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May 9, 2009
1. Don’t buy anything that plugs in. Anything that requires electricity is seen as utilitarian.
2. Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes. The chances are one in seven thousand that you will get her size right, and your wife will be offended the other 6999 times. “Do I look like a size 16?” she’ll say. Too small a size doesn’t cut it either: “I haven’t worn a size 8 in 20 years!”
3. Avoid all things useful. The new silver polish advertised to save hundreds of hours is not going to win you any brownie points.
4. Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-improvement. She’ll perceive a six-month membership to a diet center as a suggestion that’s she’s overweight.
5. Don’t buy her a fire extinguisher.
6. Finally, don’t spend too much. “How do you think we’re going to afford that?” she’ll ask. But don’t spend too little. She won’t say anything, but she’ll think, “Is that all I’m worth?”
December 23, 2008
Well, Clarissa and I arrived in Indiana at 12:30 AM Tuesday morning. Our usual 11 hour trip took 21 hours. As we were driving on HWY 401 (making exceptionally good time) our service engine light came on. I pulled off in a little backwater town and opened my hood to find my coolent resevoir empty. I filled it up and drove to Bowmanville, where I located a Canadian Tire store that said they could fit me in, in about two hours. After five hours of waiting for them to look at it I was beginning to get impaitent, so I asked polilitly if they were going to look at it today or tomorrow.
After my persistence, they took it in right away. The results were distrubing. My coolent was not leaking (it was just an air-pocket in the radiator). It was my ignitian modual, a spark plug, which all in all cost $842.33. I was reminded that I neglected to buy my car a Christmas gift… so Merry Christmas, Happy New year, Happy Birthday and Happy Canada Day… to my beloved Park Avenue.
I am extremely thankful that it happened before Toronto, instead of in the city itself. Also, I am grateful for the blizzard on Sunday, because if we didn’t have one, Clarissa and I would have headed out Sunday night, and then we wouldn’t have been able to find a garage and we would have been stuck. I’m thankful that God always looks out for us and that we didn’t have to sit by the side of the road and wait, like so many that we saw on our trip.
Well, Merry Christmas to my readers. I trust that everyone of us will have a blessed Christmas and not fail to remember the great God that we serve and the first and best Christmas gift that was given.
I close with a story… 2000 years ago under the Christmas tree of Heaven there was a package for all of us there. There was one for you and you and you and one for me. They were decorated beautifully. Some were left unclaimed… still others were taken and carried around, but left unopened… but there were a few who opened the gift and received the great blessing of peace, forgiveness, and joy. This was the Christmas gift that celebrates “everything the Father has is thine.”
December 20, 2008
1. From Burger King – a new men’s body spray called “Flame” on sale until after Christmas (it’s not on the dollar menu… its $3.99) - for all of you, who want to smell like a “Whopper”
2. A Federal Election call for February.
3. $4.2 billion for the Canadian Auto industry.
4. Another 15 more seats for the Conservative Party.
5. Buy your friends some of Tim Horton’s stock.
6. No snow over the Christmas Holidays for Pearson Airport.
7. A Common Stick… (remember it was voted into the Toy Hall of Fame).
8. A space shuttle from NASA.
9. A further decrease in the GST.
10. And of course the all popular… box of choclates!
December 20, 2008
Merry Christmas from our home to yours!
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December 20, 2008
December 18, 2008
The Perfect Christmas Gift… A Space Shuttle
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NASA’s soon-to-be-retired space shuttles are up for grabs. The space agency says it’s looking for ideas on where and how best to display its space shuttles once they stop flying in a few years. It’s put out a call to schools, science museums and “other appropriate organizations” that might be interested in showcasing one of the three remaining shuttles.
But beware — NASA estimates it will cost about $42 million to get each shuttle ready and move it where it needs to go, and the final tab could end up much more. The estimate includes $6 million to ferry the spaceship atop a modified jumbo jet to the closest major airport. But the price could skyrocket depending on how far the display site is from the airport. Only indoor, climate-controlled displays will be considered.
“The orbiters will not be disassembled for transportation or storage,” NASA insists in its nine-page request for information. One space shuttle appears headed to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The remaining two would be placed in storage at Kennedy Space Center until their final homes are decided. If a space shuttle is too pricey, NASA is offering some of its shuttle main engines for anywhere between $400,000 and $800,000, not counting shipping costs.
The space shuttles, so you know, will not come with any main engines. NASA plans to retire Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour by Sept. 30, 2010, in keeping with President George W. Bush’s initiative calling for a return by astronauts to the moon by 2020. A transition team set up by president-elect Barack Obama is reviewing all the options, however, including the possibility of keeping the shuttles flying beyond 2010. If that happens, then all space shuttle deals are off.
June 14, 2008
The United States, is both a dangerous place to live and to visit. I learn this in my nine day tour of the southern Indiana. There are a various things our “American Cousins” are known for and it seems tornados and flash flooding are becoming some of their primary identification markings.
Tuesday June 3, 2008- My wife and I were visiting some friends in Shelbyville, IN only to enjoy the pleasant sound of Tornado sirens. We started to head back to her parents home, but were forced to turn around (mainly due to my wife’s screams) and head to the district headquarters for the Shelbyville Shouter. As it turns out a Tornado went through the area of I-74, that we would have been on, if we had continued. The tornado flipped a transport over, tore up some trees and devastated the town of Moscow, destroying the oldest covered bridge in Indiana.
Friday June 6, 2008 – I arrived in Martinsville, IN for a wedding rehearsal for the wedding of Zachary and Kristen Steinbrook. Everything went well at the rehearsal and at the supper (but the sky began to change and rain began to fall). We left at about 8:00 PM from the supper and head back to the motel. Rain and hail began to fall at such a rate, that it became difficult to see (especially for Zach, with his one windshield wiper. Thankfully, my car suffered no hail damage.
Saturday June 7, 2008 – I awoke to more rain and a power failure that lasted several days. The former White River had become a lake and was now threatening the city of Martinsville. We soon heard the news, that every bride longs to hear on her wedding day “Your church is surrounded by flood water, only a few of your invited guests will make it to the wedding, the caterer can’t make it to the wedding, and the groom left the wedding license at the flood out church.” Thankfully, the First Church of the Nazarene is on high ground, and the wedding was moved to that location, with only about 60 people in attendance and sadly, no steak was present. I barely made it out of Martinsville, as the National Guard had closed all roads going in and out of the city (I managed to sneak out ahead of one of the road blocks and made it safely home (but only after making a very significant detour.
I’m thankful for Canada. I’ll take a good old snow storm, blizzard, etc. in place of flooding and tornados. I like what I can shovel!
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