Here are some excerpts of prayers he keeps in his wallet to keep him grounded during the day on the Supreme Court:

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature...

"Deliver me, O Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated... from the fear of being despised... from the fear of suffering rebukes... from the fear of being calumniated."

I had to look up what calumniated meant.  Basically means slandered.

I would also like to add:

Help me remember that every deed or thought will be attributed to me on the day of judgement.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

- 2 Peter 1:3-11

Full Litany of Humility by Cardinal Merry del Val:

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the desire of being approved ...
From the fear of being humiliated ...
From the fear of being despised...
From the fear of suffering rebukes ...
From the fear of being calumniated ...
From the fear of being forgotten ...
From the fear of being ridiculed ...
From the fear of being wronged ...
From the fear of being suspected ...

That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
That others may be chosen and I set aside ...
That others may be praised and I unnoticed ...
That others may be preferred to me in everything...
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should...

Maybe instead of trying to belittle those "creationists" who have faith in one form of creation as "evolutionists" have their own faith in another form of creation, evolutionists would realize that we understand what a theory is, but instead, we have a problem with the package of nothing to everything as a "Theory of Evolution". 

Why don't they define what evolution is instead of theory.  I'll tell you why...  Because they'd look silly to most of the world.  I'll try to break down the various forms I see in the "Theory of Evolution" instead:

1.  Cosmic evolution.  They claim the big bang was an immense explosion that created all the matter of the universe.  Fine.  Where did that point mass come from? 

2.  Biological evolution.  How did life create itself from non-living material?  Where is the evidence?  They say in a gazillion years it could happen.  Ok, let's quicken it up, let's jump start it.  Add energy to inorganic material and try to make it organic.  Throw a bunch of inorganic material together in a test tube and pray to Darwin.  It's not going to happen.  Re-read the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.  The universe tends towards chaos, not order.

3.  Macro-evolution.  Can one kind change into another?  Again, there is no evidence of this.  Evolutionist continue to have faith that they will eventually find the "missing link" of macro-evolution.  Horse to dog, fish to tree, etc.  Again, no evidence for this.

4.  Micro-evolution.  Aha!  Finally!  This is variations within the kinds, the different races of humans, breeds of dogs, etc.  This is the one level of evolution that all believe and why it's sometimes hard for those that haven't thought much about it to separate truth from what they've been taught in increasingly atheistic schools and continue to hear from our atheistic media.

The last form actually happens, but they package all the other forms into this unified "Theory of Evolution" and try to claim that since #4 is true, they must all be.  Rubbish.

Evolutionists like to focus on the word theory in these debates to make them feel all scientific.  When you talk to one, ask them to show you some evidence of any of the other three forms of their "Evolution".  Until they can do so, I think we should downgrade the "Theory of Evolution" into nothing more than a hypothesis.

Oh, and by the way.  The "theory of gravity" can be empirically proven.  We may not completely understand it (hence the word theory), but we can test how it works.  Their "theory of evolution" cannot empirically prove life spontaneously created from non-life.

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,c:\

I have to look this up everytime I rebuild my system, I hate it defaulting to "My Documents".

Hope you are all doing well and enjoying your holidays. It's finally starting to cool down here. We had a fire going over Thanksgiving. It was nice and relaxing. Love you all! -K

Even though Lifextender is Vista only, there are XP solutions as well.  DVRMSToolbox, and a setup guide...  DVRMSToolbox has a lot more capabilities and isn't as easy to use as Lifextender, but it does allow you to skip your commercials.

Pretty sweet, thanks Darin!

Rachel had a nice birthday party with 16 of her friends from church and school. She had a "Pizza Party". The kids had fun and ate and ate. She loved all of her gifts. Thank you to those of you who sent her a gift. She is working on her thank you cards. She had about twenty to write and we are half way through them. We did the ones from school and church first and the ones that have to be mailed, we are still working on. So you'll get yours in the mailed, hopefully soon. She is loving school and has a great teacher, She goes three days a week and has made some new friends.

Jax is in school one day a week and loves it. He puts his backpack on and carries his lunchbox around the house and says "bye-bye cool, mama". He is starting to talk more, it hard to understand some of it, so we will be working on that. He still loves ball of any kind. He and Daddy are watching a lot of football. Rachel has gymnastics on Monday nights, so he and Daddy has football night.

We are starting to get involved with things at church. We have had the college group over the last two months for fun and games. They'll be over next month to work on fall baskets for the shut-ins and an ultimate frisbee game against the 20's class. We are starting to finds some friends here. Shawn is playing softball and raquetball or tennis each week. I have a few things that I do as well. It's getting there!

I need to go get Rachel at school. It was great talking to you yesterday Machelle. Thank you for calling me Steffanie! And thank you Lindsay for the Johnny's, that should last me for the next 5 years!

Be sure to check the photo album for updates!

Love "y'all",
K

Immediate Window

Have you ever gotten an assert in your own code from an invalid operation in a Win32 API?  How do you know what the failure inside the API was?  You put in a GetLastError(), right?  What if the function is called from a library that you either can't change or don't want to recompile?  Answer: the Immediate Window (Ctrl-Alt-I).

I was recently debugging a threaded application that was failing inside of CreateThread().  Instead of rebuilding the library calling the API, I simply brought up the Immediate Window and typed in:

It immediately responded with the error, 1450.

You can call your own methods, print out variables and even create new objects.  Read the documentation for all the details, but this is a nice way to get yourself quick answers about your code.

Tracepoints

A tracepoint is a great way to quickly generate trace messages without inserting code.  This is intended for temporary debugging only as they aren't included in any shared source.

I've found this very useful in tracing multithreaded code.  It can be a pain in the rear to get print messages that is sync'd up with the execution of a line.  I haven't been able to confirm this yet, but I believe tracepoints execute and print in an automic manner.  This obviously makes it slow, but I'm suspecting that it's output would be the same as locking around execution and print without the side effect of altering the synchronization of your non-traced code.

Creating tracepoints is a two step process.  You first set a breakpoint on a line, then you convert the breakpoint to a tracepoint by adding the condition, "When hit...".  If using Visual Assist, you must convert via the Breakpoints window directly, a right click on the breakpoint will not suffice.

• Simple is Beautiful, reminds me of class design sections from Code Complete.
• The Care and Feeding of Pre-Compiled Headers
• Physical Structure and C++ Part 1
• Physical Structure and C++ Part 2