Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds

I met Josh W. for our monthly "talk shop" b'fast this morning at a place I hadn't been to before, "Fast Eddie's." Pretty good! What I don't understand is that we had a free meal. They were giving away an omelet breakfast - ham and cheese - that included hash browns and toast. Big enough portions that I couldn't finish it. We only paid for the coffee. How can they do that?

I like words and when I come across an especially interesting word I don't know I'll usually look it up. Used to have a dictionary for that, but I'm not sure they even make them anymore. How long will it be before kids don't know what a dictionary is?

Anyway, it goes like this:
A convertible is the same thing as a drop top, is the same thing as a cabriolet. The latter term is more common in Europe and drop top is slang.

A phaeton has a soft top like a convertible but doesn't have side windows. A convertible/drop top/cabriolet can be closed by putting the top up and rolling up the windows. In a phaeton you can put the top up but there aren't any roll up windows. Sometimes there are canvas or clear covers that can be snapped on the sides, but no glass windows. Phaetons are quite a bit lighter than a convertible, a feature that made them faster. Phaetons were built for speed.

A dual cowl phaeton has a bulkhead, a second cowl between the front seats and the rear seats. It was a way of making the car feel more luxurious, exotic. I couldn't find a really good picture, but if you click on this one you'll be able to see the cowl between the front and rear seats and the second windshield for the back seat passengers.
On one of the car shows we watch they showed a dual cowl phaeton that included a duplicate set of gauges on the rear cowl so the back seaters could see how fast the car was going.

Aren't you glad you now know all of that? Doesn't your life feel richer?

Alex Karras was cool, both as a football player and as an actor. How can a guy who was that intense and brutal on the field be that happy and gentle on the screen?

Tomorrow evening: the VP debate and Steelers vs. Titans. Which makes for the more compelling sport?

It happens every week. As I read through Sunday's text, re-re-re-reading it, making notes, looking up parallel passages, hearing what it says to me and for others, I get eager to preach and share what I'm seeing.
I almost feel sorry for the people of Pathway. By the time they walk into that elementary school gym on a Sunday morning they've got to deal with a preacher all worked up about the morning's passage.
This Sunday's section in our series in Romans - we're almost done - is a long list of names. People in Rome Paul basically wants to say "hello" to. What in the world does a preacher do with a list of names?
Ah, the more one digs the more one finds.
I'm wondering how I get it all into a 35 minute sermon.

I love my job.