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Our Daily Thread 8-5-13

Good Morning!

Yep, it’s happened again.

Monday. 😯

And on this day in 1833 the village of Chicago was incorporated.

In 1861 the U.S. federal government levied its first income tax.  The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800.

In 1884, on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid.

In 1923 Henry Sullivan became the first American to swim across the English Channel.

In 1944 Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw.  348 Jewish prisoners were freed.

And in 1974 President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached.

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Quote of the Day

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Neil  Armstrong

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We have some guitar players with birthdays today.

It’s Rick Derringer’s birthday.

It’s also Greg Leskiw’s.

And just because I like them, some Piano Guys with Lindsey Stirling. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

35 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-5-13”

  1. Good Morning! To everyone but Jo.
    Hi Jo.
    It’s Monday again, so everyone get to it. Except Jo, her Monday is over. 🙂
    Jenn is a school librarian. And she starts school again this week. I can’t imagine why so soon. But she says she’ll be busy most of the time.
    Jenn is youngest GD.

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  2. I can imaging Neil looking at that little dot and knowing all the happyness and sadness, all the births and deaths, all the hope and dispair that was happening on that little dot that he was blocking out.
    And God knew each and every one.
    And he was actively concerned.
    AMAZING!

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  3. Morning Chas. I have been thinking about this place. It is rather lonely for me here. My good friends have gone finish. But where else could I be sitting at home in my small flat on a Sunday evening and have my sweet neighbor knock on the door to tell me that yesterday she finished, with her national helper, revising the entire New Testament of the language she has been working on. She said that he cried as he understood the last verses saying “Come Lord Jesus”

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  5. Good morning, Chas. Good evening, Jo. Hello to everyone else, too!

    I am home. And it feels so good to be here. It was wonderful to sleep in my own bed last night. The trip home was hard, but I’m glad I went. I don’t plan on going back for a long time. It’s simply too painful.

    Can’t remember if I posted this yet or not, but we leased a horse for eldest daughter last Thursday evening. I am so excited and happy for her! She is ecstatic about it.

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  6. Chas gave me the perfect lead in for this…
    A few weeks ago I asked for prayers for the father of the family who opened their doors and gave the teenage daughter of an alcoholic a safe place to run away to.
    I had my own bedroom and a key. Their daughters have considered me the child their parents didn’t have.
    He has been in ICU for several weeks, unresponsive. The doctors didn’t know what was wrong. They did various tests to rule things out, but didn’t find what was wrong.
    HE WOKE UP SATURDAY!

    In other prayer issues, my friend B is still in Neuro ICU. They have not done surgery. They are continueing to watch him. They are keeping him sedated because when he wakes up he tries to disconnect himself and tells them he is checking himself out. They have had to put mittens on him to keep him from hurting himself.
    He did wake up enough Saturday to tell his wife that he was not taking her on vacation next year. This was the worst hotel she could have picked! We have had a good laugh over that. They did another CTScan yesterday, but it was late so she will hear what the results were this morning.

    I am starting my new(ish) job today. I have partnered with another real estate agent. I will be doing 20 hours a week of admin for her. She will handle the listing side and I will handle the buying side. Mr. P is studying for his real estate license, so I have him set up on a training program. He has several books he will need to read this week so that he will better understand.

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  7. KIm! You’re almost as cryptic as Mumsee and Ann.
    “HE WOKE UP STURDAY” ???
    Does that mean your other father is ok now? Or is he your friend B who is trying to leave?

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  8. Daddy J woke up Saturday. He is 81. He had a birthday while he was unresponsive.

    My friend B is 52 or 53. He sleep walks. Last Thursday night he got up and was sleepwalking and fell. He started having seizures and his wife M had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital. From our hospital they took him to Mobile to the larger hospital withing the system. He is still in Neuro ICU but they did not do surgery. M is such a researcher. She is ordering a special mat today that she can put on his side of the bed so that if he gets up in the night it will sound an alarm. It was developed for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers.

