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Gun Show First up today two prayer requests I guess everyone knows Chile was hit by an 8 8 magnitude earthquake This defies comprehension The Port au Prince earthquake measured 7 so the Chile earthquake was ten to the power of 1 8 as intense According to an online exponent calculator that means it was 63 times as strong What earthquake intensity means when measured numerically is not clear to me But this was an extraordinarily powerful quake When you get done praying for relief in Chile and the safety of all the people who are now threatened by tsunamis consider adding a word for my friend Linda She works for the Intern
tional Fellowship of Christians and Jews Tomorrow she is having a cataract removed Today I went to a gun show with my prayer group I enjoyed it a lot I tried to give good advice to a couple of guys who were considering buying pistols I steered them toward Glocks and Springfield XDs One friend of mine was looking at cheaper guns I think that s a mistake You save money up front but then you don t know what you have when it s time to face a burglar Will it fire Will it jam Bad time to have to worry about things like that I saw some okay gun prices but ammunition was ridiculous Twenty bucks for 9mm Forty bucks for primers The Obama ammunition bubble is behind us or at least the peak is I can buy 9mm for between ten and eleven bucks a box and primers are back down to 30 I saw a Saiga 12 for 489 That was a good deal But it occurs to me that Saigas are only worthwhile for gun nuts because you have to take off all the estrogen oozing Hillary hardware and convert them back to real AK47s At breakfast before the show our group leader talked about the concept of fences This is what our pastor is covering in his new series of sermons The idea is that we have barriers in our lives to keep us from getting into things we shouldn t be messing with and to keep evil out Some barriers are intangible rules and others are physical We begin our lives in cribs with bars around us Then our parents expand the space we re allowed to move around in as we become better able to control ourselves As we grow the rules also change and our freedom increases I find this concept interesting because it ties into the concept of strongholds We talk a lot about Satan s strongholds such as addiction and abuse but we don t talk much about God s strongholds such as the family the home the physical body and the church We are supposed to be like walled cities and we should monitor our gates which include our eyes ears and senses We should control the people and things that go in and out of our homes We should try to keep our churches pure A lot of people think an adult can t be harmed by exposure to bad ideas and immorality but that s not true You re never too old to be subject to negative influences On the way back from the show I stopped by church and grabbed some pizza cheese I want to do an experiment The other day I made a thin pizza in the church s conventional gas oven and it was very very good But judging from the time it took to bake the temperature wasn t as high as the temperature in my own oven So I want to bake a pie at 500° here at home to see what the result is like Pizza experts always yammer that you have to have a ten thousand degree oven to get a good pizza but they re wrong about all sorts of things so I want to give this a shot and see what happens The oven at my church was set on Broil which should have been over 600° but the pizza took eight minutes to bake so clearly it was not that hot I m making the pie with non kneaded dough It s a pain to make because it s hard to get the water to flour ratio right but I think it should give a better texture than kneaded dough I need to start weighing the ingredients so I can come up with exact amounts That will make the corrections and additions unnecessary When that happens non kneaded dough should be faster than kneaded dough I m also considering giving up activating my yeast I recently learned that there is a difference between active dry yeast and instant dry yeast Supposedly anyway The directions on my instant yeast say you can mix it directly into the flour I m a bit wary of that advice but it can t hurt to try it a few times to see how well it works Eventually I ll reach the point where I throw three ingredients into a bowl stir it for ten seconds microwave it for fifteen seconds and eat it Maybe not But the process does get shorter and simpler with time Stumble it
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