Year: 2009

  • Squirrels!

    There were five houses of religion in a small Florida town: The Presbyterian Church, the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church, the Catholic Church and the Jewish Synagogue…Each church and the Synagogue was overrun with pesky squirrels.One day, the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels.  After much prayer and…

  • Simplicity

    Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.Charles Dudley Warner, 19th century essayist and novelist

  • Whack Job Day

    All this hysteria over the death of a pop star is disgusting.With all the goings on, you’d have thought that Michael Jackson cured cancer, or done something really important…  OK, he was a great pop star, but to have the whole top fold of the Star-Tribune covering the story (including a headline typo because they…

  • Only 90 Percent?

    Last week, The Onion reported: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles.I think that might be a conservative number.  Read the whole story, and decide for yourself.

  • Negative thinking

    If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.Isaac B. Singer

  • Duration

    Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.Douglas Coupland

  • Road ID

    When Jill and I rode the Tour of Lakes ride on Saturday, 6 June, 2009, I picked up a flyer for a thing called Road ID which is a cuff you can wear on your wrist or ankle when you are riding or running that has your contact information so that emergency personnel can get…