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Deb (1godsgal) has kindly Tagged me.

It is up to each individual to decide for themselves what they are, and are not, obliged to do in their lives. So long as there is no deceptive intent, nor breaking of local or higher laws, we are free to follow our own conscience in life.

i choose this time to play along.

Apparently the following are required of all who have been tagged, providing the above paragraph is born in mind.

1. Write the title to your memoir using 6 words
2. Post it on your blog
3. Link to the person that tagged you
4. Tag five more blogs

So: the epitaph i would want on my memorial stone would be:

Lived Long;Loved and Laughed Lots.

It does not seem to be part of the tag to say who you have blog-tagged but the ones i would choose are listed ( in no particular order of rank or preference)

Ric Booth

In Worship.

Rick -Give Me Jesus

Kelly

Kim - life’s little stories.

(don’t be concerned if your name is not on my list - it just means i think someone has already tagged you ( perhaps several million times? )

At Dana’s suggestion I managed to find this on Youtube (a friend sent it to me as a movie file) and thought you might all find it as amazing and amusing as i did.

They say a Dog is Man’s Best Friend, well this shows Dogs like women too - particularly as dance partners…

Let’s see a Cat do THAT!

 Any of ’sensitive natures’ out there may want to skip this post?

I found this clip while looking for another one ( that is not there! ) and wanted felt compelled to ’share’… If you are wondering what the other clip i was looking for was and what or who (Thanks to Mandy and Alece!)  ’inspired’ it ^ click on the clip and look under ‘Never wear Panties’ in the music player list

Reasons to be careful what we say #313

Aww heck - i can’t leave you with just that one taste of Kacey - now can i??

Enjoy  Y’all ( those who ’stayed’ awhile - you know who y’all are)

A blogfriend of mine has written a thoughtful post - it has the benefit of being from a fresh perspective - one many of us may not be familiar with - but i think it contains much wisdom and we probably all can get something out of it - if we had not grasped it or looked at it like this before.

Thanks Brainy!

OK - Here’s the thing.. I hate it when a computer that does something perfectly well one day seems to do something completely different the next! It BUGS me and i try like crazy to figure out what happened and why. Some times i am completely baffled .

I have grown up using computers since my High School days (longer ago than i care to recall) and the days of punch cards and MS-DOS. I have studied various computer courses and languages including the original ‘BASIC’, Unix, Pascal and even a misguided attempt at C ++. I have lived through at least 7 regenerations of Windows from Ver 3.0 and Windows for Workgroups 3.1.1 (for those with memories that long!) so i believe i have a fair idea of what computers are and how they work, although i confess, Microsoft seems to me to be going where no man has any right to go in my humble opinion!

I have (and i am sure other WordPress users have too) noticed some weird stuff happening lately that it didn’t used to do - or maybe it always did it and i just had not noticed it fully - but Here’s the Thing - and forgive me if this is not as much news to you as it was to me but i must have missed the ‘information evening’ if there was one that told everybody this….

WordPress wants you to log in each time you ‘use’ it now.

The tricky part is - you can still use it if you don’t!! - and even trickier - it sometimes seems to do it for you ‘automatically’ without you having to do anything - or maybe that is just a ‘hangover’ from the last time you used it and it had not logged you ‘out’ yet!

I fear i am not making much sense… to fill it in a little for you…

You know the icon picture that usually goes next to your name when you comment? Well sometimes i see mine and sometimes i don’t! Sometimes i can see other’s icon’s and sometimes i can’t. - This sort of thing BUGS me as i said before…

NOW - i know why that happens (i think)… and a few more things (like comments not appearing after i write them - or having no trace of me writing one on my own dashboard under ‘comments’ etc.)

I HAVE to log in BEFORE my comments are ‘approved’ or before WordPress will ’show’ my picture icon!  If i don’t log in i can still leave comments on my or other people’s blogs as ‘lovewillbringustogether’ but they go to await moderation on someone’s email list before they will appear on their (or even my own!) blog. ( or perhaps they are even ’spammed’! )

I can read my own blog without logging in - i can add comments without doing so - but i cannot ’see’ my Dashboard’ unless i do and it will not keep track of comments i make unless i do!

