Well, yesterday I received a Thanksgiving card from my 11 year old cousin. Take a gander.
Well, I just visited the card again, and it’s a different card. I wonder how that happened? Fortunately, it is still funny.
Great view
In case you ever wonder, this is the view outside my office window. It is great this time of year . . .
Statistically improbable . . .
Yesterday, I stopped by Walgreens on the way to church to buy some birthday cards and had a slight surprise at checkout. Imagine, with tax and everything else that the total came to exactly $5.00.
Privacy?!
In somewhat an unusual occurrence, I received a startling e-mail from my Grandmother. Normally she doesn’t forward many e-mail and only really important e-mails make it. Due to the nature of the e-mail I decided to post it.
From: Nani Date: November 1, 2005 To: me Subject: FW: Another Violation of our Privacy
This is upsetting -- thought I should pass it along. Check your driver's license... Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was...picture and all. And as much as I dislike my picture, I am sure I don't need it plastered on the internet! Privacy, where is our right to it? I definitely removed mine; I suggest you all do the same. Go to the website (http://www.license.shorturl.com/) and check it out. Just enter your Name, City and State to see if yours is on file. After your license appears on the screen, click the box marked "Please Remove". This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement.
Opps . . .
Came home to discover, last Sunday, we made a little mistake by leaving a bag of flour at the top of the stairs to later put in the freezer. Well, here are some photos of the fun the dogs had with it. I still can’t figure out what was so tempting about the flour, it couldn’t have tasted that good. 
Susanna Wesley
As a boy, John Wesley had been thinking about sin and asked his mother, Susanna Wesley, for a definition. Susanna Wesley’s reply, one of such great wisdom and insight both serves to challenge me to always be ready to give an answer but also think more deeply about sin and it’s relation to Christians. Just imagine giving this answer at the spur of the moment to a child.
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short, if anything increases the authority and the power of the flesh over the spirit that to you becomes sin however good it is in itself.
– – Susanna Wesley
Photos from last few trips
Finally uploaded photos from my last several trips. Captions are included with the pictures describing where the photos were taken. My favorites photos are from the Congressional Library, the photos of the really beautiful building.
On a side note, I’m trying out a flickr account to see how I like it. I’m still unsure of it, especially with the 20MB free limit for upload of photos. I’ll probably only use it for camera phone pics.
On the bright side . . .
I’ve always been told by friends my thinking is strange, different and sometimes just crazy. Until now I’ve always just laughed with them, but now I realize I should thank them for the complement. According to Ker Than, a staff writer at LiveScience, in an article entitled “Fine Line Revealed Between Creativity and Insanity” that means I’m creative.
Unless, of course, I’m just insane 
A look back – Ronald Reagan
Extol – To lift up, to praise
Psalm 72:18-19a
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
Who alone works wonders.
And blessed be His glorious name forever;
And may the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Just like king David of old, President Ronald Reagan understood the importance of this concept. Constantly he showed gratefulness, thankfulness, kindness, cheerfulness, love, mercy, grace, anything that might be associated with a Gentleman. These qualities are some of the most important qualities when working with people, either leading or following and is why President Reagan was so loved by his friend and feared by his enemies. He showed that one can be completely honest about your beliefs and yet still be respected by those who disagree with you.
So many of those who disagreed with him, media, communists and democrats tried extremely hard to make him look bad. Many stories rehearsed were about how he responded to these challenges. One thing he most understood was how to answer, specifically, how to answer foolish questions. Proverbs deals specifically with these topics in chapter 26 verses 4 and 5. It states, “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, that he not be wise in his own eyes.” What a picture President Reagan painted in so many stories of these verses. One story related by President H.W. Bush at the funeral involved a Bishop Tutu from South Africa.
Bishop Tutu visited President Reagan in the White House. During his visit, he began vehemently listing his complaints against President Reagan. After meeting with President Reagan, Bishop Tutu left and began rehashing his complaints with the media outside the White House. The next day the media knowing full well how Bishop Tutu felt about the meeting tried to trap the President by asking him how his meeting went with Bishop Tutu. Recognizing the foolishness of this question, President Reagan replied replied “so so”. “Answer a fool as his folly deserves, that he not be wise in his own eyes.”
What’s That? A Pitpine?
What happens when a pitbull picks a fight with a porcupine?
Don’t click to read more if you are squeamish!
BTW, I’ve checked it out and confirmed it is true. Confirmed true by Snopes.com my favorite place to verify urban legends.
It looks like it looses.
This is just wrong. It hurts to look at it.
