Day with a Difference - Oct 20, 2006

Today's Inspirational Quote:

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

HAVING A BAD DAY?

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

In the Jan. 6, 2002 edition of Parade magazine, Kirk Douglas wrote the following that I think applies well to anybody struggling with any adversity: My "Operator's Manual": To help people understand and recover from a stroke, I constructed the following guidelines. Then, I had an epiphany: Dealing with a stroke---dealing with any ailment or misfortune---is no different than the way we all should live our lifes.
1. WHEN THINGS GO BAD, always remember: It could be worse.

2. NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP. Keep working on your speech and your life.

3. NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR. Laugh at yourself, laugh with others.

4. STEM DEPRESSION by thinking of, reaching out to and helping others.

5. DO UNTO OTHERS as you would have them do unto you.6. PRAY, not for God to cure you but to help you help yourself.

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A clean joke to sign off your week with laughter

I burned a CD with some multimedia stuff on it for a friend of a friend. He couldn't get them working, because, it turned out, he had a 486 with 8 megs of RAM.

Him: "How come they don't work?"
Me: "You need a new motherboard, CPU, case, power supply, lots more RAM, and maybe a new video card."
Him: "Can you download them for me?"

Have a meorable day and a fun-filled weekend!
Priya