Why Maryann?
Because while Ginger got all of the attention on Gilligan’s Island, at the end of the day, Maryann was the girl most thought was wife material.
So like Maryann, the SN95 generation is the least favorite, having the unfortunate opportunity of arriving after the wildly popular Fox generation. But when I was in the market for another Stang, having airbags, ABS, 5-lugs, and an overall much tighter feel, made the SN95 the one to settle down with in the end.
My grandfather retired from Uniroyal, so to take a shot in front of the company’s tire has meaning to me.
My grandfather retired from Uniroyal, so to take a shot in front of the company’s tire has meaning to me.
According to Wikipedia:
The tire was first created as a Ferris wheel for the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the same architectural firm that designed theEmpire State Building. As the Uniroyal Giant Tire Ferris wheel, it carried over 2 million people, including prominent passengers such as Jacqueline Kennedy, Telly Savalas, and theShah of Iran.[3] The wheel contained 24 barrel-shaped gondolas, each carrying 4 people.[4] The wheel was capable of carrying up to 96 passengers and was driven by a 100 hp engine.[5]
When the fair ended in 1965, the tire was disassembled and shipped by rail to Detroit, where it was reassembled as a static display without its passenger gondolas outside…
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English Standard Version (ESV)
30 I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Photo taken at: Creation Museum
After hearing the verdict, there’s not much more to say as I said much on the podcast a year ago (click HERE to listen).
1 John 3:15-24, ESV
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
When I graduated high school, I remember people who didn’t go to college saying, “I know people with college degrees that make less than I do and I didn’t go to college!”
Now, I’ll be one of the folks telling high school grads, “I went to college and got a degree and I make more money than average, but I’m still poorer than most people who didn’t go to college!”
“Under this system, black families would rent small plots of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.
The sharecropping system also locked much of the South into a reliance on cotton, just at the time when the price for cotton was falling. In addition, while sharecropping gave African-Americans autonomy in their daily work and social lives, and freed them from the gang-labor system that had dominated during the slavery era, it often resulted in sharecroppers owing more to the landowner (for the use of tools and other supplies, for example) than they were able to repay. Some blacks managed to acquire enough money to move from sharecropping to renting or owning land by the end of the 1860s, but many more went into debt or were forced by poverty or the threat of violence to sign unfair and exploitative sharecropping or labor contracts that left them little hope of improving their situation.”
Source: http://www.history.com/topics/sharecropping
At the current rate, over the next few decades, we will likely return back to a time when only the affluent can afford a college education and those who previously had earned a college degree, will not be able to afford to send their own children to school and will be paying student loan payments out of their social-security checks.
“Forget hitting the books son, better go dribble that basketball or throw that football to get a scholarship!”
Oh, and before someone comments, “Well, if you can’t afford to pay for a college degree, then you shouldn’t get a loan to pay for one!”
As a Dave Ramsey fan, I agree.
So surely you don’t have any credit cards, a car note or a mortgage right? Because if you can’t pay cash for a house, then why should you feel entitled to get a loan to buy a home. After all, the amount many owe in student loan debt equals what they would pay for a home.
Also, I’ll agree more with that statement when our student loan debt is seen as “too big to fail” like the banks that loaned the money, and maybe it can just be wiped off the books.
…just like the folks that walked away from their houses when they bought more than they should have when those loans were flowing like water.
Quite honestly, college is still the best option for the young and old. However, my gripe is with the “wisdom” that getting the education is a guarantee to a great paying job, home ownership, and “you’ll make much more money than your peers that didn’t go to college over your lifetime.”
Well, none of those are absolute truths.
But you better be absolutely sure what you want to major in, how much does it pay in the end and know exactly what you can pay off. Because while the banks that loaned you the money are too big to fail, you aren’t…and you can’t file bankruptcy on student loan debt like they can!
Check out this article from blog.metrotrends.org
With national student loan debt of roughly $1 trillion, it’s no surprise that many Americans are worried about their student loans.
Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt and is second only to mortgage debt among those age 29-37. This ballooning student loan debt is a contributor to the “lost generation” of 20- and 30-somethings, whose average wealth is lower than the average wealth of those in their 20s and 30s three decades ago.
We published a new brief on school-related debt, using the FINRA Investor Educational Foundation’s 2012 National Financial Capability Survey. One in five adults age 20 and older has school-related debt and concern about the ability to repay is pervasive. The majority of student debt holders (57 percent) is worried that they may be unable to repay that debt.
