Ray’s Daily
October 21, 2022
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Ray’s Daily first published on October 21, 2003
This and that:
I have a state ranked, 8 year old gymnast granddaughter who competed in a meet last Saturday evening. She is very good and will be competing in Florida in January. The meets are another of those parent and grandparent things. Vault, is two jumps about 5 seconds each. Floor exercise is a couple of minutes. Balance beam takes maybe a minute and a half. And finally the parallel bars takes maybe another 90 seconds. So you get to watch your special person for a total of about five minutes. You wait, they rotate, they practice, you wait, and they perform one event and they rotate again. We arrived at the meet at 5:00 PM and left just before 9:00 PM. They are great to watch! Take a book to read.
I hope you have a Trader Joe’s grocery store near you. Great food, good prices, and super recreation. COSTCO is not too shabby either, it is a place where you find what you really need, but didn’t know you did until you saw it.
The other day a friend of mind told me that I often repeat myself in our daily. When I have trouble remembering what day it is, remembering what I did yesterday is just too much to expect. So, sorry if I am redundant – redundant. One of the advantages I have found however, is that I have been able to eliminate many of my bad habits since I don’t remember what they where or even how to do them.
As most of you know my system asked all of you to update my contact list. In the process I ended up adding some people to our daily list for the first time. So if you are new to our group, please make sure you read the housekeeping stuff at the end.
~~~
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
~~~
A contractor was speaking with a woman about her house painting job.
In the first room she said she would like a pale blue. The contractor wrote this down then went to the window, opened it, and yelled out “GREEN SIDE UP!”
In the second room she told him that she would like it painted in a soft yellow. He wrote this on his pad, walked to the window, opened it, and yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!” The lady was somewhat curious but she said nothing.
In the third room she said she would like it painted a warm rose color. The painter wrote this down, walked to the window, opened it and yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!”
The lady finally asked him, “Why do you keep yelling ‘green side up’?”
“I’m sorry,” came the reply. “But I have a crew laying sod across the street.”
~~~
“Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are.”
Mexican Proverb
~~~
In a perfect world………
A person should feel as good at 50 as he did at 17 and he would actually be as smart at 50 as he thought he was at 17.
You could give away a baby bed without getting pregnant.
Forget-me-nots would stimulate the memory.
Doing what was good for you would be what you enjoyed doing the most.
Pro baseball players would complain about teachers being paid contracts worth millions of dollars.
People always have good reasons to be optimistic.
You would never fumble, but if you did, you would recover the ball yourself.
The mail would always be early, the check would always be in the mail, and it would be written for more than you expected.
Potato chips might have calories, but if you ate them with a dip, the calories would be neutralized.
If the guy from the government said to you, “I’m here to help,” not only would he mean it, but also he’d do it.
First impressions wouldn’t count for nearly as much as ultimate performance. Winning might be a nice thing, but that would be about all.
All people could expect to be accepted.
Every once in a while at least, a kid who always closed the door softly would be told, “Go back and slam the door.”
Highway patrolmen would never be around when you’re running late, but would always be at your side when a BMW blows past or a Mac truck won’t get off your bumper.
The better food tasted, the less calories it would have.
Warranties would be for 13 months and products would fail at 12.
More would be accomplished by governments when they spent more.
~~~
You know the honeymoon is pretty much over when you start to go out with the boys on Wednesday nights, and so does she.
~~~
Husband in movie: “Can you see, dear?”
Wife: “Yes.”
Husband: “Is your seat comfortable?”
Wife: “Yes.”
Husband: “Is there a draft on you?”
Wife: “No.”
Husband: “Good! Let’s trade seats.”
~~~
There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading; The few who learn by observation; The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers’
~~~
A fellow got up one Saturday morning with the odd feeling that something about this day was to be different. Something unusual was about to happen. He glanced out the window at the thermometer: 33 degrees. He went downstairs – the clock had stopped at 3 o’clock. He picked up the newspaper and read the date: the 3rd of the month. Threes – that was it! He grabbed the paper and flipped it open to the racing section. Sure enough in the 3rd race, there was a horse named Trio! The fellow hurried to the bank, drew out his life savings and bet it all on the horse to win.
The horse ran third.
~~~
“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty-six hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours.”
Rita Rudner
~~~
Two friends, one an Optimist and the other a Pessimist could never quite agree on any topic of discussion.
One day the Optimist decided he had found a good way to pull his Pessimistic friend out of his way of continual Pessimistic way of thinking. The Optimist owned a huntin’ dog that could walk on water. His plan? Take the Pessimist and the dog out in a boat duck hunting.
This he did. They got out into the middle of the lake, and the Optimist shot down a duck…the dog immediately walked out across the water, retrieved the duck, and walked back to the boat.
The Optimist looked at his Pessimistic friend and said, “What do you think about that?”
The Pessimist replied, “That dog can’t swim, can he?”
~~~
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to want to be good at what you do, to have goals, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency.
The point is not that they will then be nice to you.
