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Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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Messiah complex
I took my firstborn to college this week. The emphasis was on being equipped to live a Christian life through making lifelong solid friendships/mentors. He went on a camping trip with 140 students and quite a few faculty members. 2 credit hours. Great message/experience.
Simpsonville is a SE suburb of Greenville, SC.
I think they beat Robbinsville, NJ 9-5.
Youngest son has applied for a tech school nearby. Sure beats sitting around staring at a computer screen.
My wife is dang cute!
Angus Mckenzie of Motor Trend fame is NUTS. He says the new Rolls Royce Phantom is elegant.
Yep. Sure Angus. Like a MACK truck is elegant. I know it’s the new style, but y’know what? That boxy chopped front that’s the new style is butt ugly. OK? So quit lying about it.
funny thing, though. you sure don’t look a fraction over 77.9951!
Don’t rush me guys! I won’t be 78 till Sunday.
But I already look 78.0766. The worst part will be getting sung to in SS.
Youngest granddaughter was 22 yesterday. My entire family is getting old.
Thanks for the comments.
I love all of you, even some with whom I violently disagree, though some of the same-ol-same-ol gets tiresome. I skip a lot of it.
Way to go Chas. Happy Birthday - tomorrow?
As the resident “psycho chef” I can relate to Michelle’s exhuberance of fresh garden tomatoes! Nothing like the local produce that graces our dinner tables.
Anyone notice that there has been no metion at all of Micheal Phelps’ Dad.
Homegrown tomatoes are soft and hard to cut, they are wet and make the sandwich bread soggy.
HOMEGROWN TOMATOES ARE DELICIOUS.!
I’ve been getting them about three weeks now.
Re, #9. Last Sunday our pastor, commenting on James’ “beholding himself in a mirror ….” said, “the mirror doesn’t lie.”
I saw him at the “Y” (gym) Wednesday and said that the older I get the more my mirror lies. I can’t really look that bad. But even so, there’s nothing worse than lying scales.
Michelle, where do you live? Someone gave us gigantic tomatoes and green peppers from their garden last week. I made spaghetti using them last evening. It was yummy, imho.
I guess that counts as a rave.
Chas, I just read in 1930 that scientists discovered the planet Pluto. I believe it was 2006 when they decided Pluto wasn’t really a planet. I’d call that an eventful life.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Happy Birthday #78, Chas!
Happy birthday, Chas! I once read of a man who made his wife’s day by sending her flowers at work, the day after her 39th birthday, withe the note “You don’t look a day over 39.” When my mom turned 75, the flower service through which I ordered flowers didn’t deliver on Monday, so I borrowed that line…I had her husband buy her three roses on Monday (her birthday) and then Tuesday she got six dozen roses to bring the total to 75, with a card saying, “You don’t look a day over 75.” She was absolutely blown away by the 75 roses. OK, back to rants and raves . . .
We’re an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge; last year I didn’t get a garden tomato until mid-September. So, I’m dancing in the kitchen today–because now I’ve got another one!
Llama: I heard the other day that Michael Phelps’ father left the family when Michael was quite young and the relationship is still strained. He often credits his mother for raising him on her own [I don’t know if there are siblings].
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHAS
Happy Birthday, Chas!
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CherylD (my friend): I chuckled when I read, “Yesterday I used a coupon from Petsmart for a free ‘bath and brush and more’.” It reminded me of a time that a co-worker started a story by saying, “Last night I took my son to the dry cleaner” to which I replied, “Is that better than a bath?”
One more rant:
My Bible study is done in 1 week. It has been such a blessing this summer! The women I meet with are going to do another one this fall, but I won’t be able to attend - husband works the evening they are holding it.
last year I didn’t get a garden tomato until mid-September. So, I’m dancing in the kitchen today–because now I’ve got another one!
Congrats, Michelle!
Kayvee, Phelps has at least two sisters; they were being interviewed on ESPN yesterday morning.
Happy birthday, Chas!
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Let me add my birthday congratulations to Chas! So, what are you now? 78.001?
Happy Birthday, Chas!
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Happy birthday, Chas!
Rave: My internet problems are better (at least this week)
Rant: I had to go to a meeting across the river yesterday. In typical African fashion, the meeting was called for 10 am, but didn’t start until after noon.
Rave: I had good ferry crossings both ways to go to the meeting and get home the same day.
Rave: I went out for breakfast on the way to the meeting.
Middle daughter, the engineer, despite struggling with a 10 month old, an unemployed husband, pregnancy with bad morning sickness and a new job which is driving her nuts, fought through all that and an obdurate, non-responsive mortgage company to settle on very nice short-sale home last week.
She has convinced me that she has the one ability that I most lack–the ability to just put one foot in front of the other, day after day, no matter what.
Congrats to Kirsten!
Ajisuun, you’ve been missed!
Kayvee,
I almost had a heart attack when I started to do some research on M. Phelps’ dad and saw his name was Fred Phelps. I though he might be a son of the nut case Fred Phelps, the insane Baptist pastor from Topeka that pickets the funerals of Iraq war deaths among other insane things too numerous to mention.
