Keep the dream alive. Sleep in tomorrow.

I drove to Scottsdale this morning to look at a potential job. I got passed by one of these, a brand new (no plates, just the dealer's bracket) Mercedes 500SL. That's $98,000 worth of fast!
But look what was right behind it, with a bracket from the same dealer! This is a Lamborghini Murcielago and it will set you back a mere $313,000. It will do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and tops out at just over 200 mph.
There are people here who buy these kinds of cars! Why? By the time you hit second gear you've tripped every speeding cam in the valley.
Why? Hint: these cars are purchased by males.

On the way home from that appointment I stopped at a hole-in-the-wall VW shop in Glendale to look at a '63 Bug advertised on the Samba site. If you clicked on that link you may be thinking, "decent looking Bug." In person? Not so much. I think whoever painted it used 36 cans of Rustoleum, and didn't worry about where that red paint went. And who thinks it's a good idea to paint the pedals white...using a brush??

When you see a sign that reads, "Welcome to Historical Downtown Glendale" it really means, "You're in the hood."

Rerun: I created a list of 52 verses/brief passages at Steve & Michelle's request. Their goal is to memorize one each week through 2009. If you're interested I'll email you the Excel spreadsheet I used to create the list. Just click on the Pathway Bible Church logo on the panel to the right, then choose "contact us" on our church site and send an email that includes your email address. I'll send the list straightaway.

I can tell that the parathyroidectomy surgery worked. My brain is gradually returning to...its former self. (I avoided the use of the word "normal" in that sentence.) I'm moving back into ADD Land, a truly scary place. But scary in a good way.
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If, like me, you're old enough to remember cigarette ads on TV, or if you're a smoker, you probably know about Pall Mall cigarettes. Did you ever wonder where that name came from? I did.
Pall Mall was an ancient French game played by the wealthy that has come down to us as croquet. Pall Mall comes from the two French words for ball and mallet. The game became popular in England and was played on a lane, back then a grass lane, that was given the name Pall Mall. This lane was the site of several exclusive gentlemen's clubs, so the name Pall Mall came to be associated with class and refinement.
Want your cigarette to carry the implication of wealth and status? Call it Pall Mall, and market it primarily to men.

It's New Year's Eve. There's nothing good on TV. I think the programmers figured we'd all be out partying, doing our best to enter 2009 with a hangover. I'm going to do my best to enter it with a good night's sleep. Boring, but I live in Sun City.