Henry Bartlett shared a good tongue-in-cheek article about Google’s famous ongoing censorship of the King of Kings. Google can create whatever imaginary reality they want, but they can’t change The Truth. Those will be the rocks crying out, proclaiming Christ as King.
Good Friday closings: not sure about schools. Why would the government schools close down? God was removed from them years ago. My company has always been open. But some of our offices in the Carolinas are closed today, because they always have to work some other Saturday later in the year. Our New Orleans office always works on Memorial Day because they take off Fat Tuesday in March. Several businesses in NOLA do this.
When we were Tull Metals we never took off Good Friday, but our sister company Ryerson always did. When we merged the old Ryerson plants started working Good Friday, but we got a second holiday for New Years. Tull employees maxed out at four weeks’ vacation but Ryerson employees used to get 5 weeks after 25 years. When we merged vacation got capped at 4 weeks.
The Johnson Ferry Academy is probably closed today, since they’re having Good Friday services at noon. In fact JFBC had a special baptism service on Wednesday night. Guy my age from our Sunday School glass was baptized. I think he had been a Christian for a long time but had never been baptized.
Thursday night JFBC had a special choir concert, and tonight or sometime there is a seder meal people can attend. No Sunday School on Sunday, just the services. Next Friday night JFBC had a “secret church” where we learn about cults, other religions, attacks to Christianity, etc. Supposed to fast all day up to then. Then Saturday is a day of service in the community.
I turn 60 this summer. Celebrities also turning 60 this year include Fred Couples, Magic Johnson, Emma Thompson, Simon Cowell, Marie Osmond, Allison Janney (West Wing), Val Kilmer, singer Randy Travis, Hugh Laurie (House), Dave Coulier (Full House), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Weird Al Yankovic, Flavor Flav, Judd Nelson (Breakfast Club), singer Sade, singer Bryan Adams, singer Morrissey, actress Linda Blair, Robert Smith (The Cure frontman), and model Fabio.
Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray is picking football over baseball. Guess being the number one overall pick will land him a huge contract. He’s talented, but can he bring the magic that Baker Mayfield brought to Cleveland? Does Murray have the same desire and work ethic? Not sure? The game is evolving away from immobile 6’5” QB’s like Roethlisberger to smaller more mobile QB’s like Russell Wilson and Mayfield. Not sure the smaller guys have proven they can win consistently. It’s not the size that matters. There are special, gifted big QB’s and special small QB’s, like Fran Tarkenton. We’ll see about Murray. My take: he’s no Baker Mayfield.
Ever since Sports Illustrated changed from a weekly magazine to twice monthly they have focused more on social and political issues than actual sporting events. This week’s issue had Tiger on the cover and 9-1/2 pages devoted to the Masters, but 29-1/2 pages devoted to up upcoming NFL draft. This NFL draft thing is getting out of hand. ESPN and the NFL Network are showing mock drafts and replays of old drafts. And people watch. This year’s draft is in Nashville, and they have a “draft experience” for fans, where you can pay money to pretend you’re your favorite team, drafting players. No thanks.
The breakdown:
29.5 NFL draft
10.0 Masters (Tiger)
07.0 NBA playoffs (Celtics)
20.0 other basketball (UVA)
06.0 Notre Dame spring football
05.0 global warming/hockey in Canada
02.5 Atlanta Swarm lacrosse (link below)
Not sure how the Canadian hockey/global warming article went over, coming in the wake of Forbes.com’s expose on doctored data by scientists: "Climategate 2.0: New e-Mails Rock the Global Warming Debate." Have I linked this before?
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.forbes.com_sites_jamestaylor_2011_11_23_climategate-2D2-2D0-2Dnew-2De-2Dmails-2Drock-2Dthe-2Dglobal-2Dwarming-2Ddebate_&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=loBzRL9vx1QCJ7AkjlI24FogEIJOKGoGzNLAtj-D-Ao&s=S443vXRuO6MMVALjX1nLb6LhExizhWxJWY8dKMTaoeA&e=
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.forbes.com_sites_jamestaylor_2011_11_23_climategate-2D2-2D0-2Dnew-2De-2Dmails-2Drock-2Dthe-2Dglobal-2Dwarming-2Ddebate_&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=loBzRL9vx1QCJ7AkjlI24FogEIJOKGoGzNLAtj-D-Ao&s=S443vXRuO6MMVALjX1nLb6LhExizhWxJWY8dKMTaoeA&e=
Ceil went to see Mary Poppins Returns with her girlfriend, so I haven’t seen it yet. But if its on Netflix we’ll have to watch it. Emily Blunt is one of my favorite actresses. Nice that Dick Van Dyke was in the movie, as well as a few others from the original. They offered a role to Julie Andrews but she didn’t want to take away from Blunt’s performance.
Decent debut by Soroka yesterday. Glad Arizona left town but Cleveland will be tough this weekend. Tonight’s game was rained out, so Saturday will be a doubleheader.
Left work at 5:30. Bought a pair of brown leather shoes. May wear them for Easter. Ceil had been at a friend’s house. After the Braves game Will had played golf at Cobblestone in Acworth. M went to study at a coffee shop. I cut the grass. C had cooked Mexican fixins: refried beans, rice, and ground turkey. Later I watched some of the Braves replay while playing on my laptop.
Power was off north of our office this morning in Duluth, shutting down several businesses like Publix and Chickfila.
You guys doing anything special for Easter this weekend? We’re gong to church with W&MC then eating at their place afterwards. Anna is coming.
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