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Our Daily Thread 5-14-13

Good Morning!

Today I have 2 words for you.

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🙂 🙂 🙂

On this day in 1787 delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

In 1874 Harvard played McGill University in Cambridge, MA, in the first college football game to charge admission.

In 1878 the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.

In 1897 “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time.

In 1904 in St. Louis, the Olympic games were held for the first time in America.

In 1948 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel after British rule ended in Palestine.

And in 1973 SkyLab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station.

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Quote of the Day

“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”

David Ben-Gurion

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Today we have the sometimes spastic David Byrne. I never knew until today that we share a birthday. Plus, I’ve always liked the guy. 🙂

It’s also Bobby Darin’s.

This one’s just because I like it. 🙂 And it’s 2 fine guitar players.

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Who has a QoD?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-14-13”

  1. And listed among famous people with birthdays?

    Happy Birthday to you,
    Happy Birthday to you,
    Happy Birthday Real AJ,
    Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

    I’ve always wondered. Is there an artificial AJ out there somewhere?
    😉

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  2. On this day in ? the real AJ was born. He would one day start and maintain a WordPress.com site called Wandering Views.

    Happy Birthday, AJ!

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  3. Thanks guys. 🙂

    Chas,

    Yes, some country music singer. He even spells it wrong too. That’s how you know he’s the imposter. 🙂

    Tychicus,

    1966.

    Be back later, I’m goin’ fishin’ for a couple hours. 🙂

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  8. Happy birthday, AJ!

    You know, when you talked about creating this site after World abandoned us, I figured hey, it will be nice to be able to hang out with you all for a little big longer. I figured it wouldn’t really “take off” because it wouldn’t be a natural place for people to come to, like World was, but I could come on here for a while until people just started to drift away, like some extended farewell party.

    But you have done a good job with this, and it still feels like our community is thriving. And we even brought a couple lurkers along!

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  9. Happy, happy birthday AJ! Hope the fish are biting. If not that kind then take consolation that you are a fisher of men and that you are having a good influence for the sake of God’s kingdom through your efforts. Going people fishing for God is an excellent endeavor. X(###*)= ~J That is suppose to be a fish with a worm and hook in case you can’t tell! And many more!!!

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  13. Happy Birthday, the real! You share this day with one of our sons, a new sixteen year old. He is down in Boise with the seventeen year old, helping eldest daughter get her gardens in shape. He is earning the used X Box eldest son gave him (eldest son and eldest daughter own the house together but eldest son lives in Los Angeles). Sadly, we almost never let them use X Box. I don’t think he has used it more than one hour in the six months it has been his.

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  16. I’m hoping it’s a bit cooler today … It was in the 80s inside my house again last night as I went to bed. 😦 Too hot for me.

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  18. Thanks Mumsee, I always look at the picture when you mention someone.
    If it’s computer games, it’s best not to let them get too involved. I know of a guy is so addicted to that, he now has no accomplishments but to reach such & such a level of some game. And that’s important to some. Me? When I finish this, I will play a game of solitaire or free cell before leaving. 😆

    KIm, my prayer for BG is that God will protect her from doing something dumb that will cause permanent harm. I must have had an angel assigned to me (Ps 34:7, I Cor 6:3) because I got away with a lot that could have affected me. I said many times here, I have been immensely blessed.
    Along that line; Elvera went to the doctor for a check up today. Dr. says she’s fine and in much better shape than most women her age.
    Much to be thankful for.

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  20. Cheryl – You mentioned yesterday that you didn’t understand why a husband would honor his wife on Mother’s Day, since she’s not his mother.

    My feeling is that she is the mother of his children, so he is honoring her for that. And wives should honor their husbands on Father’s Day, too. (Well, not only on Mother’s & Father’s Day, of course.)

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  21. That Bobby Darin has a singing voice much nicer than mine. 🙂

    Does anyone know the story of why Darin was raised by his grandparents, and why his ‘sister’ was his mother?

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  22. Karen, I understand that she is the mother of his children, and if he chooses to thank her, then that is obviously his choice. It wouldn’t have surprised me if my husband had thanked me for choosing to become the mother of his children, but I wasn’t expecting such a thing. Honestly, last year I was a bit relieved that he didn’t do anything about Mother’s Day (other than make the dish for our family lunch that he was asked to make). It would have felt awkward to buy something for him for Father’s Day; he isn’t my daddy. And we have plenty of opportunities through the year to express our love (our anniversary, Valentine’s Day, our birthdays, Christmas–and one of us usually acknowledges, verbally or in a note, the anniversary of our first contact or the day we met in person). It just seems like another burden on a man for his wife to expect him to do something for Mother’s Day! For him to goad the kids when they’re little, sure. For him to thank his wife or even write her a nice note, if he wants to, sure–but, again, voluntarily, and not something she “expects” from him.

