How the Pioneers Felt

My wife found one of the funniest things I've heard in awhile on Facebook. It was the status of one of friends Ruth Akers.

My cable is out so I can't watch TV on the big screen and I'm forced to use my iPhone as a tether to watch Netflix on my iPad. 

Now I know how the pioneers felt. 

This strikes us as funny because we think we have it hard sometimes. But when we compare our place in history to any other place in history, we realize that we have comforts and capabilities that nobody could've imagined fifty years ago. I only pray that we will use them wisely, even when the cable goes out.

All I Want For Xmas Is These Books

Just in case you were racking your brain about what to get your favorite blogger of Christmas, here's my wish list:

Why Mutants Will Never Change by Gene Poole (co-written by the Swirling Eddies)

How to Grow a Brain by Sarah Bellum (Preface by Garrison Keillor)

Don't Eat Yellow Snow by I. P. Freely (now in its 50th printing)

Under the Bleachers by Seymour Butts (now in 100 the anniversary edition)

Writing a Bestseller without Selling Out by Page Turner (Epilogue by Garrison Keillor)

Who Goosed the Moose by Antler's in the Treetops (a true classic)