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It is always fun to go to the ball park, whether or not your team is doing as well as you might want. But it is lots more fun when your team plays well. Last night the Astros played well as a team and Wandy Rodriguez was wonderful.
Playing the World Champion Phillies and facing Cliff Lee may could have presented a much bigger problem, but the ‘Stros got nine hits in the four innings that the lefty lasted. The biggest blow came off the bat of Wandy–as unlikely as that sounds. With the bases loaded in a scoreless game, Rodriguez took the first five pitches he saw and found himself with a full count. He fouled off four pitches before lacing a line drive into the right filed corner for a two run double. He scored moments later on a hit by Kaz Matsui. The four runs was more than enough.
Wandy had the Phils under his heel for the night and the Astros wound up with a 7-0 win! It was all topped off by a huge fireworks show sponsored by Marathon Oil. Very nice night at Minute Maid.
Procrastination is an insidious evil. It creeps into our lives and grasps us before we even suspect we are in the wrong. Awareness and a willingness to act ought to become a part of the fiber of our character.
There are times when you should not make quick judgments, when you should be judicious in your actions. But the sooner you act to avoid temptation, the better. Dallying over a decision and rationalizing over a situation puts your final verdict in jeopardy, because the scales tend to tip to the side of the half truths.
When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, don’t argue with it, get up. You are the one who made the decision last night what time to arise today.
Make a stand, act decisively. You will begin to like yourself better. Don’t put off till later what you can do now. Something important may come up later! And if not you can rest when you are through, without the task still in front of you.
Proverbs 6:9-11 “How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So Shall thy poverty come…”
Today at noon my wife and I went to a luncheon hosted by the local Rotary Club to honor the Teachers of the Year in our school district. We were invited as guests of Edna Meeks, who was being honored as the best teacher in one of the five high schools in our district. It was conducted at the South Shore Resort & Convention Center, a very nice venue.
There are thirty nine campuses in our district, and each was represented at the fete. Edna was one of three finalists to be Secondary Teacher of the Year for the entire district. She was not the ultimate winner, but she will receive a signed proclamation from the Governor and a $500 bonus check. But I happen to know that Edna does not excel as a teacher for the kind of recognition she received today. She is so selfless and absolutely loves the role she plays in the lives of young people. She counts it a privilege to be a teacher.
The event caused me to think back about some of the teachers that meant so much to me. My all time favorite, Edna Earle Tucker, was my fifth grade teacher. I think she would like Edna Meeks!
In shocking news from the African Continent, a conspiracy of grand magnitude has been revealed. What had been considered a romantic story of the Circle of Life is now shown to be one of savage treachery.
Documents discovered in the residence of mystic baboon, Rafiki, have been translated into English. Among the contents of the find were communications between Rafiki and the think tank, “Nants Ingonyama”, which translates as “Triumph in the Pride Lands”. The documents reveal that co-conspirators in the plot included, Zazu, the chief of staff for Mufasa; and Nala, the young lioness in love with the Prince of Lions, Simba. Though his name had been redacted on the think tank’s website, strong evidence points to the fact that Simba himself was also in on the scheme.
Rafiki was the initiator of the plan, and he was able to utilize young Simba’s ambition and impatience to his advantage. The shaman baboon knew that the prince could not wait to be king. He devised a wicked construct that would actually leave the baboon with unprecedented clout within the framework of Simba’s reign.
First on the agenda was the need to be rid of the reigning king, Mufasa. Rafiki tantalized Mufasa’s brother, Scar, with the possibilities of ruling the pride lands. Scar bought into the plan, not knowing that he was actually a pawn in the devious plans of Rafiki and the conspirators. They did not just want Simba to be king, but also the hero of the Pride.
The plan was to get Scar to do the actual killing of his royal brother. He was manipulated by the shaman into thinking he was to trick Simba into leaving in shame over his part in the death of his father. But Simba was only feigning guilt. His banishment was simply to allow the situation in the pride lands to diminish to the point of extremely dire. Much of this part of the plan was accomplished by Zazu, from his administrative position.
When the circumstances reached the dismal stages, Nala was sent to fetch Simba to return to overthrow the ineffectual Scar and take his place, not only as King of the pride lands, but its adored savior!
I understand thoughtless jokes that were not intended to hurt. I think most of us make them. Special Olympics is one of my favorite charities, and I am not an Obama fan, but I would really like it if his slip and his apology would help get us past the constant call for someone to resign when they make an inappropriate comment they should have kept to themselves.
The biggest problem is that I forget to take the pictures. On a recent trip to the China, at the insistence of my firstborn, I took my camera with me. I had it with me at several locations that were absolutely stunning.
But when I got home I had taken only twelve pictures! My daughter was furious with me. And I had little I could post on a blog! So I joined acobox.com so I could take advantage of their free photo hosting service. It is easy to use and provides a big boost to my ability to enhance the words with blog pictures. If I can do it, anyone can!
Last night as my wife and I were enjoying the kick off of a new season of Law & Order, I commented to her how satisfying it was not to have to listen to any more political ads for a while.
A bit later, I saw one of those ads by a company promising to help customers avoid having to pay their credit card debt. They promise to reduce the amount you pay back by half or more. There are other commercials trying to attract folks who owe big tax bills, promising to settle their debt at perhaps a seventy per cent reduction.
These ads are perhaps more irritating to me even than the political ads, because I know who is going to pay for those discounts. Me! And people like me who always pay their bills and their taxes.
Now that the campaigning is over, I guess we’ll see even more of these type ads! GRRRRRRR!
