An Odd News Day

These stories have something in common, but I, a semi-literate engineer, can’t figure out what exactly it is.
1.  Barack Obama’s favorite union, the SEIU, has a grievance with an aspiring Eagle Scout in Allentown, PA:
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks [...]

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Growing My Own Food (Zucchini-Copia, Part II)

The garden continues to grow well, and today was harvest day again.
The kids want to enter one of our zucchini into the “giant zucchini” contest at one of the local fairs.  We will have to pick a promising candidate a week or two before fair time and let it grow.  I credit the highly organic [...]

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Not Above Her Pay Grade

Here is a 12 year old girl who can speak her mind quite well.  Her 7th grade class was her audience.

What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were gonna live or die? What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you [...]

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Sacred Cow Cola and Skittles Vodka

If the newspaper headlines are driving you to drink, here is some news you can use:
1.  You may have heard it said that “sacred cows make the best hamburger,” but some Indians got the idea that sacred cow urine can be made into cola.
INDIA MAKES COLA FROM COW URINE
To millions of devout Hindus, it’s the [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions For 2009

Tis the season to make New Year’s Resolutions.  I wonder if putting them up on the Internet for everyone to see will help me to keep them.
1.  Make sure to take the Mrs. out once a week.  Getting time alone with SheWhoPicksUpToys is a challenge around here, so I want to get out with her more, even [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with fear and trembling stand;
ponder nothing earthly minded,
for with blessing in his hand
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
our full homage to demand.
King of kings, yet born of Mary,
as of old on earth he stood,
Lord of lords in human vesture,
in the Body and the Blood
he will give to all the [...]

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A Weird Feeling

The weather (or the confinement that results from this weather) must be getting to me.
This morning, in Sunday School and church, I had this weird feeling.  To everyone who saw me I may have looked like a half-asleep zombie, but inside, my mind was racing.  Sitting through Sunday School was just about impossible.  
I felt like [...]

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Rebooting My Soul For Advent

I have not been posting much lately, because the creative juices are just not flowing.  That might not be a bad thing.  Also, life has been busy.
Anyhow, starting on the first day of Advent, I decided to follow the Scripture readings and prayers in the Book of Common Prayer, which is a prayerbook used by Anglicans.  [...]

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Judge Cunningham Gets It Right

Erie County Judge Judge William Cunningham shocked both the District Attorney and and the defense attorney when he sentenced Teri Rhodes to 9 to 18 years, almost the maximum, for voluntary manslaughter in the suffocation death of her newborn daughter.  Both of them were expecting a much lighter sentence for the Mercyhurst College student who hid [...]

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Charlotte

I spent election night en route to Charlotte on a business trip.  This was good, since I didn’t have to hear the Democrats in the office gloating the next morning.  (The biggest Democrat in the office is a Browns fan; it is good that at least one day this fall he got to cheer for the [...]

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