Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Blog’s Going Down

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Monkling

They’re doing maintenance on my server & moving everything to a newer data center. This move will begin Friday, March 21st, at 9 PM PDT, and is expected to last up to 12 hours, until Saturday, March 22nd, 9 AM … Continue reading →

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Good Friday Torture

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Monkling

This afternoon we went to the 3 p.m. service at Church. I wanted to get there early. I knew it would be packed but someone didn’t listen to me (I won’t mention his name but it’s that guy I’m married … Continue reading →

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Holy Thursday ’08

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Monkling

A first and a last. Tonight was the first time I was at Holy Thursday Mass all by myself. Okay, fine. I wasn’t exactly by myself but Stephen was waaaayyyy on the other side with the altar servers and deacons. … Continue reading →

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Spam Turns 70

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Monkling

No, not spam email, silly! We haven’t even had email for 70 years. No, I mean this Spam: Yep, that wonderful canned meat has hit it’s 70th anniversary. Or would that be birthday? I’m not sure anyone actually gave birth … Continue reading →

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More Haiti Photos

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Monkling

I’m guessing not too many of you will be traveling to Haiti so I’m posting a couple more pictures. The sunset and the waterfalls were some of the really beautiful photos I stole from Steve (or whichever young man took … Continue reading →

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Dinner & A View

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Monkling

Steve said that while they were in Haiti, they ate a lot of goat meat & that it was really good. So good that they almost forgot on Friday that they couldn’t eat meat. I wonder if this guy is … Continue reading →

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Spring Break 3rd World Style

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Monkling

I didn’t get to talk to Steve too much about his trip to Haiti but I did manage to copy a bunch of his photos onto my computer before he ran out of here. The group of seminarians spent most … Continue reading →

Posted in La Famiglia, Travel | 5 Comments

Getting Plastered

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Monkling

Remember how I said we were getting a wall taken down? This week, the demolition work started. This is the closet I’m losing: And this is where the opening is going to be: I knew breaking up the wall was … Continue reading →

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And The Winner Is…

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Monkling

Katie, who got a whopping 13 answers right out of 16. Here are the Monkling Trivia questions with the correct answers in red and my favorite responses in blue. I also included some links to posts where I mentioned the … Continue reading →

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Come On People!

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Monkling

Time is running out! Surely there have to be a few more of you out there who want to enter my contest. Do y’all want me to become completely discouraged with the pitiful lack of participation and stop running contests? … Continue reading →

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