This was not made clear when i was reading the initial ‘brochure’ before becoming a WordPress consumer (or maybe it did and i didn’t read all the fine print) - But i know it NOW!

And if you have read this far - hopefully now, so do you - Always Log In, People! 

Hint: - if you cannot see the blue (well mine’s blue anyways) menu bar at the very top of your WordPress window that shows things like ‘My Dashboard’ and ‘My Account’ then you ain’t logged in!

Go Here: logging page

I tried posting this a time back and had ‘problems’ Hopefully they are ‘resolved’ mostly now…

If you are having yet another birthday ( or knows someone who are maybe this will brighten your day and theirs a little more??

Ok - go to In Worships website (on my blogroll on left <=====) and see it there if you will.

OK - late change of plans these - things happen to us all no doubt

 Anyone out there like MUSIC??

 I’ll take that as a yes.

Anyone out there like Mathmatics??

I hear crickets chirping??

I know Someone besides my self does!

Don’t panic - this will be REALLY simple stuff - Child’s play in fact. We all liked to play as Children huh? (Well, i liked to ‘play with numbers’)

Next time someone ‘Tag’s me (You’ve had one turn Chris!!!) one of my ‘random facts’ will be that from around the age of 9 i started counting at night as i went to sleep… The aim was to count to a MILLION - in one’s…1,2,3,4,5…

I had a sheet of paper by my bed and would keep ’score’ in thousands! I don’t recall exactly how long it took but i would count between one and five Thousand a night. I would ‘mouth’ each number,  but either silently or in a very quiet voice. I got to be able to ‘count’ rather fast and could ‘rattle off’ one to twenty in something like 2-3 seconds.

I did eventually reach one million but it was not until my parents had emigrated from the UK to Aus and it was easily six months or more after i arrived here having started some 12 months before.

I did not count EVERY night! What do you think i am - some kind of obsessed nutcase, or something?? ;-) 

 Now i KNOW i had a perfectly good reason for starting this at the time - it just escapes me for the moment. It may have had something to do with my early fascination for Astonomy (and Dinosaurs! ) because both of these two subjects refer to ‘millions’ a fair bit (galaxies Millions of light years away from Earth and periods more than 65 million years ago, when science says the dinosaurs were almost completely wiped out by sudden extreme Global Climate Change!)

I just wanted to get a ‘feel’ for exactly how BIG a million was - and i did just that - trust me - when you hear the word.. ‘million’? you don’t really appreciate it for what it actually IS - it is a LOT - you will trust me on that, won’t you? Try it yourself and just see to make sure i am not lying here!

 Back to the music…  (and maths)

Anyone who reads their Bible (or is aware of their world about them) will understand that Seven is a Perfect Number!

You do all know this - right?

Simple math - VERY simple math - GOD math - the Binary System??  Only 1’s and 0’s?

We start with nothing 0 - where ‘it’ all begins from (binary numbers/counting i am talking here - don’t read MORE into that than you should! - ok? )

Then we go UP to One - 1 - complete and perfect - fulFILLED. (read into that what you like! )

 Next is two which God writes 10 (one zero not ‘ten’  - second ‘generation’ - one down from ‘Parent’ - 1)

Next comes three which God writes as 11 (one one not eleven - try to forget what you learned at school - God was not your teacher there, for most things, man was, and he is not the most ‘reliable source’, for some things! ). This fulFILLS the second ‘generation’.

Next comes four or 100 (one zero zero), start of third generation…

Five is 101 (one zero one); six 110, and finally, to complete and fulFILL the third generation is 111, one one one.

 0

1

1 1

1 1 1

Perfect!

What about the MU-SIC!??

Well - here’s the REALLY Freaky part…

I Just said that to get you to pay attention! Who would want to read a post all about the Number Seven? and me and my weird childhood ‘ways’??

Oh - some more examples of Perfection in Seven (completeness)…

7 ‘Whole’ notes in Music (A - G)

7 Colours in the Rainbow/Spectrum of light (R,O,Y,G,B,I,V)

7 Known planets (back in the Time the Holy Bible was written.

7 Chakra’s in the human body ( i just threw that in there so the eastern philosphies.religions would not feel left out!)

7 Wonders of the World.

7 Days in a week ( ok - music reverence or reference, Whatever!) The Beatles said there were 8 days a week  -the Beatles were about the best musicians ( in terms of outright popularity and fame) known to man. They Knew a Thing or Three - more on that ‘later’)

And…?

