Picked out a book by its cover that looked good: “God Bless This Mess”. Turned out to be a memoir by this Alabama girl who was on TV’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette before winning Dancing With the Stars. Now she seems to be a professional celebrity, appearing on game shows and reality shows. Not what I expected, but the girl is honest. Too honest. Tells a lot about her life, including stuff I wouldn’t put in a book. Not sure if she changed the names of her boyfriends or high school classmates, though it would be clear who those people were in her small suburb of Tuscaloosa. Doubt she’s very popular with those people now, but she lives in LA now. She keeps coming back to God but often stumbles, as many do in high school, college, and young adulthood. Not recommended for anyone over 40.
I have so much special stuff saved. Stuff at home and personal stuff that I keep at work. Drawings the kids made, especially Matthew. Stuff from Camp SPdL. I look at it and it brings back great memories. Hard to throw away. When I retire I need to go through stuff. Got a bunch of shoes and bobbleheads to sell, and other stuff to look at. Got yardwork. Need to clean out the ivy in the front yard. Always something.
What I do with my sermon notes is to take the notes on my phone, email them to you and me. Then I post the notes on my blog, so there’s no paper. I can always look them up by date, or search “sermon notes”. My other friend Reid says he scans important papers into his computer, but I’ve never had such a system. I know there are clouds and such, but I’m not good at that. I need to play the Camp SPdL VCR tape and download it to YouTube and share on social media.
ARTICLE: current events happening this week in the national news media, including this quote: “The current administration doesn’t govern as if they expect to ever face another fair, free election.”
DENISON: a new poll found 70%, including 51% of Democrats, say Mr. Biden shouldn’t run for president again. Also 49% now consider themselves to be independents—the highest percentage in the history of Gallup’s polling on the question—and they are split evenly in the party to which they “lean” (43% for Republicans and 43% for Democrats). It’s hard to be confident in your leaders if you’re not confident in the process that elected them. Accordingly, per Gallup, only 23% have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the presidency, the lowest percentage since 1975. Only 7% have confidence in Congress. In a system of governance that depends on its participants’ faith in the system, this is a foundational problem. Churchill was right to label democracy “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
President Biden announces his campaign for reelection (denisonforum.org)
ME: considering all this information, it will be interesting to see if the President receives a record number of votes in 2024, like he did in 2020.
Saw Louie Giglio at the game Wednesday night. Should’ve spoke but was too hesitant. We were walking in opposite directions.
C always watched the same program every night from 8 to 9 pm. It got cancelled. Not sure what we’ll do now. Thursday there is Young Sheldon at 8 and that Todd show at nine.
Are y’all going to attend the Miriam Taylor funeral Monday afternoon? I’m going to try to go.
Grindhouse is good. One of the better burgers. I get so few burgers that when we ate at that place in SC with the good menu, I got the burger since I get so few.
JOE RUDI [SABR Bio] was the first player to win a Gold Glove award for the A’s. He won in 1974, 1975, 1976. In 1958 Vic Power won a Gold Glove at first base, but only played the first third of the season with KCA before being traded to CLE on 15-Jun. Rudi was twice the runner-up in league MVP voting, finishing behind Dick Allen in 1972 and behind Jeff Burroughs in 1974. Rudi worked as a coach with the A’s in 1987. At manager Tony La Russa’s request, he worked with Jose Canseco to help make the slugger a “complete player”.
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