Here are some warning signs that you may be spending too much time on Facebook or Twitter or texting online Tech Support calls “YOU” for queries. When an office colleague shares a joke and you say “LOL” out loud. You discover yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when…
04/16/14 Grif.Net – Not-So-Famous Sayings
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, but it makes the ride worthwhile. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. What the…
04/15/14 Grif.Net – Not Sure about the New Guy
I am afraid I might have hired a “redneck” at our workplace. Need others to be the judge but so far I’ve noticed . . . 1. He calls his computer mouse a ‘critter’. 2. He has a gun-rack mounted on the CPU. 3. His password is ‘bubba’. 4. He…
04/14/14 Grif.Net – Signs in the Kitchen
“My Favorite Thing to Make for Dinner is Reservations” “I Only Have a Kitchen Because It Came with the House” “I Hate When I go to the Kitchen to Get some Food and Only Find Ingredients” “My Cooking is Fabulous. Even the Smoke Alarm is Cheering Me On” “A Balanced…
04/12/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Tax Time Promises
Top 10 Things You Won’t Have to Worry About on April 15th (tax day) ~ 10. The Bible will still have the answers. 9. Prayer will still work. 8. The Holy Spirit will still move. 7. God will still inhabit praise. 6. There will still be anointed preaching. 5. There…
04/11/14 Grif.Net – New Bumper Stickers
“HONK, IF YOU LOVE PEACE AND QUIET” “WE ARE STAYING TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CATS” “IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I CAN SLAM ON MY BRAKES AND SUE YOU” “DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK” “THIS VEHICLE PROTECTED BY ANTI-THEFT BUMPER STICKER” “I’M GONNA SURVIVE EVEN IF IT KILLS…
04/10/14 Grif.Net – Bed Bug Quiz
Reading an article by Orkin on Bed Bug infestations and their own research as to the “leading” (not sure that is the right category to “lead” in) US cities in the past year. I was surprised that SEVEN of the top ten (or worse ten) were in the Midwest and…
04/09/14 Grif.Net – Call Home
HUSBAND’S CALL: “Honey it’s me. I don’t want to alarm you but I was hit by a car as I was leaving work. Linda brought me to the hospital. They have checked me over and done some tests and some x-rays. The blow to my head was severe. Fortunately it…
04/08/14 Grif.Net – NASA and the Navajo
In 1966, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.…
04/07/14 Grif.Net – What About This?
If chocolate comes from cocoa beans (grown on a tree), does that make chocolate a fruit, a nut, a vegetable or a salad? If a mosquito bites me, I want to be so filled with God that it flies away singing “There’s Power in the Blood”. If vegetarians are trying…
04/05/14 Weekend Grif.Net – Memo for Choir Members
[I am away from my computer most of this weekend at the “Spring Ring” which we are hosting in Casper. Fifteen 15 hand-bell groups from Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas and western Nebraska gathering to train and perform a massed concert. Since college I have loved the bells and find great…
04/04/14 Grif.Net – Church Cookbook
Some years ago I was requested to share a favorite recipe to include in a local church fundraising cookbook. I’m sure you’ve had this happen, too. I love to cook, so I asked “Carol” what format or guideline I should follow for my submission. Here is the sample she gave:…
04/03/14 Grif.Net – First Robins of Spring
In Wyoming it is JUST beginning to show signs, thru the snow, of spring. I noticed the first robins of spring trying to peck for food through cold earth. Reminded me of the story (think we told it fifteen years ago on the Grif.Net), about two robins that were sitting…