    I personally even think the acknowledgment from the children should be something they choose (or don’t choose), not something that is expected or commanded. I think it’s probably a good idea for the other parent to encourage it (even insist on it) when they’re little, to get them in the habit, but when they’re old enough to remember for themselves, let them remember (or not), and don’t let your expectations of the day spoil the day.

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  24. Cheryl – I agree that expecting something special on Mother’s Day is not good. High expectations almost always end in disappointment. That can be said of other special days as well.

    I didn’t get a single card for Mother’s Day, but my daughters told me how much they love me. Lee bought us all take-out dinner from a local restaurant, & was very sweet to me. (Well, he’s that way a lot.)

    In fact, I was the first one to say “Happy Mother’s Day” that morning, to Emily. 🙂

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  25. Happy Birthday AJ….we are all blessed to celebrate our Lord’s wonderful creation of YOU! And you know we love and appreciate you for keeping us “together”! 🙂

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  26. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, hemano AJ! May is a good month for birthdays.

    When Lark Twain (or whoever it was) said that if you don’t like the weather in Missouri, wait a little, it will change, he wasn’t joking. Yesterday the low was in the 30s. Today it’s 90.

    And only 7 more school days to go. I think I can make it.

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  27. Thought some of you might enjoy this video. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spent about six months in space and this was his last video before he left back to earth yesterday. He changed the lyrics slightly but its his cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

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  32. All I want for my b-day is a Spurs victory in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals of the NBA playoffs. Go Spurs!

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  34. I think I’ve caught something — a cold/virus, not sure. Heachache, stuffiness, lethargy, aches. I’ve felt this way for a couple days (worse tonight) and chalked it up to our mini-heat wave (which has now, thankfully, broken).

    We had training today in Tout — it’s to “real” video as Twitter is to Facebook — mini (45-second) videos you can post immediately to the paper’s site, to Twitter, whatever.

    So now I’m Touting AND Tweeting. Sigh. Journalism. Who knew we’d find ourselves here? And so desperate to find something, anything, that will turn the tide and at least bring back at least a modest cost-of-living raise after nearly a decade of no raises, only pay cuts? Oy.

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  35. One of my younger colleagues says she no longer can pay her rent and was asking for spare rooms she could use for her and her cat. There’s probably a reality show or sitcom in there somewhere.

    I told her she could stay in my extra room for the summer, except she’d be living “in Christmas” — my spare room harbors all the wreathes, decorations, lights, etc. Which, actually might not be such a bad environment. Kind of Narnia-like when you think about it.

    Maybe I’ll move in there for an escape … She can have my room.

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  36. Wait a minute. Two women, two dogs, two cats? Does she also have a pair of mice or birds? This sounds like rather a houseful.

    Donna, I’ve had housemates often through the years, and if you need some ideas of things you need to have agreement on before she moves in, e-mail me. For one thing, I found out the hard way that I had to clarify “no unrelated male house guests overnight.” One of the places I rented (my housemates were there first, and I hadn’t set the rules), one of my housemates had her boyfriend moving to town, and he slept on our couch for a week. Whether anything sexual happened during that week when the other two of us weren’t home, I have no idea, but it was more than a little awkward to have a man on our couch, and I always mentioned that as a prohibition after that. (If he had been her brother, I wouldn’t have had a problem with it. Boyfriend, yeah, I had a problem with it, but nothing I could do about it.)

    In fact, one potential renter once called me from a Bible school, and on the phone she kept asking, “My mom might come to town occasionally, and is it OK if she stays a night or two? She could sleep in my bed.” I said yes to that question about three times. I said there’s a full-size bed in that room, and you could share it, or she could sleep on the couch, either one. When the girl came to the house, I mentioned the “no unrelated male guests overnight” thing, almost as a technical point, because it seemed so obvious. She seemed a bit taken aback, and said well, her boyfriend did live out of town, and he was talking about visiting. So were the repeated questions about her mother because she didn’t quite have the courage to ask about her boyfriend, but told herself that a “yes” to one of them sleeping with her in her bed surely meant I didn’t care about overnight company of any sort, or what? She ended up not taking the room, and I have a hunch that was the reason.

    So . . . don’t “assume” on any point that you can’t live with. It’s best to put agreements in writing, even with a friend, but for sure raise any points that are important.

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  37. Thanks, Cheryl, points well-taken. I recall going through that in my own “roomie” days in my 30s … and I sometimes failed to settle things up front. 😦 It is important.

    And the cat, yes. No. Oy. Tess is salivating. It’ll now be a “herd.”

    Anyway, I doubt it’ll happen. But … who knows.

    Her dad is a mainline Presby pastor (now retired) on the east coast where she grew up; as far as I can tell she’s a nonbeliever but she is someone I like and she pledged it would only be “for the summer.”

    Our city editor also is entertaining the idea of taking her in (and they don’t really get along, but, sheesh, we’re all apparently financially desperate!).

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