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Our Daily Thread 10-23-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1910 Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.

In 1915 approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.

In 1929 the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged, starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.

In 1956 NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.

And in 1973 President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.

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Quote of the Day

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”

Johnny Carson

You have 2 months and 2 days left. 🙂

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Today is Shawn Craig”s birthday.

It’s also so Bob Farrell’s.

And it’s “Weird Al’s” too. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

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A Note From The Blog Administrator

Without naming names (since they know who they are) I must remind folks that it’s never OK to mock others or God on this blog. Some mocking, and just downright nasty comments were made last night on yesterdays daily thread by one individual. Those comments have been removed. This individual’s comments will now go to moderation and will only be posted if I approve them. If it happens again, even once, you will be blacklisted. (Yes, WordPress has a blacklist, and I’m not afraid to use it.)

32 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-23-13”

  1. Wednesday is drawing to a close. I am doing the devotions at school tomorrow morning. Not sure if any other staff will come, it has been sparse lately. I am going to read Oswald Chambers devotion from Sept. 1 on holiness and then sing “Holy, holy, holy”

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  3. After I posted yesterday about being Pollyanna Sunshine a giant black cloud descended upon me.
    I have mostly been awake since 3 am hashing and rehashing past events.
    I have a good commission coming the end of the month and have strongly considering giving C the Team Leader I worked for and R the agnet who cost me my job 5% each. It still wears on me that C thinks I was dishonest and let me go without further explanation from me. His mind was made up that morning and I walked in unawares with no defense.
    R is just a two-faced back stabber and I have many things I would like to say to him, but realize none of it would phase his type.
    I don’t know if this will bring me relief or not. Yesterday I was around them both. I hate losing the “friendship” with C and cannot bring myself to speak to R. While I know neither of them think anything of it and I shouldn’t give them the satisfaction of still hurting over it, I can’t help that I do.

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  4. Kim, is there any particurlar reason that you shoud give them the money”
    You and they have different views of the event you are talking about. It means much to you and nothing to them.
    Giving them money they diserve from this transaction is only part of the process.
    Giving them money they don’t diserve from this transaction will only cause confusion.

    The thing that keeps you awake at night is likely a non event to them.

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  6. Kim, my boss’ boss (whom I frequently work for directly) is very much like you describe C. With her, I’ve found that when you try to explain yourself or give reasons for your actions, she digs in more and starts dragging in other events and distorting them to support her opinion. You can’t win.

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  8. Glad I missed the drama around here last night! Unfortunately, we had some drama of our own. A nurse from L’s neurologist called and said her EEG was abnormal and that Dr. Sloan wants her to have an MRI asap. We have an appointment next Monday to learn the results of the MRI. The news has made me very anxious; I know very little–just enough to cause concern. I posted requests for prayers on the prayer thread.

    Kim: I’m sorry you are struggling with this. I don’t know the whole story, but it doesn’t seem like you owe them anything, from the little I do know. I’ll be praying for you. And, I agree with Linda: with people like that, you can’t win!

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  10. Good night, Jo. Good morning, everyone else above.

    AJ, ditto Linda’s 10:10 a.m. comment. I’m glad you took a decisive stand on that.

    Kim, I’ll be adding your situation with C and R to my prayers today. I hope you’ll find peace, in whatever form that comes.

    I’m going to the piano right now, getting out my hymnal, and playing & singing “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Love that hymn!

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  11. A strange thing has happened here: I am at home alone! First Arrow is at school (so is 2nd Arrow, but she doesn’t live here anyway), and Hubby took the four youngest to get some wood that has already been cut and is taking it to our elderly neighbors.

    I have tons of things in my mind that I could be doing during this hour or hour-and-a-half I’m here by myself, and trying to decide which to do first! I suppose just start somewhere, and then do the next thing… Put on some upbeat classical music… Maybe sing and sweep and twirl… 🙂

    Getting off the computer now, and going to have some fun! 😀

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  12. Joe,

    It does. But you have to make your own list. It’s difficult to know the exact terms someone might use, and most police themselves just fine. Curse words are easy, but unfortunately cruel and insensitive remarks aren’t easily filtered, so they get thru as happened last evening.

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  13. Kim, so sorry about what you’re going through — I went through something kind of similar maybe 7 or 8 years ago now with someone in the community who didn’t like the way I’d covered an issue we both were somewhat involved in. She managed to make my life miserable for a couple months (but that was partly due to my own internal stewing about it all).

    She was already one of the angriest people I’d ever met and she turned her full wrath on me over this dispute she’d conjured up, calling my editor (who was just annoyed with her), writing letters, heaven knows talking about me to scores of folks, whoever would listen. She accused me and our paper of all manner of unethical journalistic behavior. Simply crazy-making stuff, but ugh, it really got under my skin something awful.

