ALERT!

My home 'puter is infected and in need of some serious antibiotics! Pop-ups??? The internet is loading all by itself as if possessed. Icons are appearing on my desktop for free travel and music....after I ran a scan with Norton it had dectected 33 items and still counting when I left for work....all because of a possible click where we should not have clicked or a download that should not have happened. Be safe people....its a dangerous world out there!

QOTD

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."
Charles R. Swindoll

nothing of importance

Why they play the game

Of course I am talkin' NCAA.....Gonzaga is out, UCLA is movin' on. Why they play....we play to play. To win or to lose is to have played. As long as you play, it doesn't matter if you win or lose??? SURE IT DOES. If you play, you play to win, but more importantly, you play to play. So Gonzaga lost. So did many other teams with many other stories. Gonzaga lost, but they played and played hard. Hats off to single game elimination and playing to play. Whether you are playing Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders or in college basketball you had better play to play and play as hard as you can. The day does end and the clock does run out. So when the clock runs out you had better be sure that you played harder then the other guys.

the continued tirade

oh reader, i continue onward....last nite Bret and i went to the famed brooklyn tabernacle church to pray and PRAY we did.
prayer and praise and thanks, and prayer and praise and thanks, and PRAYER and PRAISE and THANKS.....Bret and I agreed.....you cannot communicate the experience, it has to be experienced.

a few things i noted;
1. you can get to NYC in less then 1.5 hours with a moderate driver (not me) between the hours of 4-5:30----AMAZING what God CAN do!
2. all types of people from all walks of life
3. the church body was like a city within itself and they UNABASHADLY came forward for prayer
4. no boredom and no sense of time from 6:00PM to 9:00PM
5. no judgement....it was about Christ not us.
6. muscial instruments are awesome
7. i love to sing to God
8. PJC as they call him (Pastor)......people, folks, certain people contain certain habits that....call it charisma, call it fortitude.....when you believe in people and when they believe in themselves and they are leaders and they have vision (that comes from God).......LOOK OUT!
9. God is awesome, magnificent, incredible
10. the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner in Brooklyn does not have a bathroom.
11. starbucks on the NJ turnpike closes @ 10:00PM
12. i want to take all of my friends to Brooklyn Tab
13. God is good....all the time
14. you can drive home from NYC to south jersey in less then 1.5 hours
15. and the number one notation of note......unity in Christ is the key...it ain't rocket science it's God's word!

http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/home.cfm

life is GREAT

great, great great......

my church is spreading the news and not losing the site of the goal (people) !!!

when you truly devote your purpose to HIM.....the payback, be it peace of mind, serenity, or mirroring HIM who loves you.....that payback is, as our major credit card states......

PRICELESS

today is March 21st and you best take advantage of it 'cause rumour has it, it is the only March 21st made for the entire year of 2006!

winter is over

ground hog or not winter is over....the trees are no longer as naked as they have been since fall.
the buds are peeking out of the branches and soon enough the branches will be smothered in green leaves. the vista is changing as it always is....look at those semi-naked trees really well over the next 3-5 days for they are putting on their leaves and be hibernating soon enough.

i have to much

i have to much stuff.....to many coats, to many shoes, to many hats and to many books....junk, pack rat WHATEVER----to live here, in AMERICA is to have plenty....it is time to slim it down....lose some stuff and appreciate the small of life.

i can never have enough friends or meet enough people.
i can never encourage enough people or smile enough.
i can never say thank you enough.
i can never help others enough.
i can never love enough.
since i can't accomplish the above and have already accomplished the far above i will continue to strive to smile more and love more and meet more people and make more best friends. i will work towards saying thank you more and helping others more.....

thanks for your patience with me.

the mere thought of you, yes you reader makes me smile be it whatever your name the fact that you exist is wonderful and beautiful and if i ever have the opportunity to tell you so i hope i tell you so, it is in my thoughts, names run rampant thru my mind as i type this, all of your names.....you are special. i have taken the God loves you and so do i approach.....as we all should.
follow the path of Christ.
give your life to him.
humble yourselves.

i believe.
i shout it out.......JESUS IS LORD!

continue to search it out and don't get caught with to much stuff.....it distracts.

LIG= life is good.

We sell a lot of lig as it is known in the biz and the reason why is fairly simple.

life certainly is good and the reason is God.

God shelters me, loves me, strengthens me and the list goes on and on....like Matt said in his blog....God is the ROCK upon which I stand.

Folks.....search no farther for He is the way, the truth and the lite.

find a bible, read it, learn it----LIVE IT!

i love you all

tate

Morning Coffee & the QOTD!!

What is your favorite wild animal??

hi ho hi ho

after having a solid ten days off of work and as i gather my stuff to go to work this AM I am plagued by the thought of why i work and what it all means.
i am glad to have my job, but certainly am not sure how selling replica liberty bells to the masses makes a difference in the world.

Well here goes world.....my energy for my JOB is reforming......look out world even if you don't need a liberty bell I am liable to get ya to buy one!

for john

the view from our window

took this pic this afternoon

word of the day

that's me, on a snowboard. i am at Snowbird, UT on a mtn that's 11,000'. we have had enormous amounts of snow since monday.

yesterday's word of the day was "blizzard".....imho today's s/b powder