By the looks of this dog...

Do you know where I am now? The dog is a huge clue.

Up early

I must be becoming my dad. Because today I was up super early, for my
standards, on the road to maximize my time on vacation. Just like my
dad...

Ice Cream

I scream. You scream We all scream for...malted milk ball & mint Oreo
ice cream. Yummy!!! Fr. Joe Creedon took me to a local ice creamery
after a wonderful dinner that he himself cooked. I am in Kingston RI
for the night. Tomorrow I am off to the beach for a week with a few
priest. Pure vacation. More later. Peace

And...

That last one was too easy, so...can you guess who I am visiting.

Rhode Island

Can you guess where I am today?

Bulletin & Insert for 20July08

Trivia for my night owls...

Tom Doyle was washing windows on a high-rise office building when he slipped and fell off a sixty foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below. Incredibly, he did not injure himself in any way. How was this possible?

UPDATE: And our winner is Bubba Y. Tom Doyle was only on the bottom rung, hence he was not hurt. Seemed as if this one was too easy...now I have to get a really hard one for you. Just you wait my pretties...

Is it???

Schadenfreude, not sure if this counts but it sure feels like it does. Enjoy

Parking

Why can't we get something like this in Atlanta? Maybe it will prove itself as an overwhelming success and we will get it, who knows. Enjoy

This one is a bit more of a challenge

Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs Smith turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your bags, I would have twice as many as you, and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have the same number of bags." How many bags were each of them carrying?

UPDATE: Looks like we have a winner. The correct answer is...she has 7 bags and her husband has 5 bags. "Rob" is our winner, I am guessing it is Rob Schulten, because there is no last name on the comment. So Rob reveal yourself to me and I will get you your prize. More later...

Bulletin 13July2008

Trivia

Ok, you all did quite well with my last easy question so here is another. Same prize, a waffle! Remember sign you posts so I know who you are.

If it takes 12 men six days to dig 12 holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole?

UPDATE: You cannot dig half a hole. So even though we had plenty using their math skills you still can't dig half a hole. So our winner was Mark Matthews, when he gets back from Canada you can have a waffle on me. BTW the comments in here do not post automatically, so I can screen just in case anyone does not follow the rules. Also I don't always post the answer until a few people have chimed in, so that is why if you posted an answer early you only saw it once I posted all the answers.

Friday FAILures

Feeling hot hot hot

This is a great commercial. I could just see myself in this guys predicament, since I would try something crazy like acupuncture while in Taiwan. I have no idea what they are advertising here. Enjoy

Neat stop-action video

Enjoy

Trivia is back

Prize is a waffle at my Waffle House.

Bob purchased two cigars at the tobacconist which, together, cost $1.10. One cigar cost one dollar more than the other. What were the individual pieces of the two cigars?

UPDATE: Selina Schulten was our winner for this question. The cost of the cigars is $0.05 and $1.05. Congratulations Selina see me at Mass and I can get you your prize. I would also like to remind all readers that if you hope to win I will need to know who you are so don't post anonymously without some indication who you are.

Party

This evening I went to Evening Prayer, Mass and Dinner with the seminarians, hosted by the Deacon's in formation. Since I am on the Deacon Board, teach the Deacon's in formation and have a keen interest in seminarians (as they are my retirement plan) I thought it would be good to attend. Deacon Salomon was there (also Deacon Ignacio) our own Deacon Bill and Deacon Gayle helped with set up and Bill cooked chicken and steaks for the crowd. It was a great evening and after dinner I stood around with some of the "Men of Ten" and chewed the fat. Here are some photos...maybe I should get a Miata?

Something to do before I die

I love these types of list that tell you what would be good to see and do before you die. I found this list today and realized it is a good one and that I have kind of done a few of these, but would like to try others. I think the idea would be to come up with my own wish list and go from there? Do any of you have lists like it?

I'm back

Well last week was a real stinker, with being sick and all it really threw me for a loop. Anyway back on my feet and back to work now so I need to get back to blogging. I have a few things still about Japan that I would like to put in here, just need some more time. So I am back and hopefully I can get back to posting with more frequency. Peace

Faithful Citizenship

This weekend we started a preaching series that will last for five weeks. We are focusing on the what has been produced by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, regarding Faithful Citizenship. We are using their document Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States. We have some copies of the document available for you on the tables in the back of church. You can also download a copy here and get a summary of the document here. Also on their main site there are plenty of resources for you to explore in more depth the topics we will be covering during the homily. They also have sections for families and children not old enough to vote, to help with the discussions at home. We will try to get a copy of each homily online by Sunday afternoon.