How Do You Tell Time in Spanish?

Same as you do in english, or french. You have a big hand and a little hand.

Falling is not fun

I was doing some repair work on my moms house yesterday and was using her old aluminum stepladder when the thing buckled, sending me quickly to the ground. Yes, it hurt. It still does as I landed on my right shoulder.

I drive a stickshift and it was painful to do so yesterday.

save your money

Casey Anthony wants big bucks for guest appearances and probable a big advance if she decides to tell her story in book form. I hope everyone paases because she should not profit from her crimes. (She was convicted of several, if you remember). She tells so many lies I doubt that anything she has to say would be belieavable, even if it was the truth, which I have my doubts.

Even though she was declared not guilty should not be taken by anyone to mean she was innocent. There isn't anyway for anyone to file a wrongful death suit on Caylees behalf to prevent her from every profiting from this incident.

Girl gets charity wish met after death in crash

A nine year old girl wanted to raise money so people in an African village could have clean drinking water instea of her receiving gifts for her ninth birthday. She was killed in a car crash jus a week or so after she turned nine.

it is a shame that sweet angels like this leave us so soon and some scum of the earth, like prostitutes, drug addicts, and unfit mothers seem to live and breed well past the time for them to go .

I'm just glad we had her for a while.

Pond Life

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Christian?

The Norwegian shooter calls himself a conservative Christian but he seems to not understand the meaning of either term. To be a Christian means one has given up their life to follow Christ. It doesn't mean going to a church on a regular bases or believing or acknowledging that one believes in God and Jesus Christ. I believe that Adolph Hitler existed but I certainly don't adhere to anything the man believed in.

Following Christ is so much more than just regular church attendance, or biblical knowledge, or regularly confessing ones sins.

If the main focus of this man life was elimination of multiculturalism in Norway then he wasn't a Christian, not by any stretch of the imagination.

air jordans for sale

A lady in Graham is selling her son's pair of Air Jordan shoes that were signed by the former superstar to raise money to help another one of her children with his legal expenses. The shoes belonged to her son Peedie who died at age thirteen two weeks after receiving the shoes. They are signed "Good luck, Mickie" Michael Jordan.

Peedie died from a rare disease that caused him to age to fast. I met him shortly before he died and although he wasn't much more than five feet tall if that big and probably weighed less than a hundred pounds he looked to be in his late eighties or nineties. It's kind of confusing to meet someone like him as he acts like the kid he is but looks to be the old man he isn't.

I was working in Burlington at a Revco drug store on Church Street and he stopped in occasionally to purchase some candy.

Sometimes I read stories about successful men who were inspired by the sacrifices of their mother who worked two jobs, one maybe as a cleaning lady in an office building and the other equally distasteful. Knowing how hard the woman worked so he could have a chance at life made the man aspire to greatness. Then you read stories about Peedie and his brothers who choose to take advantage of their mothers absences while she worked two jobs to support them. Their choice was to sell drugs.

Was the momma a bad parent?

I can't answer that but just because she had to work two jobs to support her family doesn't make her a bad parent.

Should she sell the shoes to help her son?

I think she should sell the shoes and take herself a nice vacation. A vacation would leave her with lasting memories and make her even closer to Peedie. Unless she really believes her son is innocent or will change, she should use any proceeds for herself or give the money for some worthy cause. If her troubled son really cared about his mother he would not ask her to sell something that means so much to her. I believe she needs to remain strong and tell him no. He needs to learn to accept responsibility for his actions and to grow up and stop tasking advantage of other people, especially his mother.

addition a disease or a choice?

Yes, it is both.

A smoker hopes they never get vancer and they may not but the realityis smokers die younger than non smokers. To smoke is a choice and if one chosses to smoke, they will get hooked. Maybe one in ten thousand can smoke on a regular bases then put the smokes down and never have a desire for another one but many who claim not to be an addict really are.

Alcohol is a disease but it is a disease of choice. If one never takes a drink he can't become an alcoholic, or rather, maybe one is already an alcoholic so if one never takes a drink the drug (disease) cannot control their lives.

Amy Winehouse dead at 27

Too young to die but old enough to know not to abuse drugs and alcohol and rich enough to get the help she needed.

Too bad she'll never have the chance to change now, butif she could come back to life, I bet she would really want too.

friends with benefits

The 70's show was a dumb show but i would watch it just because Mila Kunis was in it.

