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Our Daily Thread 3-15-13

Good Morning!

It’s Finally Friday! 🙂

It’s also the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44BC, as well as the birthday of the 7th US President, Andrew Jackson.

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Quote of the Day

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of  God.”

George Washington Carver

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Let’s have some music. 🙂

How about them clothes? 🙂

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Question? Anybody?

58 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-15-13”

  2. It’s FRIDAY!
    You know what that means.
    It’s the Ides of March. You want to stay away from the Senate today. Nothing good is going to happen there.
    Donna and 6Arrows were really chatting away last night. Both lolling about in bed now. 🙂

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  7. Ides trivia: In the Roman calendar, the Ides of each month occurred near the midpoint, on the 13th for most months, but on the 15th for March, May, July, and October. It was determined by the full moon, reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. Therefore, contrary to popular miss-use, even though April 15 feels like doomsday to some people, it is NOT the Ides of April.

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  8. How about a Statement of the Day instead of a Question of the Day?

    Fill in the blanks: If I _____, then _____. (Okay to use more than one word per blank.) 🙂

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  9. I don’t know how to answer my SoD, and I’m monopolizing the thread again, so I’ll just leave you to hash that one out. 🙂

    Have a great day, everyone!

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  10. I’ve been waiting to chat with you all morning but I shut down my computer to reboot it and it took forever to install updates and shut down, then when I powered it back up I had to agree to all the updates.

    Today is the first day of the Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival and the Eastern Shore Art Center Outdoor Art Show. I will be volunteering with that today and tonight.
    My big question for the day is will the one artist be there tonight to question me about every bite she puts in her mouth? She is vegan/gluten free but will be guzzling up the free alcohol. Also last year I was quite amused to catch her on Saturday morning leaving the Art Center with a Chik Fil A chicken biscuit. Must have been a soy breast and gluten free biscuit they made especially for her. 😉
    It is the little things that amuse me.

    More changes coming at work. I think they will be good. I told Cal that for the past few years I had treaded water with Guy I Used to Work With and I was ready to climb out of the water and soak up some sun. He told me to hold on to my hat we were about to ramp it up. I hope so! I will have a couple of thousand extra dollars at the end of this month first of April. Of course that is just in time to send off to the IRS, but I love the idea of having a little more breathing room.

    I have decided one of my agents (a 64 year old man who was an attorney) has the same personality and argumentative nature as my 15 year old daughter. Since I only gave birth to one of them I only have the energy to deal with her. He is just going to have to deal. Yesterday I was trying to explain something to him (that has been explained dozens of times but he won’t change) when he accused me of being condescending. I told him we needed to end the conversation and walk away. I later received an apology from him. His apologies land flat with me because next week we will have the same issue.

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  12. Good morning all. This will be my last day here until after Resurrection Day. 😦

    I will be visiting with my MIL for 2 weeks and she does not have a wireless router, so I will be unplugged for the duration. I fly tomorrow and return on the 30th. I will miss you all while I’m gone, but I will still be here today. And I’ll be back in time for April Fools Day. 😉

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  20. If I hadn’t read the paper I wouldn’t know that the Hendersonville Sears store is not owned by Sears. It’s a franchise owned by most of the workers there. I had no idea that Sears could be a franchise.
    🙂 Things seem to be going well for Kim.

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  22. My atheist group is clinging to life. One of the two people I offended is still communicating with me. I found a very intelligent and perceptive woman to help out. I said, “If my wife dies before me [not very likely, but you never know], will you marry me? We should not live together because we would kill each other, but there is stuff we could do to benefit each other.” I am not lusting after her because i am too old (though she is attractive enough). I told her to make friends with my wife because they do some overlapping volunteer work and have some common interests. I think that is called a menage a trois, except for old people. Are you shocked? I doubt it. In fact, you are bored. If Heaven existed, after a thousand years, you would be bored.

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  23. SoD: If I have three college kids with spring break this week and one college kid and a high schooler with the break next week, then when teacher-hubby gets his break the week after that we can have some enjoyable alone time.

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  24. NancyJill,

    Have you heard from Roy lately? I’ve been thinking about him and praying for his family, but I don’t think we’ve heard from him in a while. If you do, tell him we said hello please. Thanks.

