Love and the Lonely Man

Do other people go through their entire lives never being in love?  Never being loved? Is it just me? Don’t get me wrong….. I have loved.  I have loved deeply, fully, completely.  But, I have not been loved.

30 Books of The Bible.

There are 30 books in this paragraph.  Can you find them all?  I found 28 with not much trouble.  Two of them took some extra time.

“There are 30 books of the Bible in this paragraph. Can you find them? This is a most remarkable puzzle. It was found by a gentleman in an airplane seat pocket, on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu , keeping him occupied for hours. He enjoyed it so much, he passed it on to some friends…One friend from Illinois worked on this while fishing from his john boat. Another friend studied it while playing his banjo, Elaine Taylor, a columnist friend, was so intrigued by it she mentioned it in her weekly newspaper column. Another friend judges the job of solving this puzzle so involving, she brews a cup of tea to help her nerves. There will be some names that are really easy to spot. That’s a fact. Some people, however, will soon find themselves in a jam, especially since the book names are not necessarily capitalized. Truthfully, from answers we get, we are forced to admit it usually takes a minister or a scholar to see some of them at the worst. Research has shown that something in our genes is responsible for the difficulty we have in seeing the books in this paragraph. During a recent fund raising event, which featured this puzzle, the Alpha Delta Phi lemonade booth set a new record. The local paper, The Chronicle, surveyed over 200 patrons who reported that this puzzle was one of the most difficult they had ever seen. As Daniel Humana humbly puts it, “The books are all right here in plain view hidden from sight.” Those able to find all of them will hear great lamentations from those who have to be shown. One revelation that may help is that books like Timothy and Samuel may occur without their numbers. Also, keep in mind, that punctuation and spaces in the middle are normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete really well against those who claim to know the answers. Remember, there is no need for a mad exodus, there really are 30 books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph waiting to be found. God Bless.”

The Trouble With Boys

The National Review has a column about a Newsweek article concerning “The Trouble With Boys“.  It is about the “crisis” of boys doing badly in school and what has transpired to cause it.  One issue is with the feminist culture and the belief that boys and girls are not different.  Nature and biology tells us otherwise; but the educational establishment has tried to ignore that fact; to the detriment of boys.  As one “expert” pointed out, boys are thought to be “defective girls” because girls are the gold standard.

I haven’t been feeling well for a few days.  I’ve had some back pain which started the day I was working and sitting in an uncomfortable position for a few hours.  It is also the day I had a cluster headache.  So… since I haven’t been feeling well… I haven’t even been feeling like working.  But, since I am the business and I must work whenever possible, I have been working anyway. I have been working on an issue with a VPN which I had originally set up for a client.  I need to add 3 new computers to the “home-base” and incorporate 3 existing computers from the satellite office.  I am having some issues with it.  To add to that problem, one of the workers at the location gave me some flak for working while they were actually at the satellite location instead of working when they weren’t there.  One of her complaints was that she can’t stand for 10 minutes without sitting down.  Sheesh.

But, the real issue is that I have to be at a location when I can be there.  I don’t have the luxory of being there whenever they want.  I have lots of clients and at times there are multiple clients clamoring for me at the same time.  I must be there when I can be there. They are just going to have to deal with the inconvenience.  But, it makes it harder for me to work and concentrate when they are standing behind me complaining about my being there.

I rarely complain or say much about these kinds of things. But, I intend to tell this worker that she needs to keep her opinions to herself; or take them up with her boss.

I Found This Artist By Happenstance

I absolutely LOVE this artist’s work.  I was just surfing somewhat mindlessly this evening and found this piece:

It’s called “Flight of Aquarius” (and is apparently no longer available for purchase.)

So, I went looking for the name of the artist and found out it is Josephine Wall.  I found her website and also a couple of Fine Art sites selling her artwork. 

Her site is: Josephine Wall and there are links to the other sites from there under the “SALES” section. 

I highly recomend checking out the Gallery section.  There are actually more at the fine art sites than are at her site, but her gallery gives a good representation of her work.  I really like a lot of them, but “Stairway To Dreams”,  “Flight of the Lynx”, and “Mer-Angel” really stand out.

Amazing.  Simply amazing talent.

This is just cool.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/7eaa/?cpg=25H

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,182962,00.html

Hmmmm…….

Here’s a video of “The Easy Way To Fish“.  It’s amazing.

MSNBC has an article — which links to LiveScience Images — about Snow Flakes.  The Physicist says the many possibilities guarantee no two crystals are alike and his site is:  http://www.snowcrystals.com/

I received a $15 credit for Sam Goody’s because of Christmas purchases and my mother signed me up for their rewards program.  I went tonight to see if they had anything I wanted to use it against.  They still had the 6 packs of Playstation2 games on sale for $30.  So, I picked out one that looked worth $15 and I bought it.  It was a good deal to get 6 games for a little over $16 including tax.

I keep thinking about things related to Poorboy.  I will pull into the driveway and think, “I need to go feed, Poorboy.”  Or, I’ll walk across the yard and look to see how he’s doing.  I was driving past the feed store a couple of days ago and thought, “I should go buy some hay for Poorboy’s bedding.” Sigh.