Adventuress

I am sort of a stodgy person very conservative rarely taking risks or putting myself "out there." However, my LW is much more adventuresome than I am.

She is taking a Belly Dancing class at the Y and some of them performed at the Mango Restaurant  in Niles.  Every first Saturday of the month, the Mango has a Belly Dancing show where various dancers or groups perform.  My LW's teacher performs every 1st Saturday and got about 12 or so members of her class to perform including my LW.

Instructor in front.

My Lovely Belly Dancer!

My LW is also a member of the Waukegan Swedish Women's Chorus and performed a solo at the JulMidDag.

Sorry about the quality of the video, I was far away without a tripod!

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.-- G. K. Chesterton

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.--Milton R. Saperstein

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure" William Feather

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." Thornton Wilder

"We love because it's the only true adventure." William E. Gladstone

adventure (n) an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity  • daring and exciting activity calling for enterprise and enthusiasm

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French aventure (noun), aventurer (verb), based on Latin adventurus ‘about to happen,’ from advenire ‘arrive.’

The R won!

In our congressional district, we had a D Melissa Bean as our congresswoman.  She beat a very good campaign from well financed candidate in 2008.

This year, we had a R named Joe Walsh who did almost no campaigning that I saw.  Bean had some TV ads in which she tried to paint Walsh as a extremist who was super Pro-Life and super pro-2nd amendment (guns for the constitutionally challenged).

Walsh won by about 350 votes out of 200,000+ votes.  Bean voted for Obamacare (twice once the house version and the rammed through senate version), for the "Stimulus" bill, and for the Cap(Tax) & Trade bill.  She claimed to be independent but I could not find an important (to the dems)  Pelosi bill for which she did not vote.

The arrogance of some politicians caught up with her.  I was extremely surprised that Joe won but am very happy that he did!


The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. George Stephanopoulos



To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States. George W. Bush



If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".Newt Gingrich



Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. Frank Dane



I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
If elected, I will win.
If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?
- Pat Paulsen


A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw


Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde


Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser. Jay Leno


Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
 Bill Clinton


POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. (DD)

LW at Rockford

5 Things

My LW told me about a conversation she had with relatives when driving in the car at the Women of Faith gathering.  They were talking about 5 Things that They Love about their Husbands.

I hope my LW was able to think of 5.  I was thinking about the Top 5 Things that I love about my LW.

1) She is a great mother to our children - when I was in the military she was able to raise them with me away for months at at time.  They turned out very well.  Both are married to great spouses and have 2 or 3 boys (our grandsons).  The kids did very well in school and have great personalities.

2) She laughs at my humor - I like to make fun of various situations involving both of us or activities with which we are involved.

3) She has a sense of adventure - she joined a Women's Swedish singing group and sings in Swedish and English.  She then studied Swedish so she could do better.

4) She sings about everything - in a Bible Study (I think) we were talking about a musical and how everyday people do not burst out in song about everyday occurrences, well she is the one person who actually does it!  Fortunately she has a lovely singing voice.

5) She is sexy!!!!


An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.-- Agatha Christie


You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty.


No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.



A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.-- Brendan Francis



The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.-- Cher



To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.-- Helen Rowland



If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.-- Lily Tomlin



LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.  (DD)

Malware

Some idiot put a Malware redirection on the Church website that I keep up.

The pastor reported it to me and then Google restricted access to the site. I don't understand why anyone would do that to websites.  Are they immature little people that get their kicks out of hurting other people?

My son reported that someone screwed with his blog updates.  It required that he change the way he worked.

I had the ISP that hosts my website clean it and asked Google to reinspect the site.  It is back to normal now.

Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.


Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.



Q: How does Bill Gates screw in a lightbulb?
A: He doesn't. He declares darkness the industry standard.


Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.

Anniversary

The other day (8/10) my Lovely Wife and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary.  We were mmphkah years old when we married (it is interesting that my LW is still only 20 something).

We spent a quiet day at home with me roasting some beef with baked potatoes and salad plus ice cream for dessert.  Most of our anniversaries are spent quietly at home. On one of our anniversaries we went to a riding stable and rode 2 horrible horses named Orville and Peanut; her horse sort of did what my LW wanted but mine felt that he has worked enough for the year.

On our 25th anniversary, we went to a dude ranch in MI, where the horses were much nicer.  On our 40th anniversary we went to a dude ranch (Peaceful Valley) in CO.  We rode horses at least once a day and had a lot of fun plus there were s'mores and great meals 3 times a day (my LW feels any meal she doesn't have to make is great).

I am very lucky to have such a wonderful LW!


By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.  Socrates 


Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.  Beverly Nichols 


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?



Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late.'


My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met.  Rodney Dangerfield 


The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.  Henry Youngman 


A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.  Milton Berle



Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.  Josh Billings




When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife is.



Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for." Mae West



MARRIAGE, n.  The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. (DD)

Medicine

One of my favorite comedians is Tim Hawkins, above is his video of medicine side effects.  There is a pill that now  (Seasonique) that reduces the number of periods that women have.  If you read the possible side effects they include most common are nausea, vomiting, bleeding or spotting between periods, breast tenderness, and difficulty wearing contact lenses.  Isn't bleeding the same as a period?

There are ads for depression meds that  list the side effect of suicide and depression.  Let's see if I get this; you take this medicine if you are depressed but it causes death & depression!

My lovely wife and I listen to the medicine ads just waiting for the possible side effects and wondering why would anyone take medicines?


Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.  Erma Bombeck


God heals and the doctor takes the fee. Benjamin Franklin


First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. Steve Martin 


My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. Joey Bishop


Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.  James Bryce 


The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. Thomas Fuller



MEDICINE, n.  A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway (DD)

Business

No one in the P.O. administration knows anything about business.  There are no businessmen in his cabinet  or inner circle.

Business is in business to make money.  P.O. believes that their purpose is to be taxed or to give jobs to workers.  These are only byproducts of a successful business not their goals.

P.O. believes that by raising taxes on businesses he can close the trillions of dollar budget deficit.  Businesses are not really taxed!  Businesses raise their prices or cut jobs to maintain a profit.

P.O. believes that by making it easier for unions to organize that more jobs will be created.  Higher wages and restrictive work rules do not make for more jobs, only a less profitable business which leads to organizations like the auto industries which can not compete with foreign companies which lead to bailouts and fewer jobs.

P.O. believes by taxing small businessmen that the deficit will decrease.  People unlike P.O. are not stupid, they will not work of hard or expand if it costs them more than it is worth.

Profits are not evil as P.O. believes.  Profits allow expansion and give stock holder money  to spend.


Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world.  Andrew Young


There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.  David Letterman


Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Karl Marx



I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. Steve Martin


I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. Les Dawson


You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in ONE SENTENCE....what it does....it's illegal.   Lewis Black



I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. Steven Wright



Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.  Dave Barry


Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. Alexandre Dumas



business (n) 
1 a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade 2 the practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce
ORIGIN Old English bisignis (see busy , -ness ). The sense in Old English was [anxiety] ; the sense [the state of being busy] was used from Middle English down to the 18th cent., but is now differentiated as busyness. The sense [an appointed task] dates from late Middle English , and from it all the other current senses have developed.

Facebook, Soccer Coaches 2, Chain

My lovely wife has signed up for Facebook.  She has invited various people to be her "friends" and I think everyone so far has accepted.  But she received an email that 7 women and 10 men were searching for her. There were some with pictures but others had the shadowy outlines.  I think that it is creepy that people are searching for "her", of course, for only a "small" monthly fee (with super premium to el cheapo levels) she could see who these people were!

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For those of you who forget *** means a new subject.

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I have been watching the World Cup and watching the coaches,  they wouldn't survive in youth soccer; they just sit there glancing into the ether.  Numerous times I have wanted to help the players on the field with my useful commentary but I refrained since they wouldn't listen anyhow!

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After bicycling to the YMCA to bring my lovely wife her Y bag or actually as I was on the Y driveway, I heard a bad noise and my pedaling had no effect.  My chain broke!  It was at the furthest distance I was going to be from my house.  5 or 5.5 miles away, and I very dark cloud appeared.  So I got to walk home pushing my bike, plus sometime during the trip I lost my chain!

My LW, a Swede?

My lovely wife, in her Swedish Women's Chorus uniform.