Even though I feel a lot of the prescriptions that young kids get (for Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD or AD/HD or ADD; mainly boys who are only acting like boys) are ridiculous, if only there was a cure for AAADD!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
AAADD
I was talking to the newspaper delivery man this morning during Frisbit's morning walk, He asked if I had "Senior Moments", he had gone to the same address twice having forgotten that he had already delivered the newspaper there. Which reminded me of this YouTube video:
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Sunday
It is back to a normal Sunday. The Trinity United choir is singing again.
We have been off for 2 weeks since the Christmas program on Christmas Eve. I enjoy singing, I'm not that good at it but I try. Plus we get to wear choir robes and don't have to worry about what to wear!
Our choir director is Josh, he makes singing fun. He says after we have practiced a piece "that will be fine"; however, we are not so sure especially me. It seems at the practices that we sound bad, but during the singing in Church we do sound fine (or even sometimes good)!
All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir By Bill Staines
All God's critters got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
And some just clap their hands, or paws
Or anything they got.
“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.” Paul McCartney
“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.” Fred Allen
“I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didn't have loads of friends.” Gwen Stefan
“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so” William Shakespeare
“Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.” George Eliot
We have been off for 2 weeks since the Christmas program on Christmas Eve. I enjoy singing, I'm not that good at it but I try. Plus we get to wear choir robes and don't have to worry about what to wear!
Our choir director is Josh, he makes singing fun. He says after we have practiced a piece "that will be fine"; however, we are not so sure especially me. It seems at the practices that we sound bad, but during the singing in Church we do sound fine (or even sometimes good)!
All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir By Bill Staines
All God's critters got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
And some just clap their hands, or paws
Or anything they got.
“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.” Paul McCartney
“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.” Fred Allen
“I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didn't have loads of friends.” Gwen Stefan
“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so” William Shakespeare
“Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.” George Eliot
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Frisbit
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He is getting grayer and is not as active (like his people). At Christmas time, he was very sick and didn't eat and threw up what he did eat. Plus he could not walk in a straight line. We took him to the Vet expecting the worst, but the Vet gave us some "pain pills" and a shot plus a arthritis medicine and he seems to be doing much better.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. Edward Abbey
The more I know about men, the more I like dogs. Gloria Allred
I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he's a little sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt. Larry Amoros
It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
If your dog thinks you're the greatest person in the world, don't seek a second opinion. Jim Fiebig
Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail. Virginia Graham
A dog desires more affection than his dinner.—Well, almost! Charlotte Gray
If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
In dog years I'm dead.
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival — an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. (DD)
Friday, January 6, 2012
New Car continued
I have decided to give my old car to C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans), which is where I gave our last one (12 years ago).
In general, I like to buy American cars, but the only hybrid other than the Prius that I would consider is the Ford Fusion. The Ford costs about $5000 more and doesn't get as good mileage,
I refuse to consider buying a GM (Obama Motors) car. Other then the Chevy Volt burning down garages and houses (link, link2); we lost a lot of money when Obama gave the company to the Government and the Labor Unions (who were instrumental in causing the trouble) and I will not support any company that was bailed out.
Chrysler is owned by a foreign company and bailed out.
And Japan was ravaged by the weather and came back without any help from our government. So buying a Toyota helps those who help themselves.
In general, I like to buy American cars, but the only hybrid other than the Prius that I would consider is the Ford Fusion. The Ford costs about $5000 more and doesn't get as good mileage,
I refuse to consider buying a GM (Obama Motors) car. Other then the Chevy Volt burning down garages and houses (link, link2); we lost a lot of money when Obama gave the company to the Government and the Labor Unions (who were instrumental in causing the trouble) and I will not support any company that was bailed out.
Chrysler is owned by a foreign company and bailed out.
And Japan was ravaged by the weather and came back without any help from our government. So buying a Toyota helps those who help themselves.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Bread Making
I am making some bread with our bread machine. I rotate between Whole Wheat bread and a Cranberry Walnut bread recipes. Now I'm making the Cranberry Bread. The recipe calls for Walnuts (see the title) but we substitute Raw Sunflower Seeds and add more cinnamon then it calls for.
The Whole Wheat recipe follows:
1 1/8 cup water
3 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp of salt
1/3 cup of homey
1 TBS of dry milk powder
1 1/2 TBS shortening
1 1/2 tsp of active dry yeast
however, I use Milk instead of the water & milk powder and canola oil instead of the shortening. Plus we add 1 tsp of cinnamon and 1/2 to 3/4 cups of Raw Sunflower seeds. It tastes very good but is rather dense. Plus we don't add the salt (since it isn't good for us).
I enjoy making the bread since it is so easy and we save on the store prices and the high fructose corn syrup that is added to most everything in the store.
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. Cat Stevens
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Georges Bernanos
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. Thomas Jefferson
Acorns were good until bread was found. Francis Bacon
Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread. Jef I. Richards
At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? Merle Haggard
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. Nikolai Berdyaev
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Top Stories
We live in the Midwest. In the winter, it gets cold out and it snows!
The top stories for all the local TV stations were that it is cold out! So far this winter it has been mild, but yesterday and today the temperatures are in the 5-20 degrees F range.
It always amazes me that people think cold or snow is unusual in the winter.
It is like the idiot reporters in hurricane weather broadcasting in the rain & wind or the news cast that basically says that an event has happened with no details, but they have a reporter in the area reporting that there is no news.
