Month: April 2007

  • I think I may have confused some people by posting Greg's picture below. To clear things up, that was him when he was like 12 years old or something. Here is his current look in all his senior picture glory. :)

    The line forms to the right, girls.

  • Here are the answers!
      1. Despite the hit my coolness factor is about to take, I have to admit that this is true (sorry, Narelle!). I've driven three and four wheel ATVs, and I have my own electric scooter that I affectionately refer to as my motorcycle. However, in my 41 years I have yet to ride a real motorcycle.
      2. This is the lie. My first car was a very cool 1962 Plymouth Valiant. Slant six engine, push button transmission, about 80 different shades of blue. Cost me $100. It broke down while driving it home on the day I bought it. It was right in front of a garage and the mechanic took about five minutes to adjust the timing. It drove great after that. When the inspection ran out and I couldn't pay enough to fix it up, I sold it to the junk yard for $25. I saw it on the road later. :)
      3. Obviously, this is also true. To my shame, when I was younger, I hit a cat on a dark night. It is a sad part of my driving history. :(

    Congratulations to HeyJulieBaby and WildFlowerWendy for picking the correct answers!

    Hope everyone had fun! :)

  • AZDaisy does this and calls it "Tuesday Truth" (or something like that). I've played this game before and we called it "Two Truths and a Lie". Basically, one of the following questions is false. Your job is to figure out which it is. 

    1. I've never driven, or even ridden on a motorcycle.
    2. My first car was a VW Bug.
    3. As a younger driver, I hit a cat while driving.

    I'll give you the answers after enough people have answered!

  • Did anyone else notice that Xanga was really slow and unresponsive the last few days? I'd click a Xanga link and it would take forever to load. Seems to be better this morning so maybe they fixed something.

  • This is so sad ...


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    Waahhhh!! Nobody likes me ....

  • Someone's birthday is today ....

    18 years ago today, Bev and I held our first son in our arms. He had tons of blond hair, and from the beginning - judging by the events of his birth - we knew that we'd spend the rest of our lives experiencing things we never would have without him! Greg, you've brought fun to our lives and challenged my thinking in ways many other people haven't. You're one of my best friends and I'd want you on my team in any circumstance, especially paintball or Halo! Happy birthday, buddy!

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    Leave Greg a birthday greeting and I'll be sure he sees it! :)

  • Today is April 7, 2007. On this date in 1979 (28 years ago!), I came to know Jesus Christ personally as my Savior. He washed me in His blood, forgave my many sins and gave me eternal life. He secured my place in heaven, put His Holy Spirit in my heart and gave me the precious gift of His abiding presence. He changed my life forever.

    Wow! What did I ever do to deserve that kind of treatment?
    Hint: The correct answer is "nothing".

    If you don't know Him, I'd be glad to introduce the two of you!

    So happy birthday to me, but Jesus gets all the credit!

  • I'm in bed sick working on my laptop (coincidentally, it's perched on the top of my lap). This isn't anything serious - I just feel chilled and tired and a little cruddy. My precious wife is always so nice to me when I'm sick.

    I figure this would be a good time to discuss one of the most crucial issues facing our society today - predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.

    Basically PNs (not to be confused with PMS - they are not the same! ) and PAs come after words of being or feeling, etc. A PN is pretty much the same as the subject and a PA describes the subject. Never fear, I will provide examples! I'll use "being verbs" first.

    The car was a Ford.

    Subject = car
    Verb = was (a being verb)
    PN = Ford (a proper noun)
    "car" and "Ford" are effectively the same thing.

    The car was ugly.
    Same as above except that "ugly" is an adjective and it describes "car".

    Here is where this gets tricky - verbs of feeling, especially with "good" and "well".

    "Hi, Brian. How are you?"
    "I feel well."
    That would be incorrect (unless I was talking about the sensation in my hands working the way it's supposed to work). Well is an adverb so it describes the verb feel, not the subject I. The correct answer would be "I feel good."

    One final example:
    " I feel bad." (i.e., "I'm sick.")
    "I feel badly." (This would be correct if, for example, your friend's husband died and you were saying, "I feel badly for her." Why, class? Because in this case badly is modifying/describing the verb feel not the subject I.)

    Why do I have a feeling that very few people are really going to care about this?