tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69993902024-03-14T03:26:24.589-05:00Historically Contingent IdiosyncraciesA place for me to rant, rave, ramble and reveal thoughts that live inside my head. Updated sporadically (you have been warned)Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-48509541677020609142011-09-18T21:25:00.001-05:002011-09-18T21:25:57.955-05:00
So I bit the bullet and decided to start blogging again, thinking that if I'm actually paying to get a hosted site I'll blog more. So far (one month into paying for my hosting!) all I've done is fiddle with the look of the site (though in my defense, Wordpress is new to me, and I do like playing around with the different template options available to me - you have no idea how many hits you get Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-67921090710515124832011-06-10T14:08:00.001-05:002011-06-10T18:37:17.640-05:00Descended to the DeadSo I'm cleaning out files from my work computer and I found one that would make a good, long-overdue post - enjoy! :)
The Apostle's creed was written sometime in the 1st or 2nd century (compare it to the Nicene-Constantinople Creed [the one we say in church] which was composed around the 4th century). It was written at a time when several groups (Gnostics, Marcionites & Manicheans) were Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-62458843905864432142011-05-25T09:53:00.001-05:002011-05-26T11:02:00.466-05:00Desired Lifestyle BudgetToday's mission, which you have to accept, is to figure out what kind of life you'd like to lead when you get older. There will be several steps.
0. Work Quietly (or this will be homework, not classwork)
1. You should have your hard copy of the Desired Lifestyle Budget. Make sure you have it. I'll give you a minute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . got it? Good. Let's move on.
2. Right click on the Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-44878333398829055512011-03-19T19:15:00.001-05:002011-03-19T19:15:36.028-05:00Catholic Gentleman’s ClubSo my son and I are driving back from the Dollar Movies (The Green Hornet was enjoyable for $1.50!), and we drive by a local Gentlemen’s Club called the Tex-Mex Lounge. Proudly displayed on their outdoor billboard was a seafood buffet on Fridays. I’m glad to see that good Catholics can keep their Lenten discipline of abstaining from meat on Fridays while visiting this establishment! :) (I know, IHugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-78098570573133577032011-03-17T19:08:00.001-05:002011-03-17T19:08:59.574-05:00Kids These Days!I tend to hear statements about how each subsequent generation of children is worse then before. I have some quotes I’ve always found useful to remind myself that yes, each generation/class of kids is different, but one thing stays the same: adults will always look nostalgically back to the past and rousingly say “we were never like this!” :) "I see no hope for the future of our people if they Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-41954162256627884092010-11-19T08:03:00.000-06:002010-11-19T08:03:00.186-06:00ThanksgivingOur word for the body of Christ and for the celebration of that sacrament (Eucharist) comes from a Greek word that means “praise and thanksgiving.” As we prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s a good reminder that we are called to constantly give thanks for our blessings. At a time when the majority of the world’s population lives on less then $300 a year, even those of us who are Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-39019253840407956122010-11-17T10:01:00.000-06:002010-11-17T10:01:00.482-06:00Saint/Virtue of the Month: NovemberEach month at Our Lady of Sorrows is dedicated to a particular saint (generally chosen from the month) and virtue (generally taken from the fruits of the Spirit—Galatians 5:22-23, 2 Corinthians 6:6, Ephesians 5:9, and 2 Peter 1:5-7). The saint and virtue are incorporated into our morning prayer, religion bulletin boards, and religion classes. This focus on one saint and one virtue complements ourHugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-57861976587972598732010-11-12T08:00:00.000-06:002010-11-12T08:00:12.946-06:00Faith & Family: NovemberParents exercise their love for their children by caring for their physical, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and moral needs. Concern for these needs takes much time and commitment on the part of both mother and father. (US Catholic Catechism for Adults, p. 378) For most married couples, children are a natural part of starting a new family. Whereas at first a couple is intensely focused on Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-55930070437898796862010-11-10T07:00:00.000-06:002010-11-10T07:00:07.194-06:00Saint/Virtue of the Month: OctoberEach month at Our Lady of Sorrows is dedicated to a particular saint (generally chosen from the month) and virtue (generally taken from the fruits of the Spirit—Galatians 5:22-23, 2 Corinthians 6:6, Ephesians 5:9, and 2 Peter 1:5-7). The saint and virtue are incorporated into our morning prayer, religion bulletin boards, and religion classes. This focus on one saint and one virtue complements ourHugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-13950578526595746182010-11-08T07:00:00.000-06:002010-11-08T07:00:14.756-06:00Faith & Family: OctoberWives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." (Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-15336171841401214592010-11-05T09:22:00.000-05:002010-11-05T09:22:00.881-05:00Saint/Virtue of the Month: SeptemberIn a similar vein to my last post, our school chooses one saint and one virtue each month. This is a digital reprint of the article that appears in our newsletter. Enjoy :) Each month at Our Lady of Sorrows is dedicated to a particular saint (generally chosen from the month) and virtue (generally taken from the fruits of the Spirit—Galatians 5:22-23, 2 Corinthians 6:6, Ephesians 5:9, and 2 PeterHugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-79326305335936250472010-11-03T21:35:00.001-05:002010-11-04T20:13:17.692-05:00Faith & Family (September Column)I’m writing a small monthly column for our school newsletter. I’ll be plagiarizing (and maybe expanding/editing/commenting on) those columns for my blog :) Small changes/edits will look normal. Longer edits will be demarcated for your reading pleasure. Marriage and family are ordered to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and education of children. