Oddwalk Ministries

Month: August 2006

Not Sure What I Should Title This

So, the blog had something like 106 visitors yesterday, 36 already today, and over 400 for the week. That’s like 10 times the usual. If I, Orin, knew my keytar posts were so popular, I’d have been putting them up here several times a day. Here’s a cartoon I found at www.toothpastefordinner.com that not only…

More Noah! – Part 2

Hello! Yesterday was a pretty long day, but it was our first with Noah. When you have your baby at a “teaching” hospital, you not only get visits from lots of doctors and nurses, but you get visits from all of their students as well. We had a really good day, though. Noah slept most…

More Noah!

He’s finally here! Yay! Thank you all very much for your prayers. Noah and Erin are doing very well. Everyone is tired, but everyone is healthy too, and that’s the most important. He was born at 9:32pm last night, weighed in at 7lbs. 11oz., and was 20 1/2 inches long. I’ll write more about this…

Forthcoming Tribute

Oddwalk has signed on to an internet project where bloggers agree to create a tribute on Sept. 11 to one of the many Americans who died 5 years ago. Come back to the blog then to see who we have been assigned to honor that day. If you’d like to participate, there are still a…

Erin’s Lucky Labor Shirt

When I got home from work this afternoon, my wife was wearing this shirt: She calls it her lucky labor shirt, because it’s the one she was wearing when she went into labor with our daughter, Madeleine. She is ready to have the baby and is hoping that the wearing of this shirt will help.…

Before / After

Before: After: Yup, glasses. They’re pretty-much all-the-time glasses. I had some reading glasses in college (here’s a lousy pic): but these are permanent. As someone not used to full-time glasses, they make the world clearer, but the whole depth-percetion thing is going to take some getting used to. My computer screen is currently a trapezoid,…