Best E-mails of the Week    9/8/02

Check out this web site that tells you the date and time.

http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~arp/Clock.htm

I've been asked if this can be a desktop wallpaper, and here is the answer:

Mr. T,

     I took a look at the clock site and it can be used as a desktop
wallpaper, in a way. If you have 98se or 2000 or XP you can save the site in
internet explorer as a .html and then make it your desktop background. You
might want to edit the file though and put a picture in the background or
something because your desktop otherwise will look exactly like the site.
(All white background)

-Jon

For another clock, check this out:

Pete,

It was great to see you again yesterday.  It was a fun day and I enjoyed
seeing my old buddies, at the golf tournament we played together.

I checked out your website and I like it a lot.  I especially like the
pictures.  They truly speak a thousand words in relaying your family life. 
Looks like a great deal of happiness there!

I was looking for a link on your website where I could email you, but
couldn't find one.  You may want to think about adding one.  Anyway, your
business card had this email address on it, so I'm using it to send you this
link to the "Industrious Clock" I was telling you about.  Check it out to
see if you want to put it up on your site.

http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

Take care and best regards to everyone.

Sal

P.S.  Let's keep in touch by email.
 

Here is the best joke of the month in Readers Digest from Drew Carey;

A man answers a knock on his front door, and when he opens it, there is a snail

on his front stoop.  Furious, he picks it up and throws it 150' into the woods.

Three years later there is another knock on the door.  The man again opens it

to see the snail who says "What was that all about?"

Mary and I visited the Norman Rockwell Museum over Labor Day.

He grew up in New Rochelle, and was the youngest art director of Boy's Life Scouting Magazine.

For more art,

Over the summer, our group had to read Return to the Sea for discussion tomorrow.

Here is the passage I selected from page 51:

I began to understand the reason why I was so discontented.  Somewhere along the way I'd mistakenly accepted the false notion that joy was dependent on external circumstances.  Like most people I believed things outside of myself "made me happy". An evening on the pier at the lake "made me happy."  My children, when they were well behaved, "made me happy."  My husband or wife, when things were going well between us, "made me happy."  People's good opinion of me "made me happy."  This subtle but powerful belief had been reinforced over and over by society and my own experience.  I was, after all, temporarily and superficially happy when things went my way....  I was always looking for contentment outside of myself, in someone, something, or some perfect set of circumstances.  But all along, my discontent was the result of not being aware of, and connected to, what I already had as a source of joy and contentment, residing deep within my heart.

The empty nesters with Rockwell's Christmas scene

PS Here's the view from Raf's new nest in college.  That's the State Capitol dome.