Archive for the 'misc.' Category
NBC - You Ought to be Ashamed
Even as I write this, I may be witnessing China’s triumph over western commercialism. The opening ceremonies of the Olympics are being broadcast with near-constant interruption by NBC — it’s jarring. The commercials are not well balanced and they are dramatically NOT beautiful, especially when compared to the opening ceremonies.
The opening ceremonies, on the other […]
Beautiful as Heaven, Deadly as Hell
A month (or so) ago, a few people from our church decided to do some landscaping around the parsonage. For this, we are incredibly thankful! The parsonage is 50-ish years old, but has never had much landscaping done to it and the work they did in the course of a day practically transformed […]
Read More..>>The Irony of Independence Day
I ran across these stats this morning… thought I’d share…
According to the US Census Bureau,
The US imported $217,000,000 worth of fireworks in 2007 ($207,000,000 from China).
In 2007, the US imported $4,700,000 worth of US Flags ($4,300,000 from China).
So the US imports exactly the same things we use to celebrate our “independence”… he he he
Oh, irony […]
Buca di Beppo
Years ago, we visited some friends in Des Moines, IA and ate at a restaurant called Buca di Beppo (I think the one in Des Moines has since closed). Turns out, it’s a chain. We’ve since found that there are Bucas all over, the most convienient of which is in Lombard, IL just […]
Read More..>>A Wicked 10th Anniversary!
Today is our 10th wedding anniversary and, although we’re not doing anything particularly exciting (except opening a bottle of Tabor Hill’s Cabernet Franc - Michigan has some incredible Cab Francs and this is one of our favs!), Wednesday evening was the “proper” celebration! We spent the night in Chicago and attended Wicked!
I bought JJ […]
Read More..>>Another “Fun” One
Brewergnome checked his birthday out the other day and I thought it was kind of fun. Here’s mine…
The 134,448 People
Unusual Deaths in 1975
On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king’s lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was […]
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1 thing unexpectedly awful, and 1 creative and wonderful
First the unexpected and awful. My computer fell into a coma yesterday. I was joyously checking my e-mail, typing up a list, loading finale to print out a song I wrote a few years ago and *boom*… or more precisely ” . . . . . ” the blasted thing just stopped. […]
Read More..>>No ‘Average’ Americans in that House
Finally, a commentator that gets the point. There are no “average” Americans in the white house… probably never will be. Say what they want, they do not live the same lifestyles we live or even exist in the same world. Great commentary on CNN by Roland Martin. Check it out here.
Grace and Peace,
`tim
Yep, it’s been forever
I haven’t blogged in a long time. Yes, I’ve been busy, and no, it doesn’t really seem like I’ve gotten a lot done. In any case, I thought I’d post a couple of pics from this afternoon. We had a beautiful day with about an hour of Thunderstorm and hail. It […]
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