Vanity plates

One of the things I really enjoy doing when I’m driving around is reading other people’s private number plateson their cars. For example, the pictured plate in this post reads “Idiot.”  When I see something like that I have to laugh because most of the vanity plates that I see are a comment about the driver of the car!  So for this particular plate, I am thinking that the driver is an idiot!  Although I suspect the person who bought the plate meant to imply that the OTHER drivers out on the road are idiots, I think that it back-lashed.

I think that one of the funniest plates that I’ve ever seen was in Maine, the plate read “PB4UGO”  – something that my mother always used to tell us kids right before we left the house to go anywhere!  Another good one was “IOIO”, which made me think of the Seven dwarfs going off to work.

Not as clever, but still memorable are plates that are on company vehicles that have some reference to the business – such as a plumber’s truck having the plate “PIPES” or “FLUSH.”  Or a home decorating business have a plate that says “DKR8.”  Yes, I do enjoy trying to figure out a lot of the weird plates out there – makes sitting at a traffic light or traffic jam a little more entertaining!

Miracles and disasters

I’ve been watching the very sad and disturbing news stories about the earthquake in Haiti.  It boggles my mind to see how much destruction was caused.  Yet I hear nothing about any damage to the Dominican Republic, which is part of the same island!  How can an earthquake that huge not had any effect to that part of the island?  The stories about medical personnel leaving their clinics in the middle of the night out of security concerns, leaving so many injured victims to fend for them themselves overnight was really disturbing!  And the stories about so many survivors being pulled out of the rubble so many days after the quake are simply miraculous! 

I pray for the healing of all of the victims and their friends and families.  So very sad.

Got an email from Candy

My friend Candy and her hubby moved to Arizona about seven years ago.  They moved to Arizona because they thought that the climate would be better for her hubby’s health.  We keep in touch by email, which is nice.  She was telling me that she was going to have some body sculpting done at a local sono bello center to have a Velashape procedure done to remove the cellulite on her thighs.  She’s been self-concious about her legs for years!  I hope she is happy with the results!

The end of the world?

Last night I was watching television.  Almost everything was reruns, so I decided to watch the History Channel.  It was a show about how so many different people/cultures have predicted the end of the world.  Supposedly that will be happening right around the Winter Solstice in 2012.  I think it is fascinating that so many predictions revolve around that date.  I wonder if it has something to do with the numbers – for example the date will be 12/21/2012.  So many 1s and 2s.  The show certainly was quite convincing that the end of the world really might be coming!  I’m starting to wish I had just gone to bed!

Boxing match

One of my wife’s best ideas ever was to buy my father a couple of Mayweather boxing tickets for the big fight coming up in March in Las Vegas.  I know that Dad and Mom have been wanting to go to Las Vegas for a second honeymoon for a long time now, and we think that this is a good time for them to finally take it.  Now we’re trying to get them a good rate on a nice place to stay and make up an itinerary for the rest of their travel arrangements.  Dad has been a big boxing fan for as long as I can remember, and he’s really excited about the trip and the match!