It is coming...

I am finally writing up my critique of the WELS.  I went into it with the idea of doing a serious critique with as little snark and sarcasm as possible.  I am failing miserably at it.  I'm finding that no matter how hard I try, I cannot help but be the snarky, sarcastic, curmudgeonly bastard that this blog was know for so long ago.  So, if anyone occasionally checks the blog to see what is new (yeah right), check in again soon.

How to handle a layoff in three easy steps..

1. After getting the news and gathering your things, go to the liquor store.  Buy as much alcohol as you think you can afford.  This is all the alcohol you get until you find a new job unless you can convince your buddies to buy you more.

2. Once at home, get onto LinkedIn and start looking for a new job.  Begin drinking throughout this process.  Pray that a recruiter will call you with a lead.  Contact everyone you can think of to see if they have any leads.

3. At 5pm, get off the computer and pull up Netflix. Start binge watching you favorite show.  Continue drinking if you wish or sober up if you need to be somewhere.

What in the world happened...

Looking at my dashboard, I realized I have not posted anything in almost three years. I've gone from two kids to three, moved multiple times, and changed synods again.  The WELS and I are not a compatible.  Why their cemetery profs decided that the NIV 2011 was just fine and dandy, I realized that staying there was a bad idea.  I can't have my kids getting exposed to that lousy translation.

Anyway, I cannot guarantee I'm going to post anything over the next three years.  Then again, I might.

I was looking to see when the last time I published was...

and I received an email today that sent me back here. You can switch synods in the hope that there is unity, in the hope that people will actually walk together with each other, in the hope that even in the earthly things there is unity. The problem is, that will only be achieved in heaven. After this email I received, I think I'm going to write a review of the WELS. I've been here six years. I think it's time for me to put together a review of the synod. I've seen a number of churches and been a few places. I believe I've gained enough perspective as to how the WELS operates to give an honest opinion. Give me a little time (I need my kids asleep to write more than a couple of paragraphs).

It's been a while since I posted here. This used to be a happening blog four or five years ago. Now, people have been waiting to see what happens. If you read my post a while back on the other blog, you know the fire is back. It is being fueled by something different this time: fear my children will have nowhere to go.

I plan on starting at ground zero of this whole mess: church and change. I will begin to work my way out to all sorts of people. Gutless district presidents, synodical officials, and whoever else is trying to turn the WELS into Babtists with sacraments.

It is sad I have to do this again after railing on the LCMS for so long, but I fear for my child. At some point, all the faithful will have to come to grips with a post-synodical world. Every major synod is faltering. Sad, but true.

This episode is why I watch 24. Jack just single-handedly took out all of the terrorists and sent the bad guy hanging. You gotta love it.

24, so far, has been much better than the past two episodes. In less than 30 minutes, two bad guys are dead and we are about to see a torture. This ought to be good.

Pain is good. The family that inflicts pain together stays together.

Babe's dad is up to something.

There's a lot of different stuff going on here. The role of family, honor, love of country, and how far do civil liberties go during a time of crisis.

I knew it. Babe's Dad was behind it!

The family that kills together stays together!

The last two weeks of 24 has not delievered the way I wanted it to. No killings, murder, mayhem. I wanted to see Jack leave the plastic bag over his head. I wanted to see the little brother get killed. I wanted to see mayhem on a scale never seen before. I feel like I'm back in Season 1.

My readership has now dropped to zero since I turned this blog into a 24 blog. I am proud. That means no one is reading the meaningless drivel I once produced and are also not reading the meaningless drivel. I hope to rebuild my readership soon, but I have to kill my blogroll first. The shame.

Taj Mahal Badalandabad used to want to, umm, let's not say. Now he wants to blow up the USA. Van Wilder should have taught Taj Mahal Badalandabad the finer points of, ummm.

One dead middleman.

Hello Lt. Brashir. Assad was the doctor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It took me 3 hours to recoginize him, but I did.

A Palmer is asking Jack to run things. What's new?

Don't call the police. Ooooops. She called the police.

Nukes. Oh boy. Another possible nuke.

Kill your buddy.

Bye Bye Taj Mahal Badalandabad.

Holy Moly Batman! Jack killed Curtis.

Holy S#!^!!!! They detonated it!!!!

There's four more nukes!


It sucks that Curtis is gone. Bacardi and Cola is no more.

Kumjar is a terrorist!

Bauer is going to save a terrorist who turned on the terrorists.

Perimiter. The one thing that never works.

Crazed Musilim Terrorists.