She doesn't look anything like the typical Russian woman is believed to look lke.

Dental Visit

Moday I had my teeth cleeaned and the dentist noticed a filling was soft so he had me come in today to have it replace. I ended up with a root canal. it seems it is hard to numb me so it took about 7 shots, two directly into the tooth once he punched a hole in it. Ouch!

Last time I had a tooth pulled the dentish couldn't give me enough painkiller to do me any good so he pulled the tooth anyway, like they did in the old west before we had pain killers but without getting drunk first. Double ouch.

Shrinking faith

Since October of 2010, there have been at least two churches in Randleman cease operation. One was a little white church, similar in size to the one I attend, on US 311 just as one crosses the railroad tracks in front of Tank and Tummy. It was a Free Will Baptist church. The other was New Life Baptist church where the pastor was arrested and charged with sec crimes involving two minor children.

It is my hope in that case that he not be guilty.

When I was young it seemed almost everyone was a Christian and none questioned the faith. But as the years go by it seems les and less people believe and more and more people poke fun at believers and the faith.

I've also noticed that many churches seem more like social clubs than religious organizations and what preaching is done is more of a social gospel.

The more convinced I become of the reality of God the less it seems the world wants to know.

2.5 men

I watched the show but it was getting to be too risque for me. I had quit watching even before Charly Sheen was fired and I'm definetly not going to watch Mr. Demi Moore.

I sure do miss the old days of good clean comedy like Dick Van Dyke, Lucille Ball, Leave it to Beaver, and Father Knows Best.

What a day

Some days are exciting and filled with so much to do that one can not possible get everything done and some days are stressful while others are just pure fun. Today was neither stressful, exciting, nor fun. It was rather long and boring.

I had to go into Asheboro and move some furniture, purchase a birthday card, and switch the lawn mower I had at the house with the one I had at the church. Other than that, I stayedin doors all day and didn't do muchof anything.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. I have a dental appointment.

IXquick

It is interesting to search around the links to visitors to my web site: I came across this ad on a link to a broswerand it reminded me of thestory behind a serial killer. Women were disappearing, especially black women who worked the streets as prostitutes and the police were baffled. One day the killer sent a news reporter a map and a taunting letter. The killer had carefully cut any identifying marks from the map thereby believing it untraceable but the police search all web maps until the found a map that was an exact copy of the map sent by the killer.

The map provider then furnished the IP address of the only customer who had downloaded that map in the necessary timeframe and location and when police visited the owner of the IP address they discovered it belonged to a little old lady whose son had a sex torture chamber set upin the basement of her home.

Now if this guy had only used this seasrch engine he would still be free to kill.


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Heroes and villian

This week I had jury duty and I was originally picked to be one of the twelve but the defense attorney dismissed me so I only got to read the news like everyone else. Todays paper had the headline "Caleb Brown verdict: Guilty".

It seems the defense called no witnesses on Caleb Browns behalf but was counting on the jury to render a verdict of second degree murder instead of murder in the first.

Leroy Arthur Petry was also in the news. Caleb Brown made the front page of a local paper while Mr. Petry made a sideline story on a website. Caleb Brown had his bust shot in the paper while Mr. Petry only had a picture shown of his hand, and even that wasn't real. The other hand in his picture, that of Barrack Obama, was real, but Leroy Arthur Petry's hand wasn't real. He lost his real hand when a granade he was tossing back to enemy soldiers blew up in his had.

He was already suffering from a gunshot that went through both his legs but he was still able to grab a granade and throw it away before it hurt his fellow soldirs. The reason the President was shaking his hand was to say thanks and award Mr. Petry the Congrssional Medal of Honor.

Unfortunately, heroes are a lot less common than murderers are.

Fla. Gov. Scott keeps promises, loses popularity

Wow, a man of his word. No wonder he is unpopular. No one likes a hones man nowadays--can't trust them, they say.

Friends and Family Day

July 31, 2011 is our Friends and Family Day service at One Way Baptist Church, starting at 10 am with a gospel group from Lexington. Please come. remember every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Ouch

"Man's penis cut off, put through garbage disposal" reads the headlines about a California woman who drugs her husband, cuts his penis off as he wakes up, and then puts the tissue through the garbage disposal.

