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Jon was out this weekend. We drank some, we ate some, as played a fair amount of pool; but I'm not going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about yet another trip to church.

Now that I've reached my privious yearly record in January, it's clear that this year isn't going to be similar to years prior. I'm strangely ok with that. I don't think I'm going to gain real faith in going to church. I don't see myself becoming a believer, but I do see myself interested in faith. I've always had a fasination with reliegion and spirtuality - probably because I am not reliegious or spiritual - and to see such things from the inside only increases my curiosity.

I find myself increasingly interested in the historical Jesus and the history of the Christian church. Roman housewives, cultists, and jewish politics push the gap between what really happened and what is assumed wider than I thought. Those of faith would say that such matters are secondary to the core of Christian faith, and they're right, but to those of us on the outside looking in they are fascinating.

The history of Christianity in America has also been on my mind recently. It's important to remember that this country was founded by religious followers so uptight that the British told them to "Get out!" Sex, drugs, work, booze, and war are all under the grip of that history. Puritans man. Puritans.

After church we played poker, and stayed up all hours of the night. I'm not going to go into details, but it was both a good night for myself and for Jon. After getting some sleep, Jon and I went to play pool again. I had picked a new cue. At first I was going to call it Vera and rename my old cue, but old vera got very very confused. So the old cue stays vera and the new cue is Pixley. Pixley is an awesome cue. So good that I had to get used to it. My old cue's tip was so flattened that I wasn't putting any spin on the ball. For the first 20 minutes I was putting huge amounts of front-spin on everything. I got a feel for it after a while, and started playing some damn good pool with it.