But thankfully, he is not related to that insane family but he was a policeman of some kind. The insane Pastor Phelps is a disbarred lawyer who had 13 kids, - 11 of them are lawyers. What a nightmare they are. Can’t find out much else about Michael’s dad though.
Michael’s sisters and mother are just great no matter how bad his dad was. It is nice to see him and his family, do so well despite all the hardships.
You got to love it. Another great week for McCain and the third week in a row of heartbreak for the Anti Christ. Then at the very end Hillary rolled him with a lead pipe. If this keeps up there will be riots on the convention floor in Denver and Hillary will likely win the Socialist / Marxist nomination. He is such a naive, weak and inexperienced boy.
Next thing you know Janet Reno will have him changing her oil in her little red truck.
You guys jumped the gun. I’m still 77 until 2 am Sunday morning EST (3 am DST).
Thanks OpTeen for the card. My granddaughters are wise guys too.
AJISUUN! I was worried about you. It’s good to have you back.
Michelle, I started re-reading Mere Christianity, but bought The Great Santini by Pat Conroy and am ready to start on it.
Donna, I still subscribe. I have to, my wife cuts out the coupons.
As for this bd, (I got part of this from Thomas Sowell, who’s the same age as I.)
I am one-third the age of this country.
If you took my birth date and counted back 78 years, it would be before the civil war.
My granddaughter is expecting a girl in September. I wonder what her world will be like in 2086. Actually, I pray for her and her brother a lot. I worry.
Watch out for that Pat Conroy. God used Prince of Tides to shake up my life pretty profoundly.
I bought a new copy of Mere Christianity in June. So I’m ahead of you . . .
We’re delighted at $3.99 out here in the People’s Republic of California.
RAVE
OT will learn to use Hyperlinks now.
The Fox reporter says: Georgian forces have begun firing on journalists with pistols. They are undisciplined, angry and humiliated.
One minute you are sitting down with Russian forces and the next minute, car loads of Georgian forces drive up, they’re furious and they seem to take out that fury, that humiliation on the people they can. The journalists.
Rant: a poster using a photo of Ronald Reagan to post endless, pointless, mindless rants.
Happy (early) Birthday Chas! You share the day with Daughter L2.
Bought gasoline for $3.399 in the town where the funeral was (Sedalia, MO). It is $3.509 here.
The last line above should have a
before it.
:)Our Olympic team (Team USA) seems to be doing quite well in some events. The Dalhausser/Rogers men’s volleyball team, for instance, and of course Michael Phelps, who must be (as the commercial said) at least part dolphin. Hooray for the USA.
MIM, yes I think the Phantom Coupe could look a lot better, but there are a lot worse looking things on four wheels out there. (i.e. Pontiac Aztek, etc.)
OT, I don’t know what the worst book ever written is, but one of the worst I’ve read was Vanity Fair by Thackeray. I forced myself through the hundreds and hundreds of pages, but it really is not my kind of reading.
Rio,
Yeah, but Angus McKenzie is just loopy to call anything that looks that chopped and boxy “elegant”. I’m not aware that those other ugly cars have been called elegant…
Rant: I don’t know how to put a smiley face here, could someone please take the time to tell me how?
Rave: The clutch went out on my husband’s semi on an interstate. Road Service truck repairers often rip-off the truckers because they have to be towed and repaired immediately. They have to pay whatever they charge. My husband prayed for God to send an honest man to fix it.
Immediately a Russian truck driver pulled up and helped him fix it enough to get to a truck stop. There he offered to fix it properly for free. My husband offered $100 anyway, for his time. The man had his son go and buy the necessary washer and was able to fix it completely. Then he invited my husband to his nearby house, where his wife fed him a lavish meal and filled a bag with homemade bread and desserts to take with him. The man’s sons played Russian hymns on piano and accordian. They all had a wonderful time of fellowship. My husband left with an open offer for a meal anytime he’s back in that area.
God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we could ask or think!
CJ-
Put this : with this - and this ) without spaces and you get this for good things
If you wish to make a frown for bad things like John McCain, put this : with this - and this (
There are others if you click here
KI, my middle granddaughter celebrated May, her birth month. She’s 23 now, employed and doesn’t have the liberty of doing that.
c-Joy others are better at the description than I am, but
You can hit :, then a -, then ) and together they make
Try that, then test it on preview until you get it down. When you master it, there are other options, i.e. cry, sad, wink, etc. Some are good to help. Cameron & Mommy taught me how to enter long posts on my word processor and paste to the blog. Some real neat tricks.
I don’t know how Godlumps got there 26 minutes earlier than I did & I didn’t see it.
Listen to him, not me.
That’s seven hours! I don’t know how I missed it.
It’s okay, Chas. Sometimes older folks have those lapses.
C-joy- wonderful story!
C-Joy–What a wonderful story! Isn’t God marvelous!!
You do have a point there, MIM.
Instead of the that one, maybe some of the new Maybachs, Bentleys, or Mercedes could be appropriately called “elegant,” do you think?