a good friend and roommate sent me this video today. he was wishing we could have used it on another one of our roommates. i wish we could have, too. of course, this is a commercial, but there are plenty of youtube videos out there of real people doing this to others. watch out for any that want to play this game with you!

on occasion i get up early and exercise. i’ve got a route that i follow in our neighborhood that helps me keep my love handles from growing into a pot belly. on many of those occasions there is usually something worth noting. one constant that i’ve noticed are the cats.

[note: i am not a cat lover. i can deal with them, but i will never own one. they are pretentious, self-absorbed, non-loving (unless they want something) creatures. i’ll take a dog any day.]

as i go along the way, there are at least 2-3 cats on every block for about half my route. they are sitting by the street and have a tendancy to follow me along their property and even a house or two past. they zip around my legs and look at me intently. i have to be rather careful not to either trip and fall or kick one, though the latter is tempting at times when they get in the way.

i discovered a while back that there are two ladies that walk a similar route, usually 10-15 minutes after i pass. one of those women carries a bag of cat food with her and stops at each house with a cat and puts a handful of food down byt the curb. she has them all conditioned that at a certain time each morning she will be there. over the months the numbers have risen gradually. i can only imagine how this has grown from 1-2 cats per walk to 15-20. i have seen the increase in interest. i’m wondering if word has gotten out in the cat world that an early morning kitty diner has opened in castle heights. pretty soon this lady will have to get a cart to carry the food!

there is a funny story tucked away on 3B of today’s waco trib. you can read it here:

police chief arrests mayor

it seems that meridian’s mayor ran across a truck charging it’s battery off of a city building. the mayor took the extension cord and stored it in city hall. later in the day the police chief arrested the mayor for “depriving him of use of the cord.” in that case, shouldn’t the chief arrest himself or the truck owner for stealing electricity from the city. the truck owner also appears to be a friend of the chief. days later the chief resigned, which is supposedly unrelated to the arrest. yeah, right!

that would be a fun way to get back at somebody you’ve been annoyed with. arrest them under silly pretenses and then resign. showed them!

must have been a slow day in meridian!

you may or may not know this, but my bro-in-law is really into evangelism, especially student evangelism. part of his recent project was just posted on youtube.com last week. it’s pretty funny and i recognize most if not all, which means i’m old school.

you can find out more about the project at getfishfood.com.

it’s a pretty cool project.

saw this site today and thought you all would enjoy it.

www.dontdownloadthissong.com

i know mark and i have both taught a ss lesson on this.

i think my favorite lines say something like….”don’t take away money from artists just like me/how else can i afford another solid gold humvee/and diamond studded swimming pools/these things don’t grow on trees” or “Cause you start out stealing songs/then you’re robbing liquor stores/and selling crack/and running over schoolkids with your car.”

of course weird al is giving this song away free!