 # 7 ? ( Hi Tam !)

 How many letters in ‘Perfect’??

 Just a coincidence??

You know there are more ‘Sevens’ out there in the World.. what are your personal Favourites?

Just WHO’s Universe IS this anyway?

Whoever ‘own’s it get’s to establish the rules that apply to it - ‘this is my Father’s House’ - i have to play by His rules until i can build my own….

What ‘rules’ would/will/have we put ‘in place’ and in stone????

In ‘our’ Universe’s and can anyone else live solely by them, in them?

What would be the minimum set of such rules we All could abide and live by???

 love

Courage! - What a wonderful word! ( i see skies of bluueee… no wait - wrong song.)

 online etymological dictionary: ( etymonline.com)

courage

To Hearten - give or from one’s heart.

Let the conversation commence!

(puts on Armour for this joust).

RIGHT! Things became quite serious, studious and ‘Deep’ in parts back there ( not to all of you, sure )  and before i scare people away i want to restore a modicum of BALANCE. We all need this in our lives - me none the least of all. So, This post is about FUN!

I hope people recognise that even if i can argue the hooves off a goat i can and do retain my sense of humour ( mostly!)

 I love to laugh. Here are a few of the things that make me do it and some of the influences of my ’style’ in writing/thinking.

Favourite Book series (in Humour) - The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by the now sadly lamented Douglas Adams - died way too young ( 52). He was an educated Atheist with whom i would have so loved to argue into becoming a believer like myself - i think we could have had some truly amazing conversations had i ever been able to chat with him or know him before his untimely  end. It is just possible he may have converted me but i don’t think so! - Now i won’t get the chance to find out.

Hitch-Hiker’s is not for everyone, I found it utterly hilarious and it had so many underlying themes through it it was a true work of Genius - but many don’t get it like i did. Hepls if you understand atheism from a ‘been-there’ perspective, i believe.

Favourite TV shows: The Simpsons! Although many can be put off at first viewing by the stupid arrogance of Homer with his countless faults as a human being, or the childish rebellion of Bart. The more you watch this show the better it gets. The countless references to other types of culture and media, the spot on charicatures of our human psyche and the constant struggles the players have to endure to get by as a family are just simply brilliant in my opinion. Please don’t be too judgemental if your’s differs to mine. I see much there that is there. Like the Bible can - it speaks to many on many levels and in many ways. My favourite ‘escapism’ for half an hour or so. Even the many many repeats can sometimes show me something i had not seen before.

Favourite comic strips: Crock, Wizard of Id, Garfield - the very first series were the best he’s way to ‘commercialy cute’ these days. Back then he had a sour mean streak a mile wide.  Asterix for the word puns in the various names. An english one called The Perishers and Calvin and Hobbes.

Favourite comedian - Hmmm tricky, just picking one. I like and laugh out loud at the Scot Billy Connolly (being British originally myself), Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Ronnie Barker, Tommy Cooper and Charlie Drake - all British, mostly from childhood. Victor Borge and Bill Cosby (pre-Cosby show). Lately David Walliams and Matt Lucas (Little Britain) have cracked me up, John Clarke and Brian Dawe - Aussie’s/New Zealander with some truly wicked political satire over here, and i laugh at many things but those first mentioned can make me smile or laugh just by thinking of them - not their work. Not many of today’s comedians can make me do that, sad to say.

How could i have forgot to mention The Monty Python Crew? Or the forerunner to that show - the Goon Show?

One favourite??? - Would probably depend upon my mood - today I am going to say Tommy Cooper. You may never have heard of him. A giant of a man physically, his ’schtick’ was a lousy magician act interspersed with anecdotes and bad jokes, all done while wearing a red Fez ( look it up if unsure, under ‘hat’).  He aimed to come across as pathetic so as to bring out a greater contrast between his less than funny jokes and ‘amazing’ magic (amazingly bad) and the truly wonderful humour that he perfected over many years in the theater. You could feel sorry for him and be laughing your head off at the same time - that was talent. Another in a long, long line of ‘funny’ people who died way before they should have.

Serious stuff that humour.

RIP Tom.