Hank

Did any of you hear about the Montgomery County Animal Shelter dogs? Well, they has such an influx of dogs being dropped off due to Hurricane Ike that they were going to have to euthanize over 100 dogs on Saturday (of last week). The email included a link to photos of the dogs...that was a mistake. I was ready to leave work early and go save a dog. Well, I called and they had such a strong response that they had adopted out all the dogs except 30. They also decided not to euthanize any of them because they had freed up so much room. I breathed a sigh of relief. I had dodged yet another opportunity to pay or $450 pet deposit.

Well, Eric was talking to a coworker today and found out that she had gone and taken 15 dogs from the shelter last Friday. She still had 5 dogs and wanted him to go out to her house to take a look. Well, we went. There were 5 dogs left. Three of them were hyper, one was not fixed and one was calm and fixed. We found a match! We need a calm dog for our little bitty apartment, and we didn't want to pay to get the dog fixed.

Meet Hank. He is about 1 year old. He isn't an Ike dog because he was taken to the shelter back in June. He is calm yet still acts like a puppy. He is great!

Surprise Fish

Well, when we bought our fish, we asked for two females. She warned us that it looked like one of them was pregnant. A week later we had 1 baby fish that we saved before they could eat it. Unfortunately, he didn't make it - we didn't know what we were doing.

Two nights ago I glanced at our fish tank and saw 2 little guys swimming around. Apparently, we did not get two females. This time I knew what to do, and the little guys are still going. I bought them a new tank because the filter on my old beta tank was not doing so well. Here are pictures of the new mollies in their new tank. You can actually see one of them swimming around. They are tiny!

Congratulations Eric!

Eric tied for 5th in a Professional Bowling Association tournament this weekend in Austin. Go Eric!

Goodness

Please respond to this post!

Genesis 1:4 - "And God saw that the light was good..."

How do you interpret the meaning of "good"?  I tend to think of the biblical "good" as some sort of binary definition where it either is good or not.  Meaning, things are either having sin or not.  Is man inherently good or evil?  Evil because of the presence of sin is what I think most of you will say.  Since that is the case, why then do people contend that the definition of the "good" being used in the bible is one different than having binary properties?  If we accept everything either has sin or doesn't, then we cannot have a spectrum of evilness to goodness.  It is either a sin or not.  It is either having evil or not.  

Our blog is not regulated like peleas5.  He is very capable of looking past abrasive speech or "debate" (like my own at times unfortunately due to my sinful nature).  I, on the other hand, am not.  Therefore please keep replies very polite and delicate if you disagree with someone.  I'm not here to facilitate strong disagreements since we are not in person having a discussion.

Late Addition:

One more thing I forgot to mention is I have heard from those that contend "good", even in Genesis, is measured on a spectrum is that it can therefore be implied that God did not have a perfect creation. I wonder if this could be how some evolutionists still claim to be Christian. The biggest problem I have here is that if you allow God to not make a perfect creation, then it seems He is imperfect. (Unless you suppose He purposefully did it imperfectly.) If He made an imperfect creation without the supposition being true, our understanding of Jesus' perfection and the perfection of our trinity seems to be put in jeopardy. Lastly, I realize some of you will be learning Genesis in Sunday School this semester. That is great. This means you will be able to better answer this right?!?!?!?!?

For My Political Nutjob Friends

You people that love Ron Paul missed him on Stephen Colbert tonight (Thursday night). I know it will say I posted this on Friday morning...but look at the time! Anyhow, perhaps youtube will have it if you guys want to watch.

My New Job

Since I can't explain what my job is normal English, here is what the job description was for potential applicants:

Responsibilities primarily include economic modeling and data analysis support for outreach programs and applied research designed to improve public-sector, community, and business decision-making. Other duties will include responding promptly to subject matter requests on economic impact analysis from groups such as state agency personnel, commodity and trade associations, local government, county extension agents, and departmental administration. Individual and team efforts are required to plan, develop, and implement analyzes of economic impacts from changes in trade and trade policy, farm policy, value-added alternatives, or rural economic development incentives. It is expected the IMPLAN model will be used, in part, to facilitate the applied research necessary to meet unit goals in this area by providing the different levels of geographic aggregation desired by constituent groups.

Basically, it means impact analysis. So, if you wonder what I will be doing...this is the best I can give you because it all depends on what is needed.

Of course this means that Theresa and I were extremely blessed today by me receiving an offer letter after having an interview last week for the job. This is super news. I think my being fatigued is leading to a poor post, but this should help answer the questions I have fielded inadequately. Adios - Eric