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Protect yourself against terrorism with these cool new pictures.

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Mare's List:
1) Elizabeth email

2) another blast from the past - Julia


Matt's List:
1) viewer mail

2) Maly's arm
3) spiritual journey



Tim's call for spiritual journey stories

Here's me:

At the Table #1 a poker podcast.

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Notes: Yes, I was too close to the mic. I'll try to do something about this. And yes, I should have slowed down, maybe, when I flopped the full house.

Music:

Eddie M and Blueshound- "Gambling Blues"

Ambient Jazz Duo - Dr. Michael Yoder, Bass; Rogelio Montemayor, Trumpet- "Mode 201"

Duo-Putty- "Recollection"

Jazz Conspiracy- "Up to Get Down"

All available at Download.com

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Mare's List:
1) oklahoma city bombing
2) maly's religion quote of the day
3) what's so amazing about grace/jane fonda

Matt's List:
1) pope/chicago mary
2) traveling mercies
3) garage sale season

Haven't linked to Real Live Preacher in a while. Here's another about dad and daughter.

This weekend I had an opportunity to talk to grandma some about some family history. I hope to do more of these oral history type things. Here's the first.

How great great grandpa came to America.

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Had an all man game night last week. Five of us, Collin, Casey, David, Danny, and myself broke out the Cosmic Encounter for an intergalactic free for all. Cosmic Encounter is a crazy game; the rules are pretty simple-- card driven warfare with a bit of negotiation. But because of the many different alien races, each with a different alien power (way to break the rules), its fun to see the way the different races interact.


Anyway, I played Filch which allowed me to take used cards out of the discard pile. Not a great power, but for some reason I was able to start out strong. I was winning battles, keeping my fleets out of the warp. Everyone else was losing and going to the warp. Things were looking good for me. Then everyone else realized that I was looking strong. They wouldnt let me in on their attacks and began to gang up on me. Soon I was in as bad shape as everyone else. Casey, playing Megalon (or something like that), was sitting pretty, and could have teamed up for a shared victory a number of times. But he refused, looking to take it alone.


I really should write these sooner after the game takes place, as I cant remember who won. I know I didnt. Probably the winner will comment, claiming victory. At any rate, it was a good night. I look forward to doing it again real soon.


If you're interested, you can check out pics of many of the various Cosmic Encounter editions here.

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Mare's list:
1. name
2. bad week
3. book club
4. f word

Matt's list:
1. viewer mail
2. show length/format
3. spring/garden
4. golf

Sorry about the noise. The furnace kicks off about 10 minutes into the show. I'll remember to turn it off next time.

Show Names (leave a comment as to your favorite, really, this time I mean it, we're picking a name here):

Coolcast
the Crossing
Round Table
the Pub
Po-dunk Cast
Vandelay Industries
the Escape Pod
the Plain View

Top 5 Worst Worship Songs

From a couple of the podcasts I liten too.

Here's Mur on finding faith in science fiction.

Kris and Betsy talk about their recent trip to church. (I feel cheated that we have no Jedi's at our church.)