Ways to maintain a healthy level of insanity

I may have run this before but in case I haven’t, this is a fun read from Mark Batterson:
Got an email today, Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity, that produced high levels of LOL. Thought I’d pass a few of my favorites:

1. At Lunch Time, sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point A Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It “In.”

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. Finish All Your sentences with “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”

7. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

8. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

9. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is “To Go.”

10. Sing Along At The Opera.

11. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their Party Because You’re Not In The Mood.

12. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

13. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream “I Won!, I Won!”

The media DID report it


I got an e-mail from a friend today about the Colt’s victory prayer after the Super Bowl. While I don’t think my friend meant any harm, there was a comment attached to the e-mail saying, “I DIDN’T SEE THIS ON THE NEWS – DID YOU??????”
A quick Google search shows that despite the e-mail’s comments, the event was reported in the media — USA Today to be exact.

After victory, Dungy and Colts pray before they party
MIAMI รขโ‚ฌโ€ Suddenly, in the middle of the celebration that had the locker room buzzing after the Indianapolis Colts’ Super Bowl XLI victory, Tony Dungy had an announcement.
They were not leaving Dolphin Stadium without one more piece of business.
A prayer.
Dungy had the TV cameras in the room shut off. The interviews with maybe a dozen reporters still lingering stopped. The pictures players were snapping of each other holding the Lombardi Trophy needed to wait.

It’s a cool story, worth sharing but just wanted to clear up the contridiction — someone found the picture through Getty Images (Bill Gates owned) or USA Today before they were able to mass e-mail it.

A two foot span

So here’s an interesting sight…
One of the local banks here in Waxahachie apparently has some serious problems with their marquee sign at their local branch.
A few weeks ago the sign said it was -194 degrees. I know it was cold but didn’t realize it was that cold.
We ran a picture of the sign in the paper as a caption this.
Very shortly after that the sign was changed/repaired.
Now tonight I saw that one side of the sign said 68 degrees, while the other side said 66 degrees. It’s amazing how two feet or so can change a temperature so dramatically.
And less than two blocks away, my outside thermometer said 63 degrees.
Speaking of signs, one of the local drugstores advertised a special on Coke and Pepsis recently: 4 Cokes $1200
Then this week: 3 Pepsi $800
Maybe they’re selling the machines themselves rather than individual cans or 12 packs.