I'm now about 2/3 of the way through surprised by joy and I certainly am surprised. I am enjoying it immensely and there is a lot in there I was not expecting to read so that's keeping me on my toes, or eyes, depending on how you think.
All in all I think it's bound to be one of my favorites.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Smoking will extend your life and make you money!
At my work, smokers are allowed to have a 15min break every 2 hours for a cigarette. The break has to be 15 minutes because they have to walk out the front gate to the smoking area, have the cigarette and walk back.
If I work an 8-hour day, that means I will have 60 minutes, or one hour a day more breaks and thus personal time than a non-smoker.
If I earn say $25 an hour, this means I will make $25 a day on payed breaks I would otherwise have to have worked for.
If we say that a pack of 24 smokes cost $7.50, and I smoke 4 a day (one for every break), it means it will cost me $1.25 a day to earn $25 for doing nothing. That to me is a clean $23.75 profit.
If I work 5 days a week I will have an extra 5 hours a week off and earn $125 in that time.
If I work a 48-week year, I will have an extra 240 hours or 10 days off work, and earn $6,000 in that year doing it.
If I work for 40 years, I will have an extra 400 days or 1.1 years of life my non-smoking friends did not, and I will have earned $240,000 for doing nothing, that they had to work for.
If I smoke 4 cigarettes a day every working day over a 40-year career, I will have spent $12,000 on cigarettes. This means I’ll come away with a net profit of $228,000, or a 1900% return on my initial investment. These figures do not allow for inflation.
This clearly shows that smoking will both increase you life span, and make you money, However, these returns would not be possible if smoking had not been banned from the workplace, resulting in my 4, 15 minutes payed smoke breaks a day.
Finally smokers have something to thank their non-smoking friends for.
If I work an 8-hour day, that means I will have 60 minutes, or one hour a day more breaks and thus personal time than a non-smoker.
If I earn say $25 an hour, this means I will make $25 a day on payed breaks I would otherwise have to have worked for.
If we say that a pack of 24 smokes cost $7.50, and I smoke 4 a day (one for every break), it means it will cost me $1.25 a day to earn $25 for doing nothing. That to me is a clean $23.75 profit.
If I work 5 days a week I will have an extra 5 hours a week off and earn $125 in that time.
If I work a 48-week year, I will have an extra 240 hours or 10 days off work, and earn $6,000 in that year doing it.
If I work for 40 years, I will have an extra 400 days or 1.1 years of life my non-smoking friends did not, and I will have earned $240,000 for doing nothing, that they had to work for.
If I smoke 4 cigarettes a day every working day over a 40-year career, I will have spent $12,000 on cigarettes. This means I’ll come away with a net profit of $228,000, or a 1900% return on my initial investment. These figures do not allow for inflation.
This clearly shows that smoking will both increase you life span, and make you money, However, these returns would not be possible if smoking had not been banned from the workplace, resulting in my 4, 15 minutes payed smoke breaks a day.
Finally smokers have something to thank their non-smoking friends for.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Suprised by Joy
This is special message for Tab,
I just won Supprised by Joy on Ebay for $6.80 including postage.
Very exiting.
I just won Supprised by Joy on Ebay for $6.80 including postage.
Very exiting.
Life
I have been a bit slow on the blogging front recently, for no reason past my own laziness, or as those putting forward an excuse would say, fatigue.
Soccer is over for the year and the mighty greens have to come to terms with being third best in their division. That is by no means a small feat and a size 13 boot should be passed their way.
My bocce team is doing quite well this season; we are currently three games from three. Our last game was a forfeit and I choose to believe that when they heard they would be playing us, they just didn’t even bother rocking up.
I went to the show last weekend and won a small fluffy toy on the air riffle sideshow. There was a small argument as to wether it was a bear or a dog. No one was hurt. I also found out that I shoot left handed, although I am generally right handed. This activity joins kicking a football and playing snooker, as the third left handed preference in my life. I am quite exited to find out what else I do Left handed now, only time will tell how many activities may come out from the left handed wood work. How ironic life would be If writing was something I did with my left hand.
Soccer is over for the year and the mighty greens have to come to terms with being third best in their division. That is by no means a small feat and a size 13 boot should be passed their way.
My bocce team is doing quite well this season; we are currently three games from three. Our last game was a forfeit and I choose to believe that when they heard they would be playing us, they just didn’t even bother rocking up.