If Congress doesn’t reach a compromise and the rate of subsidized student loans doubles, student loan debt and the increased payment burden will increase stress around repayment.
Beyond the short-term burden of repaying loan balances and interest, this early debt can have ripple effects and hinder borrowers’ ability to get on a secure wealth-building path. It can delay building a rainy day fund, homeownership, and saving for retirement.
Some of our findings may not be shocking to those who write monthly checks to Sallie Mae, yet they illustrate the magnitude and pervasiveness of the issue:
College is a good investment for those able to complete the degree, but roughly half of people do not. Out of the starting gate, students should consider the cost and completion rate at the institution they plan to attend, earnings in their field of study, and type of student loan (public or private). Helping young people take advantage of student loans to get their degrees—but avoid burying themselves in debt—is a step in the right direction toward economic stability and wealth accumulation.
Illustration by Daniel Wolfe / The Urban Institute.
Society, school, the pastor, “that boy”, their friends or even my wife, can never replace me in my daughters life.
How could your body evolve to the point where it randomly accomplishes the great things below?
For example, before our bodies would have “adapted” to produce hydrochloric acid (why didn’t it evolve to produce sulfuric acid instead?), wouldn’t everyone had died? Of all the possible acids, no wait, liquids, no wait, compounds, no wait, “things” that could have been developed, we finally have evolved to the perfect acid with no need to evolve to another right?
Or do other people NOT contain hydrochloric acid but something else right now? Maybe they haven’t evolved the entire way or maybe they are still evolving.
Anyway, check out this fantastic post by Tom Kelso over at Breakingmuscle.com:
Your body is many things: a mechanical device, a walking chemistry set, a sustainable life form, and an ever-changing biological phenomenon. There’s a lot to know about the body.Were you aware of these ten amazing facts?
1. For every pound of fat gained, you add seven miles of new blood vessels.
New tissue needs blood supply, so your vascular system expands to accommodate it. This also means your heart must work harder to pump blood through the new network, which may reduce oxygenation and nutrient replenishment in other tissues. Lose a pound? Your body will break down and reabsorb the unneeded blood vessels from the previous tissue.
2. Muscle tissue is three times more efficient at burning calories than fat.
This is why possessing more muscle should be a training goal for most people. More muscle = more calories burned = less fat = being more fit looking. Simple goals and simple math.
3. You are taller in the morning than in the evening.
When you crawl out of the sack in the morning you are at your tallest. On average, you are approximately one half inch taller when you wake in the morning, thanks to excess fluid between within your spinal discs. While you are sleeping, these fluids replenish. During the day your body has to deal with the stress of standing, so the discs become compressed and the fluid seeps out. This results in you losing a small amount of extra height.
4. Your stomach manufactures a new lining every three days to avoid digesting itself.
As a part of the digestive process, your stomach secretes hydrochloric acid (HA). HA is a powerful corrosive compound also used to treat various metals. The HA your stomach secretes is also powerful, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps it within the digestive system. As a result it breaks down the food you consume, but not your own stomach.
5. Your body produces enough heat in only thirty minutes to boil a half-gallon of water.
Your body is the epitome of a study on the laws of thermodynamics. You produce heat from all that is going on – exercise, metabolizing food, maintaining homeostasis – and as you sweat, exhale, excrete, and urinate (lovely thoughts, all of them).
6. Human bone is as strong as granite, relative to supporting resistance.
Would you believe a matchbox-size chunk of bone can support 18,000 pounds? Compared to concrete, human bone is four times greater in support strength.
7. Your skin is an organ.
Just like the liver, heart, and kidneys, your outer covering is an organ. An average man has enough skin on his body to cover approximately twenty square feet. For an average woman it is approximately seventeen square feet. Approximately 12% of your weight is from your skin. And, your skin replaces 45,000+ cells in only a few seconds. It’s constantly growing new skin and shedding old skin.
8. By the age of eighteen your brain stops growing.
From that age forward it begins to lose more than 1,000 brain cells every day. Only two percent of your body weight is occupied by your gray matter, but is uses up to 20% of your overall energy output (it needs carbohydrates). Your brain works continuously and never rests, even when you’re asleep. Aside from producing REM dreams, your brain works overtime to replenish its ability to function normally during your daytime waking hours.
9. There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles and 206 bones in your body.
If all 600+ muscles contracted and pulled in the same direction, you could lift over twenty tons of resistance. Additionally, the adult skeleton is composed of 206 bones, but at birth an infant skeleton contains approximately 350 bones. Over time, some of the 350 bones fuse together and eventually grow to the 206 adult figure.
