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836 days ago
The last few days have been fascinating in that we have been in 2 earthquakes, had a hurricane pass by and had a tsunami warning! At what point do I need to feel afraid? If I listen to the news on TV or radio - then yeah I need to be petrified. They have made such a big deal of it all... 15 minutes of on site, live, latebreaking interviews with earnest reporters - all saying the same thing (nothing!) - that things could be really really bad! For the earthquake - I didn't feel anything - Leanne and Robyn did and it was a tremor - a cutlery rattler. No biggie - but it was on every newscast - with talks about bridges and emergency preparedness. For the hurricane - it ummm... never happened? The big satellite pictures were on the tv - and huge news - but it didn't rain last night. It didn't get windy. Nothing happened at all - yet some people were freaked. No school yesterday or today (yes Hawaii goes back to school mid August!). I just wondered if people were ...
850 days ago
I have a theory - just a theory based on personal experience and not on reams of data from a variety of sources so it's really not going to be that accurate. Here it is - I believe that you can tell that America is past its' days of glory by the state of its' public washrooms, toilets, loo's - wc's - whatever you want to call them. In Canada - you can expect a 50 50 split between washrooms that you want to go into - and washrooms that you absolutely avoid. So far - in my limited experience in the United States of America - cleanliness is at the bottom of the priority scale! Do you remember when Greyhound Canada's ceo travelled from depot to depot - eating lunch in the washrooms - just to state how clean they were? And Joey Tomato's in Kelowna - where I had the disconcerting feeling of being watched as I used the urinal. An elderly gentleman was standing behind me engrossed in the television screen at eye level by my urinal (hockey I think!) That's Canada for you - where ...
893 days ago
I love cooking carcasses. In fact - I am known in our house as carcass boy. On the big occasions I cook the turkeys, the roasts, the lambs, the steaks, the fishies - or rather the salmon. Sometimes this is good - but sometimes Mrs. Mac feels it - as carcass boy can get credit for the meal - while she - who does everything else, is not always extended thanks. But it is hard for her to compete - I mean - jello salad, brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes versus a monster turkey! This past Friday I was given permission to cook another carcass... a full on, bone in, uncooked ham AND to cook scalloped potatoes as well. So we invited Mr Moores to be a part of our evening with beautiful Annalise - his first whole evening with Annalise without Mrs. Moores. I took the ham out of the freezer in the morning and at 4 PM put it in the oven with a honey glaze. mmm. At 5 the scalloped potatoes went in with a destination time of 6:30 PM. At the appointed time - it was checked and ...
937 days ago
Wow have I ever had an interesting week... Had the opportunity to bless a few people like Wilson Matthews and Jen Lee at Timeout... I have always enjoyed surprising people with generosity moments! Enjoyed great meals with friends at our conference - Dawn always brings the conversation down to a real transparent level within seconds Then had the opp to honor my friend John with Jaz in video format. Said my last speech to our conference and got prayed for there with Leanne. Went to Amy C's wedding on Saturday on the Island Had lunch with 40 Hell's Angels on the ferry - talk about an edcuational experience. Hit a birthday party today for our good friend Val - birthday cupcakes with 2 candles left. And then got to see the Miracle on Abbot Street Baby Annelise Moores - she liked me. I don't think I have any more emotions left in my tank - til next week. However I did read a JFK expose and now I am sure there were additional shooters ...
951 days ago
I am officially a communications junkie... and right now I am waiting for my non communications junkie wife to get home from speaking a conference in Alberta (so proud - she rocks!). It has been a hard weekend with our two styles - because I am LONGING to communicate with her and I can't. She has no cellular phone. She has no laptop computer - so no late night romantic skyping or sucking face on facebook (not sure quite how to do that anyway) She has no phone card - so no calls have been made. I've got no number. And the postman - he always rings twice, but his letters - they take too long to get there... and that's a pretty ineffective communications means when she's only gone for a weekend! So - I know she's missing me real bad - cuz that's how she is when she's apart from me, and maybe just maybe a "being so lonely I could die" weekend will cause her to switch her allegiance to the wireless, digital world of bluetooth and cell phones! I will keep all 2 of you ...