    I tried to reason with her to no avail, she just had become hateful. I’m not someone who is drawn to conflict with others so this just ate away at me as I knew I’d done nothing to warrant the abuse and, in fact, had always gone out of my way to be personally kind to her before all of this happened. Now I was just hurt — and very angry.

    Anyway, I did find a book that spoke to me at the time and made a remarkable difference in my own deteriorating attitude toward this woman and the situation — “How to Overcome Evil” by Jay Adams — it’s a small/short book but it was packed with advice and a biblical perspective that got me through my own misery about it all. And it looks like maybe a good portion of it is available free online in a pdf version here:

    Click to access 9781596382220.pdf

    It was written in the 1970s so some of the writing seems dated to that period, but it’s a good exposition on Rom. 12:14-21 with much practical advice on how to apply it to situations like you and I were in. Maybe it’ll help, maybe not — but for what it’s worth.

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  15. Interesting, too — thinking back on it — I believed much of her hostility toward me stemmed from a conversation we’d had earlier about Christianity. She was an unbeliever who clearly had some major anger toward God and those who proclaimed him through the Christian faith.

    While I thought our conversation went well (much of it consisted of my simply listening; there also was another unbeliever participating so I was outnumbered), I suspect it played a part (maybe a big part) in her attitude later when she took aim at me personally over this other issue.

    This has been such a busy week already — a very late meeting last night and today I’m covering an 85-year-old who’s doing a diving demonstration at the harbor using antique diving equipment — canvas suit, the big face helmet, all very 20,000 leagues under the sea. After that I was hoping to do a light/fun feature on a group of Boy Scouts embarking on their dog care merit badge work, but that may have to wait.

    Then tomorrow a group (only 4 or 5 left) of WWII vets (all survivors of a couple ships who have been getting together all these years) are coming to town for a reunion and I’m hoping to interview them for a story that’ll probably run on the weekend.

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  16. So someone went overboard last night? I can only imagine. It reminds me of the old days when the original WV had no monitoring and people could post anonymously. Talk about the wild west. I don’t remember any inappropriate language, but the name calling was atrocious.

    I’m working on the football contest today. Any specific requests for games? I’ll do the usual Auburn, Alabama (if it is a contest and not a pushover), Mizzou – South Carolina, Arizona and perhaps one or two of the military academy games. And I’ll throw in a pillow fight (two non-winners either overall or in their conference).

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  18. Never did get any friend requests on Facebook. 😦

    Just look for J!m Underw00d (with the correct characters, of course.) I’m the one with the sand carving that sorta looks like an old timey seahorse.

    You too AJ. I can’t remember your real name.

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  21. Good Afternoon, Y’all!

    I remember things got so ugly when I was first on Whirled Views that I left because it was causing me anger issues. I got over it and the person that I was contending with was booted or left while I was gone…glad I missed the excitement. And I got to create a whole new alter ego when I came back ;D

    Hey Peter…sounds good, how about Oregon – UCLA?

    I’ll send a request when I get to the house MIM…

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  25. Inbutnotof: I was thinking of that one since it involves two Top 25 teams. And for this: 😉 use : ) without the space.

    Kevin- Most CBS shows are on for several weeks after they first air. Same with NBC and PBS. Don’t know about other networks, but I imagine they all have that option.

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  27. I missed the hullabaloo also. So what was the deal? Did someone take exception to my post to Random? Or did Random take exception to it? Or was it something totally other?

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  28. Sometimes you just have to take your anger to God. You have to confess anything that you have done and then leave it with Him. You have to say, “Whom have I cheated?” so to speak. (1 Samuel 12:3)

    Christians just hate it that they will be hated. We love to think that if we really to do good others will recognize that. Jesus did not find that to be true; nor did the early church or the prophets before them.

    Those who insist on thinking the worst of us, will do so. Go to the Lord, Kim, and if your conscience is clean, rest in Him. If your conscience is not clean, ask for the Holy Spirit to help you see if there really is a reason for it not to be. Sometimes a non-involved third party can give insight, of course.

    I am not sure sending money to these people will satisfy them in anyway, except to further their supposition that you did, indeed, cheat them. So beware.

    Just my 2 cents.

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  31. Nothing of much importance to say, but it is nice to come here at the end of a busy day and just listen in on the conversation.

    Another busy day tomorrow, including some traveling. Not sure I’ll post when we get back tomorrow night, but I’ll look forward to seeing what the talk has been about here. 🙂

    Good night, and have yourselves a pleasant Thursday.

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  32. ho, hum, just waiting around for you all to wake up again. Not very many posts when I get home from school. Then I have to wait until 9pm for everyone to begin again. Somehow I seem to be missing much of the conversation. But, I still enjoy reading it.

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