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Our Daily Thread 6-7-13

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1775 the United Colonies changed their name to the United States.

In 1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.

In 1892 John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.

In 1932 over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses.

In 1942 the Battle of Midway ended.  The sea and air battle lasted 4 days.  Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties. 

In 1944, off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

In 1981 Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear reactor. 

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Quote of the Day

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your  ear.

Dave Barry

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It’s Dino Paul Crocetti’s birthday. (Dean Martin)

It’s also Tom Jones’.

And also the Artist formerly known as, and possibly may be again I’m not sure, Prince. Now I’ve always liked Prince. I know, weird. But I do simply because the man can play. So here’s Prince and a bunch of other guys. The shredding from Prince starts around 3:27.

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Who has a QoD for us today?

56 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-7-13”

  2. It’s Friday, you know what that means…I’m off to Bible Study. 😉

    Oh, okay, that’s only two times a month. Our ladies group is in 1 Peter.

    Maybe Chas has arrived on the scene here since I started typing…?

    Have a great day, Linda, AJ, and all the rest of you! 🙂

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  4. Maybe that’s a good QoD – What does Friday mean to you?

    To me it means a wfh (work from home) day. And if I’ve already put in a lot of hours that week, as I have this week, I’ll knock off a little early. This afternoon I’m planning on putting a second coat of paint on the bedroom and office of the apartment we’re putting in the basement. It’s coming along nicely. Those two rooms are almost done, the bathroom and kitchen cabinets are here and the walls in the bathroom and “great room” may go up this weekend if the rain lets up enough for the guys to go for more sheetrock.

    By the way, we ended up getting the cabinets from an online vendor called Ready to Assemble (thertastore.com). Prices were exceptional and they seem to be a lot like Ikea except with more stylish choices.

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  8. Good morning everyone. I am looking forward to the weekend. I am just run down tired. My house looks like a bomb exploded in here. I tried to get most of it cleaned last night but just ran out of steam. Warning, whining coming up: The reality is there is just too much stuff in here and too many people. It is 2/1 and 1,100 sf. It was fine when it was just BG and my but we added another person and he came with his own stuff. My lease is up in August and we are trying to decide whether to find a place to rent for one more year or to go ahead and buy something. The realtor in me sees prices creeping up and thinks it may be better to go ahead and buy. The chicken in me is afraid to commit. Then I hear the Voice that says you may as well strike a match to that rent money every month…you have nothing to show for it.
    I know. I will just finish getting dressed and let Mr. P worry about it. There. Problem solved.

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  10. Kim, you could use Dave Ramsey’s guidelines. If you are completely debt-free, have an emergency fund that would cover 3-6 month’s worth of expenses, and could get a 15-year fixed mortgage such that your payments were a quarter (or less) than your monthly take-home pay, then you’re ready to buy.

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  15. Sorry folks, Chas has come and gone. Elvera got ready early today and we were out to the Y by 6:45. I did come to catch up on yestereday’s post but saw that my coment about Esther Williams was the last one.

    Kim, that’s the way Elvera solves her problems. She lets me worry about them. Only, I’m one of her problems she she has to deal with all alone. 🙂

    As usual, Friday is a busy day for me.

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  16. good to see Chas on here. Friday has just about ended here. End of the year middle school concert tonight with the high school tomorrow night. These kids practice and even middle school is a great concert. AJ, thanks for keeping me up on the news. Hard to follow anything from over here. My question: what online source do you use for the news that doesn’t have too many photos?

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  18. What does Friday mean to me? Well, I don’t work outside the home, & Lee works on Saturdays, so it’s not as big a deal for me as it is for some. This evening, I will be watching Forrest on my own, as Emily is working till closing, & Lee & Chrissy will be in bed early to get up early. (Chrissy will be working with Lee tomorrow.)

