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Our Daily Thread 1-21-14

Good Morning!

 Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.

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On this day in 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine after he had been condemned for treason. 

In 1861 the future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, resigned from the U.S. Senate. Four other Southerners also resigned. It’s also Stonewall Jackson’s birthday.

In 1908 the Sullivan Ordinance was passed in New York City making smoking by women illegal. The measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. 

And in 1954 the Nautilus was launched in Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered submarine. U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower broke the traditional bottle of champagne across the bow. 

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Quote of the Day

“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.”

Jack Nicklaus

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 Today is Placido Domingo’s birthday.

And since I’ll use any excuse to play his music…..

On this day in 1982 B.B. King donated his collection of nearly 20,000 rare blues records to the University of Mississippi.

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Anyone have a QoD?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-21-14”

  1. Good Snowy Morning! Without failure when I have a dental cleaning appt during the winter months…it snows a foot…and that is today…argh! It is a beautiful sight in the Forest having fresh fallen snow on the ground…..but, I am thinking I don’t want to enjoy the view from my car driving down the icy roads 🙂

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  2. Good morning Nancy. No snow here. We’re still in our January thaw. It got into the sixties yesterday. I went out and worked in the yard a while and sat in the sun for about 30 minutes.
    It’s 43.3 degrees now. Winter comes back tomorrow night.

    No. I didn’t hear the President. I saw lots of shaking hands and commotion, but I turned it off before he started talking and went to bed a little later.

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  3. Have you heard? The president is come to Alabama. He is coming to Selma. Now when we had oil on our beaches and in our waterways he waited 89 days to show his sorry face and it was only a quick trip in and out for photo ops, but let a movie about MLK and the Selma march hit the theaters and he is coming. No. There is no cynicism there.

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  4. Good morning, all. It was a balmy 77 here yesterday. Becca was in flip-flops. It’s a little chillier today, with a high of only 61…I simply cannot imagine living where it’s really cold. Becca’s been sick. She developed an ear infection from her cold and is now on antibiotics.

    I didn’t watch the President last night, either…It makes me too angry to listen to him.

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  5. I didn’t watch the garbage on tv last night…I read commentaries and became infuritated….I feel as though my head will explode! I cannot recall a time that I felt such hatred…which is disconcerting that such ugly is inside of me…may the Lord be merciful as I confront the ugliness within…

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  6. No cable. We watched Hatachi.

    Thanks to Kim, I bought a copy of the Rickover DVD, the story of the good admiral’s life.

    My husband enjoyed it and it prompted his Rickover interview stories and other memories which he recounted for the children. Good conversations.

    But he’s also been having nightmares about the Navy since then!

    He was happy to retire and has never looked back.

    Me?

    I miss all those terrific friends.

    I attended the decommissioning of the Nautilus. Lots of good stories that day, too, some 35 years ago at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. As the Navy life goes, I was also on hand when she sailed up the Thames River in CT for her final mooring at the Subase in Groton/New London, where she still resides as a museum.

    Submarine life was primitive for a long time. Nautilus duty was tough. It’s better now. 🙂

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  10. Good morning. I did watch the address last night. Usually I don’t. It was pretty dull until my husband got home to enliven the evening with his running commentary. Obama talks a rosy picture, but his heart is full of darkness. His words are never trustworthy. It was nice to hear the Republican response fro the new Senator from Iowa, Joni Earnst. She basically ignored what O had to say and told it like it is for many in our nation who are suffering. No rosy picture, but a caring heart. And she has the background to relate to the regular folks, not just the privileged elite arrogant opportunists that hang on O’s words because they are the recipients of his wealth division.

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  11. I tried to post earlier, but apparently it didn’t post. Yes, young male cardinal, but not on his first flight out of the nest. He had been visiting our yard for a couple of months and was beginning to get his adult feathers. He’s basically a teenage boy.

    BTW, this is the story I found about salt a few months ago, about the research on whether it’s bad for you: http://www.alternet.org/food/salt-not-enemy-guess-what-actually-ruins-your-health-instead

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  12. I watched it.

    And that’s an hour and a half of my life wasted that I’ll never get back. 😆

    I wasn’t impressed with Joni Earnst. While I like how she ignored his lies and laid out her/R ideas, I found it lacking. I think pointing out some of his many lies and half-truths would have been better. You can’t let nonsense like that go unanswered.

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  13. So what actually ruins our health instead, Cheryl (haven’t clicked on the link)? That link header is a tease …

    I’d say that’s a bird with some serious morning hair.

    mumsee’s submarine comment made me laugh.

    I heard most of the speech, it was on the radio on my drive home and then, after stopping for groceries, it was STILL on TV when I got home. Longest speech ever. And, yes, the taunting tone was annoying, as always. Can’t stand snarkiness. I kept thinking maybe some humility is in his future now that the other party controls everything else. But I doubt he’d ever get the message anyway.

    I’m beginning to think there’s such a thing as “Obama years” — which would be the opposite of dog years, they seem much longer than they really are. It feels like forever that he’s been in office to me now.

