Bebo Norman, a favorite contemporary Christian artist of mine having 30-songs/1.9-hours worth of music on my iPhone.
I find his music to be great in that it will bring you back to where you’re supposed to be (not to mention easy to sing along with – you listen, you watch…you will be singing harmony with him before you know it).
Hope you enjoy the YouTube links to a few of his songs that have 5-star ratings on my playlist…. Continue reading “Bebo”
Another YouTube commercial, this time from OFNi Mikel’s Facebook Wall: Things we say wrong…now this, I can definitely relate to not having tolerance for some of the annoyances of “misspeaks in ever-day talk”
I love my nieces – they can sometimes give this blog so much to smile and laugh about. Thanks guys! (even though I know you never read Crazy Uncle Tim’s blog). Continue reading “EHR (sort of): Things we say wrong”
From OFNi Whitty Facebook posting: Hilarious Shake Weight Exercise for Women Video
I reserve any comment and I hope you will too. I still have tears in my eyes on this one. And BTW, just because I’ve linked the YouTube commercial does not mean the product gets the coveted tmay82.wordpress.com endorsement. Continue reading “EHR (sort of): Exercise is good for you”
It was a year ago yesterday, 9/29/2008, that this crazy economic recession hit home with a drop in the Dow Jones, 777 points. This was a stock market crash never before seen in world economics – it out-performed (probably a poor choice of words noting my IRA value right now) The Great Depression and the tough recession in 1987 (the year I started my own business I might add…because of a job loss then). Our recession has thus far survived two presidencies, an impotent Congress, unrelenting political finger pointing, and facts and figures that really give me a headache. But the worst of this economic mess is job losses for the American worker.
Lew Perkins: “Embarrassed and very hurt”
HEY LEW, YOU SHOULD BE…FOR A LONG TIME!
This oh-so-sorrowful admission is “bull(spit)” that rivals some of the best NCAA insincerity ever mumbled by coaches in search of a conscience and the thug-athletes that might be aimlessly following him around. Perhaps I would have some sympathy for the Jaythugs, had it been a first-time incident. But last year, an athlete shot a Wal-Mart air rifle/plastic pellet/BB gun weapon at an innocent middle-aged woman (KU B-Baller Works on Shooting Skills – w/BB Gun)…out of his on-campus dormatory window. But that’s OK, right? He was disciplined for his indescretions…he got 20 hours community service…for shooting a human being, and still gets a free college education. I’m still trying to find a Lew quote on that incident. Continue reading “If the Westside Story is broadway, it’s ragtime in K-Who”
From Pal Chris B. This really should go on the Saturday Football page:
College Football Time…
Planning for the fall football season in the South is radically different
than up North. For those who are planning a football trip South, here are
some helpful hints. Continue reading “EHR – College Football Differences”
Holy Cow, just when I’m getting into my “love college football”/”hate pro football” stride, punk-athletes once again show off their true colors. Unfortunately, the colors of their schools are the one’s being tarnished. Damn how I so wanted to rag on Jerry Jones instead….
Do I need to go into the “scholarship = free college education” schpeal again? I think not. Just this: “Hey you punks, don’t blow your future by getting kicked out before you get a diploma that might support yourself and family in the future”. Idiots.
So here we sit with Tom Landry 3 hours before kickoff. My good uncleship for nephews Case and Greg needs some recognition, after all I’m introducing them to 99,997 other people today (Sunday night football – Dallas Cowboys open their new stadium against the NY Giants). Continue reading “Tell me again why I’m here”
So the Blog has suffered some neglect of late. I’ve missed two weekends of college football – ughhhhhhh; one week’s worth of sarcasm opportunities have escaped these pages; Mackie Queen of Scots still lays across my lap in an effort to not let me go anywhere again without her.
But it was worth enduring all those daily-grind withdrawals. My co-workers, my heart, soul and sanity, and most importantly my family needed me to go away for a while on a trip to Canada…with Dad and OFB Terry.
I’m so glad we did just that.
This vacation was bought and planned for nearly a year by the sons (brothers). It was a combination Christmas, Birthday, and Thanks-for-being-our-Dad gift for a 75th birthday and milestone celebration of 50+ years of fatherhood. So we went fishing, damn it! Continue reading “Return from a Paradise”
I’m going fishing…in Canada…with my Dad…and OFB TR…we will be at a place that knows no internet…Walleye and Northerns will be caught and consumed in considerable quantities…I won’t have time to blog, nor be able to…until I get back…then you guys get a look at all the pictures I plan to take, and the stories I expect to tell (or make up). OFBB Jai Jai and OFSIL Bec – you two try not to let the Cubbies and the Jaybirds lose their first pre-season game tomorrow. And while you’re at it, watch out over my Mildcats would ya? The Saint has … Continue reading Be back at it on Friday week
Finally, Michael Jackson was buried yesterday evening, 70 days after his death. Perhaps now a troubled soul can finally get some rest from such a troubled, dysfunctional family.