    Lee has given Emily the go-ahead to quit her job at Claire’s (the girly accessories store she’s been working at) so she can work for him. Both she & Chrissy will work part-time with him, alternating days. Emily, being the more self-motivated one, will help him on the tougher days – Mondays, Thursdays, & Saturdays. Chrissy will work with him on Tuesdays & Fridays, but she’ll also be helping with Forrest on the days Emily works.

    It will be an adjustment for them, with having to get up around 12:30am on the days they work with their father, but at least neither one will have to do that every day. I am looking forward to having a set schedule each week. (Emily’s days & hours at Claire’s were all over the map.)

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  21. Friday is also the day I start trying to decide what to serve to the extended family for dinner tomorrow night (or is it “supper”?). Last week was BBQ chicken and next week will be a cook-out (we’ll be in the midst of a complicated switch of propane vendors that will leave us with very little to use over the weekend). What goes nicely in between?

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  22. Watched the movie “Gifted Hands” (2009) last night about Ben Carson. Anyone else see it? Or read the book? (Which I may look into next?)

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  23. Good Morning..back from my morning walk, hoping to now face the day!
    Donna, I read the book when it was first published and I also watched the movie last year on Netflix…I loved them both….
    Good to see all is well here…have been praying for Cheryl and her family as well as the other concerns shared by others…have a blessed day everyone

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  24. I thought about Lee the other morning when we left for the airport at 3am and there were cars on the road with us. I wondered aloud how it would be to work all night long, would there be less traffic when you were done?

    My husband pointed out that something like 20% of the working population works swing shift. He did it long ago (and we had a part once that started at 2 am–with dinner), but I haven’t known many since who have.

    So, do you just stay on that cycle of getting up at midnight all the time? When do you eat your big meal? How do you keep the baby quiet so everyone can sleep?

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  25. On the day shift you eat your big meal at 4 or 5pm
    On three to eleven you feed yourself and the children early and leave everything in the warmer for when the worker gets home at midnight or or eat a big lunch before work
    On graveyard you eat the big meal at seven or eight.

    The children who grow up this way know to stay quiet

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  27. My dad had a few swing/late night shifts when I was a young teen, but they usually were transitional periods and didn’t last long, thankfully.

    He worked in aerospace, though, and there were always layoffs that resulted in something of a game of musical chairs every couple years as workers had to get rehired and re-situated with new companies — or sometimes they got called back by their old company.

    I remember one 4th of July when my mom and I went to watch the fireworks on the beach at Santa Monica. I can’t remember how long we had to wait after that (it was quite a long night) but we hung out probably at a coffee shop somewhere before my dad (who was working in SM at the time) got off work and we could all go home in the wee morning hours.

    And we only had the 1 car, of course, as many families did back then.

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  28. I thought of Chas and his chainsaw this morning as I was weed eating. Coming to those teasel about requires a chain saw. But I am not qualified to use one and hope never to be.

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  29. Friday for me this week = a day off.

    I need to run some errands. I’m also doing some cleaning around the house. But it’s refreshing to be off work for a couple days. I needed the break.

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  30. Hubby worked two overnights the last two days to fill in for temporarily absent people on the night shift. He’s back to starting at 1:00 p.m. today.

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  31. Michelle – Lee goes to bed around 6 or 6:30 most nights. If he has the next day “off” (Wednesdays & Sundays, but he still goes out for a few hours to “pack out”), he may stay up until 7 or 8, & he gets up those mornings around 5. Unfortunately, he has a tendency to often wake up before he needs to. 😦

    As for the girls, I think they’ll go to bed earlier & get up earlier on their off days, but not as early as the days they work. Good thing they’re young & healthy!

    I keep a “normal” schedule of going to bed around 10 or 10:30.

    Forrest is not so good about being quiet in the evenings. One of the reasons I hope & pray my upstairs friends/tenants find a new place soon. But if he doesn’t nap, he can get to sleep pretty early, which helps.

    We eat dinner/supper around 4 or 5, depending on how late Lee gets home.