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  9. 🙂 in the comics today, a kid is visiting his out of town grandparents for a week.
    In this strip, the grandmother asks if he’s becoming homesick. He says, “I don’t think I miss home so much, just the people in it.”

    It’s always the people, isn’t it?

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  10. Good Morning my friends. Cindi starts work at Oklahoma State University today. She is very excited. We had a wonderful weekend together. I took Cindi to OSU farmer’s market. They sell buffalo meat there. One of the ladies at church said that her arthritis doctor recommended buffalo meat because it was so lean. So next week I will see about some buffalo steaks for the grill.

    Here is an oldie but a goodie to start the week off with.

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  11. “You know what?”
    You must know by now that I have a thing against that question that is always used to preface a statement of some sort. Everybody but me uses it. You hear it on TV, PhD’s use it in lectures. Pastors use it in sermons.
    Yesterday, a guy used it in a prayer. (Not by the pastor.)
    “You know what Lord?”
    No, God didn’t know, he was just waiting to have the situationed explained to Him.
    He does care though, if you explain it so that He can understand.
    😯

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  12. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……. Rant to follow.

    Is there a more incompetent govt agency than the US Post Office? No wonder they are billions in the hole every year. If there is a worse agency, please let me know so I can avoid them.

    Three weeks ago I ordered my prescription refills. They shipped USPS and I could track them. After 3 days they arrived at my local post office, and the tracking was changed to “out for delivery”. Great I thought, should have them in a day or two. Eight days later they were still showing as “out for delivery”. I called them, and they went and looked, and they found my package sitting in a bin. They were unable to explain what the hold up was. They blamed the carrier. They promised they’d get them on the truck and I’d have them the next day. Next day came, the carrier arrived, no package. I was getting really annoyed at this point. At around 5 my doorbell rang and it was the carrier with my pills. Turns out they put them in the wrong bin for another part of the route. 16 days to go 150 miles. But I got them, so I was happy.

    Last week we ordered a present on-line for my daughter off of E-bay. The seller shipped it out the same day from Elizabeth, NJ, about 60 miles away. A day later tracking showed it in Clinton, about 16 miles away. This was on Friday. Cool we thought, we should have it Sat. or Mon.. It didn’t come Saturday, so we checked the tracking again expecting to see “out for delivery”. But nooooooooo, it made it 16 miles from us, but now they made a mistake on where it should go next, and it’s now in Alabama. 🙄

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!

    With this kind of efficiency, you can see why they run deficits in the billions. They’re unbelievably incompetent.

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  16. AJ- USPS= Usually Slow, Perhaps Slowest But when shipping on e-bay or Amazon, I have found USPS to be the cheapest by far. I guess you get what you pay for. You live near one of the big East Coast cities, correct? I think they have the worst record for messing it up. Anything I ship goes through St. Louis and get there in a reasonable amount of time.

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  17. AJ: I share your pain! 🙂

    Chas: What did you find so cryptic about my remarks? I was trying to say that although my trip was extremely difficult due to my mom’s alcoholism, I’m glad I was there for my dad. I won’t be returning to their home any time soon as I’m emotionally exhausted by every visit. It affects me as a parent and isn’t fair to my husband or children. It literally takes me about a week to recover psychologically from each and every visit “home”. I’m no longer willing to do it anymore. I’ve played their game by their rules for 30 years and I’m simply sick of the game.

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  18. AJ, the post office varies greatly depending on what city one is in. Chicago is one of the worst in the nation, and Priority Mail should never ever be sent to Chicago. (It takes at least twice as long as first class, and sometimes never gets there at all. The publisher I worked for had proofs from authors lost in Priority Mail twice–once it took weeks to arrive, once it never did arrive–and we begged authors never to send anything Priority Mail.) I have a company in Canada I order from occasionally, and they take a package across the border and ship it Priority Mail in New York . . . and I use tracking and watch it sit in the New York post office for up to four days before it finally leaves.

