"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." - Joel Weinstein

Not a happy camper.
It's not unusual for the preacher to be frustrated with his morning's job performance on a Sunday evening. But as an additional factor we had no heat in the school's cafeteria, the room we use for the worship service and our adult class. This during an unusual cold snap in the Valley of the Sun. It was 59 degrees when we arrived and 61 when we left. Grrrr! (as well as Brrrrr!) People were great about it; nobody complained. Because the overnight low had dropped to 30 degrees everybody came bundled up (by Phoenix standards) and just stayed that way. But I've sent an email to our contact at the district offices asking what we can do to insure that never happens again, whether it's heat in January or AC in July.

Did you see the news story about the Blackbirds in Arkansas? Between 4,000 and 5,000 of them fell from the sky in the same town at virtually the same time, just before midnight on New Year's Eve. That's almost two hundred pies at two dozen per.

Football games in HD are indeed impressive for the detail. But I think I'm most struck by the appearance of people during a close-up, like on a news show. Like Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) on Meet the Press this morning.
Dear Sen. Graham,
Eye liner is never a good idea for a Senator.

That said, I was impressed with what he had to say. He called for means testing for Social Security and Medicaid AND raising the retirement age. A p0litician saying something guaranteed to be unpopular with old people.
Now we know what caused the birds to fall from the sky.

I got a FB friend request from someone whose name I don't know. The only thing I can tell about her is that she also went to Ballard H.S. and graduated the same year I did. At least that's what her profile says. But I suspect something fishy here. No girl from H.S. wanted to be my friend then and I doubt any of them would remember my name now. I think the only girl who ever spoke to me was the one who sat next to me in the orchestra, and that was to tell me to stop bumping her with my cello bow.