I have had this one for years, but it popped up in my quotes of the day today.

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."  - Isaac Asimov

I really enjoy getting my quotes of the day.  I have been getting them for the better part of four years and they have significantly increased my pool of quotes from which to choose.

"You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere.  You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season."  - Chuang Tzu, 369 ( Read more... )

I was interviewed by my old principal yesterday for that substitute teaching job.  Since I was a Good Kid, it was an easy interview that even had a bit of banter.

Since nothing can ever go smoothly, my finger prints are still not on record from when the other district took them in August.  I find that unsettling because this could delay my entry ( Read more... )

I am updating just so I do not go another entire weekend without posting.

I was just looking over past entries, specifically the entries in my Quote Series.  I think that I would like to start doing that again.  I will start tonight, now that I think of it, and leave a quote that I got via e-mail.  I have it on my facebook page, too, but I never put ( Read more... )

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of
everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with
everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for
it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the
contrary:

"If your enemy is hungry, ( Read more... )

I did not play paintball today.  I relaxed in the morning, worked out in the afternoon, relaxed some more, then Michelle and I went to get some dinner at the Mexican food place on 22 this evening.  The food was very good and the service was really quite surprising.

I went there on a date earlier this summer, and so I already knew that the quality of ( Read more... )

His poem was on a poster on the dr's office I was trapped in for an hour.  I read it once and was determined to memorize the first stanza.  There is the proof of my success -- and of how long I was stuck.

I am going out in Tarrytown Friday night.  I am curious to see how that will go.  More details to follow.  Maybe.

I was hoping that the battery for ( Read more... )

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -Shaw

It's quiet, so I am taking advantage...

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it." -Hemingway