Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Comma Sutra - making grammar sexy since 1875.


I'm wearing Wrangler and my shoes are by Nike.

I really, really like being the pastor of Pathway Bible Church. But if they offered me Jeremy Clarkson's job I'd have to give it very serious consideration.

They predicted up to 3/4" of rain overnight, but I don't think we got 1/10". The wind, however, howled. This morning our satellite system kept losing/acquiring the signal. Unless I've got a connectivity virus that spread from my printer, the wind blew the dish on the roof out of alignment. I called before leaving for church and the guy must have come while we were gone because everything is fine now.

I'm also turning into a Chris Christie fan (Gov. of N.J.). I heard an except of a speech he gave to the teacher's union there and, as you can guess, he wasn't giving them good news. In addition to telling them about cutbacks in salary and benefits he addressed performance based employment. Christie said only two jobs in this country continue to employ someone who consistently does a bad job. The first is the weatherman. He predicts up to 2" of snow and a massive blizzard hits dropping a foot of snow. The next day he's back on camera saying, "Well, I said it was going to snow."

Gov. Christie went on to say good teachers should be rewarded for their excellence with higher pay and perks while other teachers are given guidance and, as a final step, termination. I agree. But let's try that out with the weatherman on TV. His salary will be directly tied to his accuracy rate over one year's forecasts.

(I better shut up before someone suggests we do something similar with preachers.)

Sunday night. Beat. Coherency tomorrow.

1 comment:

Jenny said...

This is what retired Cirque du Soleil performers do for a living (in photo).