It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Beau Bauman
~~~
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Ray’s Daily
October 21, 2022
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Ray’s Daily first published on October 21, 2003
This and that:
I have a state ranked, 8 year old gymnast granddaughter who competed in a meet last Saturday evening. She is very good and will be competing in Florida in January. The meets are another of those parent and grandparent things. Vault, is two jumps about 5 seconds each. Floor exercise is a couple of minutes. Balance beam takes maybe a minute and a half. And finally the parallel bars takes maybe another 90 seconds. So you get to watch your special person for a total of about five minutes. You wait, they rotate, they practice, you wait, and they perform one event and they rotate again. We arrived at the meet at 5:00 PM and left just before 9:00 PM. They are great to watch! Take a book to read.
I hope you have a Trader Joe’s grocery store near you. Great food, good prices, and super recreation. COSTCO is not too shabby either, it is a place where you find what you really need, but didn’t know you did until you saw it.
The other day a friend of mind told me that I often repeat myself in our daily. When I have trouble remembering what day it is, remembering what I did yesterday is just too much to expect. So, sorry if I am redundant – redundant. One of the advantages I have found however, is that I have been able to eliminate many of my bad habits since I don’t remember what they where or even how to do them.
As most of you know my system asked all of you to update my contact list. In the process I ended up adding some people to our daily list for the first time. So if you are new to our group, please make sure you read the housekeeping stuff at the end.
~~~
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
~~~
A contractor was speaking with a woman about her house painting job.
In the first room she said she would like a pale blue. The contractor wrote this down then went to the window, opened it, and yelled out “GREEN SIDE UP!”
In the second room she told him that she would like it painted in a soft yellow. He wrote this on his pad, walked to the window, opened it, and yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!” The lady was somewhat curious but she said nothing.
In the third room she said she would like it painted a warm rose color. The painter wrote this down, walked to the window, opened it and yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!”
The lady finally asked him, “Why do you keep yelling ‘green side up’?”
“I’m sorry,” came the reply. “But I have a crew laying sod across the street.”
~~~
“Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are.”
Mexican Proverb
~~~
In a perfect world………
A person should feel as good at 50 as he did at 17 and he would actually be as smart at 50 as he thought he was at 17.
You could give away a baby bed without getting pregnant.
Forget-me-nots would stimulate the memory.
Doing what was good for you would be what you enjoyed doing the most.
Pro baseball players would complain about teachers being paid contracts worth millions of dollars.
People always have good reasons to be optimistic.
You would never fumble, but if you did, you would recover the ball yourself.
The mail would always be early, the check would always be in the mail, and it would be written for more than you expected.
Potato chips might have calories, but if you ate them with a dip, the calories would be neutralized.
If the guy from the government said to you, “I’m here to help,” not only would he mean it, but also he’d do it.
First impressions wouldn’t count for nearly as much as ultimate performance. Winning might be a nice thing, but that would be about all.
All people could expect to be accepted.
Every once in a while at least, a kid who always closed the door softly would be told, “Go back and slam the door.”
Highway patrolmen would never be around when you’re running late, but would always be at your side when a BMW blows past or a Mac truck won’t get off your bumper.
The better food tasted, the less calories it would have.
Warranties would be for 13 months and products would fail at 12.
More would be accomplished by governments when they spent more.
~~~
You know the honeymoon is pretty much over when you start to go out with the boys on Wednesday nights, and so does she.
~~~
Husband in movie: “Can you see, dear?”
Wife: “Yes.”
Husband: “Is your seat comfortable?”
Wife: “Yes.”
Husband: “Is there a draft on you?”
Wife: “No.”
Husband: “Good! Let’s trade seats.”
~~~
There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading; The few who learn by observation; The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers’
~~~
A fellow got up one Saturday morning with the odd feeling that something about this day was to be different. Something unusual was about to happen. He glanced out the window at the thermometer: 33 degrees. He went downstairs – the clock had stopped at 3 o’clock. He picked up the newspaper and read the date: the 3rd of the month. Threes – that was it! He grabbed the paper and flipped it open to the racing section. Sure enough in the 3rd race, there was a horse named Trio! The fellow hurried to the bank, drew out his life savings and bet it all on the horse to win.
The horse ran third.
~~~
“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty-six hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours.”
Rita Rudner
~~~
Two friends, one an Optimist and the other a Pessimist could never quite agree on any topic of discussion.
One day the Optimist decided he had found a good way to pull his Pessimistic friend out of his way of continual Pessimistic way of thinking. The Optimist owned a huntin’ dog that could walk on water. His plan? Take the Pessimist and the dog out in a boat duck hunting.
This he did. They got out into the middle of the lake, and the Optimist shot down a duck…the dog immediately walked out across the water, retrieved the duck, and walked back to the boat.
The Optimist looked at his Pessimistic friend and said, “What do you think about that?”
The Pessimist replied, “That dog can’t swim, can he?”
~~~
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to want to be good at what you do, to have goals, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency.
The point is not that they will then be nice to you.
It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Beau Bauman
~~~
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