Good Morning Tuesday
Really, it wasn’t such a bad way to start the day. Even the morning weather man commented on what a particularly beautiful sunrise we had going on.
Thump 10/3/2010
Personal notes from a Sunday morning at Denton Bible Church:
Music:
- Sing to the King
- Holy is the Lord
- Rescue
- Take My Life and Let It Be
- Where He Leads Me
Text Reading: Titus 3:1-11
Sermon Notes (guest preacher Mike Scheer):
- Guilty…Argumentative…Christians are the most
- Response to conflict: 1) overlook, 2) talk it out, 3) ask for help
- Ask yourself: why in the working world, Christians are thought to be selfish, immature, opinionated, short on hard work – they make for a bad environment Continue reading “Thump 10/3/2010”
POW 11-4-2010
Natural Sentry
8/12/2010: Welcome greetings to new patrons at the Crown Plaza Hotel Arrival Court – Philadelphia PA
Drive home tonight was with delay. A Lamborghini did a header into the center rail. A rubbernecker’s collective ugh was heard when passed by Continue reading
EIR: Piano Stairs
Email Inspiration Received (EIR) from good friend and classmate GaryS….
I could so see me trying to dance up and down the stairs while playing a tune! Or at least trying as long as my breath holds out. Who’s with me on that?
Guess I better get into shape, but then I figure that’s the whole point of this, huh?
But wait!
What Say You
Perhaps an appropriate song, especially after Tuesday’s politics.
I’ve always loved this song with its catch-tune and great lyrics…I sing it well in my truck and if no one is listening (but I sure get odd looks thrown my way).
If I silence (or lip-sync) my singing, you get the whole lot better version performed by 2 icons of the music business: Travis Tritt and John Mellencamp.
“I’m not going to criticize what I can’t understand…
speak my heart and bear my soul, I don’t like lies, I would rather know the truth…
I know I’m not always right and I don’t think I’m better than you…”
What Say You Continue reading “What Say You”
Voted
Done voted today and proud of it. Don’t try to convince otherwise. Here’s to watching our voting voices be heard by new and old politicians. This election day we had 34 choices to consider at my polling place (no propositions). It took me a while to get through each choice as I wanted to vote “for” a candidate and not for “a side” had a straight party ticket vote been punched (who came up with that lousy idea anyway?). I also wanted to vote for the friends I have and know running for office as they genuinely put their heart and soul … Continue reading Voted
“He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.” – Anonymous Continue reading
Woke Up Limeyfish
I probably should have self-censored. But instead it gotted git r’ done-d to me…maybe for the best…I’m sure…I hope. I cannot remember that ever happening to me until now. Always a first time, right? Say what you think unless what is said is disagreeable. Then just simply hit the upper right hand corner “x” button and that trouble conveniently goes away. Blip! Interesting how free speech really isn’t; anger can snuff out relationships with a few key strokes and mouse clicks; so-called equal opportunity rights of expression in a public format can be judged…quick and dead. Go away! Be gone! Continue reading “Woke Up Limeyfish”
EHR: Da End is Near
From my good friend David S., I get this EHR (Email Humor Received), with ironic timing:
Wording is so important……
Reverend Boudreaux was the pastor of the local Cajun Baptist Church and Pastor Thibodeau was the minister of the Covenant Church across the road.
Streaking
After 669 days, my obsessive picture-a-day streak came to an unexpected end yesterday. It was Halloween so I’m blaming trick or treat anxiety in not allowing me to push that shutter button. And it was this Halloween that I lost my craving to carve a pumpkin as well…and that is yet another notable streak broken in itself. Don’t know what got into me yesterday…shake it off Timster! So today I start my new photography streak…I welcome a new day, a new dawn, a new beginning, a new outlook, a new attitude, a new soap used in the morning shower, a new change of underwear, … Continue reading Streaking
POW 10-29-2010
For those of you in the DFW area, the Alliance Air Show is this weekend…free to the public but $20 to park. The Blue Angels in F/A 18 Hornets (Navy), Raptors-Vipers-others (an Air Force Heritage show) flying F-22’s, and the Golden Knights parachutists (Army) will be performing, among others.
I was lucky enough to watch the Blue Angels practice late yesterday (Thursday) afternoon from the parking lot of the Cabela’s (right across from Alliance Airport). Go if you can this weekend…
Sorry these are a bit out of focus – they sure do move fast and I got much too excited to be taking pictures:
http://www.allianceairshow.com/
POW 10-27-2010
8/18/2010: downtown business parking in Lake Dallas Texas
Have you ever wanted to do customer service like this before?
POW 10-21-2010
12/12/2010: Mid-Cities of DFW
I looked…couldn’t see what it was…unless it was the pile of fence boards and rusty rebar in front of this service station and convenience store…oh wait, maybe they’re referring to the antique farm implement…no, no, that’s been “here” much longer than the sign. Hmmmm
Check The Labels
Label Day is Tuesday…aka Election Day. Oh boy!
It is a day I’ve had circled on the calendar for some time, for more reasons than one. It should be a day filled with excitement and anticipation of new faces, voices, and representation, but instead it will be welcomed mostly because we should be due a brief reprieve from ridiculous campaigns, over-the-top out-of-their-mind activists, and the ugly game of politics finally comes to an end…maybe…but probably not. (and so it is that I get Labeled)
Lake Dallas High School Falcon Football final 51-21 at Senior Night. Fun times had in the pressbox too Continue reading
41-15 Falcons…at the half Continue reading
Scottie takes flight
Tonight I come home late from work, the girls (Mackie and Zoey) are impatiently waiting for one of us to come in the door to dish out the chow. So quickly, I bowed to the Royalty and feed the girls, did a couple of quick chores, and clicked on the television.
Chimney Swifts. Know them? Cool birds that will literally dive bomb into an un-hooded chimney at dusk. It really is a sight to watch. They will aggressively buzz you before circling overhead and then do this full speed nose-dive into the chimney for the evening. Their “clucking” sound chirp is unique. They clutch and build nests on the vertical face of the walls.
Wrapped up
Just when I was getting all wrapped up in…”stuff”, I have to be reminded to get all unwrapped, for crying out loud.
Work, political argument, professional challenges, successes and failures, family attitudes, time demands, making ends meet, coordinating schedules of events, getting ready for a 3-day weekend trip, sadly realizing LD High School football has their last home game this Friday, figuring out how to evict the pity-party-goers trying to dominate the day, and a big one: having to deal with the absurdity and unfairness of life.
Oh geez….
So then… Continue reading “Wrapped up”
Say What: H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken quotes – I’m thinking I kind of like the way this guy expressed himself! BTW, early voting started yesterday….
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. Continue reading “Say What: H.L. Mencken”
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