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-7711918752848293012010-10-31T20:24:00.001-05:002010-10-31T20:24:04.415-05:00Happy All Hallow’s Eve“Hallow” is an old word for “holy” (it’s used that way in the Our Father); “e’en” is a contraction for “evening.” Our word “Halloween” is thus a shortened form of “All Hallow’s Eve.” If you’ve ever wondered if we should “celebrate” Halloween . . . read on! :) In the mid-4th century a feast for all the martyrs was established to celebrate those untold people who had witnessed to their faith by Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-30287487607953390322010-07-29T21:26:00.001-05:002010-07-29T21:30:57.173-05:00These Are A Few of My Favorite ThingsI love watching movies (as you can see here), and a two weeks ago I started a trial Netflix membership. [The post won’t be about Netflix, but I do have to say – I’m loving it. It’s a one month trial, and we can have one DVD at a time. The real win for me, though, is that we can watch tons of movies straight from their site (not all, but quite a bit), and we can also stream the movies through our Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-29312891584140080412010-06-21T20:10:00.001-05:002010-06-21T20:10:14.946-05:00Sanctuary IIIThe third and final installment of the history of my current WOW guild (Sanctuary on Terokkar/US). A joined the guild Gypsies (which is still active on the realm), and then tried Lightbringers (not sure if they’re still active or not), all the while keeping in touch with several people from the Stormwind Justicars and others who I’d met in game. After a few months of feeling homeless, I started Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-87891286427156836492010-04-27T21:20:00.002-05:002010-05-02T20:04:33.396-05:00Sanctuary Part IIMy students are looking up homework on my blog (for the Poverty Project unit we’re on) and one of them asked me why I had stopped posting. I truthfully answered laziness :) I figured it was setting a bad example . . . so here I go again with a new post – continuing my history of my WOW Guild, Sanctuary.
A few days after I started playing, I player named Kathorian invited me to join his newly Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-78159502386725087172010-04-27T11:15:00.002-05:002010-04-27T11:15:33.229-05:00Finding A Job - Poverty ProjectClick here to go to my blog page that lists different job-finding resources. Follow the instructions on that post. :)
Blessings & Peace,
DHugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-69666739862066893092010-04-21T09:51:00.002-05:002010-04-21T09:51:59.048-05:00Desired Lifestyle BudgetGo here and you'll get your instructions :)
Blessings & Peace,
D :)Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-61726403311136364262010-04-14T11:20:00.002-05:002010-04-15T12:28:12.901-05:00Poverty Project - Looking for FoodYou may check the following sites to find prices for food for your family of three. You may also look around at any other food sites, but you'll need to list the sites you used on your paper.
Amazon
HEB
Kroger's
Target
Wal-Mart
BuyCheapr
Blessings & Peace,
Hugo (Mr. D) :)Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-46286986472261399752010-01-23T16:05:00.001-06:002010-01-23T16:05:15.328-06:00SanctuaryXero asked me to post a history of Sanctuary. I figured I’d do it here instead of on our website, as I’m used to typing extensively on Windows Live Writer. I’ll begin with the story of how Term and I started to play WOW. Here we go :) My son (Term) started playing WOW in June of 2008. A classmate of his was playing, and he created a character on that realm (I can’t remember which one, though I Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-48032954402702913242009-11-07T21:53:00.001-06:002009-11-07T21:53:34.417-06:00My Post-Christian World Thought ExperimentI’m reading a two-volume book set that has all of the recent (from the 1960’s to today) Catholic church documents regarding the liturgy (the Mass). Yes – I know . . . exciting :) I’m reading it because I coordinate the weekly Friday Mass celebrations at my school (along with other special Masses throughout the year), and it never hurts to brush up on the very large skill-set it takes to make Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-51914735957744516202009-10-30T12:02:00.000-05:002009-10-30T12:02:19.138-05:00Saint ActivityStep 1: Choose a saint you would like to learn more about. You can choose from saints based on date, patronage, or name from the following websites:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/patron02.htm
http://www.catholic.org/saints/stindex.php
http://www.rosaryshop.com/saints.php
http://www.magnificat.ca/cal/engl/liste-sts.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints
Step 2: Print a one Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-51477250022618777402009-10-04T00:22:00.001-05:002009-10-04T00:22:17.148-05:00Bookmarks Part I – Glasses & PensI wanted to highlight two website I’ve purchased items from to kick off this multipart series (which may take a while to finish – reader be warned!). The first page is a practical one: Zenni Optical. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was right (almost 30 years now!), and I’ve bought my fair share of glasses from several brick and mortar stores. But a few months ago my wife and I both took the Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-28511618403050445722009-10-02T21:45:00.001-05:002009-10-02T21:45:01.890-05:00Next Series – Bookmark strollingI subscribe to several magazines, email lists, twitter feeds, etc., and have amassed a nice-sized collection of bookmarks. I’ll take a few weeks to post some of my favorites – you may find something you like. Tomorrow – some links from my “household” section :) Blessings & Peace, Hugo Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999390.post-38722509420858486742009-07-26T12:31:00.001-05:002009-07-26T12:31:00.993-05:00HiatusI won’t be posting again ‘till August 7th - got a nice vacation coming up :) See y’all soon! Blessings & Peace, Hugo Hugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509012237010374852noreply@blogger.com0