"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." - Steven Wright

A lot of pet stores encourage you to bring your pets along when you shop. 

"Clean up on aisle 6!"

Any man old enough to have hair growing out of his nostrils should be old enough to know that doing 90 lunges does not bode well for mobility the next day.
I used to think my younger son loved his dad, but when he creates an exercise plan including things like this I have to reconsider that notion.

Why do I comment on the dangers of driving in Sun City? Consider this quote from a letter to the editor of our community weekly:
"I am 91 and worry that the day may come when I am unable to drive."
HELP!!!


I enjoy playoff baseball because every game has immediate significance. During the regular season, which lasts 11 months and 1,398 games, who cares about the winner or loser of any given game? And it's not like the game of baseball is interesting in its own right. At any given point in time only two of 18 players are even in motion, and one of those is adjusting his cup.

If the NBA season is cancelled, as looks increasingly likely, about the only thing I'll miss is the commentary of Charles Barkley. I found this clip while looking for something else:
Charles Barkley is...

I didn't do a very good job last night of explaining my thoughts regarding what is or isn't a cult. If it interests you at all you can read the comments to last night's post.
Those comments caused me to recall my dad's account of his father's conversion. My granddad was saved relatively late in life at a revival meeting out in a rural area of the Washington peninsula where he worked in the logging industry. Granddad was a Scot and a Freemason, and those two are closely intertwined. Freemasonry originated in Scotland, so it was a matter of national identity as well as social and religious association. He had achieved the rank of 32 degree, just one away from the Grand Poobah. But one of the first things he did after his conversion was to go to his closet and throw out all the things associated with that part of his life. He instinctively understood that the secret oaths and practices of Masonry should have no part of his new life in Christ.

In the comments to last night's post it was pointed out that Mormonism involves a lot of secrecy, with terrible oaths taken if the initiated ever divulge those secrets. What most Mormons and Masons don't know is that many of the ceremonies and rituals are identical between the two. That's because they both keep their secrets. Years ago two former Mormons, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, established Utah Lighthouse Ministry to pull back the curtain and show what goes on in that church, including its roots in and striking similarities to Freemasonry. Many of the rites are word for word the same. The Mormon Church went to considerable lengths to silence their efforts

Pam worked yesterday and today. She leaves Thursday to visit her mom in Michigan for 10 days. So she's got tomorrow to cook and bake so I don't starve while she's gone.
I'm pretty much helpless when it comes to food prep.