Evel Knievel passed away the other day. Unfortunately, he didn’t die while performing some fantastic stunt on a motorcycle. It was lung disease that took his life at the age of 69.

Interesting enough, Robert Schuller performed the funeral service. Apparently, Evel was a member of Schullers’ church even though he lived in Montana. I guess when you can watch church on TV, you can be anywhere.

Some how, I always pictured him as being a perfect member for Dr. Gene Scotts’ church. Oh well.

Recently, Neil Diamond announced who Caroline was from his famous song “Sweet Caroline”. It was Caroline Kennedy. She was 11 at the time.

Now, while I liked the song at the time, it now gives me the willies to think that Neil writing a love song about an 11 year old girl who caught his attention. It was bad enough that we had to put up with Michael Jackson and his little boy friends. Now we have Neil Diamond admitting that he had a “thing” for an 11 year old.

Hey Neil, just remember that Roman Polanski got run out of this country for having a “thing” with a 13 year old girl.

Well, we got our letter in the mail saying that we need to convert to Comcast Internet service by December 31 or we will be cut off. Bah Humbug! But, they did provide a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service number to call, so that will make calling easier.

Since I did not want to be the first to call, I decided to wait a few days and avoid the rush. So, I decided to on call Saturday night. I figured that Saturday night would be a slow time at the call center and therefore, I would get right through. Wrong.

On my first attempt to call Comcast, I sat in queue for 40 minutes before I gave up. Maybe this wasn’t such a good time. Maybe the call center folks were all watching “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” instead of answering the phones. Bah Humbug!

I tried again on Sunday afternoon and got through on the first try.  Must be everyone was watching football.

McDonalds does a pretty good job with their Southwestern Ranch Salad. It has a very good flavor, is cheaper that Arby’s salad and definately a step up from Wendy’s which thinks that dumping chile on lettuce is the thing to do.

Anyway, today I got a craving for Southwestern Salad so I headed for Micky Ds. When I got their and placed my order at the drive through I was told that they no longer make that salad. I quickly scanned that menu for another selection.

Since I was feeling guilty for all of the crap that I ate over that holiday, I decided that I wanted a salad. The first item on the salad menu was an Asian salad so I ordered that.

Now, not having ever tasted this salad, I didn’t know what to expect. But knowing that Wendy’s does a fantastic Asian salad, I expected the same from Micky Ds.

When I pulled the package from the bag the first thing that I noticed was the light Neuman dressing and a package of sliced almonds. Great! When I popped the lid on the salad bowl, it had lettuce, chicken and mandarin oranges. Yes! But then I noticed that it had snap peas and Ming beans. OK I guess.

I put on the sesame ginger dress and stirred it up. So far so good. But, then I took my first bite.

Since I was expecting something similar to Wendy’s Asian salad, I was a little disappointed. At best, the salad was OK but it certainly will not be on my ‘gotta have’ list of salads.

Maybe it will grow on me with time but I think I will try some of the other salad offerings at Micky Ds.

A bass is a fish, plain and simple. A bace is a musical instrument or a music range. Now I know that some or most of you will say that a bass is a musical instrument or a music range but I don’t understand how you can construe that.

Ass is pronounce ass. Add a b to it and you get bass. Ace is pronounce ace. Add a b to it and you get bace.

I know, most of you have been taught that bass can be pronounce with the a as a long vowel but this defies all of the rules of grammar. So, a bass is a fish, a base is a foundation and a bace is a musical instrument or musical range.

Any questions?

The city owned cable company was recently sold to Comcast. And since the Lowell cable system was old, Comcast has been updating it. Part of the updating included a new high speed internet service.

So, this week, we all got notices from Comcast showing us their new high speed internet service options. The letter stated that we had to choose our new data service in the next couple of weeks or we will be disconnected.

Now, while the letter gave us different data options and prices, it neglected to explain what the different options were. Instead, it suggest that we call their service desk to schedule an installation. Since I found the information that they provided to be very unhelpful, I decided to check out their website.

I found their website to be totally worthless. It was not designed to dispense information. Rather, it was designed to “take your order”.

Out of frustration, I decide to place an order just to see if I could get any more information about their offerings. But, after taking my zip code and street address, the site announced that high speed internet was not available in my area at this time.

Why do I have bad vibes about Comcast?

The city recently sold the city owned cable company to Comcast for 3 million dollars. The city said that the system was old and needed to be updated and that the updates would cost a million dollars.

Our city leaders didn’t fall off of no turnip truck, no sir re. We took those city slickers to the cleaners. Instead of shelling out a million dollars for updates, we netted a clean 3 mil. Those Comcast folks haven’t got a clue. Or do they?

Part of the problem with selling off Lowell Cable is the way that they went about it. And granted, maybe selling Lowell Cable was the right thing to do. But to sneak around behind the backs of the citizens of this community and to sell off city property without the knowledge and consent of the public is totally wrong.

The city leaders seem to have forgotten that they are servants. And as servants, they are responsible to the people who elected them. Maybe it is time for some of these elected leaders to become unelected.

In order to join Ada Bible, we had to take two membership classes and have an interview with two Elders. Well, last Sunday, Kathy and I had our membership interview.

It was quite an interesting interview and very intense. They asked questions like when we first came to know Christ as our personal savior and what we though of baptism.

All and all, the interview lasted for over an hour and they seemed to focus on our spiritual life. This was different from the CRCs ten minute interview where they focused more on doctrine and less on the spiritual.

We were quite impressed with the process and came away feeling uplifted. We will probably be baptized after the first of the year.

Saturday night, we were supposed to get a major snow storm. Starting at around 6 PM, we were going to get up to 4 inches of snow. The snow was to end at daybreak and then we were supposed to get freezing rain.

When we went to church Saturday night, we discovered that church had been canceled. Bummer, but we knew that the winter storm was a major concern. So we went home and prepared for the weather.

The snow blower was gassed and the snow shovels were located from last winter. We checked the weather channel to track the progress of the storm. We were ready for “weather”!!

After we ate supper, Kathy went out into the hot tub. A couple of seconds later, she returned to put on a hat. It seems that the rain that was scheduled for the AM had arrived. No more snow, just rain.

All and all, by 8 PM we had received about 1 inch of snow. And the freezing rain never developed.

So much for the weather service. “It will be sunny with a chance of rain. Tonight, it will be dark.”

It was unseasonably cold this morning at about 5 degrees.  As I was headed for town to get groceries, I met some guy on a motorcycle.

It wasn’t one of those fancy road bikes with a windshield and faring.  It was just a plain dirk bike.

Now, he was wearing a snowmobile suit so that did provide some comfort, but still, those suits aren’t that warm.  With the temperature at 5 degrees and going down the road at 55 mph, the wind chill must have been around -10 degrees.

I guess he was saving on gas but I would certainly think twice about going anywhere when it is that could.