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  32. On Wednesdays & Sundays we tend to have an early afternoon dinner, & then maybe cereal later.

    Pack out = Freshen up the look of the bread on the supermarket shelves, make sure the shelves are full & straightened, bring more bread from stock room if necessary. He uses the car for this, not his big bread truck, since he’s not delivering anything new.

    He has 5 major supermarkets he goes to. The rest of his customers are institutional, such as a hospital & a school for the deaf.

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  33. Something bothered me today in a sad, why-do-people-have-to-be-so-mean? kind of way.

    In my Facebook inbox, I found a string of replies on one of my friends’ old messages. Jo (my cousin’s wife) had sent out a message to all the women on her friends list a while back. A friend of hers, Sue, not being very tech-or-Facebook savvy, sent Jo a private message (about her current serious health problems, no less) by replying to that message.

    What happened, of course, is that her private message went to all those women on Jo’s friends list! Most of the replies were along the lines of “Why am I getting this? I don’t know you.” Sue replied that she didn’t know how it happened & she was sorry. Of course, each reply went to everyone.

    One woman, Barb, was quite mean about the whole thing. She threatened to report Sue, & told her to stop sending messages on this “conversation”, & at one point said “Get off my computer!”

    A couple of us mentioned that anyone who didn’t want to get the messages anymore could use the “Leave Conversation” option. Barb must not have been so computer savvy, either, because it took her a while before she took that option.

    In the meantime, she just had to call us all “Morons!”

    I know, I just told a longish story to get to that point. But that actually made me cry a bit. Why do people have to be so haughty & mean? (Yes, I do know the answer, but I ask the question anyway.) And to top it off, the woman calling us morons is the one who couldn’t get herself out of the loop.

    People. *sad sigh*

    Well, the kind of good thing is that a bunch of us encouraged Sue, the ill woman, & offered prayers.

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  34. Karen,
    You are going to have to give your tenants a drop-dead date. I know you don’t want to but you need to. Otherwise, it will drag on forever.

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  35. Quick question…Are bedspreads generally not as warm as comforters?

    We inherited a couple lighter-weight comforters from my mom, which were great for the summer, but now they are very worn, & there are rips from when Kane would try to arrange them his way.

    So I was wondering if I should replace them with a bedspread. Bedspreads look like they wouldn’t be as warm as a normal comforter, & would be good for summer, but I’m not sure.

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  36. I have never seen a woman useing a chain saw. I think there’s a reason for that.
    Chain saws are really only dangerous when you aren’t afraid of them.

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  37. Living here in logging country, I have seen several women using chain saws. My camping buddies use them. I don’t think any of my daughters do but I could be wrong. I know some of the boys do.

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  38. People were wondering where I was. How about PeterL? And where are the comics?
    You thought we wouldn’t miss them, didn’t you?
    That’s where you went wrong!
    We may be a bit slow, but we always get there.

    😉

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  42. I was reading my print copy of World and came upon this by Joel Belz. Joel puts his finger on the problem. Those of you with the print copy should read it. I’ve copied part of it below:

    “Might there be a situation in which we find our plight to be more ominous than having a president who issues a few blatantly illegal and unconstitutional orders?
    Here’s what is worse—and maybe a lot worse. What if the whole governmental structure is so bad, so rotten to its core, that no one at the top even needs to issue any perverse orders? What if the inclination to abuse the power of the Internal Revenue Service, and to invade thousands of taxpayers’ privacy, is so thorough that it’s just an expected modus operandi? What if no one has to tell a third-level operative in the Justice Department that the way to move ahead is to hack some journalist’s cell phone? What if everyone “up there” understands that cover-up always trumps telling the truth—and cover-up becomes a habit?”
    ……………………
    “But hold on. There may be something more troublesome yet. There may be a scenario a thousand times more to be feared. That situation comes when the people being governed themselves no longer own the kind of moral compass that helps them judge between good and evil. That may be because they simply no longer care, and have become numb to such distinctions. ”
    ………………………
    “But what if, in the process, we learn that the millions of voters who put this prevaricating crew into office don’t care about truth telling any more than their government does? If the whole society proves rotten to the core, who’s going to be left to write up those articles of impeachment?”

    http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/rotten_to_the_core

    We may be there already.

