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Worst Valentine’s Day Gifts Ever

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My wife and I were low-key in our Valentine’s Day this year. Every woman in this video now dreams of “low key”.

It’s one thing for Jimmy Kimmel to come up with a dumb idea–that’s a regular occurrence. It’s another to see how many men stepped up to the plate.

Blog Break in Effect

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Tomorrow morning, our family of five are departing for a two-week Florida vacation. I’m viewing as a “buy low, sell high” moment in trading our recent -40’s for some mid 20’s down along the beach.

In the quest for full-blown rest, blogging and tweeting are being left behind as well.  I will eagerly resume them upon returning, but for now…

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Gratitude

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On the theme of Thanksgiving, here are a handful of gratitude-centered quotes I found…

  • The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.  ~H.U. Westermayer
  • If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.  ~Meister Eckhart
  • There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.  ~Robert Brault
  • When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.  ~Frank A. Clark
  • The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher
  • I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.  ~Benjamin Disraeli
  • There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.  ~R.H. Blyth
  • Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.  ~Estonian Proverb
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.  ~Aldous Huxley
  • When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.  ~Chinese Proverb
  • Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  ~William Arthur Ward
  • Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.  ~Author Unknown

Any words there you’re thankful for?

Labour Day Classic ’10

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From today’s Winnipeg Free Press, a beauty of a list to get the weekend started early!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY THE ROUGHRIDERS SUCK

10. Crummy history
In 96 seasons, the Roughriders have won the Grey Cup a pathetic three times — less than every team in the CFL, including three defunct franchises. The Bombers, meanwhile, have played in the big game a CFL-record 23 times in 80 seasons, winning on 10 occasions.

9. Crummy players
The Bombers have 39 members of the CFL Hall of Fame, while the Riders have just 19.

8. Winnipeg’s whipping boys
The CFL record book is filled with tales of Winnipeg’s dominance over Saskatchewan:

• Biggest shutout: Winnipeg 56, Saskatchewan 0 (July 5, 1986)

• Largest margin of victory by a road team: Winnipeg 61, Saskatchewan 8 (Aug. 29, 1959)

• Most kicks blocked in one game: 3 by Winnipeg vs. Saskatchewan (Sept. 13, 1992)

7. Did we mention crummy history?
The Riders would have to go on a 77-game winning streak to raise their all-time record to .500. The Bombers, meanwhile, would have to lose 56 in a row to fall to that level. To reach the Riders’ current level of all-time ineptitude, the Bombers would have to go 7.5 seasons without a victory.

6. Their recent history isn’t that great, either
The Riders just finished losing to the Edmonton Eskimos, arguably the worst team in the CFL.

5. Biggest current “star” is terrible
Quarterback Darian Durant has the most interceptions, worst completion percentage and lowest passer rating of any full-time starting QB in the league. In his last five games, Durant has thrown four touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

4. Biggest past “star” was terrible
Of course, crummy quarterbacking is nothing new in Regina. Their “greatest” all-time passer, Ron Lancaster, threw a CFL-record 396 interceptions in his career — 115 more than the next-most-careless QB. He threw 63 fewer TD passes than picks.

3. Nobody good works there … for long
While Winnipeg steals promising coaches (Paul LaPolice, Kavis Reed) away from Saskatchewan, the Riders hire castoffs (Doug Berry, Jim Daley) who weren’t good enough for the Bombers.

2. A ground squirrel is not a gopher!
Their mascot is Gainer the Gopher — perhaps the only species of rodent that DOESN’T exist in Saskatchewan.

1. A watermelon is not a hat
This is simple stuff, people.

Have a great Labour Day weekend!