If you've got plenty of time it can be almost amusing to drive in Sun City.
If you have to be anywhere before next week Wednesday it can be really frustrating.
If you're experiencing some serious anticipiss the word homicidal fits.
Ken Wisenhunt is good. He became the Cardinals head coach three years ago after they fired Dennis Greene ("THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE"). He had been offensive coordinator under Bill Cowher in Pittsburgh before taking this job. The team has improved each year and last night's blow-out of the Vikings was impressive for the performance of the O and D lines, both of which have been weak spots until this season. The Cardinals are for real.
The house next door has been on the market since Valetta died about nine months ago. As of two days ago a new sign hangs out front - different realty and different agent. I looked the house up on the Remax site and the price has dropped from the original listing of $220,000 to $149,900. So if you know who Andy Griffith is, drive a Buick and put your pills in one of those plastic containers with a separate section for each day of the week I know where you can get a good deal on a house.
No point staying home; a cold is just as miserable and you have nothing else to think about. So I went to M & M's to start work on the list of projects. It was drizzling by the time I got there a little after 9 a.m. I got the fence posts and rails in, the front door weather stripped and the ugly cement fountain busted up and removed. By noon it was raining pretty hard so I gave up. It's supposed to continue raining all day tomorrow so I'll go back Wednesday to finish up the fence, build the gate and install a door to the storage/HVAC room.
By the time I'd made a couple of stops it was about 1:30 before I got home (see comment about Sun City drivers, above) and I crashed! But now, after a long nap and some of Pam's goulash I'm feeling better.
Most preachers will tell you one reason they like preaching is because they learn so much doing the study each week. My sermon yesterday included a comparison of Gabriel's visit to Zacharias and his visit 6 months later to Mary. A compare/contrast of those two narratives makes it very clear that Luke set them next to each other intentionally to emphasize the key differences. Yet for all the sermons I've heard about the announcement to Mary I've never heard anything about Zacharias. I don't think you can fully understand the latter without the former. Way too many parallels! Thirty six hours later and I'm still mulling the juxtaposition. This one may need writing.
The Obama administration pulled a fast one today, using the EPA to do what Congress has thus far refused to do. The EPA today declared that "greenhouse gasses" threaten public health, thus giving the Executive Branch power to issue regulations limiting emissions without congressional approval. This will primarily affect coal fired power plants, but can also be used to further regulate tailpipe emissions. This decision doesn't come as a surprise; it's something Obama had said he intended to have happen. But the fact it happened today, on the eve of the Copenhagen conference, is a pretty obvious example of opportunism. He goes to that conference next week with a feather in his cap. If it was the right thing to do now it was right a month ago, or six months ago.
This kind of move further erodes his claim to be somehow above political games and illustrates the growing disillusion with his presidency.
Time for more cold meds and chocolate cake from the pan. I think the cake is at least as effective as the former. In fact, I have wondered if decongestants aren't just sugar pills. If they don't make you better you say, "Wow, think how bad it would have been if I hadn't taken that pill!" If you do get better you attribute it to the pill, not the fact that a cold will eventually run its course.
"If you take all the remedies a cold will last for one week. If you don't it will last seven days."
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