slosh slosh, chug chug woooowoooo, blub blub blub,

came home from a great Christmas to find water ALL (and i mean ALL) over the basement carpet. $850.00 dollars later, hrs of water cleanup, with much more cleanup to come,all of this equals ... 1 new water heater! on an unrelated note, i had the awesome opportunity to build my son a train out of a water heater box!

now for a hot bath ........

w00t w00t Christmas gala 2008! it was AWSOME!

hmmm, words or pics?

115 people

COWABUNGA!

top 10 reasons why there are socks!

today i put a new battery in a cavalier, in -40, outside!!, today i chipped my way through well packed snow, like, real packed snow. under it was my sidewalk. way under it. it was -40, then i had a bath

i also have been doing prep work for the Christmas Gala. i had been hoping for 40 teens, i actually sold 95tickets! cool! crap! all at the same time.

BRING IT ON! I LOVE THE PAIN!

also, i had very little sleep last night so this may be scrambled.
this is a picture of a zit

taken from a book about E Stanley Jones' friendship with Gandhi during India's struggle under British imperial rule.

Jones asks Gandhi -

"Can you tell me what you think we Christians ought to do to make Christianity more naturalized in India, not a foreign thing...but something which contributes its power to India's uplift and redemption."

Before I give Gandhi's answer - you need to see that Jones' question is your question. Just take out "India" and put in the name of a friend, relative, workplace, or neighbor.

Gandhi replies:

"Live more like Jesus, practice your faith without toning it down, and emphasize the love that is central to Christianity."

Not even GMC likes GMC!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081208/us/usreport_us_gm_ad_1

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Monday unveiled an unusually frank advertisement acknowledging it had "disappointed" and sometimes even "betrayed" American consumers as it lobbies to clinch the federal aid it needs to stay afloat into next month.

The print advertisement marked a sharp break from GM's public stance of just several weeks ago when it sought to justify its bid for a U.S. government on the grounds that the credit crisis had undermined its business in ways executives could never have foreseen.

It also came as Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, who has led the automaker since 2000, faces new pressure to step aside as GM seeks up to $18 billion in federal funding.

"While we're still the U.S. sales leader, we acknowledge we have disappointed you," the ad said. "At times we violated your trust by letting our quality fall below industry standards and our designs became lackluster."

The unsigned open letter, entitled "GM's Commitment to the American People" ran in the trade journal Automotive News, which is widely read by industry executives, lobbyists and other insiders.

In the ad, GM admits to other strategic missteps analysts and critics have said hastened its recent decline.

"We have proliferated our brands and dealer network to the point where we lost adequate focus on the core U.S. market," the ad said. "We also biased our product mix toward pick-up trucks and SUVs."

But GM also says in the ad that it was hit by forces beyond its control as it tried to complete a restructuring earlier this year.

"Despite moving quickly to reduce our planned spending by over $20 billion, GM finds itself precariously and frighteningly close to running out of cash," the ad says.

A failure of GM would deepen the current recession and put "millions of job at risk," according to the ad, which also highlights the automaker's pledged restructuring and intention to begin repaying taxpayers in 2011.

GM spokesman Greg Martin said the ad was an attempt by the automaker to present "a pledge directly to the public."

"We believe we need to deliver this commitment unfiltered since quite a bit of media commentary has not kept pace with our actual progress to transform the company," Martin said.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut who is central to the effort to craft an auto bailout bill, on Sunday said GM should replace Wagoner.

GM says Wagoner has the support of the company's board.

(Reporting by Kevin Krolicki, editing by Dave Zimmerman)

take that all you tofu farting, uninformed, stupid, easly manipulated, mambypamby, granolla crunching, silly, kitten hurting, chevy driving dummies! (still kinda like you Chris but you do drive 2!)(and i sold you one of them)