"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's this day-to-day living that wears you out" - Chekhov

The parking lot at Lehman Bros. at quitting time.

What is this guy saying? What's in the dialog box?

Remember, I'm ADD. I have an excuse.

I was in doing my workout at the rec center with only one other guy in the weight room. I guess he figured the two of us needed to chat. His opening line: "You're pretty strong for a skinny guy." I didn't know whether to say thank you or turn my back.

Because my motorcycle spent the first portion of its life as a CHP motor the speedometer & odometer are calibrated to within 1%. So when I rode it over to get my smog certificate this morning I rode the route I use for my 2-mile run. I run from our house to the stop sign at the end of Welk Dr. and back again. My map program says that the distance to the sign is right on 1 mile, making the round trip 2 miles, the race distance.
The bike says it's actually just a shade over 1.1 miles. VERY good news! It means my time for the mile is better than I thought. But shhhh! I'm not telling my legs. I'm going to let them go on thinking it's a mile. That way they'll be disappointed with my times and work harder.

MLB wanted a Sox/Dodgers Series. They're going to get a Phillies/Rays series. Fine with me! I'll be pulling for the Rays; fun to watch a bunch of relative kids on a relatively low budget team having a great time.

I'm going in Monday to do that mirror job. I've thought and re-thought how to rig the platform for maximum safety and I think I've got the plan worked out.

Why couldn't they have used "Craig the handyman" instead of "Joe the plumber?"

Some things you do just to prove it can be done.
World's Most Powerful Chainsaw

Takin' one for the team.
Volleyball

I had another cool video on how to make a Dirt Pie dessert, but a little bit of the language was, uhm, not ideal for a pastor's blog. (I know what some of you are thinking: "Why start worrying about that now?!") But it looked really cool. And guys, it might bail you out of some doo-doo some day. So here's the deal:
Go buy a flower pot, a ceramic one 6" or 7" in diameter at the top. Get some pre-made chocolate cake, like a bundt cake, from the store, some chocolate pudding and some Oreo cookies. Rinse out the pot. Slice the cake about 1/2" thick and put a layer of it in the bottom of the pot. Go ahead and break up the slices to get the bottom all covered. Now put in a layer of chocolate pudding. Follow that with a layer of Oreos that you ran through the blender. Repeat this layering process until you get to the top, but make sure your top layer is the cake, broken into crumbles to look like dirt. Now stick a fresh rose in the pot.
Voila'! Dirt pie. Yummy, quick, cheap, easy.
(Don't go there.)

I'm up to about 5 meals a day and it seems to be helping. My rule of thumb is, if I'm hungry I'll eat. Most of the time I'm hungry.

So I'm going to go eat some dinner. I think it's dinner; I've sort of lost track. And does it really matter?