Comments on: Smack! http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/ reveille precedes revelation Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Happy Anniversary « Wakey Wakey. http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-1159 Happy Anniversary « Wakey Wakey. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:37:43 +0000 #comment-1159 [...] Back in March, I started this blog and a face-to-face discussion group called Gray’s Theology. The purpose of these forums [...] [...] Back in March, I started this blog and a face-to-face discussion group called Gray’s Theology. The purpose of these forums [...]

]]> By: What is spiritual, part 2, or Rambling Is Back in Style, Kids « Wakey Wakey. http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-61 What is spiritual, part 2, or Rambling Is Back in Style, Kids « Wakey Wakey. Tue, 15 May 2007 06:13:08 +0000 #comment-61 [...] to ramble on about how I’ve been musing about and wrestling with my own question. Usually, in the spirit of this post and the mission of this website, these “after” posts are more rhetorical attempts to stick an idea or question in our [...] [...] to ramble on about how I’ve been musing about and wrestling with my own question. Usually, in the spirit of this post and the mission of this website, these “after” posts are more rhetorical attempts to stick an idea or question in our [...]

]]> By: gduckett http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-43 gduckett Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:19:35 +0000 #comment-43 Staying off topic... I work for a German company, and we had a guest speaker in from Minnesota to teach us how to work with the German culture. To illustrate cultural differences within America, he told us about his drive along a California highway the previous night. He was driving in the low 80's (speed limit 65) and he pulled into the left lane to pass a car. After he passed and before he could get back into the right lane, a car came out of nowhere, passed the car he'd just passed, then swerved into the right lane and passed him. He looked over and it was a highway patrol car. He said that when you're driving 80-something in MN, police cars typically don't pass you on the right because you're going to slow. Staying off topic…

I work for a German company, and we had a guest speaker in from Minnesota to teach us how to work with the German culture. To illustrate cultural differences within America, he told us about his drive along a California highway the previous night. He was driving in the low 80’s (speed limit 65) and he pulled into the left lane to pass a car. After he passed and before he could get back into the right lane, a car came out of nowhere, passed the car he’d just passed, then swerved into the right lane and passed him. He looked over and it was a highway patrol car. He said that when you’re driving 80-something in MN, police cars typically don’t pass you on the right because you’re going to slow.

]]> By: grosser http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-26 grosser Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:38 +0000 #comment-26 I'm sure I would. Not sure how much I'd like the traffic, but the speed limit buffer? oh yes. I’m sure I would. Not sure how much I’d like the traffic, but the speed limit buffer? oh yes.

]]> By: gduckett http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-25 gduckett Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:49:40 +0000 #comment-25 grosser - You'd love the speed limit buffer here in Southern California. grosser – You’d love the speed limit buffer here in Southern California.

]]> By: grosser http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-14 grosser Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:39:33 +0000 #comment-14 Oh my head, yes! I feel like I've painted getting smacked in an all too attractive light in my post above. It's not always the funnest thing when the suppositions I want to hold very dearly get rubbed up against reality a bit too hard. Very inconvenient. And I confess that the outlook makeover that getting smacked could/should provide doesn't always "stick" for me as well as it could. For example, how many times must I learn that the buffer around the speed limit that I grew up with in New England is not as generous in Wisconsin small towns? At least three times, that's how many. Hopefully not more. Seriously, though, Sandra (well, I *was* serious in that last paragraph too)--care to share a real life example of this? If you're still there, anyway. Oh my head, yes! I feel like I’ve painted getting smacked in an all too attractive light in my post above. It’s not always the funnest thing when the suppositions I want to hold very dearly get rubbed up against reality a bit too hard. Very inconvenient.

And I confess that the outlook makeover that getting smacked could/should provide doesn’t always “stick” for me as well as it could.

For example, how many times must I learn that the buffer around the speed limit that I grew up with in New England is not as generous in Wisconsin small towns? At least three times, that’s how many. Hopefully not more.

Seriously, though, Sandra (well, I *was* serious in that last paragraph too)–care to share a real life example of this? If you’re still there, anyway.

]]> By: Jenn http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-12 Jenn Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:04:19 +0000 #comment-12 Sandra, that sounds like a process with which I'm all too familiar. Do you ever live in slight apprehension when things are going well, that you're about to get whacked in the face again? Sandra, that sounds like a process with which I’m all too familiar. Do you ever live in slight apprehension when things are going well, that you’re about to get whacked in the face again?

]]> By: Sandra http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-11 Sandra Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:28:02 +0000 #comment-11 God has a tendency to *smack* me every once in a while. It's when I least expect it and it's always something that makes me incredibly angry. After the anger comes acceptance and an entire makeover of my outlook. God has a tendency to *smack* me every once in a while. It’s when I least expect it and it’s always something that makes me incredibly angry. After the anger comes acceptance and an entire makeover of my outlook.

]]> By: grosser http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-7 grosser Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:24:04 +0000 #comment-7 Oh right! How quickly I forget. Sorry, world! Sorry Jason Schartzmann, who I know is definitely reading this! Oh right! How quickly I forget. Sorry, world! Sorry Jason Schartzmann, who I know is definitely reading this!

]]> By: Jenn http://wakeywakey.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/hello-world/#comment-4 Jenn Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:14:54 +0000 #comment-4 I just watched I Heart Huckabees for the first time last night, oddly enough. It was a movie that made me go, "Hmmm(?)" The smacking-each-other-in-the-face-with-the-ball part was hilarious, though! (As were various other segments.) Not to be overfastidious or anything, though, but Jude Law's character was not involved in the smacking, and he was anything but a hero. ("Albert" was played by a Jason-whose-last-name-escapes-me.) Anyway. Rock on, Gray's! I just watched I Heart Huckabees for the first time last night, oddly enough. It was a movie that made me go, “Hmmm(?)” The smacking-each-other-in-the-face-with-the-ball part was hilarious, though! (As were various other segments.)

Not to be overfastidious or anything, though, but Jude Law’s character was not involved in the smacking, and he was anything but a hero. (“Albert” was played by a Jason-whose-last-name-escapes-me.)

Anyway. Rock on, Gray’s!

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