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Friday Night Free for All

It's Friday. Good Friday for some, so Happy Easter!

Drop in and say hello. If I get a chance later I'll update this post with a weekly roundup. In the meantime, let's just get this puppy moving.

How about an Obama joke to kick things off?

A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, "This joke isn't going to work because there's no Muslim in this boat." [Andy Borowitz]

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  1. Yep ... evening Zen ... week's end is always good.

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  2. Well, I'm moving the furniture around again. As everyone can see, expanding the Friends list has broken the nice box around it - but that's the price of friendship, isn't it.

    I've also gotten rid of a smaller list that didn't really make sense to me to segregate ie Christian Top 5.

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  3. Hi guys. Cool - an expanded friends list. I'll have another go at fixing up the lines, maybe later tonight.

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  4. Just finished tonight's plate of carbohydrate-restricted rations and thinking about a nice cup of decaf tea.

    Liposuction doesn't seem so bad right now...

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  5. well we are really in to autumn, frosts, leaves browning and falling, most harvests completed, colourful leaves, the beginnings of the end of another cycle ... life. The weather has been amazingly good ... for grapes & swimming, but not pastures ... an 'indian summer,' some would say ... & if one is to 'pull an Act,' a resurgence of the olde ghoulish douglasian 'never say die' idealogy. The idealogue was as wrong then as he is now, albeit not now as dangerous.
    Anyway I am out for both an Italian feast and conviviality.

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  6. Oswald, sounds painful.

    Of course, I'm drinking red wine and the hubbie is about to go out and get me a fish burger.

    My sister tried liposuction - I wouldn't recommend it!

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  7. Mojo, yep. Water sprinklers are on full right now, no rain in sight.

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  8. I'm having Italian tonight too. Pizza. Back later. Ciao.

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  9. Slim chance on me paying $7k+!

    6.5kg off so far.

    Quite a lot more to go!

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  10. Did y'all hear the one about the blog that had its stats hi-jacked?

    Well you wont hear anything from me about it - my lips are sealed.

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  11. Oswald;
    It is good you are loosing weight - otherwise you might need knee replacement surgery - I read all about it on a comment thread over at DPFs.

    Apparently over indulgence in sausage rolls purchased at school tuck shops are costing us a fortune in knee replacement surgery.

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  12. I already have a wooden knee that one day will need replacing with a tin one.

    I have dropped 21kg from my peak a few years and now is the time to finish the job and get down to the 83kg I used to be at 28, before major illness and the odd injury!

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  13. Stats hi-jacked? Piracy on the high tcp? Probably more of a case of diverted to another port :-)

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  14. I've done a couple of hours in the garden today and yesterday. My body is feeling the pain.

    It's a nice kind of pain though - reminds me of many years ago when exercise was a state of being, not a ideal to strive for.

    Lucky me - the garden is large, the foliage excessive, the work load tremendous and the funds to hire some other sucker to sort it out non-existent.

    So I'll be out exercising for a bit yet. This will do me a world of good.

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  15. "So I'll be out exercising for a bit yet. This will do me a world of good."

    Or some severe damage to muscle and cartilage.....;-)
    Off to work here. y'all have a pleasant evening.

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  16. Evening Friends, fellow Friend here. :-)

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  17. On that, I want to find a way of highlighting and thus promoting traffic to the better blogs on my list without doing a cull, cause almost all on our list link to us (*almost* not looking at anyone) but I also don't want to cause offence by saying 'these ones are better than those ones.'

    It's true, it's just not nice.

    It occured to me when creating your original friends list you might have mulled this one over not that its the same directly but I would think there is some cross over?

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  18. Hi Madeleine!

    I did think about it, but, when it comes down to it, because of the constant moving nature of the Friends list, I decided it didn't really matter.

    And, from time to time I will link to various posts on blogs - so in a sense that way I'll able to point to blogs that are not necessarily "better", but have enough of interest to point out to readers here.

    That's as far as I've got with it so far. Certainly beats dividing everyone into left/right and conservative/liberal.

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  19. Friends? I thought we were doing a fiends list.

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  20. We would probably rate on that one too Zen.

    It is tricky Lucyna. None of us Christian bloggers are blogging soley for our own enjoyment. As such it is important to me that the credible blogs shine so it is clear that its a group of voices speaking sensibly not a couple of aberrations here and there.

    Maybe I need to stop being a sap and say this is my blog, these are my recommended reads, get over it if you haven't made the list. I can never guage how out of line that kind of approach is, sometimes I wonder if the Aspergers gene has brushed me and not just my son.

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  21. Is it seriously Good Friday in some parts of the world today?

    Or is MacDoctor's diagnosis correct?

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  22. Yes, it is Good Friday ... Andrei has a post up about it.

    It's basically because our calendars are out of sync, the Eastern Orthodox still use the old Julian calendar. I think that is the only reason.

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  23. Ah! So I now see! How interesting.

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  24. Good evening everyone.
    Fish and chips with both red and rose wine for dinner.
    Yellow label Wolf Blass shiraz comes highly recommedned.
    Banrock Station white shiraz is a nice fruity cheapy too.

    Oh and its been raining up north.

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  25. Here's a bit of history and explanation of why the changeover was made to what we currently use; the Gregorian calendar.

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  26. Hi FFM,

    Yellow label is always good.

    And you have rain! I've almost forgotten what that is like again!

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  27. Matt and I both sitting here, a computer each, sipping a nice drop of shiraz. I have almond meirangues in the oven drying out - felt like something sweet and we had toad in the hole with balsamic onion gravy for dinner and broccoslaw.

    (seeing as everyone seems to be sharing their food and beverages)

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  28. and I am sipping wine and reading an article on the problem of evil

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  29. Sounds like you are both just getting warmed up.

    I'm just about off to do my Rosary and go to bed, but chat away to FFM. He's always a great conversationalist!

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  30. Matt is writing his next blog post so he has not got many spare words.

    I just snuck a meirangue (how do you spell that word?) out of the oven, soooooooo good. I used brown and white sugar to give them a more chewy caramel thing and the flaked almonds have gone just right in them. Better hide them from the kids or they'll be gone by the time I stumble for coffee tomorrow.

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  31. Matt,

    an article on our site, or somewhere else?

    And I almost managed to tear myself away ...

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  32. 'Night Lucyna. I should head off too soon. I have done far too much small hours of the morning blogging in the past week - our comment volumes have exploded.

    So FFM how goes life in your new blog?

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  33. No its in an online journal.

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  34. Madeleine,

    Something like meringues (what a word, needed the spellchecker!) would have no problem surviving here. My husband hates them and both children, most likely because of their various allergies, are deeply suspicious of anything unusual.

    Safer for me not to make anything at all like that!

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  35. No, you'd end up having to eat the whole batch!

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  36. Matt,

    that's ok then. I can go now, knowing there is nothing to be deeply curious about.

    Ok, going now ...

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  37. I knew it had an i in it but placing it was messing me up.

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  38. You can read the finished product on MandM tomorrow, cause it will be finished by then won't it Matt *nudge* (otherwise I'll have to write something)

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  39. I'm off too. If I don't sleep now I'll eat more meringues and refill my wine glass.

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  40. Right, I'm back. Who brought the jokes? Where's the evening's pun?

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