The Melting Pot

Our preniversary celebration was totally awesome! If you have a happy occaision to celebrate and don't mind spending a lot of cash, this is worth it!

Preniversary!!

Today is the preniversary of the big wedding day!! Ron and I are celebrating by going to dinner tonight. :-)

(PS - I thought I invented the word, but I googled it, and others have used it before... so no originality to be found here)

Google Calendar

W00t - I added my Google calendar to my blog! I'm really stylin' now! :-)

Installing Love

This is a cute variation on the Husband 1.0 e-mail that I have seen before...

Tech Support: Yes, How can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love.
Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do
I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located
your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it
okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and
Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your
current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it
will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low
Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However,
you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs
prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke
Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and
Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You
need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Ooops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error -
Program not run on external components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to
run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In
non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before
you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following
files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system
will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty
programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all
directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely
gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is
playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves
all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually
everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running.
One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it
and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it
with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

God/Tech Support: You're Welcome, Anytime.

Please send this to every one you know. If you delete it, that is okay,
God's love is not based on emails.

Don't be apathetic - stay tuned in!

I catch this floating around the Internet every now and then... Maybe it's a little out there, but it makes a good point.

A voice from History



In 1787, about the time our original 13 states adopted their new
constitution, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes
for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,
with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose
fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning
of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith


2. From spiritual faith to great courage


3. From courage to liberty


4. From liberty to abundance


5. From abundance to complacency


6. From complacency to apathy


7. From apathy to dependence


8. From dependence back into bondage "





Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election:

Population of counties won:



Gore: 127 million;

Bush: 143 million;

Square miles of land won:

Gore: 580,000

Bush: 2,427,000



States won:

Gore: 19

Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won:

Gore: 13.2

Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds:

"In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned
by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly
encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living
off welfare."


Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency
and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40
percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental
dependency" phase.

If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million invaders called
illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in less than 5 years.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing
that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Hello, world!

Okay, so I admit that right now, I am the owner of the world's most boring and non-updated blog.

Well, just rest assured that I still have a Keeshond, I still have a job (yay!) and I still suck at bowling.

Have a great day!

Back from Bermuda

Just got back from my awesome trip to Bermuda on the Zenith! I'll probably be posting some pictures later on.