    If I ignore the cat, then she will bite me. 😦

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  27. Good “if…then” statements! I haven’t thought of mine yet, but the song the Cowardly Lion sings in the Wizard of Oz, “If I Were King of the Forest” was running through my head earlier this morning after asking the QoD/SoD. Is there a “then” somewhere in that song? 😉

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  28. Oh, and this isn’t original with me, but I remember reading a quote many years back (by whom, I don’t know) that says, “If what you did yesterday still looks big today, then you haven’t done much today.” Ouch. 😉

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  29. I’ll miss you while you’re gone, Klasko. Will be praying for your safe travels and for the people you mentioned on the prayer thread.

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  30. Klasko, Starbucks! Free wireless, right? Or McDonald’s. 🙂 Unless your MIL lives way out in the woods somewhere, of course. In which case, enjoy being unplugged for a while. But we will miss you.

    The animals get me up briefly at 5 (now 6 with the time change) to be let out (then the cat, an hour later, to get back in the front door because she’s above coming in the back door with the dogs, you know). But I still didn’t get up today until 7:30 and now I’m racing …

    With our new computer system (which, like all new computer systems, is a living nightmare), we have super-early deadlines (like 1 p.m.) — mostly as a precaution as so many things go wrong on the tail end of things as the copy moves through editors etc. It’s a mess.

    So I have 2 stories to write in just a few hours today. Coffee. More coffee.

    Kim, have fun at the fair. 🙂 I’ve seen Roy post on FB now and again, mostly just links to stories, though.

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  34. Donna – MIL lives out in the middle of nowhere, a mile down a dirt road. The nearest Starbucks is about 35 miles away. We don’t have Starbucks, we have Cops & Doughnuts, somewhat of a local sensation. The retired cops bought a bakery that was going out of business, and, well the rest is gaining notoriety. In Clare, MI, the cops make the doughnuts. (Check them out, they’re online and on facebook.)

    I’m sure there a wifi at the McDonalds in town, but I’m not bringing the laptop with me. Besides, MIL and my good friend G have my 2 weeks pretty well planned out for me. They’ve told me all the things they want to do. I’ll be busy.

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  35. My SoD: If I didn’t give the students tests today, I wouldn’t have to grade them!

    Okay, this is an “if..then” from a Broadway musical. Can anyone guess which one and the character who sings it? (I’ve taken out the lion that is the title of the song.)

    …If I were a wealthy man,
    I wouldn’t have to work hard.
    I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen,
    Right in the middle of the town.
    A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below.
    There would be one long staircase just going up,
    And one even longer coming down,
    And one more leading nowhere, just for show.

    Now, hum the tune and enjoy your day.

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  36. The Ides of March – My son, with the sorta sideways sense of humor got a wide purple ribbon for a hatband on his top hat for today and then fastened on a pin that says, “Hello. I see the assassins have failed.”

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  39. greet all Nancy sent me a mesage all is well, I am enjoying be out of work. I have been picking Nicholas up from school and the reports for the last 2 weeks have great reports coming from the school. He is so happy at school and home.

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  41. Judy asked me if I want to be a stay at home father / husband. I told her it was up to God, I am just apply for jobs but no return calls.

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  43. Got it, Klasko — love the Cops and Donuts biz idea!

    Roy, good to hear from you here.

    So can anyone tell me what the lyrics to Horse With No Name mean? I’ve always wondered …

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  44. Amen to what Mumsee said Roy….it brought tears to my eyes just to read that Nicholas has had better moments since his Daddy’s face is what he sees at the end of his school day….God bless you and Judy as you raise up this precious one…I’ll be praying for our Lord’s divine direction in your next steps….

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  48. John 4:22-26

    New King James Version (NKJV).

    22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”.

    25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”.

    26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”.

    ——
    The reason many cannot worship Christ in Spirit and in Truth is because they refuse to repent of their sins. They desire and they want to believe they are worshiping Him, but they reject God’s Word and they refusal to repent leaves them worship the Christ of the World not the Christ of the Word of God, who is the Son of God, the redeemer, the savior, the lord and king.

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  49. Ree,

    The horse in “The Desert Song” makes sense because of the visual. You’d expect to see wild horses there. Notice the wild, riderless, and nameless 3 horses. It just fits with the imagery, sights and sounds he wanted to project. But now, in reflection, the author sees more to it.

