The Rookies Are Leading the Way…

…and all is right in the world! The Atlanta Braves complete a sweep of the Washington Expos Nationals, and are in first place by three!

The Rookies Are Leading the Way…

…and all is right in the world! The Atlanta Braves complete a sweep of the Washington Expos Nationals, and are in first place by three!

“+” for Thursday…

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot

"+" for Thursday…

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot

If Starbucks Had Bouncers…

Funny, but often true observation from Starbucks Gossip about what should be done with “those” customers. (And you know who you are!)

Check this out…

at that moment I realized that each Starbucks store needs a “Bad Barista” — a tough guy who wears a black apron and deals with the kind of Starbucks customers I don’t like.

If Starbucks Had Bouncers…

Funny, but often true observation from Starbucks Gossip about what should be done with “those” customers. (And you know who you are!)

Check this out…

at that moment I realized that each Starbucks store needs a “Bad Barista” — a tough guy who wears a black apron and deals with the kind of Starbucks customers I don’t like.

Used…

I just re-discovered this famous quote from Ernest Hemingway’s preface to The Short Stories…

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

Used…

I just re-discovered this famous quote from Ernest Hemingway’s preface to The Short Stories…

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

“+” for Wednesday…

Actually, multiple “+”s for today…

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
-T. S. Eliot

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
-Unknown

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
-Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher

Howard: An Update…

Thanks to all who’ve prayed for my dad. My mom was pretty much amazed by and very grateful for the fact that people who don’t even know my dad were praying! (Side note to my brother: “Amazin’, ain’t it, Tom?!?!?”)

Anyway, they released my dad from the hospital yesterday after a CT scan didn’t show anything. They sent him home, forbade him from taking his daily aspirin, and they will see him sometime next week for that bladder scan thing. When I talked to my mom just a few minutes ago, my dad was washing dishes, and he had been out and about, pretty much as normal, except with a catheter.

Thanks again for the thoughts and prayers. It ain’t over yet, apparently, but it ain’t immediately life-threatening right now, either.