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my dad is moving into a bigger apartment in his building. so i went to his place last night to help him move. his new place is really nice, i like it a lot. there's still quite a bit to be done. he's a bit of a pack-rat. a major p (myers-briggs: perceiving). his friend e-anne and i were trying to convince him to throw stuff out or take it to the sally ann.

abandoned on the floor of his old place was this massive bible. it's huge. i asked him about it, and he told me that his brother bill gave it to him, and he doesn't know why. "it's not a family heirloom or anything" so he didn't want it. i knew that we didn't need a huge bible like that, but it was the sort of thing i could see brendan being very excited about, so i said i'd take it. when i got home, i got out my weigh scales and discovered it weighs exactly 10lbs. it's huge. there's all these printed pages placed in the front. someone, maybe my uncle, maybe someone else, did some research online and discovered that it's from 1870. i left the huge bible in a conspicuous place where brendan would see it immediately upon arriving home. he was indeed excited. we looked thru it together and found an inscription that said "robert sloan, 1890". when i saw that it finally made sense, i don't really understand how my dad missed it! sloan was my grandma's maiden name. in another place it has written "to harold..." - my grandma's brother! my goodness the stories i've heard about uncle harold :p i think he was a funeral director. i kind of don't want to tell my dad in case he wants it back :p it's a huge bible, at least 6 inches thick, and includes the apocrypha and other things. on the last page we discovered old family photos! really old. only 2 of them have names and dates, but the rest are anonymous. there was one little baby who brendan thought looked like me. i couldn't disagree, it did look a little like baby lesley. what a neat find!

my pants are too big :S that's a good thing, don't get me wrong. but i just bought these in december, and now i need new ones again. at least i only spent $12.99 on them.

each morning i really look forward to my lunch. i've really been enjoying my salads.

you sort out the recycling,
it's not part of the foreplay process,
but it's still very important.