Dear Lord,
We come to you tonight to humbly ask you to keep our troops safe....
all our troops. Please be with all the families that have lost loved ones during this conflict and give strength to those who are afraid of losing the ones they love. Please be with the ones that have been captured and give them the patience and courage they need to stay strong during this ordeal. We also ask that you be with all the young men and women that are being deployed as we speak. Give them courage to do what they have to do and wrap your loving arms around them and keep them safe. I pray that those that have lost their lives while fighting for
us now have peace. Let this come to an end before another life is lost. This we humbly pray.......amen.
Lucky: I'm so sorry you feel bad my friend. I have been pretty lucky so far this year and other than a stomach virus have not been sick. (knock on wood) Where is dh's head when you need it?
By the way, got another picture for you at the bottom.
And, of course his eyes are the only thing I look at. What kind of a woman do you think I am?
Mary: Stay strong sweetie. Remember we are always here for you and we love you. Dh's can be a butt, and don't they know
just the right time to argue with us?
I'm at a loss as to tell you what to do with your brother.
I just don't know, but I'll keep praying for him and for you. Try not to let them get the best of you and remember that food won't do anything but make you feel worse.
Sandy: I am madder than crap about them impounding Tony's car. Here's the
official report:
FORT WORTH, Texas -- In an unprecedented move Friday, NASCAR officials disallowed defending Winston Cup champion Tony Stewart's primary car from competing in Sunday's Samsung/RadioShack 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
The car, which had not yet been used by the team, was confiscated by NASCAR and its backup, another unused chassis according to Joe Gibbs Racing team manager Jimmy Makar, was pulled out of the transporter in its place.
"I'm not sure we ever have done this," NASCAR president Mike Helton said.
NASCAR impounded the car and planned to return it to its technical and research and development facility in Concord, N.C., to investigate it further.
"The uniqueness of this action comes from a great deal of action by NASCAR, the race teams and moving to the common body locations and the new templates, to eliminate the exoticness of the cars," Helton said. "This is the first case of a car being outside the box that was built for them.
Jimmy Makar, Joe Gibbs raceshop manager, said the original No. 20 Monte Carlo failed the "X measurement" test, which is one method of determining a car's body placement in relation to the centerline of the chassis.
"It's a measurement from the corners of the decklid up to the corners of the roof, across the back glass," Makar said. "In the X they look for offsets to the car and the measurement was bigger than what they told us they were going to allow."
Makar said the discrepancy, which he cited a half-inch, could not easily be corrected at the race track, so the back-up car was taken off the hauler.
"Why it was bigger, we're not really sure yet," Makar said. "We build every car the same, but that car, for whatever reason, showed a little bit bigger.
"It's not so much a case of body mounting points as it looks at offsets at different points of the car, from the roof to the decklid. What it's designed for is to keep you from offsetting the decklid way over to the right."
Helton said a determination of any advantage the car might have had would be determined at the R&D center.
"We have taken it to keep it in that condition and to investigate further rather than have them (team) cut it up," Helton said. "The resources of the R&D center give us the ability to understand things. We'll take it back to the R&D center and determine more about this situation."
I am VERY upset about this.
Joe Gibbs (Tony's car owner) racing is the ONLY active organization that has never been penalized for having parts that didn't meet quality standards and I have
never heard of them taking the whole car. What a load of $hit. Pardon my french, but I am burned up. Oh well, Tony will do what he does best, and make buttholes out of all of them.
Well, I thought that I'd have time for more individual replies, but I am dog tired and I'm gonna get some rest. I ate
another bag of yogurt raisins today. I'm am reporting in that I had a successful day. I was
successful at eating another bag of raisins.
I MUST and
will do better tomorrow. In the words of Scarlett O'Hara......
After all, tomorrow is another day.... (I didn't even have to make up the southern voice. It's already here.
Dh and I are alone tonight. Trey is spending the night with a friend and Brian is spending the night with my Mom. He just came through in his underwear and said, "Hmm, you and I are alone tonight...don't try to take advantage of me."
Wonder what he wants?
Oh well, here's some inspiration. I guess it doesn't matter where you work your appetite up at, as long as you have your big n tasty at home, huh?
Geez, I'm on a roll tonight. I started my post out with a prayer and ended it up thinking
sinful. I'm beginning to think
Kat is rubbing off on me.