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Our Daily Thread 4-12-13

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1204 the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.

In 1606 England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.

In 1811 the first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.

In 1861 Fort Sumter was shelled by the Confederacy, the first battle of America’s Civil War.

In 1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA.

And in 1981 the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

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Quote of the Day

“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”

Beverly  Cleary

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Well today is David Cassidy’s birthday. So I’m contractually obligated to play some Partridge Family.

OK, not really. But I want too. 🙂

First my favorite….

And then the one that’s probably their most popular…..

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Anyone have a QoD?

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-12-13”

  1. Good Morning!
    It’s Friday. You know what that means?
    Not much around here. The Y and Lions. That’s all I know.
    We were under a tornado watch last night and I didn’t know it.
    We had lots of rain, but that’s all, leastwise all I know.

    I told you that I was surprised to learn that I’m two inches shorter than I was when I joined the AF.
    Elvera gave me an article from Healthy Aging, put out by Mount Sinai School of medicine. It says that people lose about 0.4 inches a year after the age of forty. And more after seventy. They talk about ways of reducing it, (exercise, stretching) but you can’t eliminate it.
    I’ll have to figure how long it will take me to shrink to nothing.

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  4. I was too busy watching the O’s beat the Red Sox.
    There is a pretty serious storm here right now – pouring rain, lightening, thunder, and cats-gone-crazy.

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  5. I watched that too Linda.

    But only because the Yanks got rained out again. But hey, minor league ball is fun to watch too. 😯

    I’m kidding. 🙂

    But seriously, if I couldn’t watch the Yanks, at least I got to watch the Soxs lose. That’s a nice consolation at least.

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  7. Our new house sits atop one of those lovely rolling hills in southern Pa. Wednesday night we experience our first thunder storm. It was spectacular and laying in bed, my hubby mentioned how much he was enjoying it. I asked if it was because it was our first storm and he said, “No, it’s because it’s the first time in 34 years that I don’t have to worry about the basement flooding.”

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  8. ” I’m growin’ into the dirt”…that was the response my Daddy would give when asked how are you doing? 🙂 My Mother, who was always 5’2″ is not even 5′ now….she is 83….and I love every single inch of her….I’m going to visit her next week…and the day I fly out of DIA…yep…we are supposed to have another blizzard…and when I land in Cincinnati…yep…thunderstorms…did I mention I’ll be in a teenie tiny plane…one of those 50 passenger types….I need drugs…serious drugs…but, they would have to wear off in 3 hours so that I can drive my rental car… 😦

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  9. 😦
    I was driving my red Ranger down fifth avenue on the way to the Y when this thought occurred to me.
    “If I lose 0.4 inches a year for each year past forty, I should be two feet rather than two inches shorter.” So, when I came back I reread the article. It’s 0.4 inches, sure enough, but it’s every ten years.
    So, “People typically lose about 0.4 inches of height every 10 years beginning at age 40, and the rate of height lost becomes greater after age 70. Unfortunately, there’s no way to get it back.”
    It figures.

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  12. The quote of the day reminds me of when I was a school teacher. I was a music teacher, so I didn’t have to do this, but the regular classroom teachers had to devote a part of the day to having their students participate in what was known as SSR: Sustained Silent Reading. Except to the teachers, SSR was known as Sit down, Shut up, and Read. 😀

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  14. I’m 50 and my husband 54, and it does seem that he is not as tall in comparison to me as he once was. But I don’t think I’m as tall as I was, either. When I got measured at the clinic two years ago, I was 5 feet and 8 point 1-something inches. I think I was closer to 5’9″ at one point, although measuring at home isn’t probably as accurate as at the clinic with the measuring bar they use.

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  15. Hi all, I miss you guys. I got a new laptop and have been through some really funny attempts to get this site on there. Epic fail! I am typing this on my old one that now is used by my kids. Someday I’ll be able to figure it out.

    Watched the Padres beat the Dodgers yesterday, literally. Sheesh, when men play a boys game, eh?

    Hope all are doing well–Adios

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  17. Adios,

    Did you try the email method? Copy the address now and email it to yourself. Then open the email from your new laptop, and click the link. It should work. We miss you too.

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  19. Tried it several times. Tried it again just in case the computer fairies were in a good mood this morning and voila! It worked this time 😉

    Adios

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  22. Good morning! I am leaving for my mini-reunion in San Diego this afternoon. I’m so excited about seeing “the girls”. We were very close — boarding school forges close bonds. Everyone else arrived yesterday and it sounds like they are having a wonderful time. I’m so grateful that I’m well enough to travel. I would have been very sad to miss this.

    Hope everyone has a delightful weekend!

