I had the Tennis Channel on this morning while I was doing some chores. I felt like watching a sports event and a European match was the only thing I could find at that hour of the morning. (You don't want to know.) Because I was involved in what I was doing I didn't change the channel when the match was done and ended up "watching" a program with various coaches giving short, one-topic tennis lessons.
One of the instructors talked about the importance of keeping your head down through the shot, not raising up as you hit the ball. (Sounds like golf, huh?) He said making that mistake is one of the things indicating a player is worried about where their shot is going to go, a player who is beginning to choke.
"Choking is worrying about the future."
Great sermon illustrations come from all kinds of places.
Last week I went to the doctor, a specialist I haven't seen before. I filled out the new patient paperwork in the waiting room, and surprisingly soon afterward the door opened and my name was called. She looked to be in her 20's and couldn't have weighed much more than 100 pounds, a wisp of a gal. She had me step on the scale just inside the hallway, wrote my weight down on the chart and then said "Walk this way" as she headed down the hall.
I didn't say it. I wanted to, but in a rare moment of good judgment the words never passed my lips.
In an old W.C. Fields movie he goes into a restaurant and the shapely hostess greets him and says, "Walk this way."
As she leads him into the restaurant he responds, "Honey, if I could walk that way I wouldn't need the talcum powder."
At Whitney Houston's funeral Kevin Costner said, "Whitney, when you stand before the Heavenly Father, don't worry. You'll be good enough."
Kevin Costner might benefit from reading the Bible. Nobody is good enough. That's why Jesus Christ died.
I worked on the trailer today. The next step is installing the cabin doors and that turns out to be a tricky operation, something I suspected when I was cutting them out of the trailer sides early on in the project. As per the directions, I cut them with my saber saw and then sanded until I had a 1/8" gap all around. Then eight coats of spar varnish.
At this stage I set them in place with spacers on two sides and measure to insure I have at least 1/16" on the other two sides - which is really a big curve.
What happened??? They don't fit like they're supposed to, and are very uneven. Some places had almost no gap and at others it was over 1/8".
I used my belt sander and carefully took back the "high spots" which now need another eight coats of varnish. The stretches with too much gap? I'm going to hope the aluminum T molding will make up for the gap. If it doesn't I'll get some of that 1" caulk.
ESPN has apologized for a headline about Jeremy Lin's performance in a Knicks loss that they had up on their website for about half an hour before somebody figured out they'd been too clever by half.
"Chink in His Armor."
I take some comfort when people getting paid that kind of money make those kinds of mistakes. As one who has put a foot in his mouth too often it's nice to have company.
Upper 70's by the end of next week. How do we manage?
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