    😦 😦

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  14. Oh, I read the link — sugar.

    Kind of agree about the GOP rebuttal, she was very smiley which distracted me I guess. She has nice teeth. She didn’t blow it, I suppose that’s the good thing. 🙂 But she’ll get piled on now by the Democrats, who seem to have a special hatred reserved for conservative women for some reason.

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  16. The good news is, these speeches tend to get widely ignored anymore, ceremonial mostly. And in a president’s final couple of years, who really cares? It’s all (almost) over.

    It wasn’t even turned on in the newsroom yesterday — his early SOU speeches drew an atmosphere of near-reverence (as I usually walked out of the room or otherwise did my best to keep typing and ignore it all).

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  18. We should worry about sitting too much, also — which I know I’m guilty of (one of our reporters was able to convince HR to set her up with a very expensive standing desk — her computer can be raised to standing height so she can stand and type — another reporter has been angling for a treadmill at his desk 🙂 )

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/health/sitting-will-kill-you/index.html

    “Our entire modern world is constructed to keep you sitting down. When we drive, we sit. When we work at an office, we sit. When we watch TV, well, you get the picture.

    “And yet, a new study that’s running in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that this kind of sedentary behavior increases our chances of getting a disease or a condition that will kill us prematurely, even if we exercise. …”

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  19. I don’t think I’d do well with a treadmill desk, though — I couldn’t walk and type at the same time. 🙂

    Add chewing some gum to that scenario and I’d be flat on the floor in no time.

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  20. Snow is beautiful here in Colorado. Granddaughters still rode their bikes to school with mom while I watched a little one. Time to take a walk soon. supposed to be sunny tomorrow, so Nancyjill should be able to get out.

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  22. I called and rescheduled my appt…so now it should snow on the 4th of February for certain! School was cancelled in this district and the snow is still falling. So blessed to stay indoors today….tomorrow having a dear sweet neighbor over for coffee in the morning….the snow will still be here but hopefully not falling from the heavens 🙂 so glad to know you are enjoying Colorado family time Jo…..

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  23. It pains me to report that my husband has developed man ears. I have told him for two weeks that I needed new brakes on the Xterra. He kept saying it would have to wait. Last night I talked to him on my way home. It would have to wait. I told him ok I would wait until I rear ended someone to get them fixed. When I got home I asked him to drive my truck around the block. The third time I asked he did. He came back and asked me how long they had been like that….at least two weeks.
    I drove his truck to work today and he had mine towed to the shop to get new brakes.

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  24. Oh and yes…Once upon a time I called my father and told him my car didn’t have brakes. (I was 16 or 17) He told me to drive it home. I did. I got it parked in the driveway outside the garage. He got in and drove it around the block and had to pull in the side yard to give himself enough room to pump the brakes and get it stopped. His BRILLIANT words when he got out were, “Kim, the car doesn’t have ANY brakes”. In my sweetest, most prissy voice I said, “Really, Daddy?”

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  25. This time I just looked at my husband and smiled. I didn’t say anything at all. Finally he told me to take his truck this morning and he would take care of mine. I just smiled and said thank you.

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  26. Good afternoon (well, it’s afternoon here anyway).

    Donna, it’s your comments that are making me laugh. 🙂

    “I’d say that’s a bird with some serious morning hair.” LOL!

    And “Add chewing some gum to that scenario [walking and typing at the same time] and I’d be flat on the floor in no time.” More LOL-ing. 😀

    Laughter is the best medicine. 😉

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  30. I never watch or listen to the State of the Union speeches, regardless of who is in office. Washington just gave the Congress his ideas on paper. The TV age has made it a big deal. It’s all campaign speech material, with a chance for supporters to stand and applaud or detractors to keep sitting.

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  31. NancyJill, I feel your pain with snowfall on dental appointment days. The last few years we’ve had appointments in May & November, or June & December. Getting to our December 2013 appointments got a little sketchy, and we postponed some of them to January 2014, which is an even snowier month than December, on average, in our state.

    After our summer appointments last year, I decided we’d quit with the summer/winter schedule and switch to spring/fall. Our heaviest snowfall months are from November through March, then it drops off quite a bit in April, so we’re going to aim for April & October this year.

    Or we could just do checkups once a year, I suppose, in July or August, which are the only two months we’ve never had snow. 😛

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  32. Man ears or not. You notice that the man always looks after his woman.
    He’s the one who gets it fixed.
    I think I told you about the time when Mary drove up to Greensboro from USC, Columbia. She walked in the house, didn’t say, “Hi” or anything else. She said, “dad my car is really dirty and really, really empty.”
    Chuck took care of it.

    🙂

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  33. The weather is beautiful today. It does not seem like winter.

    Mumsee, thanks for explaining a bit more about that thirteen-year old’s reaction. I have never been around a child with that kind of issue. Hearing about that and the reason for it is a good prayer prompt. I am glad the others were appreciative of her unwanted items of clothing. Do your children ever sew? Would she benefit from sewing her own clothes to make her feel more control?

