{"id":921,"date":"2009-10-19T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/10\/19\/october-19\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:51:41","slug":"october-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/october-19\/","title":{"rendered":"October 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/01\/05\/tmc-chapel-messages\/\">wished aloud<\/a> for a better way to access old TMC chapel messages.&#160; Somebody else must have had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/pulpit\">same desire<\/a>.&#160; <em>Very nice!&#160; <\/em>Where to start?&#160; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/pulpit\/Search?query=pilkey\">Dr. Pilkey<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/pulpit\/Search?query=bookman\">Dr. Bookman<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/pulpit\/Search?query=walls\">Harry Walls<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>How do you sign your email?&#160; Sincerely, regards, cheers?&#160; It turns out that I&#8217;m not the only one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/02\/AR2009080202073_pf.html\">who struggles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently I mailed checks I received into my bank in California for deposit.&#160; I did this for years from Israel and continued it when I got here.&#160; Unfortunately one of the deposits I mailed was never received by the bank.&#160; Doubly unfortunately one of those checks was from a copyright violator who finally paid up.&#160; So I switched to deposit by ATM.&#160; This is certainly fool-proof, as the checks cannot get lost in the mail.&#160; But they can, I learned, get lost in the machine.&#160; The machine ate the checks (in a bank envelope) but then claimed it had not.&#160; (They were found a few days later, probably by the guy emptying the ATM.)&#160; Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I posted this before.&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/06\/24\/the-blue-and-the-green\/\">blue and green colors<\/a> are the same color. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animatedhebrew.com\/\">AnimatedHebrew.com<\/a> seems to have some nice resources for learning biblical Hebrew.&#160; A link on it led to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebrew4christians.com\/Blessings\/Synagogue_Blessings\/Priestly_Blessing\/Birkat_Kohanim\/birkat_kohanim.html\">good recording<\/a> of the priestly blessing (Num 6:24-26) in flash format so you can read along.&#160; I found the mp3 version of it on the lower left of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordofmessiah.org\/blessings_cd.htm\">this page<\/a>, entitled &#8220;The Aaronic Benediction&#8221; along with a few others.<\/p>\n<p>19 years ago today I started dating a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I wished aloud for a better way to access old TMC chapel messages.&#160; Somebody else must have had the same desire.&#160; Very nice!&#160; Where to start?&#160; How about Dr. Pilkey or Dr. Bookman or Harry Walls? How do you sign your email?&#160; Sincerely, regards, cheers?&#160; It turns out that I&#8217;m not\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/october-19\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}