10. You need to consume a quart of water each day for four months to equate to the amount of blood your heart pumps in one hour.
Additionally, over a lifetime, at your normal (resting) heart rate you will have pumped enough blood to fill thirteen oil super tankers. To further expound on this fact, on average, your heart beats 40,000,000 times per year. Doing the math, over your lifetime (both men and women averaged), that results in 2,600,000,000 heartbeats (two billion, six hundred million). This does not even factor in your increased heartbeats due to your love of exercise.
These are only ten things you probably did not know about body. Pretty amazing stuff! There is plenty more to know about the human body, and I recommend you discover these facts by being inquisitive.
Source: http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/10-awesome-and-little-known-facts-about-the-human-body
Here we are at the end of the “Father’s Day-Month”.
First, I can’t believe that I was able to write some kind of blog post for 30 days straight. I hope this has created a great habit that I’m going to keep up in the very near future.
Second, and more importantly, like anything you practice for 30 days, it keeps it at the top of your mind. In this case, looking for the special moments each day with my family to blog about brought a new appreciation for my wife, children and my role in our family unit. I really hope it has become the same way for you.
Each day, we can easily become caught up in just living. So with kids, it can really become about the destination over the journey. Before we realize it, they are gone out of the house, and you are now wishing they come over more often to visit or hoping they call to catch you up on the latest happenings in their life.
Yea, life is funny that way.
So from this day forward, please try to take at least 15 minutes, to enjoy the journey.
Visually, enjoy the fact that you can see your children, for you may lose your eyesight and they may have to lead you around.
Enjoy the taste of the meals you have together, and how it’s not the food that makes the moment, but their company. One day, those family meals may only be once or twice per year (if the current trend of moving far away from the immediate family continues in America).
Enjoy the smell of your daughter’s hair when she hugs you, as one day, she will belong to another family and her love will belong to another man.
Enjoy the touch of the hands that grow more each time you hold them when you all pray. They start out so small and delicate, but soon you’ll notice your son’s hands get larger and more callous as he gets closer to manhood and leading his own family.
Enjoy hearing, “I love you Daddy” and hearing them scream your name with jubilee as you come home. One day, that house is going to be empty and that dog that greets you wagging the tail is nothing compared to the memory of hearing those words from the beautiful faces looking at you after a day of getting beat-up on the job.
Yes sir, that’s why June should be Fatherhood month. Because if we could just focus on our family for 30 days, that would develop the habit of remembering they come first over sports, jobs, and outsiders.
That’s the kind of family environment I’m hoping to create, how about you?
CSD
I am going to re-post for today, because this is a classic.Enjoy!
Posted: Jun 13, 2013 5:29 PM EDTUpdated: Jun 25, 2013 2:22 PM EDT
In honor of Father’s Day, I decided to pull out a 1982 interview with the parents of Atlanta sports icon Henry Aaron. The interview conducted by Bill Hartman in the Aaron’s home, was just before Hank was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
There are so many things to love about this video. The joy on Estella Aaron’s face when she talks about her boy, you just know that the honor is just as big of a thrill for her as it was for Hank.
Then we hear from Herbert Aaron. His sound bites are just what you’d expect from a dad. He first talks about how he was able to keep Henry out of trouble growing up in Mobile. The way he says it, you know that there has to be a few great stories of how he had to keep in the Home run King in line as a child. Then Herbert says something that melts your heart. He’s not just excited that Hank is headed to Cooperstown, but almost more tickled that his wife will be there to witness it. His wife, by the way, would not only be well enough to experience the 1982 Hall of Fame Induction, but she’d go on to live another quarter-century before passing away in 2008.
I really like how he heaps credit on his wife for raising their right children and seems to play down the fact that he was out trying to find work during tough times in the 1930’s. Gotta love dads.
-Cody
To see the video, click HERE
Source: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22586803/throwbackthursday-hank-aarons-dad
Martin Luther King Jr, with Father & Son
Photo by Richard Avedon
1963
In an essay written in 1950 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he wrote, “I guess the influence of my father also had a great deal to do with my going in the ministry. This is not to say that he ever spoke to me in terms of being a minister, but that my admiration for him was the great moving factor; He set forth a noble example that I didn’t mind following.”
What an honor it would be for me if my children could say the same thing one day!
May this desire be yours as well dad. It’s one thing for the kids to follow our path because we coerce them, but it’s completely another for them to choose to follow our example out of desire and nobility.
CSD
Furious Fathering 