AMERICAN HISTORY: On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (November 11, 1918), the world’s warring nations agreed to cease fighting, bringing about the end of the Great War.
DEMOCRATS: They ran on making our lives more affordable, but don’t look for them to be caring about gas prices come January. The Democrats in line to lead House and Senate committees in the next session of Congress are way too busy planning all the ways they want to investigate President Donald Trump and the people in his administration to give a toot about campaign promises or their constituents’ wallets.
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/democrats-lay-out-plans-to-investigate-trump-administration-6120148
DOUBLE STANDARDS: Ditto abortion.
FAA: On Thursday of this week … as in not 30 years ago … the US Federal Aviation Administration said it plans to begin phasing out the floppy disk systems that more than 400 ATC facilities across the country use for weather and other critical information.
These systems were new back to the 1980s, which begs the question … where have they been maintaining the equipment?! Does anyone even still manufacture this stuff? … Oh wait, there it is. “The FAA relies on … decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay.”
Dear God in Heaven. Air traffic controllers are guiding the take offs, landings, and flight paths of thousands of multi-million dollar airplanes carrying multiple millions of human beings every day using computers the rest of us trashed before Y2K.
MAHA: From “Mobility Minute” by Will Harlow – “Most people treat pain during exercise as a stop sign. This feels sensible. But it often backfires. When you rest a sore joint, the muscles around it get weaker. Weaker muscles give the joint less support. So it hurts more next time.
“A better way I’ve found is to judge each session by how you feel the next day. I call this the Next-Morning Check. While you exercise, a mild ache is often fine. If you were to score it out of 10, keep it at 4 or below. (Sharp pain is different. Any time you feel sharp or stabbing pain, stop that exercise and swap it for a gentler one.)
“Then pay more attention to how the joint feels when you wake up the next morning. If it feels the same as usual, or better, you got the amount right. Carry on. If it feels stiffer or sorer than usual, you probably did a little too much. Cut the reps by 25% next time, change the exercise, or don’t push the movement as far.”
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1119544360873609/ [1:28] to hear a moving testimony from a devout formerly-Muslim, now-Christian woman.
WOLVES: CLICK https://x.com/disntr/status/2118081264838115811 to hear a female pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America preach that Joseph’s coat of many colors is really a “story of a boy in a princess dress who suffers violence at the hands of those who hate them for being queer.”
GRAMMY NOTES: My family has been talking about how we can choose what we think about and how what we choose to think about changes our brains, behaviors, feelings and attitudes. Mama Buzz noted, “I’ve noticed prayer works this way too. Years ago, I wanted to be in the habit of praying more frequently and also to remember to talk with God regularly, not just when I’m crying out in despair. It started with getting back to some kind of bedtime prayer habit. And then I was making a point to notice things and thank God for them (like a beautiful sunset etc). When people asked for prayer, I started saying an immediate power pack (Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be) rather than hoping I would remember later. Over the years, I have added more and more of these simple little moments and opportunities for prayer and, while I do not regularly have deep meditative prayer (something I should work on), I find that the more of these small moments I’ve added to my regular habits, the more frequently part of my brain is engaged in some kind of prayer and also I have very regular conversations with God. I am not sharing all this to toot my own horn, I have LOADS of room for becoming more Holy, but I’m reminded that just like practicing gratitude, prayer is a muscle that can grow and get stronger with practice by doing a little bit at a time.”
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1820060132674731/ [ :19] to see something my kids could have come up with. LOL