I went to the show last weekend and won a small fluffy toy on the air riffle sideshow. There was a small argument as to wether it was a bear or a dog. No one was hurt. I also found out that I shoot left handed, although I am generally right handed. This activity joins kicking a football and playing snooker, as the third left handed preference in my life. I am quite exited to find out what else I do Left handed now, only time will tell how many activities may come out from the left handed wood work. How ironic life would be If writing was something I did with my left hand.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Song I have writen, for you to listen
I like to write songs, you can find recording of some of the tracks I have written at the following Triple J unearthed links. Please listen or even down load them. Even If you hate them it would be good If you could give them a rating on the unearth web page. Any feed back is good feed back.
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12531
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12508
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=14997
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12531
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12508
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=14997
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Coburg get up by 1
Well it was no holes bared, play-by-play, keep your eyes on the field and what every you do don’t blink action on Saturday, as the greens took on Coburg, in a great battle for the silver rung of the ladder. The greens emptied the cards from their sleeves as they tenaciously attached, their star forward quarantined to the sidelines. Did the match make him want to elbow someone in the face? My guess would be yes. Unfortunately, the greens efforts were in vain, and Coburg scraped through with a one to nil victory.
Two games remain in the fixture season, and neither of them can be considered in any type of bag. Both our opponents sit below us on the ladder, but they are both still finals contenders, and will be looking for late season points to get them over the line. Next week we play St-Albans. At our last contest we crushed them 4-1. Our new look forward line however, may make for a slightly closer result this time round. Judging by our honourable performance against Coburg, I am still confident of a repeat victory. We will finish the season with another grudge match against ‘The Southern Star’. At our last face off, they came away with a lucky 1-0 victory.
Two games remain in the fixture season, and neither of them can be considered in any type of bag. Both our opponents sit below us on the ladder, but they are both still finals contenders, and will be looking for late season points to get them over the line. Next week we play St-Albans. At our last contest we crushed them 4-1. Our new look forward line however, may make for a slightly closer result this time round. Judging by our honourable performance against Coburg, I am still confident of a repeat victory. We will finish the season with another grudge match against ‘The Southern Star’. At our last face off, they came away with a lucky 1-0 victory.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Romans 12:1
This is a verse I often hear abbreviated and miss represented, so I thought I’d put my opinion on the subject out there.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
God considers our complete surrender as a living sacrifice as "Reasonable service". That is to say a general requirement for anyone who wishes to follow Christ.
We often here people make statements that say full surrender to God allows him to do powerful things in our lives.
Although I do not disagree with the above statement, I propose this, that anything less than our daily attempt at full submission to God is not Christianity at all. Anything more is impossible.
Some versions translate this verse to say, "This is your spiritual act of worship" and not "reasonable service". If you follow through a pretty basic thought progression about worship, you will soon see that in this instance, these statements mean basically the same thing.
With this in mind, it is important to note that this verse also starts by saying this can only be done "by the mercies of God". This point is also commonly missed, however, when you interpret the rest of the verse as I do, it becomes vital information, as we could never achieve these requirements on our own.
Thus, Christianity becomes the strive for perfect submission to God, but only through his own mercy and power.
Wow! Now that's a crazy powerful verse.
This is the truth that I feel is lost when this verse in not fully quoted.
A by-product of this interpretation is that it creates a clearly defined, black and white idea of what Christianity is, without invoking a whole range of rules and regulations. This creates a situation where God can easily divide the sheep from the goats as it were, without creating the legal mess Christ died to save us from in the first place.
How often do you see the whole Christian experience summed up in three lines? Answer me that! Interesting that it's a statement which compels actions and not ideas no?
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
God considers our complete surrender as a living sacrifice as "Reasonable service". That is to say a general requirement for anyone who wishes to follow Christ.
We often here people make statements that say full surrender to God allows him to do powerful things in our lives.
Although I do not disagree with the above statement, I propose this, that anything less than our daily attempt at full submission to God is not Christianity at all. Anything more is impossible.
Some versions translate this verse to say, "This is your spiritual act of worship" and not "reasonable service". If you follow through a pretty basic thought progression about worship, you will soon see that in this instance, these statements mean basically the same thing.
With this in mind, it is important to note that this verse also starts by saying this can only be done "by the mercies of God". This point is also commonly missed, however, when you interpret the rest of the verse as I do, it becomes vital information, as we could never achieve these requirements on our own.
Thus, Christianity becomes the strive for perfect submission to God, but only through his own mercy and power.
Wow! Now that's a crazy powerful verse.
This is the truth that I feel is lost when this verse in not fully quoted.
A by-product of this interpretation is that it creates a clearly defined, black and white idea of what Christianity is, without invoking a whole range of rules and regulations. This creates a situation where God can easily divide the sheep from the goats as it were, without creating the legal mess Christ died to save us from in the first place.
How often do you see the whole Christian experience summed up in three lines? Answer me that! Interesting that it's a statement which compels actions and not ideas no?
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