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From the Pyros. Thanks Guys.

Kevin Rocks! (or Rhymes)

Kevin over at Encyclopedia Kevinannica wrote a little diddy worthy of link. Thanks for the shout out.

This comes with a big H/T to Ann at Everyday in Grace. Really, check her blog, good stuff!

And since Kevin mentioned it is National Poetry Month, I thought I would repost my last (read "most recent", and yes that is a threat that I may do it again) cheesy poem.

Seaside Single Wide
(A Trailer Trash epic)

Found my spot on the shoreline
Ten paces to the dry side of high tide
Is where I'll park my trailer in no time
My own little seaside single wide

Toes in sand, I lean back in a resin chair
With an Avo burning and a cold Guinness
Watch the sun setting, smell the sea in the air
What tomorrow brings, I couldn't care less

I woke before dawn to a new sensation
A storm blew in, and the waves washed me out
So now my single wide is floating in the ocean
Along with a sinking feeling and rising doubt

Quickly find my single wide is not seaworthy
As it has already become an aquatic habitat
I was swimming in a riptide by six thirty
Using a resin chair as a make shift raft

Homeless but alive on a rocky shore
With nothing ahead of me but sheer cliffs
I begin to climb soon my body is sore
Takes forever and a day to reach the precipice

Exhausted on the plateau I can only lay
On this hard flat and steady stone
Both of us warmed by the sun's ray
Thinking this is where I'll build my home

Happy 7th Birthday, Karissa.

Karissa is the oldest of my three kids. In honor of her B-day today my lovely bride Tricia put together this little video history. We have two more B-days over the next few weeks. So figure this is one of three.

Lingerie as a Motivator

A while back, I mentioned Eph 5:25-28 and focused on being washed in the Word. But I can't stop thinking about that passage.

It seems to me that there is more than one source of motivation for actually loving my wife as Christ loves the church.

The first reason is because Scripture says so... That is a sufficient reason in and of itself. The second reason is a bonus... It's the same reason husbands buy their wives lingerie.

So why would a healthy, well-adjusted husband go out of his way to shop in the most feminine store (or part there of)? Why would he take the time to find that perfect outfit that conceals what she doesn't like but still makes the most her beauty?

I'll tell you why this husband does it. It is a present to myself. Yes, she gets the outfit. She gets the adoring attention. But I get her, presented to me in splendor.

My Jung Test

Just for giggles, I took a Jung test online. They never seem quite right to me.

So here are the results. I'm a pretty odd duck, so I believe the 4.3% part.

ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.

Free Jung Word Choice Test (similar to MBTI)
personality tests by similarminds.com

Links; Gratuitous and Otherwise

I'm hoping my favorite international commenter Ann, can shed some light on this one(third snippet down), what do some Swedish girls have against guys? (Actually, I just wanted an excuse to throw a link her way.) Talk about the feminization of men, who will be left to take out the trash or work on the car? All I have to say is Jack won't sit and neither will I.


I'm really glad that Dan Phillips, a blogger who's readership greatly exceeds my own has taken up the cause, the eradication of the most annoying catch phrase of the decade.


I'm also quite pleased that Frank Turk has taken up the other cause of the decade. Go ahead, sign it. All the cool people are doing it.

Help for the Putter

For those of you looking to improve your skill in reading those undulating greens quickly.