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  24. Here’s a lovely story by a surprised Catholic attending the funeral of a evangelical writer whom he liked but of whose religion he was puzzled: http://tinyurl.com/c6ofw2k

    And, if your local newspaper has not covered the Kermit Gosnell trial in Philadelphia, please write them a letter and ask why. No need to be insulting, just ask the question.

    Thanks.

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  26. Welcome back, Adios!

    Annms, hope you have a great trip!

    I was wondering where Klasko was, too. Perhaps she is catching up on posts she missed while she was gone those last couple weeks of March. I was offline the last week of March, and I just finished reading only a couple days ago the posts I’d missed.

    Or maybe she’s busy with something else and is not as obsessed with reading everything as I am. 😉

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  27. Adios,

    Yikes. Is it baseball or boxing?

    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130412/DA5JSRNG2.html

    “Zack Greinke had his left arm in a sling and a dazed look on his face as he told his side of the story. Barely two hours before, the $147 million Dodgers pitcher was injured in a wild fight with the San Diego Padres that didn’t even end when the game did.

    Greinke broke his left collarbone in a bench-clearing brawl during Los Angeles’ 3-2 victory Thursday night, leaving the Dodgers so furious that Matt Kemp confronted Padres slugger Carlos Quentin nose-to-nose as the two were leaving Petco Park.”

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  28. AJ, I don’t know anything about Ice hockey, but I passed by ESPN and saw a couple of players fighting with their fists. Slugging it out. Two referees were watching calmly. I passed on, so I don’t know how it turned out.
    But it seemed a strange way to play hockey.

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  29. I posted this last night, but I don’t know how people saw it, so I’ll post it again. It’s insane!

    As I said last night, perhaps it’s already been posted here. I haven’t been around lately, so I wouldn’t know. But in case people haven’t seen it, check this out!

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  30. Sorry, that was me. And let me see if I can make it embedded like I did last night. I don’t know how I did it that time, though. It just came out that way.

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  32. Adios, new laptop here too. It is a challenge to learn how to operate it. It goes places I never mean to go. Other places I seem to find once and then cannot find my way back. I hope this at least helps my brain!

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  33. Good Morning, Y’all!
    My laptop is also giving me trouble…again.

    AJ, why all the frustration with the Yankees? Come to the light…the Braves – Nationals series this weekend will top anything the baby league can offer…

    Peter L – thanks as always for the funnies link (and thanks for J. Upton, also… 😀

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  36. I was amazed to read this graph, also, in a Slate story about the issue this morning:

    “Let’s just state the obvious: National political reporters are, by and large, socially liberal. We are more likely to know a gay couple than to know someone who owns an ‘assault weapon.’ We are, generally, pro-choice. Twice, in D.C., I’ve caused a friend to literally leave a conversation and freeze me out for a day or so because I suggested that the Stupak Amendment and the Hyde Amendment made sense to me. There is a bubble. Horror stories of abortionists are less likely to permeate that bubble than, say, a story about a right-wing pundit attacking an abortionist who then claims to have gotten death threats.”

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_mass_murderer_and_the_bored_media.html

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  37. Got to my home group Bible study last night since I had a late-afternoon interview nearby that got me home a tad earlier than usual.

    Maybe it was my own current “mental” or spiritual place (feeling fragile/weak of late), but some of the discussion about the (sinful) state of the world and the weakness of the church and (U.S.) Christians struck me as a little hard-edged for some reason. 😦 Sometimes it’s such a fine line between calling out sin and coming off as self-righteous. Can’t say I disagreed with anything that was said. But …

    Again, maybe it was the “ears” with which I was hearing last night. I was feeling very tired and somewhat discouraged, I suppose I was just needing to hear more about God’s mercy and grace and strength and faithfulness …

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  39. I have a theory that the loss in height is attributing to the gain in length of feet. I once wore a size 7 1/2 shoe. After pregnancy that went up to an 8 1/2. Now I am into size 9. Hmmm…are they making shoes smaller these days like they make containers of food smaller? And I just thought my son was gaining height in his 20’s when it was me losing it in my 50’s! I always wanted to be petite, so there is still hope after all these years, LOL.

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  41. inbutnotof- Oh. I don’t know many players. I am a casual fan who only pays attention to the team as a whole.

    Janice- When I clicked on your picture I got your name.

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  44. Hi all! I finally made it home this morning. More problems this morning because the person who made my new reservations yesterday (around 3 am) gave me wrong information about one flight and somehow made two reservations for me for the other flight so the computer wouldn’t print my boarding pass. But I got back and was happily reunited with my luggage (which came back yesterday). I was too tired to do anything but catch up on sleep for a while. Now I have to catch up on dishes and laundry.

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