Last night, my sister and I made a 4-layer silver cake.
In the process we used up all of the granulated white sugar, the brown sugar, the powdered sugar, the shortening, and the milk. We nearly finished off the flour and the eggs.
Today we need to visit Costco.
I’ve been sick today but fortunately I’m already beginning to feel better.
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
How Shall We Then Live - Francis Shaeffer
At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald
Godless - Ann Coulter
Napoleon - Felix Markham
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks - E. Lockhart
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
I’m currently listening to a taped lecture series by R.C. Sproul entitled The History of Philosophy. So far I’ve been very interested by discussions about Plato, Plotinus, Augustine and several others. One of the most fascinating philosophers covered and one I want to learn more about is Anselm.
Anselm served as the Archbishop of Canterbury and is best known for his attempts to elaborate the doctrines of the Christian faith rationally. He is particularly remembered for his ontological argument for the existence of God. This was his attempt at a simple explanation for why God has to exist.
The argument (in abbreviated form) goes something like this:
“Now we believe that [the Lord] is something that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
And certainly that than which a greater cannot be imagined cannot be in the understanding alone. For if it is at least in the understanding alone, it can be imagined to be in reality too, which is greater.
Therefore if that than which a greater cannot be imagined is in the understanding alone, that very thing than which a greater cannot be imagined is something than which a greater can be imagined. But certainly this cannot be.
There exists, therefore, beyond doubt something than which a greater cannot be imagined, both in the understanding and in reality.”
It’s certainly an interesting bit of logical gymnastics and it took me a bit to get my head wrapped around it. What do you think of it?
1. Undaunted Courage - Stephen E. Ambrose
2. The Amateur Immigrant - Robert Louis Stephenson
3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
4. The Poet and the Lunatics - G.K. Chesterton
5. Phantastes - George Macdonald
6. Microsoft First Generation - Cheryl Tsang
7. Escape from Reason - Francis Shaeffer
8. Back to Freedom and Dignity - Francis Shaeffer
9. Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
10. Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse
11. Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
12. Death in the City - Francis Shaeffer
13. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
14. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
15. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Here’s my list of books, completed in March. This is the third consecutive month that I’ve managed to accomplish my goal of 15 books. I was behind schedule coming into the end of the month but while in Hawaii, I completed a flurry of re ading that caught me up to my quota.
Breakdown:
My church has created it’s own online social networking tool, The City. It will focus on facilitating real-world relationships (in meatspace) rather than online ”friends” (like myspace et al.).
I joined this evening so it’s too early to render much of an opinion on the site. Aesthetically it looks nice and the interface seems to be alright. In the coming weeks and months I look forward to giving it a spin and hopefully meeting many new people.
After changing planes in Anchorage, Trebonte and I flew to Honolulu International Airport on the island of Oahu. We experienced no difficulties in arriving in Hawaii and after a little confusion finding a bus we made our way to Waikiki B each where we spent the majority of our vacation.
As anticipated the climate of Oahu was delightful. Throughout the trip the temperature was in the low 80’s (Farenheit) and free from all precipitation except an occational sprinkle insufficent to fully wet the ground. Furthermore, on the shore, there was usually a delightful breeze that assisted us in remaining cool (Although, it did prove 
irritating when it blew our b each umbrella away.).
Waikiki was crowded with tourists and the infrastructure to accomodate them. Highrise hotels filled the area right out to the beaches and oftern to the water itself. Lodged in the cracks between and sometimes the ground floors of the hotels were hundreds of little shops hawking touristy knick-knacks and stores displaying the latest designer clothing.
Not ones for either type of merchandise, Trebonte and I did litte shopping, rather we spent most of our time in Waikiki strolling or relaxing on the beach. We did buy postcards for our families and after searching for well over an hour 
found a Borders to acquire reading material for our beach lounging (When we asked a native where to find a bookstore we were rebuked, “This is Hawaii, why would you want to read?”). The books were greatly enjoyed as neither of us has had much time for reading of late.
On the first night we stayed with Ana B— and her family at their hotel. Throughout the trip the B— family proved exceedingly generous, providing Trebonte and I with fellowship, food and transportation as long as they remained on the island.
Our trip started well, with easy travel, nice weather, a pleasing location and wondeful friends.
Contrary to some of the guesses asserted by commenters, the answer to my Where in the World was Rabenstrange? challenge, is not Hawaii. The pictoral clues were created in Alaska where Trebonte and I stopped first on our grand adventure and where I am presently blogging (after returning from the tropical portion of our excursion).
More specifically, I am at Ted Stevens Anchroage International Airport (When the King of Pork has an airport named for him does that mean pigs are flying?). Between my stops in Anchorage, Trebonte and I visited the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Details on the tropical portion of our trip will be forthcoming.
I am a Christian living in South Seattle. I recently graduated from Temple University in Tokyo, Japan. At present, I am looking for employment as a financial analyst.
