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Postfix queue management
This is more a reminder for me than anything, but maybe someone else will benefit from this:
- Print queue: postqueue -p
- Delete all messages from the queue: postsuper -d ALL
- Read a message: postcat -q <queue file id>
- See what shape the queue is in: qshape
I am sure the man pages for each command will give you more info on what you can do with them.
Operation: Stairs
In a brilliant move we decided to replace our ugly, painted cinder block stairs with nice, wooden ones in our yard to go up on the second floor.
We got the stairs fully assembled for a reasonable price and the builder told us they move those with two or three people. We drove them home and tried to lift them out of the pickup… I am guessing 1000 lbs easy. Maybe they move them with two or three guys using a forklift, but there is no way two or three people can move these.
So after measuring the width of our yard gate and concluding the stairs were too wide to fit through, my great plan was to lift up the stairs over the 6 foot fence with four people. Short story: It didn’t happen. Long story: We lifted it for about 30 seconds without moving after which we almost dropped it on the person lifting them from underneath (me).
Taking the stairs apart made the wood splinter, so we came up with awesome plan #2: Dig out the fence post. Myka started that yesterday and our fears of it being set in concrete were confirmed. I continued digging out the concrete today until I discovered that the concrete was connected to the foundation of the house. Yipee.
Now the last straw is taking the stairs apart. I got most of the relevant screws out already. We still have to lift each part over the fence, of course. I hope that we can get this nightmare over with this weekend; the stairs have been sitting in our front yard for about 2 weeks now…
The logical conclusion of atheistic morality
This comes courtesy of Paul Manata @ Triablogue. Sound familiar? This is the very thing we see today, the logical conclusion of relativism and ultimately evolution.
Then I learned that all moral judgments are ‘value judgments,’ that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice of the United States had written that the American Constitution expressed nothing more than collective value judgments. Believe it or not, I figured out for myself–what apparently the Chief Justice couldn’t figure out for himself–that if the rationality of one value judgment was zero, multiplying it by millions would not make it one whit more rational. Nor is there any ‘reason’ to obey the law for anyone, like myself, who has the boldness and daring–the strength of character–to throw off its shackles…I discovered that to become truly free, truly unfettered, I had to become truly uninhibited. And I quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and limitation to it, consists in the insupportable ‘value judgment’ that I was bound to respect the rights of others. I asked myself, who were these ‘others?’ Other human beings, with human rights? Why is it more wrong to kill a human animal than any other animal, a pig or a sheep or a steer? Is your life more than a hog’s life to a hog? Why should I be willing to sacrifice my pleasure more for the one than for the other? Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare that God or nature has marked some pleasures as ‘moral’ or ‘good’ and others as ‘immoral’ or ‘bad’? In any case, let me assure you, my dear young lady, that there is absolutely no comparison between the pleasure that I might take in eating ham and the pleasure I anticipate in raping and murdering you. That is the honest conclusion to which my education has led me–after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous and inhibited self. –Ted Bundy, Quoted from Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, 5th edition, p.30″
Sex and the City vs Prince Caspian
At the pinnacle of Christian movie reviews, Christianity Today rated Sex and the City higher than The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian.
Bravo.
Thank you for being a lighthouse for everything that is God-honoring and good in this world of darkness. It’d help if you actually turned on the beacon because I can’t tell a difference between you and the rest of the world…
Beautiful Oklahoma
We had a good time last weekend with Myka’s parents out in the panhandle. I took about 550 pictures of mostly wildlife that you can take a look at on our flickr. Well, of the 550 we only kept 50 or 60; I really enjoy my new camera! Pictures are cheap so I take a lot of them. Highlights include a sunset over a wheat field, a Kestrel falcon, several other species of birds, a coyote, and a collared lizard. Below are the two albums, the first one of Cimarron County, the second of the Black Mesa State Park. Enjoy!! (There is some more text after the albums )
The first few days back home were a drag because both of us had such a fantastic time hanging out and being outside most of the time, but something good came out of it: we made a plan for Myka to stay home with Eli in about a year or so. Whereas before it looked impossible, now it only looks almost impossible… Please pray for this to work out since it’s clearly biblical and the way God intended it to be. It’s also the situation that would make us both the happiest, not to mention the benefit for Eli.
Father’s Day is coming up!
And as part of a shameless plug I added a Systematic Theology by Chafer to my Amazon Wishlist. You know what to do… 
In other news, my unborn son just kicked me in the face after I talked to him. He either really likes me or I scared him. Either way, that was pretty exciting!