You don't gnome me.

Now this is the definition of cool.

Nadal out of the French! Does that make Federer all but automatic?
I won't be surprised if the Lakers lose the finals for the second year in a row. Pam's bummed because she's in love with LeBron and he went home to pout. Where will he play next year?
Too bad we don't have a major league baseball team here.

Getting the right carb for Gerta is proving to be tricky. Several options of aftermarket repro's, each with reported problems. Now that I know what the problem is I'm anxious to get her fixed and running, but getting the wrong carb (the right specs but a bad reproduction) will only frustrate me more.

In church this morning we began the section in 1 Corinthians in which Paul discusses the issues assoc. with spiritual gifts (chaps. 12-14). Some truths from the first 11 verses of chapter 12 seem irrefutable:

• Each believer has one or more spiritual gifts. And if no believer is w/o a gift it's apparent that they are given at the point of salvation.
• The gifts are distributed according to the sovereign will of the H.S. Therefore, there's no point in seeking a particular gift. He's already assigned yours.
• The gifts are all given for the common good. That is, they are not for use in isolation, in privacy, but for the benefit of the Body.

I might be reading the situation ALL wrong, but I suspect that not everyone there this morning was in agreement with the above. I want everyone to like everything about Pathway, but more important is that the Word be presented in all of its clarity and accuracy. If that offends, so be it.

(but it still makes me sad)

I need to knock down some walls tomorrow. (That's a polite way of saying I need to kick...) I've had too many frustrations lately, too many things going wrong, breaking. I need a day where I put my head down and power through, a day where I get to the end and say, "Today I came out on top!" Ever been in that situation?
I'll be on the bike EARLY. Then to Lowe's to get some supplies for a couple of tasks around the house. Maybe some writing when it gets too hot to work outside. The point is, whatever I work at must end in success.
So maybe I'll just eat and watch TV all day. I always get that right.

The latest? More trouble with my laptop. Still don't know why the CD drive won't get anything but ASCII characters when reading a PDF file. But as of last night the battery won't charge. If I use the battery for power the percentage of power remaining drops. When I plug it back in the percentage doesn't increase. Which means that at this point I have 49% of battery power left before...
Do I buy a new battery? Assuming the problem is the battery and not the charging system is it worth the money for a new battery when the disk drive isn't working?

Some days it doesn't pay to chew through the straps.

Assasinations almost never work. Most often they have the opposite effect from that intended by the assasin. There are exceptions, but a look at U.S. history makes the point. John Wilkes Booth didn't save the South and James Earl Ray didn't turn back the civil rights movement. Instead, these and other assasinations only furthered the movements they were meant to stop.

This is true whether the assasin was sane or not. The assasin is not the central character, the assasinated is.
Which is why the assasination of Dr. George Tiller is especially troublesome. Any murder is equally wrong, evil. But in this case it has the liklihood of generating sympathy for the cause of late term abortions, Dr. Tiller's specialty.
Gallup's most recent polls show that the majority of Americans now oppose abortion on demand regardless of the trimester - the first time in decades. I hope that doesn't change as a result of this morning's crime.

The federal government will soon own 60% of GM. I was going to write that we now own 60% of GM but I'm beginning to wonder if the govt. and its citizens are the same thing.