People in Big Trucks

Yesterday, I was driving my truck, my little Ford Range which is so much fun to drive and this guy in his Ford 350 pulls up on my left side when I was stop at the intersection and blocks my view on oncoming traffic. I don't think he cared that I was there and trying to cross the intersection. I inched up so I can see because he wants to turn left and I couldn't see. So he inches up to block my view again! Why do people have to be so intolerate of us little people. This has happen many times. I guess they think we are blocking their view of traffic as they look down and count the scratches on my roof and they can't turn left. I say no more left turning lanes lets implement the 'Texas Left' or the 'Michigan Left' or the 'New Jersey Left' which is actually a right then a left. That way us special people in small vehicles can move straight ahead.

Today is roman numeral XL1

Today is a great blissful, happy, 'part of eternity' day. Cindy and I have been married for 41 years. We have had our ups and a few downs over the years. My memories of our wedding day are not as clear as they once was but the one thing that is clear, eternally clear, is that my Love for my spouse has grown deeper each year. " Love is a many splendor thing", an active process by which two hearts grow as one. We have cleaved unto each other and have inter-twined our lives to the point that we can no longer separate our life lines. We feed off each other and nourish each other as the sun rises each morning. I am the person I am because of the support and love of my tender-hearted, intelligent, caring wife. It is this Love that will one day provide us with an Eternal Home with our Father and Heaven. Learning to think as one is part of the eternal perspective we need to learn here during our mortal probation. I am a very blessed man!!

I think all of this is sum up in the attached picture where some of the fruits of our
lives have fell not far from the roots.

A U G U S T 2 6, 2 0 0 8
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Vacation Pictures

Cindy and I had a great time in Texas playing with the grandkids. The slide show below shows a few of the 270 pictures we took. We petted stingrays at the zoo which was a little scary but
invigorating. The building is the new Dallas Cowboy stadium that will open in 2009. It will cost $1.2B to build. It will hold 80,000 people. You will see pictures from Chuck E Cheese, Melissa and Josh's home, the swimming pool, the minor league ball park with Air Bacon the Grand Prairie Hogs mascot. Enjoy!
Update - 8/18/2008: The slide show is located to the left of this post on the main screen. You can click on the site and it will enlarge the pictures and you will see the captions.

Insults with Class

When Insults Had Class - I thought these were clever and interesting. I hope you will.

(These glorious quotes are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.)

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A Member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

Vacation Update

Vacation has been so busy and so much fun that I haven't read any blogs until this morning. We have been swimming, gone to the park, to the zoo, done some shopping, played games, fixed bikes, went for a long bike ride and have thoroughly enjoyed being with the grandkids and with Melissa and Josh. What a great diversion from work. Cindy and I needed that. The girls have enjoyed their American Gril dolls and visiting the American Girl store while the boys went to 2 baseball games.

The Texas Rangers versus the Yankees and my Yankees came in second while Texas was next to last. The second game was a minor league team called the AirHogs names after the Grand Prairie squadron in world war II. Both games were very enjoyable.l My brother Gary who I have not seen in about 3 -4 years was able to go to the second game.

It was great to see him and get caught up on his family. He retired last April and is taking care of Abigail, Dawn's daughter. He is aging well but not as well as me!!!! It was a fun two nights.
I have taken a lot of pictures and will upload them when I get back home.

I went to the blog today because there is something special about today. It won't happen again for 1000 years but a similar thing will happen next year. This is a trivia question not a brain teaser and I don't know if you can find it on the internet but it should be there.