You know what word bothers me? "Commentator." That is, one who gives a commentary.
I mean, why is it not just "commenter?" Why the extraneous syllable? Following the use of "commentator," why shouldn't an interpreter be an "interpretator?"
Because it sounds ridiculous, that's why! Unfortunately, "commentator" is already entrenched -- it's in the dictionary, and Googling for it yields over 13 million results (that's the true test of English word usage, naturally). It's too late for me to do anything about commentator except rant about it on my blog. Oh, well.
For some reason, the other day Kaeta slumped her head forward at dinner, and Karianne and I both cracked up. She looked up at us with this look, like "I don't know why this is funny, but okay!" and did it again! Now it's become this little family joke. I know, it's probably not that funny to anyone else, but please, indulge us:
I'm amazed at what things come naturally to her. We've danced with her some, but playing music on her little table and dancing along? That was totally her idea. Sometimes she'll even dance when I sing to her!
We painted the kitchen! It used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
I'm embarrassed to say, this took us about 4 weeks to complete. But it was a total of maybe 12 hours of work. Those of you without kids, do the math: you get 3 free hours per week. Use them wisely. :-)
Painting Project #2 is much more lofty (pun intended: there are high ceilings involved). On Wednesday we start painting the living room! (Don't be fooled by that exclamation point. I approach this project with much fear and trembling.)
It currently comes with 14 free books, with more free books to be released in the coming months. Tell your friends!
(One note: Not all of the free books come with the initial program download, but you get them through a catalog that's built into the program, and it's really easy. Here are instructions for that.)
Bible Explorer is totally free Bible software that's stuffed with features and has a growing library of electronic books (currently around 150 free, plus over 1400 additional books for sale. Click here for a list of the free books). I highly recommend giving it a try! I work for WORDsearch, the company that makes it.
Instaverse is a free progam that makes Scripture references pop up when you mouse over them in a web browser. This is nice if you read online commentaries, devotionals, etc. that refer to verses without quoting them. If you have the Bible memorized, please disregard.
(If you don't know about RSS feeds, I recommend spending 5 minutes at bloglines.com. I'm hooked on it -- it's a great way to check multiple sites for updates in one fell swoop, and you can keep up with news, your friends' blogs, and anything else with an RSS feed very easily.)
If I put our names here, maybe googling for them will someday lead people to this page, so here they are: Derek Kurth, Karianne Kurth (formerly Karianne Leikam, aka Kari Leikam), and Kaeta Kurth.
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