    But then, my husband has had stuff shipped with other couriers (Fed Ex I think) and has seen it criss-cross the nation, starting in the Midwest near where we are and ending up in Oregon or something before it finally got back to the Midwest. And twice in Nashville I had Fed Ex drop a package over my six-foot fence. (The gate was locked because it wasn’t staying shut and Misten was getting out, so I know it was dropped over and not brought through the gate.) I called and complained after the first dropped delivery, and they didn’t even record my complaint, and it happened again. (UPS would leave a package by the front door, which worked better, especially since I was nearly always home, but Fed Ex insisted on leaving it in the back, even if that meant dropping it.)

    Through the years I’ve been mostly happy with the USPS; I just think their Priority Mail is a scam. It has no guaranteed delivery and they don’t make it a priority. It’s just there to make you think they offer an equivalent to FedEx or UPS, and they actually don’t.

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  19. We’ve decided not to tell USPS we’re moving for at least a month because they prefer to return mail rather than forward it after the first couple weeks.

    Since we sold the house to our son with the same last name, that shouldn’t be a problem. We’ll contact everyone ourselves!

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  20. Ann, I wasn’t around when you explained your mom’s alcoholism. All I knew was that you were going to make a trip to Bandera & you hated it; and that you were staying longer than you wanted to.
    And now, you aren’t going back. I can’t say that I blame you.
    Kim wasn’t able to say anything about her mother at the time, but it sounds like the same thing.
    Children have to put up with it. But an adult is not required to watch a parent abuse himself/herself.
    I had to help mother as she was losing her mind. But that was an age thing which is completely different. She was a fine woman.

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  22. Ann, it is a difficult situation, for sure. It is always difficult to know how exactly to honor your parents in those situations. You just do the best you can while asking for wisdom from the Lord.

    Chas: I was reading the paper in our car while we were meeting my daughter to bring back her son who was staying with us for a few days. The comic strip that day showed the grandson on the phone telling his mom all the exciting things they were doing. It shows the grandmother smiling as she listens to her grandson. The next scene shows the surprised, worried and exhausted look on the grandparent’s faces as the grandson asks his mother if he can stay there forever. I had to tear it out to show my daughter. It so made me laugh. Such stays are good for a few days and we try to fit a lot in. Of course, the grandchildren think it would always be like that.

    My husband jams once a week in a group, which plays bluegrass, gospel and old country, mainly. They will play out for some senior living places, charity and community events. Most of the participants are retired. One of the member works at a casino and recently arranged for the group to play a few hours there for pay. They played two different evenings. They went over so well, they were asked to play again in the afternoon. They had to put out chairs. I think everyone was surprised at how well received the music was. No one in the group wants it to become a job. They play for fun and to learn from one another. Some members only learned to play a couple of years ago. It does go to show that there are people who want to hear that old time music.

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  26. I read while I drive, but just the road signs. I read billboards when bored. Or license plates to try and make words with the letters. Of course, with the popularity of vanity plates, it makes that less of a challenge. But then, trying to figure out what some of those vanity plates actually mean can be fun. If we’re on a long trip and another is driving, or when it’s someone else in my carpool, I’ll read occasionally, especially when the scenery is familiar or similar to what I see around here (like endless farmland).

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  28. For a package to be 16 miles from it’s destination, and then go on a couple thousand mile round trip joy ride to Alabama and back just demonstrates their waste. Jet fuel ain’t cheap, yet this package got a ride on a plane instead of one that’s paid for that ride. Same on the way back. They’ve lost a ton of money already on this deal. It’s just silly. And it’s wasteful as all get up.

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  35. 😦 An atrocious attack on left brain people.
    But I know about the shrinking bit. I’m two inches shorter than I was when I joined the Air Force. And several inches larger around the waste. 😦

    And she reminded me of the time I bought Elvera a neglige for a birthday persent.
    She was 35 at the time and would have looked good in it.
    Too good. She said we have an eight year old boy in this house. I can’t wear this thing. I don’t know what she did with it. But she never wore it.
    I haven’t bought her a piece of clothing since then.
    I did once buy a purse I saw her looking at, and walked away from because she thought it was too expensive. That was one of my better purchses.

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