Posts from — December 2009

Friday, December 11 my son joined with other members of the band to play a little football.  They do this every Friday night after the marching season is over, so that they can try to kill each other, just for fun.They have played in frigid cold, and in blazing hot, but the games are Friday night, after school, until it is too dark to play, which during November and December generally means around 5:30. [Read more →]

Yesterday was the annual “Holiday” party for the Minis and Friends organisation.  Well in all actuality it really can’t be an annual event until next year.  This was the first time it was called a “Hoedown” [Read more →]

Today was the annual trek to purchase Christmas gifts.  My wife takes a day off from her job teaching and I take a day off, or as was the case today, I just didn’t type, or answer emails, and we just shop our little hearts out.  Each store we go to winds up taking at least twice as long as we think it will. [Read more →]

I wanted to be a veterinarian.  I loved dogs, cats, horses and all of the exotic animals.  In fact I once wrote to the zoo keeper for the Great Bend Kansas zoo, and asked him to mail me the following things, so that I could take care of them for the zoo, you know for sort of a backup: [Read more →]

Why is there a phrase called “creature comforts”? Well this is what www.phrases.org.uk says:

“Man is presumed to consist of body and soul, the “creature” being the body, as opposed to the soul, which is the divine spark. Thus “creature comforts” are those which nourish the body – food, liquor, warmth, etc – as opposed to those such as love, companionship, sympathy, and so on, which nourish the soul. (VSD)”

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I have been studying ways to make money online for about 10 years now.  I remember working at Dell and making a decent living but I was still wanting to own my own business.  I wanted to make money with this relatively new communication method called the internet. [Read more →]

I got a newsletter from a friend of mine who runs a horse ranch.  I have never agreed with her politics, but I have never bothered to argue it with her.  She is one of those folks who, when disagreed with, has a head the spins around and spits out the most vile stuff known to mankind.  [Read more →]