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  44. Greetings. I don’t know any of your news (and may have missed “condolences” and the like), but we are struggling here and could use prayers. No major crises, but it’s hard.

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  45. Hey Cheryl. Prayers, this can’t be an easy one to get through, for lots of reasons. Thanks for checking in.

    Chas: “I have never seen a woman using a chain saw. I think there’s a reason for that.”

    I can actually think of a few good reasons. Like, “Hell hath no fury” ….? 🙂 Well, you know the rest. Hand her a chainsaw and you’ve got some real trouble.

    Karen, I know what you mean about some people just being so over the top. May the culture is making more people like that (thus we should all beware) with the overall snarkiness, our penchant for computer-fast one liners, and a level of political and social partisanship that shows no signs of abating.

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  46. Chas, thanks for posting Joel’s article. The latest issue of World was too large for me to download. Have to go to the computer help desk once school gets out. Joel brings up some good points. Which way are we going? Praying for revival and a return to our biblical roots for each of us.
    Cheryl, praying for you all.

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  47. Eeek. So sad to see these things happen. I’ve always been uneasy with some of the more casual and independent churches that wind up with pastors who have not gone through the years of preparation and vetting that has been required in the past of ministers of the gospel (and still is in many of our denominations — i.e., a lengthy and thorough seminary education and training, being under the care & authority of a presbytery or other group of men to whom you are accountable, etc.).

    I’ve not heard of this particular church, but I don’t keep up with the current group of mega churches in general.

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/4-pastors-at-virginias-roc-megachurch-resign-amid-swirling-sexual-assault-allegations-97444/

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  48. So this morning I made my post about the condition of the house and went about my business. I didn’t think about leaving it open, but Mr. P saw it and it hurt his feelings that I thought the condition of the house was all his fault.
    Now why couldn’t he have seen the posts where I bragged about him putting gas in my truck, taking it to get the oil changed, or when I casually mentioned that I needed to get new wiper blades, he got the next morning and went and got them for me.
    I guess that is Murphy’s Law of blog posts. 😦

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  51. Cheryl, I am thinking of your sister and praying for your family. I have cried myself most of the week. My father has been gone five years. When I think how much I miss him, I think of your sister’s children who will never have the memories of their father that I have of mine.

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  52. I lived in Va for 38 years and generally kept up with the situation with churches. I have never heard of ROC. It certainly isn’t a SBC church. I wonder how many attend on an average Sunday. i.e. What makes this a megachurch?

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  53. Better late than never!.

    Oh, I see 6 arrows did this already. Thank you! And Karen O is correct about the rain. We were going to go to Boston today, but changed plans and went to visit the Mark Twain house in Hartford. We made the curator happy as I met her when she was the director of the Hannibal museum. Hopefully Boston won’t be so wet Monday.

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  54. QoD: What does Friday mean to me? During the school year it means “Oh boy! The Weekend!” During the summer it means “Oh No! Large groups of tourists coming to see the cave!” It’s not that we don’t want people to come tour the cave, I just wish the few who are boors would stay home and not bring their rudeness to us. They complain about the large groups. People- if you want to visit a tourist attraction and not be in large crowds, don’t come on the weekend! Monday and Tuesday we usually have few customers so we can give better tours to smaller groups.

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  55. Oh and if you have small children make sure to feed them and give them a nap before bringing them. You and the others on the tour will have a much more pleasant experience.

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  56. Chas, there used to be a benchmark used in journalism that said if a church has 3,000 in attendance it qualifies for the moniker of a “mega” church. Of course, many of them have many more people than that.

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