Quote of the Day

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
- Jean Kerr

We apologize for the inconvenience...

Due to a soulcrushing lack of travel, this blog has slowly turned into a pure quote machine lately. That was not my intention, so I'mma try to liven things up a bit here. First, the good news... I've finally decided to at least use my time as an unemployed slob to try and lose some weight and get my blood sugar levels under 7.0 again.

Score success on both counts, as I had 6.9 at the doc's yesterday (against 8.9 three monts ago) and weighed in at 112.5 kg this morning. I hope to be back at my lowest in over ten years by reaching the much glorified 106.4 kg, which I attained in September 2011. Yes, money is not the only thing I've squandered these past 18 months...

On the downside I'm now in the market looking for a job. I'm a teacher by training, so that's where I'm looking first, and I've decided to try and go back to my old high school in the fall (I'm desperately looking for their job ads in the local paper every day... they're late). They've got a new principal and are in the process of rebuilding, so maybe things will be better than they were the last few years of my previous employment there. Also, there's nothing like a 3 year break to get the old motivation going again... wheeeeee!

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What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
- William Safire

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Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
- David Weinberger

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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
- Richard Lederer

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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
- Gertrude Atherton

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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
- Margaret Sanger

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

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I haven’t been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.
- Bob Hudson

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When you're up to your neck in shit, all you can do is sing.
- Samuel Beckett

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Christianity teaches you to love your enemies. If you love your enemies, what value does that place on love?
- Marilyn Manson

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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong

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The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.
- Woodrow Wilson

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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
- Jean Kerr

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An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
- Orlando A. Battista

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Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes; clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
- Stephen Butler Leacock

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hand, he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
- O. Henry "The Octopus Marooned"

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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
- Unknown

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Boy, n.: A noise with dirt on it.
- Unknown

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After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
- Unknown

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A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
- Unknown

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Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- Unknown

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If all the envy in the world could be converted to energy, it would more than exceed its known oil reserves.
- Unknown

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The woman cries before the wedding; the man after.
- Unknown

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God is a man. That’s why he doesn’t listen and never phones back.
- Jo Brand

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor