What kind of bars do monkeys play on?

May be time for a brake job.

This morning I read the post I wrote last night. Is it possible to fit the word "just" in that first sentence one more time? I was really tired!
I don't know what I'll use for an excuse tomorrow morning.

This morning I reserved a Budget rental truck and car hauling trailer for next Monday. The speed limit for most of the 325-mile trip is 75 mph but if I wasn't doing 80 I had somebody on my bumper. The limit for trucks and vehicles pulling a trailer is 55 mph and the semis I passed seemed to be pretty close to that. I figure I need to add another hour or two to each leg of next Monday's trip as a result of that slower speed. And the rental office doesn't open until 8:00 a.m. which means I leave 90 minutes later than yesterday's departure. All of that puts me back in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
The up side is that the price will be very close to what I would pay to have the car shipped by a hauler. However, using one of those transporters means an uncertain pick up date, an uncertain delivery date, and uncertain treatment in between. I learned online that it can easily take a month for them to work pickup and delivery into their routing schedule.

I hope you don't mind if I occasionally insert some interesting (at least to me) facts about classic Beetles. They are unique vehicles. They define the word spartan. The metal dash of a '67 has two knobs, one for the wipers (slow and fast) and one for lights. That's it! The floor has three pedals and a stick shift. In front of the large steering wheel you get a speedometer and gas gauge.
If you want heat you reach down and slide back a metal vent cover. That allows air passing over the engine to flow forward to the car's interior...so long as you're moving. If you stop, so does the warm air, since no air is moving over the engine. Windshield defrosters? Yes, but they are activated by the same vent cover.
No power steering (hence the large steering wheel), no power brakes, and very little power from the engine.
Classic Beetles are chill-mobiles.
Some people think they're dangerous because there's nothing between the driver and the lightweight front bumper except some very thin sheet metal. Not true!! The gas tank is also up there.

As you cross from California to Arizona on Interstate 10 the first building you see, within feet of the state line, is a large adult entertainment business with huge letters on the side of the building advertising "No Time Limit." I guess that means you can park there as long as you want, huh?

I feel for my Michigan peeps. Life is bad when the unemployment rate goes higher than the temperature.

Here's an interesting site if you've got some time to browse:
Newspapers around the world on the net

And here's a fun TV ad from the UK:
Need Glasses?

I must say, today I am proud to be an American. After a long period of American history that rightfully causes shame we have an African-American President duly elected by a majority of the voting public. This is a very good thing and represents an important step in our maturity as a nation. Lots of us can remember a time when this was unimaginable.
It also raises some interesting questions. If we can elect an African American President do we still need affirmative action programs to counteract widespread racial discrimination?

I started working on my sermon today and this one presents a problem that comes up from time to time. There's a reason our sovereign God worked it out so that Greek was the lingua franca of the time. As languages go it's extremely precise, allowing the writer or speaker to communicate nuances in meaning that can be very significant. Such is the case with our passage for Sunday morning, the first several verses of 1 Corinthians 3.
A homiletics prof I knew said that sermons should not be Greek lessons. People want the meal, not the recipe, so tell them what the passage means, not how the Greek says it. But the difference between two words, created by changing an "n" to a "k" in the otherwise identical word occuring in v. 1 and v. 3, makes a huge difference. And it lays out one of the important truths of the Christian experience. Paul was inspired of the Holy Spirit when we wrote those two words so we do well to pay attention.
I'm working on how to serve this meal.

Until I have the second bathroom remodel finished Pam has to use the master bath for her morning routine. That means I'm getting a glimpse into that hour-long process and the materials required. This afternoon I broke the news to her. The 3-in-1 Eye Concealer isn't working. I can still see them.

We need a name for the Beetle and I'm soliciting suggestions. Nominations may be either masculine or feminine, German or English, whatever you think works.
The German edition of classic Beetles had three words over the ignition switch: Stop, Run and Start. The German word for Run is Fahrt.
FWIW