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Happy New Year.

My puppy, Mandy, is about as graceful as a flying pig. Granted, pigs don't fly, but you can use your imagination. Case in point: in the past week, she has fallen off of two beds while a) playing or b) being moved because she was taking up more space than the human (three or four times her size--) that was trying to sleep within said bed. Silly puppy, beds are for people!

Should anyone ever find reason to ask me why I love a certain person (I'm not talking about a certain person here--though I might as well be--but rather just any person that someone might, for whatever reason, want to know the specific reason why I love them), I will refer them to page 119 of Robert L. Short's excellent book, The Gospel According to Peanuts where it says:

Both love and faith can never give a reason for their love; they can only say, This is my beloved (Song of Sol. 5:16). But perhaps this is just as well: for if the lover, or believer, could give us a reason for loving this love, such as her great beauty or charm or wealth, then it is quite obvious that the lover would not actually be in love with his love, but that his real heart's desire would be beauty or charm or wealth or whatever his reason might be for loving the supposed object of his love. Thus it is impossible for one to have this kind of ulterior motive and remain a true lover...

Note: emphasis and quotation left intact from original publication

So, hah!

A note from my sister this morning:

Gone fishing. Should make it to Africa by 1. If I'm not back by 9, sleigh the dragon in the backyard and make stew for supper.

That is what graduate school does to a person's mind. Sickening, isn't it?

Alright, the search engine (courtesy of Atomz.com) is now online. Granted, this is probably more helpful for me than anyone else, since I have the hardest time remembering if I wrote about something... and when. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I'll probably be changing some stuff (template, etc.) about it around at some point.

You might notice that the archives are back (they weren't gone that long afterall). I'm now using ASP to serve the archives using a server side include. Basically, this means that I don't have to rely on JavaScript anymore to include the archives file. That means that I can finally have my archives Googled and I can add a search engine to my page. Woohoo!

Hopefully I'll be able to get some more cool things soon, such as comment links on each post via ASPComments.

There might be a small hitch, especially if you have JavaScript disabled in your browser. I had to change the default page name from index.htm to index.asp so the ASP stuff would work. However, the server at school still thinks its index.htm, so I've used a JavaScript forward until I get that fixed. Sorry if there are any problems.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I just found a cool collaborative music rating web site. If you get any neat CDs for Christmas, make sure you head over there and rate them. I'm known as Junyor there.