The lady looks Oriental and I'm willing to bet she is Filipna. From my experience Filipina's seem to be overly jealous people. Of course one can't say just because one is from the Philippines one is jealous. That would be a stupid stastement. I'm just saying that from my experience there seem to be a larger percentage of women from the Philippines displaying extreme jealousy that from any where else I have been.

No, I don't have any scientific data to back that statement up but my observations would be backed up if there was a study done.

In any case, that had to hurt.

National Anthem

Jordin Sparks, former American Idol winner, sang the Star Spanagled Banner at tonight All-Star game and while it was obvious she is a talented singer, it was equally obvious that showcasing her voice rather than the meaning of the anthem was uppermost on her agenda. I think before someone is allowed to sing that song they should be required to understand under what circumstances it was written and what they should be trying to convey when that song it sung.

I believe it is disrepectful to sing it as she did and so many "big name" singers do.

Jury room

This morning during the break and while I was still part of the jury and we were still two shy of twelve, some young men were discussing what they could say to get themselves excused if they were called to sit on the jury and if i had had the time I would have told them this story.

When I was in the US Navy stationed in the Philippines, it was the custom that the national anthem was played at twelve noon every day and if one was outside he was required to stop, face the flag and salute. Most soldiers and sailors would try to get indoors at twelve and if one was caught unaware of the time would run into the nearest building if they could get away with it.

One day the base commander made an announcement that went something like this:"The American flag represents our country, our family and friends, and the principals we live by and have swore to defend with our very lives and the efforts to evade saluting that flag is a disgrace to that flag and the people and ideas that it represents."

From that day forward I never avoided my privilege to salute that flag.

In America the government makes the laws, interprets the laws and enforces the laws and contrary to popular opinion, it is not the ballot box but the jury box that allows American citizens to remain free from the tyranny, and it is not only a privilege to serve on a jury but something we should desire to do."

Jury Duty, Part II

Today was my second day of jury duty and much to my dread, I was chosen to sit on the jury and it was a murder case. After the prosecutor asked his questions and I had to tell an embarrassing story about myself, I was accepted.

However, the defense attorney saw fit to dismiss me so I was excused for the week. I always wanted to serve on a jury, especially since I write crime stories but I suppose the defense attorney didn't like that I felt that if a person was guilty I'f vote wuilty and if he wasn't I'd vote not-quilty. I suppose there are varying degrees of guilt but the defense attorney didn't feel he wanted to take the chance that I'm not as open minded or fasir as he would have liked.

It was with mixed emotions that I accepted my dismissal.

Jury Duty

I have jury duty this week so I made it to court on time this morning and after the swearing in ceremony, all the prospective jurors were let go for the remainder of the day so I thought it might be a good idea to catch up on all my errands for the week. I dropped my lawnmower off for repair, id my banking, recycled the recyclables, and purchased my groceries.

In my scurrying about I almost pulled in front of a car. it was a little thing , just a little over 3000 lbs of metal and plastic or whatever this thing was made from. It was a Ford, a GT 40 by name, a white one with blue strips. The first ones built fetched a mere $300,000.00 and a recent prototype sold for $2.5 million. Even the cheap one was way more than I could have afforded to repair.

Tragedy in small towns

Many people believe bad things only happen in big placesbut that is far from true. I live in a small town and know hardly anyone who lives here. I suppose Randleman is about as safe as anywhere but with many more small towns in NC than large ones, I suppose if one adds up all the population that lives in small towns, medium size towns, and large citis, the crime rate will even itself out.

Friends and Family Day

Sunday, July 31, is friends and family day at One Way Baptist Church in Randleman. Instead of Sunday School, we will have a gospel group who will conduct the first hour of the service in music. I think we are going to have sdome food for everyone after the services.

I don't have any family except for my wife in this area and most of my friends live in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, or Kernesville so the church is a little too far for them to come to. I sincerely would like to have you attend and you can be my friend if you want too. If you don't, that's okay too but please still come to One Way that day, or any day for that matter.

I realize we have a small building and don't have all the programs of the larger churches but even the larger churches started out small.

True, some congregations broke away from another church and may have started with seventy-five people. I don't focus on what we don't have but what we do have. We have a lot of love for each other, and we have the truth preached from the pulpit.

Finally

6:55 pm Friday 7-8-11 Randleman is finally getting some rain. yea!

I believe but not good enough

I believe Casey Anthony killed her daughter, probably accidentally, became afraid she would go to prison, hid the body in the trunk of her car, then dumped the body once her her was disabled.

