February 2011
3 posts
Things I learned this week...
…. about cooking. First and foremost, get yourself a good cookbook! This week I was given a copy of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. Much to my surprise, it was as much fun to read as it was to actually prepare recipes.
I discovered that the reason my roast beef was over cooked last week was not because my thermometer is broken, but because I cooked it to 160° instead of...
Cars, Cars, Cars
I have always been fascinated with cars. Started when I got my first Lincoln Continental Mark I diecast car as a six year old. Not too long after that, in the late 50s, my dad would take me every year to the Ford Rotunda for a test drive in this year’s new models. I still remember my first ride. It was once around the track in a 1960 Mercury Monterey in September 1959. Now 50 years later,...
technology
well, now that I have a voice activated text feature on my keyboard lets try this blogging thing again. I have a lot of thoughts, but my keyboard skills are lacking, which obviously makes blogging very difficult. Well, I think that difficulty has just disappeared. I am pretty sure that I can do 60 words per minute or more with this headset. So today we are going to try it out.
I guess this will...
January 2011
15 posts
One Hit Wonder
Whatever happened to Chad Brock?
Don’t you just love it when the next song comes on the radio and you say to yourself whatever happened to?…………. Yeah a one hit wonder. Maybe it’s because I listen a lot to satellite radio and favor 50’s & 60’s pop along with 80’s & 90’s Country. Obviously, it is too soon to say who, in this...
50 Essential Stories
Had an interesting conversation with a young pastor yesterday. He is preaching a series called 50 Essential Stories from the Old Testament. My first thought was I bet I can come up with 30 or 35. I purposely did not ask him to name any of those 50, then sat down after supper to list as many as possible.
As I started I thought 25-30 would be easy. I have been in and out of the bible all my life,...
Chop Suey is the Spam of Chinese food
What is important to you?
Cleveland Street resident Anthony Harbison said he woke up and smelled gas.
“I just knew something was wrong. It smelled too bad.”
Firefighters asked him to leave his residence. He grabbed his homework, a TV, a Playstation and his four dogs.
He planned to spend the coming hours with friends until he knew it was OK to return to his house.
“This is it,” he said while...
Who am I?
I have been asking that myself. Happily married male, soon to be sixty, long time social networker. In fact, my networking started via telephone in the mid ’60s, probably before the term networking even existed. As a young teen I spent hours on the phone every night. I called Dawn, Ginger, Bev. Was it gossip? I suppose, but I do know this: I really enjoyed talking to girls and finding out...
And if Americans didn’t want something cheap, Wal-Mart wouldn’t exist.
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we will be against. —Christina Baldwin
Random Lyrics/Favorites
It’s not love, but it’s not bad. Merle Haggard
Pay my respects to grace and virtue Send my condolences to good Give my regards to soul and romance, They always did the best they could The Killers
If you’re gonna do me wrong. do it right Vern Gosdin
You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd Roger Miller
Reese Witherspoon, She�s...
Ode to Roger Miller
I hear tell you’re doin’ well, Good things have come to you. I wish I had your good-luck charm And you had a do-wacka-do, Wacka do, wacka-do, wacka-do.
After Christmas Break
In this fast-paced world, our traditions ground us, inspire us. Traditions are meant to be observed and nurtured-but they should also be allowed to evolve.
I have enjoyed 59 Christmases . Evolution has been very slow. As a boy, I would wake up at 6 , open presents, then spend the day playing with new toys. Today’s Legos were yesterday’s Tinkertoys. Through the 50’s &...
You're kidding , right?
We need a new, politically correct Huck Finn? Where is that coming from?
In today’s society where we sing/rap/talk about Ho’s, I wanna be a billionaire so F—-in bad, Classy women who use the F word (oxymoron,eh?), and on and on are we really worried that Huck Finn will teach us to use intolerant, ignorant slurs?
Man must work
Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly or he may work gratefully: he may work as a man or he may work as a machine. There is no work so rude that he may not exalt it: no work so impressive that he may not breathe a soul into it; no work so dull that he may not enliven it.
Henry Giles
Advice from Jack Rice, circa 1969
“There is nothing so elegant as a simple truth”
– Jim Poole, CEO Lifetime Learning
88 Friends
Friends: Not long ago, the mention of the word would have conjured up the names Monica(neurotic), Ross(uber geek), Chandler(class clown), Rachel(flaky sexpot), Joey (thick as a fence post hunk) and the ubiquitous Phoebe. Wildly popular in the pop culture world, 6 friends through thick and thin.
Dictionary.com defines friend as a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal...