When I Whine

I thought I'd share this. I am as guilty of this as anyone. It's so easy to forget our blessings.

When I Whine
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Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair
I looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and used a crutch
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine
I have 2 legs, the world is mine.
~~~
I stopped to buy some candy
The lad who sold it had such charm
I talked with him a while, he seemed so very glad
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm
blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 eyes, the world is mine.
~~~
Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play
He did not know what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join the others, dear?"
He looked ahead without a word.
And then I knew, he couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 ears, the world is mine.
~~~
With feet to take me where I'd go.
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I've been blessed indeed, The world is mine.
~~~

Pass it along.

Now This is Way Cool!

Check out Nokia's new phone or is it a camera or is it a video camera? Whatever the heck it is, I want one! I know we won't see this in North America for awhile since it's just becoming available this month in Europe but it's on my Christmas list.

Check out the specs. The Nokia N93 features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom. You can connect the Nokia N93 directly to your TV for a widescreen movie experience. You get DVD-like quality video with MPEG-4 VGA video capture at 30 frames per second. It also features large internal memory of up to 50 MB, which can be further expanded with a hot swap miniSD card of up to 2 GB, allowing users to capture up to 90 minutes of DVD-like quality video or close to 2500 high-quality photos.

This is one very cool multimedia machine especially great for Vlogs and spur of the moment video capture. You will need one too.

Review of the Nokia N93 here

Specs and demo at Nokia

Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and More

I visited the Atlantic Nationals car show in Moncton, New Brunswick on Sunday. It was a beautiful warm sunny day with temps in the high 20's C (80's F). It took place at Centennial Park in Moncton and the place was jammed full of antique cars and trucks of all description - hot rods, muscle cars, trucks, tricked-out Japanese cars, speciality vehicles - you name it, they were there.

In all between 1800 and 2000 of these vehicles were spread over hundreds of acres. Fortunately there were plenty of shady spots for respite from the sun, so it was great.

My favourites are the 67-72 muscle cars, especially the Mopars like the Cuda, Road Runner, Charger and Challenger.

My mom used to own a '71 Dodge Challenge with a 340 c.i. engine. This was a small block V8 that was lightweight, had a high output and was at home on the street or at the drag strip. In reality this little engine put out a ton of power, something like 315 to 320 hp. It was a real fun car to run.

Mom used to drive it back and forth to work and get groceries. The poor car! About every 6 months she's take it into the shop so the mechanics could take the heads apart and scrape the carbon out. After awhile they told her to leave it in first gear so it would rev higher and keep things a little cleaner. I was in university and would always look forward to coming home to take that car out and give it an "Italian tune-up", that is drive the s**t out of it. She said she'd never sell to me because she figured I'd kill myself. Maybe she was right.

I've captured some of the ones I liked the best here. If you like to tinker and socialize with people with a similiar addiction, this is a wonderful hobby. Of course it helps to have a bit of cash as restoring and keeping these babies running is not for the faint of heart. It's a labour of love. What a great way to spend a summer day! I'm jealous - I want one. Now if I only had a garage.

Enjoy.