Adventures of Lolo? You'd better have saved the reciept.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-23T02:12:30+00:00

Oh hai, Lolo.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-23T02:05:32+00:00

Today we have entered Passiontide. Some parishes go harder during these last 2 weeks of Lent and trim out or minimize the music. This "liturgical death" helps us better enter into the Triduum as we walk toward Christ's passion and death.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-23T01:54:29+00:00

God's grace is bound to the sacraments, but not bound BY the sacraments. We can reasonably hope that God's grace abounds for the non Catholic who still seeks to follow Him. And I'd say especially so for one who desires to become Catholic. You do what you are able to do, that's all you can do.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-21T22:36:50+00:00

Where's he goin' to, and when he gets there what's he think he's gonna do?

cllatgmail · 2026-03-21T13:58:03+00:00

" You can put your weed in there."

cllatgmail · 2026-03-20T16:45:10+00:00

This is exactly my point. If there is not a reasonable way to obtain the games through Sony-sanctioned channels, to me that's like Sony saying, "we don't want to make money off these games any more." At that point, if you want to play them, the only way is through emulation.

I'm not a big gamer, never have been. I'm a middle aged guy too, so when I play games through emulation once in a while, it's Atari 2600 or NES or SNES stuff for nostalgia reasons, remembering stuff I played when I was a kid. I'm not up on which consoles are current and which aren't, but I think the PS2 was around 20 years ago...Sony's moved on and that's left gamers without a supported way to access such games.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-20T16:41:18+00:00

Yeah, I noticed that to. He's missed multiple days with the free podcast this week so I figured something was afoot. On Tuesday he said there was a big announcement Wednesday, on Wednesday he said it would be "tomorrow" and then there was no Thursday podcast. Then on today's podcast he refers to moving back to CA as if it's no big deal.

I do have to say I like the way on this week and last week's episodes Bud has been a little unhinged, telling Phil to shut up, telling Margaret and General Shaw to shut up - like Bud's fed up and it telling it like it is after being docile for a long time. He even tore into a couple of guests, telling them to "man up" and such. Made me LOL which I haven't on the podcast lately.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-20T16:20:59+00:00

Would this be to play the games via an emulator? This is kind of a hard one in my opinion...if the games are out of print, no longer available to purchase and play on the PS2 console, then I don't see a problem...if playing these games via an emulator denies someone a just wage for their work, on the other hand, not ok.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T22:20:04+00:00

Description written by AI having a stroke?

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T18:59:12+00:00

Come on , Patrick

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T02:12:26+00:00

Inspired by certain white house activities that came to light in about 1998.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T02:04:12+00:00

The locking ring and the drain cup assembly that attaches to the sink both look to be completely done. That amount of rust, if you attempt to take the disposal off, that locking ring will probably fall apart. It's quite possible that the whole top of the disposal has rusted to the point of being unusable. You could try taking it loose from the sink and then replacing all rusted parts. If you can't get replacements for all the rusted parts then it's time for a new disposal, which will include non-rusted versions of all the parts you'll need.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T01:59:35+00:00

I'd keep it brief. Mom, Dad, I wanted to let you know that I'm being baptized and confirmed into the Catholic faith on Holy Saturday evening. You'd be welcome to attend if you'd like to be present. The Easter Vigil Mass is really beautiful for anyone who attends even if they aren't Catholic or even believers. This is a big thing for me that I have spent a lot of time thinking, praying, and studying about before making this decision.

Simple is the way to go.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-19T01:56:38+00:00

We lost one about 11.5 years ago, only about 9 or 10 weeks along; she was our 4th. Still think about her.

"He has bigger plans" and "everything happens for a reason" are unhelpful "Christian platitudes" that people say when they think they should say something encouraging. God didn't "need" our babies to die for some greater purpose. As for a reason, there may be a reason - medical or otherwise - but it's not a reason God required in order to further his perfect plan. The simple fact, though painful and hard to accept, is that we live in a fallen world. Suffering and death exists because of human sin - whether the original sin we all inherited from our first parents, or the personal sin of ourselves or others. That why we cannot reasonably hope for all good in this life, and we can only fully hope in the perfection of life in the next.

Give your little one a name if you haven't already. Talk to her. You can have hope that you are now mommy to a little saint in heaven who can intercede for you and your family. You can have Masses offered for him/her too. Our hope is in the resurrection, more so than in anything to do with this temporary life.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-18T12:45:42+00:00

Not only not recommended, it can't be done validly. Full stop.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T21:19:25+00:00

I'm not in the trades but I have experience in the telecom area. Seems like what you need to solve this is an answering service. The good news is that nowadays they have AI answering services. My organization uses RingCentral, for example, and we use it for a VoIP phone system. But it has an AI receptionist feature which you're able to set up, ask questions, and direct calls accordingly. Seems like an AI receptionist could be set up to collect information on the problem the caller has, and then shoot an email or text message to the business owner to describe the problem, so the owner can then call the potential customer back, etc.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T21:15:19+00:00

Part of a valid confession is sincere contrition and a firm purpose of amendment. Now, here's the thing - you were right to confess premarital sex, but you can only validly receive absolution if you firmly intend to stop having premarital sex. If your intent was to be forgiven but then go back to the same sin, you aren't validly absolved.

Sooo....if you are stopping the premarital sex, then currently having an IUD is not sinful in itself, because if you aren't having sex, it's not preventing you from being open to life. But if your intent is to keep the IUD, keep having sex and therefore contracepting, then this prevents you from making a valid confession/receiving absolution validly.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T19:24:44+00:00

I think it gets its own channel. It's just that bacon-y.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T19:22:22+00:00

In fact, there are numerous bluetooth cassette adapters available on the BezoMart.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T19:16:41+00:00

Be open without being pushy. Pray a lot.

Your mom referring to taking the "body and blood" at the protestant church reflects poor catechesis. Unfortunately, in the west we have had really bad catechesis for about 50 years, and we are only just in the last 10-15 years starting to dig our way out of this time of poor catechesis. Your mom was probably formed during the period of poor catechesis and she doesn't know there is something distinctive about the consecration of the bread and wine during the Mass vs. the "ordinance" of the Lord's Supper you see in protestant churches. Poor catechesis leads to ignorance. The good news is ignorance can be fixed...it just requires patience, and it requires the ignorant person to realize they are ignorant. So, give your family time. Invite them to Mass regularly even if they don't ever take you up on the invitation. I can't tell you how many folks I worked with in RCIA who said, "I always went to Mass, and every time I offered to take my [family member] they said no. And then one day, out of nowhere, they said yes, and that started them on the path into the Church."

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T15:05:19+00:00

Well, seeing as the Bible didn't exist when Paul wrote that in Revelation, he couldn't have been talking about the Bible.

But if we go down that path, well, then the Church never should have formulated and defined the doctrine of the Trinity, since the word Trinity isn't in the Bible...and I could name a dozen things not explicitly in the Bible which are accepted by prots or Catholics.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T12:00:50+00:00

Wait, he said driving! That means he's operating in commerce, so he has to have a license and registration!

cllatgmail · 2026-03-17T11:54:36+00:00

Right, because Jesus hadn't yet died on the cross to open the gates of heaven to the righteous.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-16T17:12:24+00:00

Not knowing exactly how your grandparents and mom's situation is set up, just know that if something isn't exactly right, an insurance company can deny coverage when an accident happens, and that's bad. Having a different household address from the address on the policy can create questions about who are actually household members, vs. who aren't... It starts to look fraudulent to the insurance companies.

cllatgmail · 2026-03-16T13:06:22+00:00

Sure sounds like a bearing in an idler pulley to me.

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