Bad Joke Monday
Irv: I think my old computer is exhausted.
Fran:  Why is that?
Irv:  It had a hard drive.

Megan: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Lorna: To get the Italian news paper...
Megan: I don't get it.
Lorna:  Neither do I. I get the Independent Record.

Chuck Webster's = variant of chock "give a blow under the chin,"
           possibly from Fr. choquer "to shock, strike against." 
Hole  A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit:  a hole in the ground

Chuck Hole at Broadway and Colonial Lane 
                   where I hit my chin when my front wheel hit the hole.

                 Instructions For Life
Children need models rather than critics. 
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, 
but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work. Pat Clifford

               TWEET of the WEEK
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.  Nicholas Murray Butler

Carl Says: "Whoever said there is no such thing as a stupid question
                   has never worked in customer service."

Herb Trebranch in  Pennyman - The Novel By Lonnie Lonnquist,  
"We the working people of the USA, in solidarity with workers around the world, respectfully request that this store offer for sale only goods and products made in countries: Where workers are paid an hourly wage equal to the hourly wage paid to employees of this store. This will keep jobs in America!" 
                 Click Here To Read The First Two Chapters of Pennyman 

            Thoughts While Watching Out For Chuck Holes
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of
cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they
need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and
work through negatives by focusing on the positives. Mike Zimmerman

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! 
Thomas A. Kempis

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. 
They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. 
Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, 
"These forty things I dabble in." Washington Gladden   

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          Jokes That Go Over Like A Lead Balloon
The humane society had an overabundance of cats, 
so they posted a notice: "Laptops Available. Mouse not included.

              Grin! It makes "them" wonder!

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           Good Service Tip Of The Week
The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and
believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only
thing that will ever truly be yours.  Tiffany Loren Rowe

           Classics From The Capital City
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
of life.  Sir William Osler

Do what you love to do, and do it so well that those who come to see
you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again.  Mark Victor Hansen

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.  Sir Francis Bacon

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived
the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.  Diane Ackerman

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                                Proverbs 6:5 
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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     The Writer's Block
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if
you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time
with them.  Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but
progress. Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. 
Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer

             Fortune Cookie(s)
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, 
but to call out our courage and strength.

              OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday)
   OVER HEARD IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
* Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
* An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
* If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
* The shortest distance between two points is how far apart they are.
* Always remember you're unique... just like everyone else.

              Fifty Cents an Hour  
The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam
A great Montana book by Helena author/historian
Lois Lonnquist  www.FortPeckBoomtowns.com
 
          The Final Word From Herb Treebranch
A lot of dreams don't come true in life. 
If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.  Jameer Nelson

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Read The First Two Chapters of Pennyman here

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