It was reported that the whole funeral was to be staged – Taylor, Bonds to attend Jackson’s funeral – for a farewell documentary concert. The family had nearly twice as many media seats as they did those for mourners. I wondered aloud whether the family members would opt themselves out so as to free up (sell) seats for more media or other celebrities…I really didn’t think so. I struggle with my sympathy for a family that obviously grieves a tremendous loss, along with millions worldwide, but then would never pass on yet another golden opportunity to wear matching sunglasses, mug-it-up for the gossip show cameras, and try to profit once more on a success other than their own. Many in this family will moonwalk across his grave for as long as they can.
But alas and in the end, it sounded like a fitting farewell, except for the cameras, media, and rudely making invited guest wait an excessive amount of time – Family, celebrities say final goodbye to Jackson. I hope the cameras captured Gladys Knight’s rendition of “The Lord’s Prayer”…that, I can only imagine, was incredible.
Let’s put this ridiculousness of Michael’s burial delay in perspective:
That’s a line I’ve used for years in closing the pre-game announcements and prior to kickoff of Lake Dallas High School’s “Falcon Football Friday Night”
Five times a year, I have a bit of fun doing the PA for home football games. None of my extended family have heard “the voice of the Falcons” (keep in mind that this is what the athletic director has called me for a very long time…I’m still trying to figure out whether that’s a good voice or a bad one; he’s never really said). FS heard me last on the PA in the fall of 1999; FD heard me last year when she was back for her 10-year reunion; Deb…well she’s in that school of athletics-not-for-me. Her last time may have been when FD was cheering her senior year. Continue reading ““Your best entertainment value in town””
So it is on this day – today – I receive an email from “Runners World” magazine. It starts out saying this:
You’re a runner. Whether you run for your health, to lose weight, or the sheer joy of hitting the road, running is an important part of who you are – and who you want to be. And no one makes it easier to get more out of your passion for running than RUNNER’S WORLD. Continue reading “I don’t want to run anymore, Forrest”
From OFNi Dani – I don’t get emails from her often, but she and I, we’re both standing on the same peg on the humor ladder. So when her funny emails do come in, they are usually tear-wipers for me:
Hey Brett, your NFL pension fund manager called…he said the recession has bottomed out and it now time to come home.
Talk about a self-destructing legacy, Brett Favre is the guy. This guy had it all with the Packers. He had tenure, job security, Packer fan adoration, marketing appeal, and probably just about anything he asked for in Green Bay. Continue reading “The guy that just won’t go away”
I will be the first to admit I can be annoyingly addicted to business advice, leadership education, and becoming an overall better guy. Advice taken to heart recently – please know, despite what you may have heard, I strive for moral courage in both my personal and professional daily life:
From Nashville Business Journal, Nancy Reece Guest Column on Friday July 31, 2009
Jim was a self-described “yeller.” He knew he yelled, but rationalized his yelling with the phrase, “That’s who I am.”
I get, on nearly a daily basis, emails proclaiming the sky is falling and life is seemingly not worth living with the current political forces in play. Some exclamations are quite humorous, some are shameful, some will make you sick that civil people would actually forward such nonsense, some are good, some are worthy of my commentary. This one came today:
This is probably the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union . Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and beat these words into every head in every class in every state in these United States of America .
Profound short paragraph: “You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005
Continue reading “ERR: “You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.””
from the Todd-man:
A new pastor was visiting in the homes of his parishioners. At one house it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door.
Therefore, he took out a business card and wrote ‘Revelation 3:20’ on the back of it and stuck it in the door.
When the offering was processed the following Sunday, he found that his card had been returned. Added to it was this cryptic message, ‘Genesis 3:10. Continue reading “EHR – Be not so quick to judge”
…the Eagles have a Vick.
Please excuse my amateur attempt of humor in varying a line from Ghostbusters, but it is the professional National Football League, aka NFL – Nuts, Felones, and Lifers, that gives us the most humorless story of the week.
One of my favorite radio talk shows is a local duo – Ernie and Jay. Friday, they devoted much of their midday talk show to the NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, and Michael Vick. Hey! How did he get out of jail, being a felone and all, long before the Jackson family decides to bury Micheal (and what’s up with that?)?
Now this is a prime example of a long-time-ago prior posting of mine, complaining about the general lack of Raving Fan service with today’s entitlement generation. Email Humor Received (EHR) from Shawn, by way of somebody else I’m sure:
Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86-year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. Continue reading “EHR – Elderly patron bank letter”
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