The prediction is that the biblical rapture will hit us at 6:00pm local time (because it’s gonna wash over the world starting at 6:00pm local time in New Zealand). Believers will simply vanish off the face of the earth. So in case I’m wrong and it really does happen, can I have your car?
Obama announced to the country last night that US troops killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. His body has reportedly been buried at sea. The war on terror has taken a new turn. I’m not sure how the rest of Al Qaida will take this news, they’ve been operating without direct leadership from bin Laden for years.
This morning has a different feel for me. On 9/11 I walked my kids to school, knowing that the East coast of the US was erupting. I pondered what kind of life my then unborn youngest child would have, what kind of world she would grow up in. Today I feel more optimism for that future.
We spent last weekend camping off the grid. Sure there was water, electricity, fire and gas. But the hills blocked the cell phone tower signals. When we camp out on the ranch everyone turns off their cell phones since they will suck the battery dry trying to find a signal. On Saturday afternoon my sister-in-law wanted to know what time it was. We all kind of looked around, everyone uses their phones for time now. I, of course, have a watch. I reached toward my pocket saying, “I have a watch.”
My sister-in-law is confused. “Why do you keep it in your pocket?”
“Because,” I pause for dramatic effect, “it’s a pocket watch.” That explains it. A dozen people chuckle at the matter of fact reasoning.
You know, watches have become scarce, the once ubiquitous pocket watch even more so but I like my pocket watch, it doesn’t need to have a signal from some cell phone tower and I will know what time it is every time we go camping. And once in a while, I get to have a small laugh with it.
My old rewrite rules have been blown away by WordPress 3.1. The links were so broken I only got blank pages. So, I had to retire the rules from How I Cheated to the right and replace them with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Very simple, but a pain to try to figure out. Nothing else I found on the internet worked.
On Sunday I was driving up Hwy 89 to pick up my youngest from an sleepover birthday party. I tend to be a cautious driver so I was upset about the vehicles behind me that rode my bumper pretty closely, before I knew it we were up to 65 mph on a rode signed for 55. The wet rode and cold weather didn’t make me any less nervous. The tractor trailer (big rig, 18 wheeler) to my right completed my jitters. My passive aggressive reaction to speeders on my bumper is to slow down, which I did. The truck pulled forward on my right. Near the church with its “Jesus is at the end of your rope” sign blowing snow had refrozen across the road. I completely let up on the accelerator and my car reduced speed to about 45mph. The honking blue truck kept the hammer down. A mere 30 feet or so ahead of me the truck lost traction and slid straight across my lane headed toward the ditch on the southbound side. I lightly pumped the brakes and checked the knuckle heads on my tail. The truck started the jack knife fold that precedes a rollover. I watched the white pickup truck coming south as it moved into my lane to avoid the carnage heading its way and I steered over to the right to dodge my new lane mate as the big rig slowly recovered and headed back to its original lane.
The truck driver made his way over to the right – presumably to check his shorts. I made my way to my turn off the freeway. The car radio played “God Bless America” in that same bizarre juxtaposition as when “It’s a Wonderful World” played during the napalm scene in “Good Morning Vietnam”.
This is why the middle class feels like there’s class warfare of humongous proportions.
500 year old beer has been found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean. Now scientists want to dissect it and maybe bring us a new version of some really old beer. I only hope we don’t have to wait 500 years to try some.
I just put in the term “pot worms” over on the gardenweb forums. The Microsoft “sponsored links” returns (and I’m not giving free advertising to these yucks)
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(OK – this one links to Target’s web site so I don’t think it’s what you think it is.)
Drug Addiction Treatment & Rehab. Free Information, Get Help Today!
How to Remove Worms. Worms Removal Instructions.
Links to an internet security site – wrong kind of worm.
This is the company that’s supposed to make the search “decisions” for you? Thanks, but no thanks.
Those Chilean miners trapped for two months after a mine collapse have begun their return to the surface. Here in Arizona, one man said in an interview, “it’s a miracle”. Really? I thought that there were people drilling a rescue shaft over the last two months to reach the miners. There is heavy equipment and quite a few workers on the scene and these miners are now taking a fifteen minute ride to freedom.
This is not a miracle. A miracle is if people gathered around the breathing hole, prayed and the earth opened up, forming stair steps with a hand rail so that the miners weren’t trapped for two months. That’s a miracle. That did not happen.
There’s no such thing as global warming or catastrophic climate change. And there weren’t tornadoes on a mountain top either. Oh wait, there were.
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