I used to help out with weddings at my church. Help run the sound, play music, etc… and I have been to 100s of weddings. Anyone who has been to many weddings knows that the default processional is Pachelbel’s Canon in D. In fact, when I was suggesting music for the wedding, and couples had no clue what to play, it was my first suggestion. It’s popularity made it a nice, safe recommendation.
The downside, of course, is that the song really sticks in your head, just like this guy points out in his rant…
Living in Colorado I have an (unhealthy) fascination with IKEA. I totally dig that funky northern european furniture design. In fact, one of my Christmas presents this year originated from the Scandinavian Designs store in Westminster.
Unfortunately Those Swedes haven’t chosen to build one of their stores anywhere near my home, so when I was in San Diego this summer we had to visit the local IKEA store. Because of this my friends Kara and Joe, from San Diego, brought me a pair of IKEA slippers as a gift.
Amazingly enough there are people out there who aren’t as impressed with IKEA as I am. One of these critics is singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton.
Jonathon has a very amusing song appropriately named… IKEA
Doc Rampage has a very interesting post discussing the difference between stubborness and principle. His comments interested me because I completely understand what he is discussing. I can be extremely stubborn. I just like to be contrary and don’t like to be told what to do. Probably, as Doc states, due to the smug satisfaction that stubborness brings
We aren’t stubborn for no reason; we are stubborn because it gives us a feeling of smug satisfaction. If you have that feeling, maybe you should reconsider.
In our culture everyone receives a moniker, liberal or conservative, redneck or hippie, Republican or Democrat. In order to defend our chosen affiliations it’s often much easier to simply react to our counterparts across the aisle and do the opposite than it is to make decisions based on what we know is right. Too often people in our society spends more time not being something (liberal, religious, etc..) that we don’t bother to make our own decisions.
I encourage anyone who reads this to contemplate this next time you take a political, philisophical or idelogical position on a topic. What are your goals? Does your knee-jerk response to the question at hand actually help achieve your goal, or are you just being stubborn?
December 25th, 2006 at 11:04 pm by Bob Weber (Personal)
In honor of today’s christmas festivities I would like to share a personal story
Today marked the 4 year anniversary of a Christmas that was very frightening to me and my family. My Grandma Muzz, who is now 84 years old, has always been like a rock to us. She worked for the USPS are a Rural Letter Carrier for over 30 years, in fact she was still working full time four years ago at the age of 80.
One of our holiday traditions (Thanksgiving and Christmas) has always been dinner at Grandma’s house. Four years ago, Christmas 2004, was no different. The whole family went to Grandma’s in anticipation of our traditional chicken noodle soup, a family tradition stemming from my grandfather’s childhood during the Great Depression, and a nice ham dinner. What we found was my grandmother extremely sick. She had gotten up early and prepared the meal, but for the only time that I can remember she didn’t join us. During dinner she sat in the living room in her La-Z-boy and rested. Her explaination was a bad case of the flu.
Later that night the flu was so bad that my grandfather took her to the hospital. They admitted her, ran some tests and found she had cancer in her colon and it had perforated and she had to have emergency surgery that night.
I’m glad to say that after the surgery and some chemotherapy she made a full recovery. Today she is the most healthy 84 year old woman I know, but I am extremely thankful that 2006 was yet another Christmas that I was able to spend with my Grandmother.
I’m sure the whole world has heard about the Colorado Blizzard of 2006.
This is the biggest storm we’ve had here in years. There is a common misconception that the Colorado Front Range gets a lot of snow. I used to work tech support for a tax product and many of our customers were from New York. It was not uncommon for our East Coast customers to assume that just because I lived in Colorado we were constantly under snow, when in fact the opposite is true. Denver has 300 days of sunshine annually - more than most places in the United States including the so called Sunshine State. Most of the time it was nicer where I live than it was in New York City.
This misconception was capitalized during this week’s blizzard when a news report interviewed a Honolulu man stranded at Denver International Airport who was angry at being stranded due to Denver’s inability to adequately deal with the blizzard. His comment, ‘Don’t they know it snows in Colorado?’ Snows on the Colorado front range are inconsistent, often years go by without a significant snowstorm. It’s inpractical from a fiscal standpoint to have a large snow removal budget on the off chance that a major snowstorm is going to roll through.
This week’s blizzard has turned out well for me. I ended up being snowed in for a day and a half and my boss offered to let me take a vacation day today on short notice. I don’t have to go back to work until after Christmas.
This is by far the biggest storm I’ve seen in a long time. About 7-8 years ago we had a good storm - I remember driving my Jeep Cherokee around in snow up to the bumper. This is definitely this biggest storm since then. I’m sure it’s all because of Global Warming.
She said Trump’s news conference with Conner, whose title was in jeopardy because of underage drinking, had annoyed her “on a multitude of levels” and that the twice-divorced Donald had no right to be a “moral compass” for the beauty queen.
“He inherited a lot of money,” she said. “Wait a minute, and he’s been bankrupt so many times where he didn’t have to pay. … I just think that this man is sort of like one of those, you know, snake oil salesmen in ‘Little House on the Prairie.”‘
The worst part about this is she has a valid point. Donald Trump isn’t what I would consider the bastion of morality in this country. Unfortunately O’Donnell has completely ruined her credibility. She’s a frightening anti-Christian lesbian who makes racist comments and stands up for liberal actors that show up on nationwide TV drunk.
She’s not exactly the moral compass for this country either. Her ridiculous views, obnoxious attitude, and poor judgement have completely eroded any credibility the woman ever had.
Just in time for holiday fun. Your chance to own a very hard to find Model A coupe snowmobile conversion. Built in the 1930’s in Chicago, IL and owned by a hunting and fishing lodge in the northwoods of Michigan for about 40 years or so. They drove it on the frozen Great Lake for ice fishing and drove it thru the woods pulling their freshly killed deer on a sled back to the lodge. Just out of long term storage and not restored but runs good and still looks presentable for it’s age. Only has one area of lower body rust on each side that you can see in the photos. No other rust problems. Runs good and is fun to drive. Has 2 Model A transmissions hooked together with an inline coupler. This set up gives you 9 forward gear ratios. High and low and in between. Has clever dual hand brake levers to help you steer it like a crawler in the snow. Working lights, gauges, good clutch, brakes, etc. Has 4 new tires and the other 2 are good also. Wheels are 16 inch Ford wire wheels with brand new hub caps. Tracks are maintanence free cable and clamp design that need no lubrication. Seats are recovered. Has steel floored bed in back with plywood side boards. Great for hauling the skis when you are driving on dry ground with the front tires like a military half track. Has original Model A engine block with Model B heads, distributor, and water pump. This gives it higher compression and more power. This is a late 31 Model A with the highly desirable indented firewall on the cowl. We have a clear Kansas title in our name. We don’t get much snow here and are offering it for sale so it can find a new home to enjoy. Might be fun for pulling grandkids on a sled or just going for joy rides. I hope you agree. Feel free to call evenings at 785-536-4598 or email anytime. TERMS: Buyer to pay $200 non refundable deposit within 72 hours after end of transaction and has 2 weeks to come here in person to inspect it and take it for a test drive. At that time if you don’t like it you can just walk away from the deal no questions asked. Nothing to hide. We are located near Salina, KS which is on Interstate 70 right in the middle of the USA. Can deliver for $1.10 per mile.
