me well over $1000, and it still works just fine so I don't want to drop that kind of money. But it is a bit of a drag having slow internet on it - when it was new...

... except that you offer other standards which are unrelated to brain function.

If this is true there's little point praying for anything because God will do what God will do regardless.

Now you're shifting the goalposts. Earlier you said that "life has ended when a life form can no longer stay alive without external assistance". The person on life support may have brain function but be unable to stay alive without the assistance of the machines. The point of the machines is to...