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Why my garage door stopped working

Before:  This is from 7 years of wear, original cheap rollers, a under-powered spring, misalignment, a mini-van strike, under supported door panels and just general wear and tear.  All the teeth have been totally worn down on the teflon gear.
 

After:  New teflon gear, just look at those sharp teeth.  Also added more support to [...]

Golf Balls & Coffee

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee…
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar [...]

On Schedule Tonight

If my words are your words, can you hear my father? - John from Cinncinati
Since y’all admit to not watching ‘my shows’, I’m gonna give you notice in advance. Please study well, there will be a test. On tap for tonight, time willing:

Beauty and the Geek - The CW 7PM
House - Fox 8PM
Reaper [...]

Hello new office, same as the old office

except with a different view…
Old view: Central Expressway (US-75) southbound dominates the view, with a small field, and parking lot (sometimes fun to watch the coppers nab the speeders on the road that parallels the expressway. Beyond that, I can sometimes see the Dallas skyline, and any weather that approaches from the south.

New [...]

My S.H.A.P.E. is round…

Yesterday, our pastor invited me up to the pulpit/cafe table to have a little discussion.  It was preplanned, so it wasn’t like I didn’t know about it, but the only thing I knew I’d say that morning was my opening line of humor. It went a little something like this:
Pastor, I’ve been thinking about [...]

Da Bunny… Redux

Out of the desert of the Middle East, is rising a new Chocolate Bunny… take it away Yahoo:
The Burj Dubai tower is now 555 metres (1,831.5 feet) tall and has surpassed the 553-metre- (1,824.9-feet) CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which held the record for the world’s tallest free-standing structure since 1976, developers Emaar Properties [...]

YouTube is Accepted…

The other night, I watched the movie Accepted.  Its a teenage centered flick about a bunch of kids that couldn’t get accepted at mainstream colleges so they fake a college acceptance letter from a fake school, then in order to keep from being discovered build a school (South Hampton Institute of Technology … *smirk*).
They [...]

With apologies to Mr. Cooper…

No moreGrab your pencils
No moreGrab your books
No more teacher’sDon’t give your teacher dirty looks
Well we you’ve got no class
And we got no principlesWave ‘Hi’ to the Principal
And we<you’d got no better have innocence
We can’t evenYou’d better think of a word that rhymes
School’s out in for summer winter!
School’s out IN forever

(orig lyrics)
Now, if someone could [...]

Honor Thy Parents

I’m speaking tonight (on a whim) at the closing of our church’s youth camp. It has been a series of evening activities, culminating in this night. Tacky Night. Topic of the person that I’m stepping in for: ‘Touching the lives of your Family’, with the tag line - Christians are hard on [...]

New Foxhole Podcast

A new John from Cincinnati podcast is out from Jay, Chris, Mark and Justin at the Foxhole Podcast site. Also they started a message board (see link in the sidebar) where lots of JFC conversations are being bandied about.
The podcast is well produced, and the discussions on the podcast are very enlightening. I [...]