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Our discipleship/small groups moved from Wednesday night to Saturday night. Wednesday is the night Mrs. Major has cards, so now I have Wednesday night free to read. Yea!
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Mrs. Major and I had a great weekend (Thursday – Saturday) in St. Augustine celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary. We walked on the beach, ate lavishly, shopped in Old Town, toured the fort, drove around, and visited the World Golf Hall of Fame. All-in-all a relaxing, romantic get-away.
At 5am – 7am we had thunderstorms, a tornado, and rain totaling 1/2 inch and and hour and a half later we were out playing golf. Gotta love Florida.
Here we are with Marcus and his work
Marcus with Red Storm #5
Last weekend, we went to Jacksonville, FL, at the invitation of Park West Gallery, an art dealer from whom we’ve bought pieces from on cruises. They put us up at the Jacksonville Hyatt Riverfront for two nights and wined and dined us…all just to attend two art auctions.
The featured guest artist was Marcus Glenn. From the Park West web site:
Marcus is known for his use of vibrant colors, his expressive use of exotic papers and fabrics, and his ability to create a masterful textured collage effect. His figures are animated and mannerist in approach, often stretching and twisting into impossible but highly expressive positions. He also has created a unique form of combining painting with sculpture to create a bas-relief effect. He has called this approach ‘Flat Life’ and has been developing the approach for more than a decade.
He’s a very personable guy, great artist, and we couldn’t resist buying one of his pieces. Isn’t it cool? You can click on the images to make them larger.
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President Obama announced another bailout. It’s not likely to work, but he has to do something besides blame the “previous administration” for the economy.
Here’s why government spending won’t fix the economy: Government money has to come from somewhere.
Government spending doesn’t create new wealth or extra jobs, it just redistributes money from those who pay taxes (or loan the government money) to those who help politicians get elected.1
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Of course you do. With Medicare Advantage out of the way, you can sell more of your AARP health insurance. Let’s quit pretending you’ve got seniors’ best interests at heart, OK?
The 1.8 year old TiVo HD finally started to look like it was recording, but actually dropping programs around the 1 minute to 11 minute recorded mark. I wasn’t sure whether it was the hard disk in the TiVo, the external hard disk, or Comcast signals. Not wanting to spend a bunch of money to find out, we switched from Comcast to Dish. Since the DVR service with Dish is less than the TiVo service, and the actual Dish service is cheaper than Comcast, we’ll be saving the big bucks.
I also switched our high-speed Internet service from Comcast to CenturyLink. It’s no longer required that you subscribe to local phone service in order to get DSL. Good deal. The DSL will be about the same as cable after the discounted price expires after a year.
So far things are working superbly and we’re learning the new system.
I’m officially retiring the static page titled “Comcast Saga” effective immediately.
Obama Salutes
Congratulations, Mr. President. You’re the first President that I can remember who could render a proper military salute.
If you’re going to honor the fallen, you might as well do it right.
Way to go!
USA Today reports that the contractors who spent 16 billion dollars of the stimulus package created 30,383 jobs!
Incredible, the stimulus package is working. It only cost $528,610 per job. If the rest of the package is as successful, the stimulus should create just over one million new jobs.
Let’s turn over more stuff for the government to run.
Scene: A senior couple reading the newspaper over a morning cup of coffee.
She: So every year we get a C.O.L.A. to offset inflation…what happens if there’s no inflation?
He: We gat a C.O.R.A.
She: What’s that?
He: Cost of Re-election Adjustment.
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