Deactivated Facebook

FB was getting to be a real distraction taking up a lot of time, so I deactivated it tonight.  Leaving it open and unattended would only cause to people to wonder why I was ignoring them.  This way everyone knows I'm not online there, at least for a while.

Cooking Recipes

Cooking is relaxing and gives me a chance to do for others since I make way too much food for just me.  Looking at the dozen or so cookbooks on the bakers rack to my right, I think there's probably no more than two or three recipes I use out of each.  Even my favorite cookbook, a Better Homes and Garden copyrighted in 1956, doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Long ago I promised Heather I'd forward a recipe that called for "ten cents worth of baking soda", and I"m still looking.

Thanksgiving brought all this to mind, trying to decide what to take to the annual dinner gathering with friends.  I'll end up cooking something from Soul Food and Southern Cooking, the best collection of recipes I've found.

George Strait

The Man In Love With You

If You're Gone

Joyce Meyer Houston Conference 2009

Joyce Meyer used to be kind of a stick in the mud disliking people wearing jeans in the office and avoiding lights, smoke, and rock in her conferences.  She finally relented when her staff (family) asked her if she was trying to appeal to the (older) folks who already follow her or younger generations searching for life in walking in the light.

This is Joel Osteems' Lakewood Church, a renovated sports stadium, capable of seating thousands of people at a time.  The size of this church doesn't really impress you till you see the twelve page booklet decribing its different ministries and the various maps to found your way around the church and the numerous parking garages.

Her message is always good, but I have to admit her various CDs, DVD, books, and website downloads offer the real meat of her teachings.

Caught Up In Tiger Mania

Pay Pal Scam

Has anyone ever received an email that wasn't intended for them?

I received a Pay Pal Receipt in my email today which was more than a little odd.  I haven't used Pay Pal in maybe eight years, yet this receipt is for a DVD movie I wouldn't like, from a store I've never heard of, and shipped to a person and town I don't know.  Clicking on the various links in the email sends me to a very official looking Pay Pal website, but none of the links imbedded there work, returning a "Page Not Found" error.

Thinking this whole thing curious at best, I accessed Pay Pal from an internet portal page and accessed my long unused account.  There was no account activity, so I'm wondering if this Pay Pal receipt was some kind of scam to gain my account information.