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened". Newt Gingrich
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. David Brinkley
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer
Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters. Peter Jennings
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. Dave Barry
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht
The top stories for all the local TV stations were that it is cold out! So far this winter it has been mild, but yesterday and today the temperatures are in the 5-20 degrees F range.
It always amazes me that people think cold or snow is unusual in the winter.
It is like the idiot reporters in hurricane weather broadcasting in the rain & wind or the news cast that basically says that an event has happened with no details, but they have a reporter in the area reporting that there is no news.
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened". Newt Gingrich
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. David Brinkley
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer
Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters. Peter Jennings
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. Dave Barry
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht
Monday, January 2, 2012
Typing
When I was in High Schoo; (School), I did not take typing; instead I took as much science and math as I could.
This has led to some very strange typing from me.
I commented on my son's Facebook entry and typed: "How more real can it hey?" when I meant "How much more real can it get?". As you can see above "Schoo;" vs. "School."
When I ypye (type) interesting I usually type "intersting." If I didn't have the Speel (spell) check, the Lord alone knows what might be put out by me! Of course as above "Speel" is a real word, it is fortunate I noticed it.
I use a modified all finger technique where I try to make the right letters come out. In addition, my close vision is getting pretty bad so I mess up that way also!
So if you get any emails or comments from me; BEWARE!
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.” Brian Tracy
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top”
“Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories.”
“To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say 'Well, the typing is very good.'” John Sayles
“I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.” Bill Hirst
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Paul Kane
This has led to some very strange typing from me.
I commented on my son's Facebook entry and typed: "How more real can it hey?" when I meant "How much more real can it get?". As you can see above "Schoo;" vs. "School."
When I ypye (type) interesting I usually type "intersting." If I didn't have the Speel (spell) check, the Lord alone knows what might be put out by me! Of course as above "Speel" is a real word, it is fortunate I noticed it.
I use a modified all finger technique where I try to make the right letters come out. In addition, my close vision is getting pretty bad so I mess up that way also!
So if you get any emails or comments from me; BEWARE!
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.” Brian Tracy
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top”
“Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories.”
“To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say 'Well, the typing is very good.'” John Sayles
“I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.” Bill Hirst
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Paul Kane
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Year, New Car
Every 10-12 years, we buy a new car. Well, it has been approximately 12 years since we bought our Voyager; so we bought a new one!
We bought a Toyota Prius.
It is interesting, at the dealership, everyone thought we should be ever so happy & joyous that we have a new car. It is nice to have a new car, but we don't get over-hyped, a car is just a means to get places not a trophy or symbol of my manhood.
So now we have a Voyager to get rod of, only about 82K miles; anyone interested?
4 out of 5 voices in my head say Go For It!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
Back Off! I'm a Postal Worker
Beat rush hour, leave work at noon
Come The Rapture Can I Have Your Car?
Cover me! I'm changing lanes.
Don't follow me. I'm lost too.
Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.
Driver carries no cash. He's married.
Forget About World Peace. Visualize Using Your Turn Signal!
God is Coming and is she PISSED
I'm a nice guy. My car is evil.
I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to work.
I'm only driving this way to piss you off.
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
I am not a bum. My wife works!
I brake suddenly for tailgaters
I don't care, I don't have to.
I have good Brakes, Do you have GOOD Insurance?
I Haven't Lost My Mind, It's Backed Up On Disk Somewhere.
I just let my mind wander, and it didn't come back.
I may be slow but I'm ahead of you!
I respect your opinion. Just don't want to hear it!
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
If everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane!
If we call it tourist season why can't we shoot them?
If you can read this, I've lost my trailer.
Invest in America. Buy a Congressman!
Jesus is coming look busy.
Lord give me patience... But Hurry!
My other bumper sticker is funny.
Politicians & Diapers need to be changed... often for the same reason
Somewhere in Texas there's a village missing an idiot
Sorry if I look interested, I'm not!
THE EARTH IS FULL GO HOME
This Is Not An Abandoned Vehicle
Work harder!! Millions on welfare are depending on you.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Blessed New Year
I hope all of you have a Blessed New Year!
Every year is a chance to do better.
To be an ideal guest, stay at home. Edgar Watson Howe
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Bill Vaughan
Every year is a chance to do better.
To be an ideal guest, stay at home. Edgar Watson Howe
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Bill Vaughan
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right? Catherine O'Hara
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. P. J. O'Rourke
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. Barbara Walters
To kick start my New Year, I took an IQ and the results were negative.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. - Jay Leno
On New Year's Eve, Marilyn stood up in the local pub and said that it was time to get ready. At the stroke of midnight, she wanted every husband to be standing next to the one person who made his life worth living. As the clock struck - the bartender was almost crushed to death.
When I thought about the evils of drinking in the New Year, I gave up thinking.
A new year is unfolding like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.
"Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits."
"I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser." -- Robert Paul
Thursday, December 29, 2011
New Year Traditions
I have a few New Year's Traditions that I follow:
1. Spend New Year's Eve at home with my L(ovely)W(ife).
2. To be asleep when the New Year comes in.
3. To not make any New Year's resolutions.
These traditions work well for me, though they might not be as good for others.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. Mark Twain
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. James Agate
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughan
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Mark Twain
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. (DD- Ambrose Bierce)
1. Spend New Year's Eve at home with my L(ovely)W(ife).
2. To be asleep when the New Year comes in.
3. To not make any New Year's resolutions.
These traditions work well for me, though they might not be as good for others.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. Mark Twain
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. James Agate
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughan
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Mark Twain
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. (DD- Ambrose Bierce)
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