The Ant and the Grasshopper – 2009

My youngest brother sent this to me this morning.   As with most fables, it’s best if you draw your own conclusions!   (I thought it was fabulous, myself, but … )
OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The [...]

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How To Really Relax!

I just got back from the best weekend I’ve had in a long time!!  I went to visit some friends that I had, heretofore, only “met” online, and it was just like meeting long-lost family!  I suspect that Heaven is going to be something like that:  you meet people you have only wondered about, and [...]

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

VERY interesting article in the “American Thinker” today.  Interesting because it points out something I hadn’t realized was so before – but I’d wondered why “Roots” had sort of dropped off the face of the earth.  It was also interesting because of the comparison between the reaction to “Roots” when it was first published and [...]

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The Swine

This guy has a point.  I have to admit, when I saw the “national emergency” thing, I was a little skeptical – I mean, come on.  How often do people get the actual “normal” flu, and it doesn’t turn into a national emergency!! 
According to the CDC (as reported here), an estimated 20,000 people die each [...]

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Off-Topic Monday

This is kind of off-topic from previous posts, but I found the coolest instrumental CD at … Hobby Lobby, of all places!  We have a new store in our community, and I wandered in to browse.  They play pretty music – not canned Muzac – and you can buy it!!  Here’s the link telling you [...]

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What Do I Do Now?

I just realized: my 6-year anniversary with my firm was a week ago this past Tuesday. Six years. I’ve been here six years, and I feel as if I’ve spent most of it just scrabbling from outcrop to outcrop, with occasional time spent hiding under an overhang, just to keep from falling off the face [...]

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Too Funny Not to Share

Some old friends of mine have … let’s call it an “interesting” sense of humor!!    Enjoy!

The punishment for an unfunny pun should be the punitentiary. 
CREATIVE PUNS FOR “EDUCATED MINDS” 
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 
2. I thought I saw an eye [...]

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Today’s Quote: Samuel Adams (the man, not the beer)

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our [...]

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Thematic Changes

OK, I did something I shouldn’t have done …. I thought I would change the  theme of my blog to something different, only the one I was using before is no longer available….. 
This is bad.  Very bad.
At least I was able to save the photo.
Whew!  Found it!! 
[Can you tell I am not comfortable with change?]

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Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way

Just FYI for those of you who use PayPal.
My parents just got their bank account cleaned out by someone who got their banking information through PayPal. Their bank, a local bank they’ve been using for years, has been very good about working with them, but the bank representative said that they have had seven similar [...]

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