Terry's 3M's

It may be April Fool's Day, but, I probably won't be playing any jokes. I'm afraid that I disappointed Carrie when I didn't react when she told me that I had a spider in my hair when she woke me up. Actually, I wasn't thinking about April Fool's Day--I was thinking that she was playing with the 2 inch black plastic spider that the kid's play jokes with.

Bryan is staying home from school. He's says he's sick, but, I don't see any wrong with him. He might be telling the truth about having a stomachache--but, he pulled this a few weeks ago. Sick until 3:30 in the afternoon--then remarkably cured! Now he's asking what's for breakfast. I said, "I thought you were sick?" He says, "I gotta eat!" Well, if he's got an upset stomach, dry toast ought to be ok.

I'm going to upload this entry, and get off the computer.

Yesterday, I spent most of my time between 8:30 AM and 11:30 PM on this computer. I took a time off between around 6:30-8:15 PM to eat dinner, discuss book purchases with Johnny and Carrie, prayers and bedtime.

(An aside--remember Scholastic Books? Now, Scholastic Books has branched out. They no longer sell just books. They also sell videos, CD-ROMs, and little science kits as well. Johnny is trying to figure out on which of the many items he wants to spend the money he earned for his report card.)

I didn't make a journal entry yesterday. Nor did I visit some of the nice people who have signed my guestbook.

What did I spend all that time on the computer doing? Two things, basically.

One was fulfilling an obligation that I have long been lax in completing. I volunteered to check and maintain the links for a page called Hot Links for Kids. I'm sorry, but, I'm just too tired and lazy to look up the URL to link it here. There is a link to it on my Christian page.

I checked and corrected, searched for new addresses for missing sites, and eliminated some of the approximately 170 links on that page. I hope the webmistress of the site uploads it soon. If I don't put it off for as long as I did this time, it should be easier to maintain. Especially since a lot of the new addresses were moves to private domain names.

The other thing that I did was to put up a prayer request for a friend of mine.

She got herself on the bad side of a group of people who have a "goth" band. If that were all it was, she could probably handle it. But, there is a woman in the band who is very much into ancient Egyptian black magic and considers herself a high priestess of Ra and Isis.

I know that there are some of you out there who dismiss this as something that no longer exists or you don't believe in that sort of thing.

Well, believe it or not, it does exist and it is VERY dangerous. So, I am praying hard for her strength.

If you're a Christian and don't believe that it exists--why not?

There are lots of cults out there. Just be aware that while some are all fake ritual and form, there are those that are quite serious. And I have found that there are a lot of intelligent people that interested in metaphysics. And an intense interest in metaphysics can lead into the seduction of magic--including black magic.

I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but, there are a lot of pages on the internet testifying to the increase of paganism. And a lot of sites dedicated to black magic.

Shoot! I was ready to go to yahoo to find the statistics to back up my words. But, my isp is acting up. I can't go anywhere. I can't upload this right now either--it's almost 9:45 AM. My isp says that yahoo, geocites, excite and any other place that I try to access doesn't have a DNS number. It's saying the same thing on both Netscape and IE--so it has to be my isp.

Bryan went to school late--but, he went to school after all. Why? Delton thought that it was time for the charade of stomacheaches to stop; so, he gave Bryan some medicine. Castor Oil. It worked. After swallowing that disgusting stuff, you would have thought that Bryan was dying. Fifteen minutes after Delton said, "In 45 minutes to an hour, it will be time to give him another dose.", Bryan decided that it was time to go to school! He said he'd rather go to school than let another spoonful of that stuff go down his throat!

Bryan tried to play an April Fool's joke on me. He told me that the water department was conducting an experiment and that the water on our end of town was going to taste like fruit punch, another side of town would have water that tastes like raspberries and another like lemonade. I said, "I'm not falling for it." He told me that he heard it on the radio. I said, "Yeah, it's April Fool's day!" He later got a glass of water and said, "It tastes like fruit punch." But the only one who tried the water was one of the girls. DaMama is too smart for that.

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