"If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest." - Kin Hubbard

It reads, "Ah'm no' in service." (Scotland)

The storm, it is a comin'. The radar shows mostly yellow, and the 30 mph gusts have me wondering what on our property will be in Peoria before tomorrow.

We just finished a 3-week series: "Verses I Wish Weren't in the Bible."

1. "You shall not hold a grudge against your brother..." (Lev. 19:18)
2. "I laid me down and slept" (Ps. 3:5)
3. "It is required that a steward be found faithful" (1 Cor. 4:2)

This Sunday we begin a 3-week series: "Verses I'm Glad are in the Bible"

If you could pick the three, which would they be? Would any of our choices be the same?

Next week I'll take the engine to the machine shop and have it back in about 4 days. With another 60-90 minutes of sanding the main parts of the body will be ready for primer, but given the weather that will wait until October. I'm ready to order the brake master cylinder and lines to install on the frame (vehicles now have the MC on the firewall but Chevy was still going old school in '59). 

Coming along nicely. Which often means there's a snag just ahead. 

Much of the news coverage is about Robin William's suicide. It's fair to say he was a comic genius - was anyone better at improvisation? - and his credits include just about every form of entertainment. He had a foul mouth and raunchy humor, but I suppose that's pretty typical in the comedy trade. So yeah, it's sad. But we'll have a huge body of his work to remind us of him.

The same can't be said for the thousands dying in places like Iraq, or Gaza, or West Africa. They weren't geniuses, just people struggling to get from one day to the next. And children killed by war or disease didn't have time to assemble a body of work. 

"When one person dies it's a tragedy, but when a thousand die it's a statistic." - Joseph Stalin.