    “But it’s grown to mean more for me. I see now that this anonymous horse was a vehicle to get me away from all the confusion and chaos of life to a peaceful, quiet place.”

    But of course there’s always at least 1 comment post that wants to make it about drugs. You’ll find that with alot of songs when discussed. Somebody always wants that answer. 😦

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  51. This doesn’t pertain to anything, but I found it extremely interesting. That is because I recently read about Reza Kahili in A Time to Betray. He is a Muslim man who was secretly spying for the CIA. His fear was not for what would happen to him if discovered, but he feared for his family. It occurred to me that in every culture and religion, a woman has lots of power over a man who loves her.

    I was reading Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (Book XI, ch 3, par 2) and came across this story. The story takes two pages of very small type, so it’s greatly condensed here, but it makes an interesting point.

    Darius, couldn’t sleep, so he proposed to three of his guards that they should present arguments to convince him of these propositions. The winner would get a cup of gold, a purple garment, a chain of gold and be called the cousin of the king.
    The argument: Which is stronger, wine, the king, women, or truth?
    Each man makes a presentation. The one that was most interesting was the one said about women.
    “Do we not take pains and endure a great bit of trouble, and that both by land and sea, and when we have procured somewhat as the fruit of our labours, do not we bring them to the woman, as to our mistresses, and bestow them upon them? Nay, I once saw the king who is lord of so many people smitten on the face by Apame, the daughter of Rabases Thematus his concubine, and his diadem taken from him, and set upon her own head, while he bore it patiently; and when she smiled he smiled, and when she was angry he was sad; and according to the change of her passions, he flattered his wife, and drew her to reconciliation by the great humiliation of himself to her, if at any time he saw her displeased with him.” (Punctuation & spelling in original. Darius was king of Persia. Here is the ruler of the world (to them) who was totally smitten by one woman. I’m sure she knew her limits.) I wonder if Esther was really afraid of her husband?

    The winner was Zorobabel who proved that truth was the strongest, whose wish was that “to rebuild Jerusalem and to build therein the temple of God and to restore the vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had pillaged………..”

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  52. Hello to all. I’m having a much better day today than yesterday. It is wonderful to be home. I’ve been running around doing errands with my youngest (Becca). She has a friend from her class coming over tonight around 5:00. They are going to parents night out at The Little Gym and then she will spend the night. Becca is so excited. As you know, she’s had a difficult year making friends and we are so excited about this new relationship. The little girl has been over for one playdate and it went extremely well. She seems very sweet and her mom is nice, too. We’ve been praying for a special friend since the beginning of the school year, so this is a welcome development. The girl lives in our section of the neighborhood, a little too far to walk at age 7, but only about a three minute car ride. I am so happy for Becca.

    Oldest daughter has riding lessons tonight and will attend a slumber party for one of her best friends tomorrow night. Becca has a party tomorrow night, too (it’s from 5 to 8, which seems like a weird time for a first grade birthday party), so Scott and I will have three hours of alone time! Yay!

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  54. Quiet around here — looks like we won’t be getting anywhere near 100 tonight.

    Ann, that’s so neat Becca’s got a little friend with her tonight. 🙂

    Roy, good to hear from you, and I’m glad to hear the progress report with Nicholas.

    I guess I never answered my own statement of the day, so here goes (why is this the only thing I can think of?): If I put it off long enough, then maybe someone else will do it. 😯

    Bad, bad example. Bad. I’m swinging to the opposite extreme of my earlier quote, “If what you did yesterday still looks big today, then you haven’t done much today”.

    Where’s that happy middle?

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  56. Annms,

    🙂 That sounds exciting for your daughter. I hope she enjoys it and finds a good friend.

    We’re taking Liz and 2 friends to lunch after church Sunday. Thankfully, they’re all well behaved girls. Usually. 🙂

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  57. Not to long after I posted this morning, I had a TIE (transient ischemic attack, aka a “mini-stroke.” Spent the day at the hospital, having the usual fun experiences one does at a hospital. I am home with a prescription for the next drug up from aspirin and instructions to call my regular doctor on Monday. If and when I get a REAL stroke, I call 911 so I can get to the hospital in the “golden three hours.” when treatment is likely to do the most good and the least harm.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/06/2003556409

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