Coming up: “The Big Game”

Observations

You probably have noticed that since the NFL started enforcing their trademarks on team names and the “Super Bowl” (several years ago) that advertisers who still want to profit from it will use replacement phrases. This is not all that new. For example, I recently heard an advertisement for a local furniture and electronics store that started with “Green Bay is in the Big Game…” Well, what I have started to notice just recently is that regular folks will use this phrasing too. For example, news media are not restricted from saying “super bowl” but they will say “the big game” just the same. I just received an epistle from an acquaintance who wrote “…especially with the big game coming up…”

Furthermore, “Go Green and Gold!” I mean, “Go the major league football team from Green Bay!” I mean, “Go Packers!”

The Christmas Card that Was Not

Family

C had a vision for our Christmas card this year. The children would hold foot-high wooden letters that spelled “JOY!” and everyone could see our newest addition and it would be warm and Christmassy. It was my job to execute the photography, but as my readers with children have anticipated, things did not go as planned. In the end, we had to fall back on plan B, individual head shots. On to designing the card….well, C was having trouble putting the plan B card together, since it was not her vision. Furthermore, it was getting late at night. So I told her to go to bed and I should have ten card options for her by morning. If you got our card in the mail, the card you saw was her first choice and my second. It has the same caption as this card — my first choice and her second — but that caption has a truly ironic punch on this card. C said that if it were not M’s first Christmas, we would have chosen it, just to stick a finger in the eye of the Christmas Card tradition. I agreed. Anyway, you get to see it here.

Merry Christmas!

Customer Support Cares

Fun

Seen whilst starting an on-line chat support session with my local ERP software provider…read it carefully: “At this moment no agent is available to respond to your question. Regret the inconvenience this may have caused you.”

Merry Christmas

Observations

We here at this web log wish you a Merry Christmas and sincerely hope that this week you spend some time reflecting on the miracle of God born as a man and rest in the finished work of the Son of God and Son of Man — Jesus Christ.

Sunset at Oshkosh

Photographs

Sunset at Oshkosh

Test Drive

Adventures, Photographs

The boys and I finished putting a new head gasket on and cleaning up the carburetor of the Tecumseh 3.5 horsepower motor of this gem. B did most of the work, so he got the first test drive!

Zoom

Food Justice?

Observations

I have not written about it here yet but I’ve been ruminating on the idea that justice does not need an adjective. To wit, if it is justice, then it is right, and it does not need to be called social justice in order to be legislated or enforced. This gives us a clue that social justice is often not about justice, but socialism. Well, if you had any doubts about that, we present to you the newest justice — food justice!