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  34. Here’s a relatively late-in-the-day QoD: What are your best strategies to avoid catching a bad mood from someone in your physical presence who is in one?

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  35. 6 Arrows, I would try to get engrossed with a project that takes my full attention and is something I really enjoy. Or I might excuse myself by saying, “I really need to make a call right now.” Then I would try to find a friend who is in a better mood to talk to on my phone about some future plans. But if the person in the bad mood says they really need to talk then i would listen and pray and hopefully they would feel their weight transfer to God and then be in a better mood.

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  36. 6 arrows, i am the type who tries to avoid conflict, therefore, my first thought was to escape from the bad mood before I took it on and said something better left unsaid like, “Why don’t you take that bad mood back to the hole you just climbed out of…I don’t want to be around it.” LOL, i have never said anyghing like that. I usually just suffer in silence when around someone like that. If I am feeling brave I will ask what is wrong.

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  37. QoD: That would probably only be my hubby, it’s very rare, and it’s never, ever directed at me. I first try a little humor to get him laughing and to see if he’ll snap out of it. If that doesn’t work, meaning that he wants to “enjoy” it for a while, I just leave him alone, which is what he prefers.

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  38. There is no one good answer to the QoD. It depends of the importance of the person near you. The cause of the bad mood and whether you can affect it. I’m all for fixing things. If I can’t fix it, I generally ignore it as much as possible.
    If it is a passing thing, let it be.
    If it’s a chronic thing, something is wrong somewhere and it needs to be attended to.

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  39. Janice, daughter is very complicated. She can sew (Phos came over and taught them all how to sew a bit) and enjoys it but the outfits she makes (and we let her wear them in public) are not like what anybody off of the runway would normally make. She will make something and then throw it away. She will make something bizarre and want to wear it every day and it won’t be an every day outfit. So we do not provide her with an endless supply of fabric. But she also has to learn to do things when she is told at times and that is her challenge. I reminded her that last time I bought her several shirts because she had outgrown the things before, she refused to wear them. For whatever reason, she eventually started wearing them and those are the shirts she has outgrown and does not want to give up now. Her older sister would also throw out anything I bought for her, even though she always picked out her own clothes. She continued that when she was buying her own clothes or picking them up at the thrift store. It is some sort of issue.

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  41. She is now wearing the shirt she tore up yesterday. She sewed it back together, a long cut from the hem to the shoulders in the middle of the front. It looks much better. But you know she would wear anything Miss Kim, D, sent her.

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  43. Well I almost gave myself whiplash when I hit my brakes.
    New brakes fixed a multitude of noises in my Xterra. It is 8 years old with 139K miles on it. I may drive it a couple of more years now.

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  47. Thanks for the QoD answers — I appreciate what you all said.

    Chas, I think that’s a good distinction you made, about whether the problem is a passing thing or chronic.

    Wish I could say more, but I probably should not…so I’ll leave it at that.

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  50. Media fast again tomorrow. I have set up Thursdays as our fasting days this year, but I fell off the wagon last week. In my defense, there was unfinished business with emailing a couple piano teachers about the piano show in which we were (potentially) participating in the spring — waiting for one person’s response and needing to get back to the show organizer in a timely manner. It’s hard to reach piano teachers by phone, though, as you never know when they’ll be teaching, so email is much better for that.

    Anyway, that’s settled now, so I will have no good excuse to hop on the computer tomorrow.

    See you all Friday.

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  54. I’m glad to hear that, Jo. My husband fell on the ice on our driveway the other day — twice within only a few minutes — and was not hurt, either.

    Blessings.

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  55. NancyJill – You had to cancel your teeth cleaning due to snow, but I had my own teeth cleaning appointment today. No snow. We are, however, expecting a lot of snow this weekend, as it looks now.

    I hope the snow comes early enough & hard enough to cancel Emily’s school on Saturday. (Shame on me.) Chrissy & I are babysitting this evening & tomorrow morning, as usual, but also will be babysitting tomorrow night, because Emily & A have a date. So it would be nice to have Saturday off. But if not, we’ll enjoy hanging out with our little guy anyway.

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  56. I remember getting ready to get into a car when I was visiting farm friends in NY — the dad and son were both inside (we were going into the city), they were just waiting for me to get in on the other side when …

    WHOOSH, down I went.

    I later though how funny that probably looked to them seeing me through the window and then – kabOOm — gone. Where’d she go??

    I got up quickly, dusted myself off and got into the car. It was probably the 3rd time I’d gone down on that particular visit. 🙂

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  57. I’m coming up on needing new brakes, too — I’m being very careful so I can avoid having to get new rotars, too. Pads aren’t bad …

    And I am also pretty much due for new tires. Groan. But I can’t complain, this set of tires — Goodyear Wranglers — has lasted a long time (maybe close to 5 years?), probably thanks to rotating them (fairly) regularly. That really does make a difference, but it’s such a pain to do.

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