CTU figured out Jack was there.

Castration: The way to find all your files.

Street Justice.

Make friends (and enemies) using guns.

Imagine, Jack was right.

Back tomorrow.

Jack Bauer just ripped the windpipe out of someone with his mouth. This season's 24 is going to be amazing. Explosions, shootings, and Jack Bauer going after a very bad man with a manpurse.

January 14th-- a new beginning.

And so it ends...

You know, I never thought I might actually close this blog down, but the time has come. Marriage has created new responsibilities but also new opportunities. That being said, while this blog is going to no longer be updated, Random Intolerance is my new home. Elle would announce the same on her blog, but all the access info and software is on her computer, which is on the fritz. Hopefully you will hear more from my wife at the new site, and I'll post a little more. I'm not going to blow up this blog until I can figure out how to move all my posts (all 1043 of them) over to the new blog. Until then, this will serve as an archive of all my stuff. Please update all your blogrolls and bookmarks to reflect this change. Thanks to all my readers and I hope you'll follow me over to the new blog!

24 Trailer

Random Thoughts goes video with the 24 trailer. Take a look. Heck, even John will want to see this. You have to watch a Toyota commerical (see Swede, Toyota has good taste in the shows it sponsors), and then hit the play button again to see the trailer.

Update: Video removed due to complaints.

My laptop at home still won't load blogger or any blogger sites. What in the world is going on? I tried dumping all my files and cookies. Nothing. I tried rebooting. Nothing. It's annoying not being able to read your own blog at home, where most of my ideas for posts come. Not that I have had a lot of ideas as of late, but the point still remains. If anyone has any clue as to what in thee world is going on, let me know.

Update: It's fixed now.

For some stinking reason, my own computer won't let me on to blogger. This is crap.

Lutheran Carnival XXXV is up at Theonomy. The next carnival host is The Markel Family. Posts are due by November 3rd. The carnival should be up on November 5th.

The Midwest Beerfest was a success. We went, we drank, we did not drive home. You don't get drunk there unless you really try. Only one of us seemed to be trying, and it wasn't me. I paced myself and still only used half the tickets I had. Of course, going to the seminar added six more samples. My wife enjoyed the beer, I enjoyed the beer, and saw a friend I hadn't seen in a while. One of the local pastors showed up in his collar. Fun was had by all. Everybody came over to our apartment and we fed them. It allowed everybody to sober up. Everybody went home, and now I'm here typing.

The Chargers are playing the chefs tomorrow, it's a 12:00 start, and I have a potluck and voters meeting to go to. You can imagine how happy this is making me.

Posts for the Lutheran Carnival are due tomorrow at 7 pm CDT (0000 UTC Saturday). Please make sure to use the format.

Why is it the stuff you think no one will comment on gets tons of comments and the stuff you think will get comments doesn't?

The response to my idea of an online journal was underwhelming, so I'll let someone else eventually come up with the idea. I think I would write for it, but running something like that is just too much. Besides, the Lutheran Carnival is plenty for now.

Speaking of the Lutheran Carnival, posts are due Friday at 7 pm CDT. I am giving serious thought to making the posts due 0000 UTC Saturday so the time doesn't change on a worldwide basis. Of course, when we fall back, the time would change, but that's because UTC doesn't change.

Now that that's confused you, I must make note that at least one of the Lutheran reality TV junkies replied to my post with numbers. I would reply he should crunch the numbers between, say, January and May of last year and see how it turns out. The reason why I bring this up is because I could have been a major stooge for 24 last year, but I wasn't. I made a few posts reminding people that it was coming, but that was about it. Oh, and now I am part of an organization called Blogs for Bauer (proudly, I might add. I fully endorse them. Yes, that endorsement on the right sidebar is mine). I could have posted all 24, all the time, but I didn't because a) that's not what most of you want to hear about and b) complaints from a certain Englishman not to be named who was saying I was ruining plot lines for him during Season 4.

I endorse International Talk Like Jack Bauer Day.

The point is, I could turn this thing into Random Thoughts of 24 (with the occasional thigh shooting), but I don't. 24 is something I like, but it doesn't domineer my blog for the five months it's on. I could start my own separate blog if I wanted to do that. Maybe I should.

Anyway, enough complaining. I've decided the first non-Lutheran blog to become Blog of the Week (or longer) is Blogs for Bauer, because they alerted me to the 24 trailer. How many men does it take to stop Jack Bauer? I don't know, but it's more than a Chinese freighter has, I know that.