Cross-cultural persuasion

What are we going to tell them, Teyla? “Listen, kiddies, everything you believe to be true is wrong, and trust us because we've been here for almost an hour.”

~Stargate Atlantis 1:06 Childhood's End

It's amazing that it's taken over 7 years of Gate travel for someone to articulate this. Even more amazing that it's McKay, not exactly known for his humility or seeing other people's point of view, who realises it.

Nothing to do with the quote, but MacKay being babysat by these two is one of the fun things in this episode.

[Edit: he does spoil it a few scenes later when he proposes stealing the power source from their only defences, and then solving the obvious safety issue by deporting them all to Atlantis 🤦‍♀️]

Great song title!

 

[Edit: just realised the title is barely visible. It's Jesus loves you (and I'm trying)]

Sabbatical

They mentioned yesterday in church that all paid staff will have sabbaticals after a certain number of years. I assume they meant the spiritual staff. 

But I'm just imagining me having a sabbatical from church cleaning...

Maybe I would tour other churches to see how they clean them? Watch lots of carpet cleaning videos (surprisingly interesting)? Maybe write a paper on stain removal? Or develop a foolproof method for preventing fingerprints on glass doors? 

The possibilities are endless...

On second thoughts, I think I'd rather stick with the cleaning 🪣🧹

How to remove bloodstains

This blog hasn't been random enough lately, so I thought I'd give you a cleaning tip:

To remove bloodstains, use saliva. But it should be the saliva of the person whose blood it is.

Yes, really. Apparently it's to do with enzymes. 

All-day sun

Doesn't seem quite the right weather for Good Friday:

 

"Well might the sun in darkness hide

and shut his glories in

when God, the incarnate maker, died

for man, his creature's, sin"

~Isaac Watts

Forks

I've wanted to use wooden forks as kings for aaages! 

King David

We made these yesterday.

With more time, glitter or gold paint on the crown would have been nice.

💣 Patience

A verse for anyone that has to relate to other Christians:

"I ... urge you to live worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." Ephesians 4:1-3

(The emoji in the title is meant to represent having a long fuse 😁)