this morning...........brrrrr.....

quick....shut the windows, turn off the ceiling fan, get those widow unit air conditioners in the basement...going outside? grab a jacket would ya!

Fall is here....welcome

Life in NJ Chapter 53

Today my Black Finned tropical fish died....his name was Sharky and he looked nothing like the shark in the pic but he sometimes would think like the shark in the pic.
I am not sure how my wife disposed of him....I hope she flushed him...I used to think that fish would somehow come back to life when you flushed them because when they would swirl down the toliet thay would look like they were swimming.

Work has been slightly more intense then normal...one of my managers has pink eye and I am working her store this week. We did have an employee go AWOL...it is a pretty long story but to make it short..."everybody's a great person till you work with them". But as for this kid, I am not sure he is a nice person even when I am not working with him.

The IRS did not refund my large tax refund cause they were going to audit me and said I would hear from them in Sept....well Sept is almost up and I will have to look their # up again and ask them if they are going to give me interest on my money....I don't make enough to be audited!!
I started one thing on my Oct "To Do List" so I am ahead of the game.
I have also added 3-4 things .
Enjoy the day....it is beautiful hear in NJ....cool fall weather all week....we almost turned the fan off the other nite 'cause it was so cool!

Tuesday September 27, 2005

another day in the books.

each hour as precious as the last.

living life to live life.

brite sunshine.

cool air.

tears.tears.tears.tears.tears.tears.tears.

Today- A good friend will be operated on, minor operation but I know she is worried. Pray for her--Robin is her name.

Yesterday- A woman named Joyce who works upstairs in my building was crossing 4th & Market Streets to get a cup of coffee....a white van ran her completely over and killed her.

Tomorrow- __________

October is coming, October is coming!

Hurry and get ready October 2005 is almost here! Are you ready for it? What do you plan to do for it? It will be here in just five days!
I am thinking of all kinds of things to do:
Take a fall foliage trip
Go to the Camp Booster dinner
Hit live music somewhere (Switchfoot 10/30)
Work on completing my hallway (it's now in print maybe it will get done)
Rework the entire fishtank
Work on Shangri-La before winter hits
Play the guitar every day...suddenly bar chords seem achievable
Buy and install new stove which will require running a gas line
Install a dishwasher
Install a new HD in my computer as well as a new CD Rom
Get a new ipod...Either a Nano, 40 gig or 60 gig...at this time Nano is leading the way (my ipod is being returned on it;s 2 year Cicuit City warranty and they will refund me my full purchase price and I can go buy another.
Go to Hawk Mountain and bird with Bill and Chet somewhere around the 9th
Finish work on the mentoring program
Plan the holiday program
Get the Low Ropes/CMAA Blog up n running
ok now I am tired and going to bed.
G'Nite-Love Tate

sleep

sleep is an amazing thing...i love sleep but I also wish i could always be awake. but when you get a good sleep....there is nothing like it. it is the best.
incidently i wrote this when i was awake.

Lovely Rita

So it wasn't to long ago that if a hurricane was coming people did not evacuate. They rode the storm out and that was fairly typical of most hurricanes. Now we have a mass exodus in TX & LA. Why??? Cause Katrina was tangible and we all saw the damage/destruction that it caused....therefore the mass exodus. How come @ a funeral no matter how that person led their life....people feel the need to acknowledge that that person,who lies their dead, is going to heaven. It is not my decision whether they go to heaven or not, that is God's. He will judge us all.

When He does.... will you be ready or will everyone say "your in a better place now" because that's the PC thing to do?
We don't see the signs like they did in the old testament and per the hurricane example we can see that when things are tangible we understand them.
Given all of this...I promise you, as one man to another, if you read the Bible, if you pray and you surround yourself with others that do the same- seeking God....He, the great I AM, will become tangible. Imagine that....knowing God, one on one.

( for further insight on this subject matter and to see why I titled it Lovely Rita see my Katrina & The Waves post back a few weeks)

The 1st day of Autumn has arrived!

Today is the autumnal equinox, the first day of fall. What that means is that at 3:22 p.m., night and day will be precisely equal, each exactly 12 hours long. Flagpoles, people, and buildings on the equator will not cast a shadow.

This post is dedicated to my sister Paige who misses Philly cheesesteaks and other fine foods from the Southern New Jersey gourmet pantry. She deserves congratulations on her tennis victory!! My newest employee had turned the breaker on that controlled my baseboard heater yesterday...maintenance fixed it. To you folks South of the Border....move already!! How do you deal with that heat and not be on a Carribbean Island is beyond me.
On a somber note....from K-R, Rita is here. Pray, pray, pray and when your done praying....pray some more. He always listens.