Humor and laughter can definitely help us get through difficult times.
Here a pretty funny list of lessons learned from Hurricane Ike that has been floating around on the internet…….
1. Coffee and frozen pizzas can be made on a BBQ grill.
2. No matter how many times you flick the switch, lights don’t work without electricity.
3. My car gets 23.21675 miles per gallon, EXACTLY (you can ask the people in line who helped me push it).
4. Kids can survive 4 days or longer without a video game controller in their hand.
5. Cats are even more irritating without power.
6. He who has the biggest generator wins.
7. Women can actually survive without doing their hair- you just wish they weren’t around you.
8. A new method of non-lethal torture- showers without hot water.
9. There are a lot more stars in the sky than most people thought.
10. TV is an addiction and the withdrawal symptoms are painful.
11. A 7 lb bag of ice will chill 6-12 oz Budweiser’s to a drinkable temperature in 11 minutes, and still keep a 14 lb. turkey frozen for 8 more hours.
12. There are a lot of dang trees around here.
13. Flood plane drawings on some mortgage documents were seriously wrong.
14. Aluminum siding, while aesthetically pleasing, is definitely not required.
15. Crickets can increase their volume to overcome the sound of 14 generators.
16. People will get into a line that has already formed without having any idea what the line is for.
17. When required, a Lincoln Continental will float, doesn’t steer well but floats just the same.
18. Tele-marketers function no matter what the weather is doing.
19. Cell phones work when land lines are down, but only as long as the battery remains charged.
20. 27 of your neighbors are fed from a different transformer than you, and they are quick to point that out!
21. Hampers were not made to contain such a volume.
22. If my store sold only ice, chainsaws, gas and generators… I’d be rich.
23. Price of a can of soup rises 200 percent in a storm.
24. Your water front property can quickly become someone else’s fishing hole.
25. Tree service companies are under appreciated.
26. I learned what happens when you make fun of another states’ blackout.
27. MATH 101: 30 days in a month, minus 6 days without power equals 30 percent higher electric bill ?????
28. Drywall is a compound word, take away the ‘dry’ part and it’s worthless.
29. I can walk a lot farther than I thought.
Last night I scratched a life goal off my list.
Not because I reached or achieved the goal, but unfortunately, because it is no longer possible.
Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of watching a baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
It is The House That Ruth Built. It is the home to 85 years of baseball history, 37 World Series, and 4 All-Star games.
Legends like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Joe Dimaggio, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto created memories, set records, and won championships in this baseball heaven.
Yankee Stadium hosted its last game last night. A 7-3 Yankee win over the Baltimore Orioles. Appropriately, Derek Jeter was the last Yankee to bat in this grand stadium.
I actually did not literally mark this life goal off my list because I don’t actually have a written list of life goals. And maybe that is why I never attained this particular goal.
Mark Batterson says this about writing down life goals…..
The first step to accomplishing a goal is simply writing it down. The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory!
Have you written any life goals down?
Do you have a life goal that you should focus on attaining before it is no longer possible?
This is going to make for an interesting weekend at our house.
Hurricane Ike is paying us a visit.
Our house is close to that red arrow.
Check out stormpulse.com. Nice site for hurricane tracking.
Baseball might be my favorite sport, but here in Texas…………
Football is King
I love college football season.
I grew up in Austin, TX so the University of Texas Longhorns are my team.
Sitting here watching the Horns take on the mighty Miners of UTEP right now.
Who is your team?
The other day I posted a word cloud of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech…….
A Word Cloud of Barack Obama’s Speech
So I thought it would only be fair if I also posted a word cloud of John McCain’s acceptance speech.
(Click the image for a large version. Created using wordle.net)
McCain’s speech wasn’t delivered as well as Mr. Obama’s speech and it wasn’t as electric as Mrs. Palin’s speech, but Mr. McCain finished strong……….
I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.
Fight for what’s right for our country.
Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.
Fight for our children’s future.
Fight for justice and opportunity for all.
Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.
Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
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