QotD: Some More

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
  - Thomas Szasz

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
  - Carrie Fisher

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
  - Pierre Beaumarchais

QotD: Happy Valentines Day!

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.  -  C.S. Lewis 


Happy Valentines Day to Everyone especially My Wife!

Egypt is Free

Click on the link to read the whole story from NPR.  But Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133674942/egypts-military-throws-its-weight-behind-mubarak?ps=cprs

They now have the long job of creating their own Democracy.  Congratulations Egypt!  Enjoy your Freedom!

Birthday Journey's

Events Today
1743 - Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland
1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1984 - Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1988 - NASA launches DOD-2
1992 - "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.

Birthdays Today
1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1932 - John Towner Williams, Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
1940 - Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, American journalist (ABC Nightline)
1953 - Mary Steenburgen, Newport Ark, actress
1972 - Ted Yoder, muscian

I was looking at company in which I am in regards to this day in history.  I was directed by my wife over to HistoryOrb.com and found out some interesting things about my Birthday.  Some are listed above, the list was too long to post the whole thing.  It is interesting that in '73 Watergate was happening.  So I am 38 today.  That makes me 2 years close to 40 (no big deal) and almost 4 decades old.  I think that our journey's through life are very interesting ones.  I for one am happy and content and glad of mine.  I have a wonderful family.  I have a good job and I am trying to work towards what God wants of me.  Which for the most part I do not know what that is.  But I am trying to figure that out and make it a reality.  So some interesting things happen each day of our  life.  Some are associated with our Birthday and the rest are associated with everyone else's Birthday.

So today we had a snow fall that made driving difficult.  I did not sleep well due to too much heat and overtired.  And to top it all off I have to go to work.  Which is okay, since I am very happy to have a job and one I enjoy.  Also I have lost over 50 pounds in the last year by watching what I eat and keeping active.  I can only have a great Birthday today.  And I am having a Great Birthday.  Every day I am alive is a great day, no matter what comes my way.

So Happy Birthday to Everyone who is having a Birthday.  Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday and all through the year.

Life is Precious!

Life Is a Civil Right - By Rick Santorum - The Corner - National Review Online

I had to re-post this it is so correct, well said and to the point. Life is PRECIOUS.! End of story. No more to be said.

Thanks Rick Santorum for saying it this way.

Quote for the Day: Success or Value

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.  -Einstein 

Journey in Life

My Journey through life takes me on many different turns.  Yesterday I did the service at our Church again.  I needed to, to cover for one of our other Lay Speakers who was not feeling very well.  I also did it because I thought it was the right thing to do.  She was trying to get next week's speaker to cover, but I figured that I could just take it over for her.  I sometimes wonder where God is leading my life and even now I wonder that.  Sometimes I thought I would be come a preacher like a relative or two (my mom being one), but other times I am not so sure.  Right now I am in the middle of making a go at a small business of fixing computers for people on the side.  Also digitizing their photos to CD and making DVD's of their VHS tapes.  I sometimes have direction and sometimes don't, and other times I just get by as best I can doing what I think is right.  So my journey takes many twists and turns and I hope that yours does too.  It definitely makes life interesting.