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Texas Bar Sues Church: “

In a small Texas town, (Mt. Vernon) Drummond’s bar began construction on a new building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground. 

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building’s demise in its reply to the court.

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork. At the hearing he commented, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.’

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I don’t know about you, but this was a much appreciated chuckle for me today – thanks Jim.

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(Via alexking.org.)

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For those of you who are unfamiliar with my health problems with my leg, this may come as a surprise.

I had surgery a week ago, on Wednesday morning. You can see a description of lumbar micro-discectomy at my doctors’ site.

I was nervous leading up to the incident, especially after finding out that I would be intubated, but that’s in the rear view mirror now. After they put the IV in, I remember a few more discussions and then them leaving me in a hall for a second. Next thing I remember was waking up after the procedure in the recovery room and asking for some water.

In terms of the pain that has been a part of my life for so long, that particular kind of pain is gone. I am healing from surgery, and that’s never going to be a ride at Carowinds, but there’s no comparison between them. I am so fortunate to come across excellent doctors and an exceptional hospital in Charlotte

We’ve come a long way from that pretty helpless first 24 hours after the surgery, but there’s still always to go on the recovery process. I did have enough strength to run some errands yesterday afternoon, but I am on a very strict schedule for how long I can sit up straight. I even have what’s basically a perfect assistant there, having picked up Awaken during one of the last Mac software blowouts. I also have to wear these ridiculous tights for some kind of circulation issue in my legs. Don’t expect pictures.

My mother has been in town helping the recovery process, and she leaves in a few hours. I know both Megan and I have found her presence invaluable. It will be hard to say goodbye this time.

To sum up, I am still not fully independent (try keeping track of how often you bend at the waist today) but I am sure that day will come soon. That will be welcome.

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That’s what make something funny.

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              nate:~ bigfleet$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
              106 ls
              90 cd
              34 rake
              27 git
              25 autotest
              19 cap
              18 rm
              18 ps
              17 ssh
              15 sudo
              

              work:~ bigfleet$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
              74 cd
              66 ls
              53 ssh
              40 svn
              33 cap
              25 rake
              19 rm
              17 git
              15 autotest
              12 scp
              

Judge as you will

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