Free Pancakes!

Today is National Pancake Day and the International House of Pancakes (wasn't it Seinfeld who found the humor in their name?) is giving away free pancakes!

In exchange for the pancakes, they ask that you make a charitable donation. Look for other food vendors to offer free food for charity in the future according to the article on TIME's web site.

Funny

I copied this from another blog I read. I know it's not his original art work, so I won;t give him the credit. If I knew who the originator was, I would give them the credit. I know that's Garfield, who was created by Jim Davis.

Regardless, it's funny.

Dogs are cool

Slow

I like it when things are nice and slow in my life. That doesn't happen very often between church, school where I live, and school where I work. It seems like I have at least three meetings per week scheduled on a fairly regular basis. Lately, though, the meetings and responsibilities aren't so bad.

I'm about to send my #2 son off to college (looks like LCU is the destination). My #3 son is learning to drive, and #4 son is struggling through Junior High. My #1 son is learning some life lessons in college and working on grad school. I get to ride to and from work every day with my wife. Life is good overall. It's probably no less busy than it has been in the past, but I trust God to work it all out like it needs be.

There are others I know whose world is a mess right now. I feel for them. I wish I could do something to fix it for them. Telling them "I'll pray for you," seems like no help at all. It's amazing how fragile our situation can be at any given time. I hope I remember to always look around and enjoy being in the moment.

FAFSA

I finished my #1 son's and #2 son's FAFSA applications today. WOOHOO! The only thing more fun than filling out a FAFSA application is filling out 2 FAFSA applications.

It took me nearly 20 years to learn that it's way better to just put my nose to the federal grindstone and get my federal tax return filed and FAFSA application filled out early. It makes more of the year enjoyable.

Something's in the air

I don't know what sort of microscopic little villains are floating through the air today, but I have blown right through a box of tissues this morning and my eyelids feel like sandpaper on the under side. I thought my older brother was the one with allergy problems. I've said it before: the older I get, the more like him I get.

You're Welcome

I ventured into Blog-land by clicking the Next>> button at the top of one of my favorite blogs. It's amazing how many people force you to listen to embedded music on their blog. I don't do that. You're welcome.

Too much time on my hands

What do you do when you're a Boeing test pilot who has to spend 19 hours in the air on a test flight of a Boeing 787?
Apparently you map out a route that will advertises your jet and the company logo when traced by flight tracking software.

Read more in The Seattle Times

Goofball

Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland is a goofball. Too bad more professional athletes are not like him. If they were, I might be more of a professional sports fan.

Sad passing

Fame and the wealth that comes from it must be a really hard thing to keep in perspective. How many people go from the best in their field to a sad and lonely passing?

Whitney Houston was one of the only two people that I enjoyed their making the National Anthem their own. (the other was a guitar solo rendition)

Just sad.

Convention time

I'm off to the annual TCEA convention in Austin. It may be quiet on the blog for the next few days. I'll post if I have time. If I see anything cool and new (not just different) I will post about it, but don't hold your breath.

Ramblings

• Do you ever click on the Next Blog>> link in the menu bar at the top of a Blogspot blog? It's amazing how many blogs have been left abandoned.
• Then again, after reading a few of them, it's not all that amazing how many blogs have been abandoned.
• It would be fun to try to read my blog postings if I never went back and corrected the typos.
• I'm still a hunt-and-pecker. Wait, that doesn't come across very well the way I said it.
• College visit weekend with #2 son was success. He's thinking a smaller school is the way to go now, and he really liked LCU from what I could tell. We'll go to HSU in Abilene in a couple of weeks.
• We also got to spend some time with #1 son in Abilene going to and coming from Lubbock. We took him out to eat for his birthday, which was the previous weekend. I think this is the first year he was not with us on his birthday. I guess at age 23, it's about time for that and it will be rare that he's with us on a birthday in the future. Another milestone of life.
• Abilene is not on the way to Lubbock from my house, but it's not that far out of the way if it means getting to see #1 son.
• Today is the last basketball game of the season for #4 son. I suppose we'll be freezing our baking at track meets for a while now.
• I watched most of the Superbowl. It was really a pretty good game. The commercials were not much to write home about. It looks like many companies are realizing the return on the investment of a $1 million plus per minute advertisement is not worth it.
• There were a shocking number of movie commercials. Maybe there is some corporate connection between NBC and the studios releasing the movies.

Old Spice

Old Spice commercials are funny.

Politics

"I'm not concerned about the very poor," he said. "We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling."


While this quote may not be something you want to say when you're running for President, It's actually very true. This quote doesn't bother me nearly as much as other things Romney has said and done. And besides, the poor don't vote.

Giorgio loves Sonic

I can so see my #3 son doing this.

Animal Farm

If you've never read Animal Farm, you won't get his cartoon. If you have, you are laughing with a worried look on your face right now; unless, of course, you see Facebook and other such web sites for what they really are: just web sites and not real life.

This was ripped from the Forbes web site.

Vacampationing

I wonder if I could pull off a free vacation every four years? It seems to me that I could declare that I'm running for President and start collecting donations. All I would have to do is say some things in person or in print that would get some demographic group all fired up enough to donate money to my campaign. Then file with the Federal Election Commission like 342 people have done this year.

It seems to me that I could be charming enough to solicit a few thousand dollars. Maybe enough to buy a modest RV, plaster some goofy slogan on it, then travel the country for a few months. I'm not saying that's what this guy in the picture did, but out of 342 people, I'm guessing there are one or two who are just in it for the cash.

I'm thinking Hawaii should get covered pretty heavily on the campaign trail.