Thunder and Rainbows

...that's what I drove to work in this AM. How cool (the rainbow) and scary (the lightening) at the same time with us coming into fire season. Not much rain during those lightening hits either, which is why it was scary - though I should be grateful, traffic was hellish enough with people even THINKING it might be a downpour. Trust me, first heavy rain of the season, smart San Diegans call in sick. to avoid the hell on the roads. Lest you think we are sissies:

Take 9 months without any appreciable rain fall. +
9 months of oil and grease build up on all freeways +
A lot of people who don't "get" basic physics and why you should not tailgate, particularly in wet weather when grease has had a chance to build up that long.

Do the math. Stay home. Or go in at 3 am or 10:30 am, after they've cleared all the fender benders.

I like to think the weather was St. Michael's doing - having a battle out in the heavens.

Hope my two cousins Michael S. and Michael K. had happy feast days.

Touchdown Jesus

Notre Dame 38, Perdue 21

Ah...one of the pleasures of fall. Every Catholic's favorite team, next to his own, unless his own is, of course, Notre Dame.

Is there a Catholic alive who would not take delight in scores like:

Notre Dame: 49 SMU(Southern Methodist U.): 3

Female perks

1. We got off the Titanic first.
2. We can scare male bosses with the mysterious gynecological disorder excuses.
3. Taxis stop for us.
4. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
5. No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the Speedo.
6. We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.
7. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
8. We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her rear end.
9. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.
10. We have the ability to dress ourselves.
11. We can talk to the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.
12. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are aware that we will look like an idiot.
13. We will never regret piercing our ears.
14. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
15. We can make comments about how silly men are in their presence because they aren't listening anyway.

Starving a dog is not art

Most facebook ads are boring or irrelevant, but this one caught my eye.


See this link for more details.

Nobama relaxes after debate

...nice to know B. Hussein NObama really puts pre-
school education high on his priority list in these troubling times.

Have we reached a critical mass of "stupid" yet? Nobama wants to make sure "No child is left behind" in the mind control experiment.

And Jim Lehrer is an idiot if he thinks we don't know PBS is trying to give Nobama a "gimmee" in wasting a portion of the foreign policy debate on domestic issues.

Confession, Texas Style

I was musing last night, about what going to confession in Texas must be like.

I can see where a penitent might have "issues."

Useful Website

...I'd run across this web site on the Catholic Hierarchy before, but forgot to note it. Very useful for figuring out who was bishop of what diocese when, statistics etc. Worth a look.

I thought my own diocese of San Diego was bad enough with just under 3 thousand Catholics per priest - but Las Vegas is nearing 6000 Catholics per priest. Both dioceses have roughly 30% of the populace as Catholics.

Personally, I say my Sunday rosary for all priests, and a Saturday rosary for more vocations. I hope others join me.

Post Turtle

Someone sent me this one, and it pretty much sums up the way I feel about Nobama:

"While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.

The old rancher said, "Well, you know, Obama is a 'post turtle'." Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'."

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass
put him up there!

Birthday

..I think I'll just be done with it and go for the Red Neck B'day cake.


Okay, I'm older than Fathers Tim, Sean, John, Owl and Erik, and younger than Springtime. On the other hand, I'm only 34 in hex. That's geek speak. This is when geek speak is good. Fathers Tim, Sean, John and Erik are geek enough themselves to be able to 'splain to Fr. Blake* and the rest of you non-geeks. (Ha-ha, Mac and AA and Monica are geeks too, but I won't blow your covers. AA hid his plastic pocket protector, Mac is affecting the ditzy blonde thang and doing it to perfection, and Monica has a hard time concealing that slide ruler, but sometimes she gets away with it)

I just hope I don't have "issues" with the fire department later today.

*Though come to think of it, Fr. Blake might be the biggest covert geek of all - given the level of desperation he had last year when he couldn't connect to the internet, but still managed to figure out he COULD connect *if* he was willing to put his laptop on the upstairs sink if he really, really had to. Maybe he's just cooler than the rest of us.

Exaltation of the Cross

Here is the 5th station of the cross in my parish, which is named after the Patron Saint of the United States.



I've always been glad that these particular stations are carved out of stone and it's easy to tell what they're supposed to represent! ["Feh" on Modern Art stations that are "primitive art."]

In the sacristy, we also have a document which essentially allows for these stations to be put in our church. The document was dated in 1938, and signed by then Bishop Buddy. Don't know *what* they were using for stations before that. I must retake this photo as it's somewhat fuzzy. You can click the pictures to enlarge.



I wonder if there was a Latin "standard form" that the bishop ever sent out that said something along the lines of: "Are you kidding, I've SEEN those proposed stations. No, you may NOT put those in your church, or pawn them off to any other church in the diocese. Matter of fact, take them out back, bust them up with a sledge hammer, and don't ever think of putting something like that in a church again, or your next assignment will be in the outer boondocks." Oh, for the days when a bishop could rattle a saber over something like this.

It seems to have been given to satisfy some requirement come up with in the 1700 hundreds

Dude! Facebook *finally* "gets it"

Mind you, this took a few weeks of marking Nobama ads as "obscene" -


...ditto rejecting "find the perfect stud muffin" ads. These are supposed to be guys you can take home to mother. Ha-ha. The cleverest of sleazy guys would probably sign up for this one.

A while back there was an article that said the pope's parents met through a lonely heart's club ad. His dad posted what was almost literally: "Wanted: hausfrau who can cook, clean, mend my socks and has own money." Apparently, in spite of all he'd written she WAS very smitten. ♫ (hi Stephen!) I think it's miraculous the pope was ever born! [Although he had to place the ad a few times. Even given the relative lack of men around after WWI I'm stunned anyone replied.]

See it before it's gone

Almost posted this once before but it was soon gone. Use your pig latin for the rest:
igotGay, layedpay ybay ackieJay leasonGay, is a mute. In this scene he tries to explain God to the young daughter of a prostitute. I'm very sorry this film doesn't seem to be on DVD or film. It is occasionally seen on movie channels, and well worth a look.




I heartily recommend a visit to this youtube channel for more. Do it before it's gone.

Procession for Holy Relics

Fr. Blake had been asking about prayers, etc. used when relics are carried in procession. I scanned in and uploaded the Latin texts that would be applicable. Hope this helps. The Roman Ritual I pulled this from was published in 1944. Document is 15 pages long. It's not a lot of translating to do, really. Most of it is psalms in Latin, which you can look up easily if you get stuck.

You can download the .pdf here.

Hope this helps.

How do you miss an error like this?!

From: the known problems with Google Chrome page

"If you encounter a blank white page when trying to access Gmail in Chrome, and also when accessing iGoogle or other Google sites, you're likely encountering a known issue with Google Chrome. While our engineers are investigating this issue, you can access Gmail with another browser, such as Mozilla Firefox."

You gotta be kidding me. You worked on an application for two years and you're just NOW figuring out that one of your company's applications DOESN'T work in your own browser correctly? Excuse me?

Makes you wonder who has to do the morning Starbuck$ run for the next year.