No more Lapses...

...because I'm not going to worry about missing a day here or there, especially at the moment. I will try and do one of these every day though, most days there's at least something worth blogging! Just putting the finishing touches to my DB assignment, so been very busy. Also Paul's (Paul of all people, who's last computer was an Amiga) bought this computer, I'm soooo jealous. I helped him choose it and set it up, I'll help him use it too (timeshare?) ;-) ...after all that I had a drink with him last night, and chatted (unusually for Paul) about religion: he feels exactly as I did at his age, that is, "my religion isn't perfect but it's the one true religion". We had a talk about Christmas and Birthday celebrations, silly things that prove (to me anyway) that the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses has "gone beyond the things written", and made laws (like the Pharisees) that God and his Son have not made. If Jesus came back in the flesh, I'm sure he would upset Witnesses just as much as he upset the Pharisees when, for example, he picked grain on the Sabbath: there would be a modern parallel I'm sure- you'd find Jesus at a Politicians Birthday party (the modern day tax collectors wedding feast?) enjoying himself and preaching the kingdom to those who would listen, hell, I'm sure of it.

Joni's done some funny things these past few days. Yesterday I thought I'd try and get her to say "Joni", because she always pronounces her name "Noni", although she can say "J" perfectly well. So to trick her, we sat in front of her and asked her to:

"Say...Joel!"
"Joel!"
"Say...Joel!"
"Joel!"
"Say...Joe!"
"Joe!"
"Say...Joe!"
"Joe!"
"Say...John!"
"...John!"
"Say...John!"
"John!"
"Say...Joni!"
"NONI!!"

We laughed our heads off at that, and we've repeated it a few times with the same result. When she says Noni, she looks at you really cheekily too, and smiles, it's like she knows she's winding you up! What was weird was that's also the first time she's said my name, and I was sitting in here typing away this morning when I heard a voice shouting from the living rom, "John!", and walking down the passage, "Jo-ohnnnn!", until she came into the room and said it to my face, so weird! On another note, Joni loves her baths so much, we found her in the bath the other day, she'd climbed in herself!