Good morning! Let me tell you some of what I’m cheery about and thankful for this morning. (I’ll leave some space at the end for you to add some of your own cheerful thankfulness.)
🙂 We made it to twenty ten. We’re ten years past the old projected end of the world (2000). Furthermore, we have yet to be struck by the fearsome Y2K bug.
🙂 The story in the EU Times is likely untrue. (You know the one about the Russians expecting “outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.”)
🙂 Only one of my business partners has dealt gracelessly with me.
🙂 Our immediate Roth kin are to show up today to celebrate our Christmas, sans the usual gift exchange.
🙂 I got a good night’s sleep last night despite the trials that have come upon me in the last month.
🙂 I finally get to put up the new calendar I got from Christian Light Publications. (I also need to find a place for the one I got from Rod & Staff Publishers.)
🙂 This new-to-me, hard-to-find, IBM trackpoint keyboard works wonderfully!
🙂 My two-year-old grandson Trenton just came into my office to show me a bulldozer he must have found in our toy box.
🙂 My body still works so that I can get up from here and go outside to feed the cat, lose the dog, and sing to the cows.
🙂 It doesn’t matter whether or not we have started a new decade.
Is there any such thing as a “civil” war?
Yes, we made it too another year. As for predictions for the end of the world, it seems a lot of interest is focused on 2012, because the Mayan calendar ends in December of that year. My thought is that perhaps the Spanish Conquest kept the Mayans form continuing past that date? Or someone misread it?
Oh well, we know Who knows when the end will come. And there is nothing we can do to prevent or delay it (or even bring it about sooner).
My calendar ends in December of this year.
I even studied on that one a bit and still ended up with lose instead of loose.
Teacher, writer, editor — 🙄
(Just a has been, actually.)
Haste makes waist.
So there — put that in your philosophy pipe and chew it.