Yesterday I took the girls swimming to the local aquatic center. And like any father with tree girls I went into the family change room, the last thing I need is for my girls to see a bunch of naked old guys. The is where the frustration begins.
Who do you expect to be in a family change rooms? Families right! Well it seems that to some people the family change room means that it is a place for single men, women, boys and girls to use. Come on people what part of family do you not understand. Family means, at least, one adult and one or more kids or a handicapped person.
So were waiting for an open stall, and final a couple become available. Out of these occupies stalls walk young men, 15+ in age, and you guessed it one out of each stall. I guess they were illiterate and blind, because the change room is clearly marked.
need I say more?
A fellow blogger wrote on open letter to Barack Obama. Here is an excerpt:
Dear President Obama,
Who would have thought this day would come? Against all odds you were elected the first African-American president of the United States. And with a name like Barack Hussein Obama, I do mean against all odds! Five years ago I could have made a lot of money taking bets that anyone named Hussein would ever be elected to office!
You can read the rest of the letter at bradruggles.com
Whether or not you agree with all the decisions that will be made my the new President you have got to admit that today is one of the most important days in US history.
If you missed the speech you can watch it below.
via colectiva
This is the note the teacher received the next day,
Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Smith
Google has put up an email about how to use the new imap feature of Gmail on the iPhone (the whole article can be read here). The video clip can be seen below:
This can also be used for your Gmail, when using Apple Mail on your home computer.
Here are the steps to use to get this to work.
1. Open Gmail and select settings, then click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. Make sure that IMAP is enabled.
2. Open Mail and click Mail/Preferences (or press Command ,).
3. Click on accounts and add a new account. You should see this window. Deselect automatically set up account. Use your Gmail settings including you full Gmail address. Click Continue.
4. Enter a description and the settings below (use your own full Gmail address and Gmail password). Click continue.
5. Enter the following settings again using your full Gmail address and Gmail password. Click Continue.
6. Your done. Now when you send or receive email on your Mac your Gmail account is automatically synced.
1. Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
This futuristic protestant church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
2. Saint Basil’s Cathedral: The Red Square’s Colorful Church
The St. Basil’s Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point, aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow’s Kremlin skyline.
The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ, a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.
3. Hallgrímskirkja: Iceland’s Most Amazing Church
The Hallgrímskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrímur) is a Lutheran parish church located in Reykjavík, Iceland. At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland. The church is named after the Icelandic poet and clergyman Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns. State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson’s design of the church was commissioned in 1937; it took 38 years to build it.
4. Temppeliaukio Kirkko: The Rock Church
The Temppeliaukio Kirkko (Rock Church) is a thrilling work of modern architecture in Helsinki. Completed in 1952, it is built entirely underground and has a ceiling made of copper wire. It was designed by architect brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and completed in 1969. They chose a rocky outcrop rising about 40 feet above street level, and blasted out the walls from the inside. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Helsinki and frequently full of visitors.
5. Cathedral of Brasília: The Modern Church of architect Oscar Niemeyer
The Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida in the capital of Brazil is an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer. This concrete-framed hyperboloid structure, seems with its glass roof to be reaching up, open, to heaven. On 31 May 1970, the Cathedral’s structure was finished, and only the 70 m diameter of the circular area were visible. Niemeyer’s project of Cathedral of Brasília is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric. The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns. These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven. The Cathedral was dedicated on 31 May 1970.
6. Borgund Church: Best Preserved Stave Church
The Borgund Stave Church in Lærdal is the best preserved of Norway’s 28 extant stave churches. This wooden church, probably built in the end of the 12th century, has not changed structure or had a major reconstruction since the date it was built. The church is also featured as a Wonder for the Viking civilization in the video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.
7. Las Lajas Cathedral: A Gothic Church Worthy of a Fairy Tale
The Las Lajas Cathedral is located in southern Colombia and built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara River. According to the legend, this was the place where an indian woman named María Mueses de Quiñones was carrying her deaf-mute daughter Rosa on her back near Las Lajas (“The Rocks”). Weary of the climb, the María sat down on a rock when Rosa spoke (for the first time) about an apparition in a cave.
8. St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roofs
The St. Joseph The Betrothed is an Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago. Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome. The interior of the church is completely adorned with byzantine style icons (frescoes). Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to write the names of all the saints as prescribed by iconographic traditions.
9. Ružica Church: Where Chandeliers are made of Bullet Shells
Located over the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia, the Ružica Church is a small chapel decorated with… with trench art! Its chandeliers are entirely made of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts.
The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting alongside England and the US, Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these amazing chandeliers. It is one of the world’s finest examples of trench art.
10. Chapel of St-Gildas: Built into the base of a bare rocky cliff
The Chapel of St-Gildas sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France. Built like a stone barn into the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids. Gildas appears to have travelled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel.
I have been prepping to officiate my grandmothers funeral, and have been looking through her Bible.
Now if you know my grandmother, and many of you don’t, you will know that my grandma loved to clip little sayings and prayers out of books and magazines. Every card you got from her would have one of these little clippings in it. When I was younger I thought they were a cheesy grandma thing, but I can say that now I appreciate them.
And today as I looked through her Bible I found one of those clippings, it was taped (or glued) in the front cover of her Bible. It’s a poem called “One Year To Live.”
If I had but one year to live;
One year to help; one year to give;
One year to love; on year to bless;
One year of better things to stress;
One year to sing; one year to smile;
To brighten earth a little while;
One year to sing my Maker’s praise;
One year to fill with work my days;
One year to strive for a reward
When I should stand before my Lord.
I think that I should spend each day,
In just the very self-same way
That I do now. For, from afar
The call me come to cross the bar
At any time, and I must be
Prepared to meet eternity.
So if I have a year to live;
Or just a day in which to give
A pleasant smile, a helping hand,
A mind that tries to understand
A fellow-creature when in need,
‘Tis one with me-I take no heed;
But try to live each day He sends
To serve my gracious Master’s ends.
I will miss you Grandma.
I have to be honest that I have never been one to make these silly resolutions, but I thought that this year I would try it.
This year I decided to give up Coca-Cola. That’s right, for those who know me, you will know that this is a hard thing for me to do. To say that I like Coke, would be an understatement. I LOVE Coke. I could, and have, drunk 2 litres in a day and if I could I would drink it instead of water. And for that reason I have chosen to give up drinking Coke, and in fact all other pop for this year.
I won’t lie to you, it’s been hard, every time I walk into a store it calls out to me, ok that’s a little over the top, but I do crave it some days. I haven’t had any of the same reactions I had coming off of morphine, and that’s alright.
It’s day 13 and I have not even been tempted. Here’s hoping I can hold out for the next 352 days.
I don’t know if you remember when you got your first Hot Wheels car, I don’t. I know that I had lots of them and that I took them everywhere with me. I think I got my first on from my parents.
Today it was my turn! It was my turn to give my son his first Hot Wheels car. He didn’t really know what it was or what to do with it (he’s only 2 months old), but it was fun to give it to him anyway.
It’s 40′s Woody Wagon.