Unfortunately, there was not enough evidence to show how Caylee died nor was there enough evidence to prove that Caseywas the one responsible for the child's death.

Believing so doesn't make it so.

Town forgotten

It seems Randleman, NC has bee forgotten by the big westher systems moving through this area this summer. I have had only one significant rainfall in the last two months or so but surrounding areas have had plenty of rain. The last three times I have gone to Hickory to visit my mother I have encountered rainfall in Winston-Salem all the way through High Point but no rain at all in Randalman. Yesterday was no exception. I understsnd even Asheboro received an inch of rain yesterday.

From the time I exited onto US 311 in Winston-Salem, one would have thought I had encountered a vehicle accident because the traffic was at a stands till and moved fairly slowly until the exit off 311 (the new one) onto Hwy I-85. Traffic was lined up on both side of the highway, parked until the big storm passed, and what traffic was moving was creeping along.

Except for one brief strenth of Highway about a mile in legth in which no rain had fallen, it rained extremely hard from W-S all the way through High Point until one got to the sign on 311 that said Asheboro. The rainslowed to a sprinkle and then stopped completely for the last three miles of 311 and all of the remainder of the drive on old 311 into Rasndleman.

O would appriciate a good rainfall at my place and so would my garden, water ponds, and flowers as well as the grass.

Me thinks he protests too much

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Motorcyclist crashes in helmet law protest, dies
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday.

Philip Contos, 55, was riding among a large group of motorcyclists staging an organized protest ride in western New York near Syracuse against the state law requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets.

The Parish, New York, resident crashed on Saturday on Route 11 in Onondaga, New York, and was pronounced dead later at a local hospital, state Trooper Robert Jureller said.

"The doctor felt that the death could have been prevented if he simply had been wearing a helmet," Jureller said. "He hit the brakes, lost control, was ejected and struck his head on the road. He suffered a skull fracture."

(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by David Bailey)

Delicious Hot Stuff

I picked one pint of red chili peppers and one habreno pepper and six cherry tomatoes and dropped them in a blender with some vinegar, a little sugar, and a dash or two of salt, and liquified the concoction, then strainned the seeds and poured into a squirt bottle. The remainder I spooned into a jar as the heavier stuff remainded in the bottom.

Nice kick and good flavor.

hit me or lock me up

If I locked my child in a closet I could be arrested and charged with child abuse but Icould hit the child and be within my rights as a parent to discipline that child. When that kid grows up, society can lock him up but cannot physically punish that person (except in debt penalty cases).

I've raised some wonderful children and while I believe in "spare the rod, spoil the child" I don't believe it necessarily means I have to hit the child. Corporal punishment is sometimes neccessary and is to be used sparingly. I may have spanked my son three times in his life and I never had occasion to spank KeishaLynn. I raised six childen and only had occasion to spank two of them.

I have always believed it far better to raise a child with love and respect. I never "baby talked" with a child but I did have a set of rules and a strict code of conduct for them.

Well, well

“There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”
—Chelsea Handler The cocktail lover who will no doubt celebrate Cinco de Mayo.



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baby Koi

Showa had several dozen koi to survive, which is way too many for my pond so when they are large enough I will be putting some of them up for sell. There is a tri-colored one and an orange and white one I am going to keep and one koi looks to be a gold color but colors change so i'll decide next spring which ones I want and sell the rest of them.

They will be a year old and big enough to take home by then and I'm only going to charge a dollar or two for them.

So if anyone has a koi pond or are thinking about putting one in, contact me for fish and plants. I'll give you a really good deal.

The next President

Herman Cann

Things are slowing down

Just after Obama was elected the economy tanked and almost everyone lost a lot of money in the stock market, myself included. It was a toughthing to do but I held steady, telling myself that as the value of my stocks decreaded, the number of units I could purchase each week went up and therefore, I would recover much faster when the economy did turn around.

I did good becausee I recovered everything plus some during the initial rebound with my stocks gainning value at well over thirty percent. Things have slowed and my stocks value have grown at only a 23.64% rate in the last 12months, 7.15% from january through June, and only 2.22% in the last three months.

I don't know if my figures are good, bad or on par with everyone else but I do know that things are slowing down but things are not stable though. I don't know about you but this change we can believe in thing hasn't really worked out too well for me.