Tomorrow we’ll return to our usual fare. But for today, we hope you find these amusing:
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from Miffed” to “Peeved”. Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross”. [...]

I’m not usually one to pass along these and it’s not in keeping with what we usually do, but I’ll depart from that fare to bring you a touch of whimsy a friend sent me.
1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. [...]

Updating the 23rd Psalm
Bush is my shepherd: I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for ego’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no
exit,
for [...]

As I walked down the streets of Shanghai with my family this week a hand came out of no where to pet my sons hair. This oddity has become a nearly daily occurrence here this week.
All week we’ve noticed that locals are staring. It’s not often they see a man with a 50 [...]

Today’s idyllic weather can’t but inspire a contrast to last Thursday, when the wind warred with the lake, blowing heavy flower pots off of porches, causing power outages and tossing skinny kids to the land of Oz, all leading to a New Orleans style squall that beat the cracked lead paint off slumlord housing throughout [...]

One even the heathens can appreciate…
An Irishman moves into a tiny hamlet in County Kerry, walks into the pub and promptly orders three beers. The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone. An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders [...]