Eric Scheske

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Misc. 11.26.05

Is anyone else floored by the dripping narcissism of that August Busch IV commercial for Budweiser? I'm back home. Whew! Whirlwind two days. Should be good training for Christmas. Regular blogging will resume tomorrow morning. I drove the entire length of Detroit's Eight Mile Road this

The Weekend Eudemon

The waters I wade for this blog! Right now, I'm sitting in a Starbucks, blogging with my new T-mobile account. Six bucks an hour, plus one of the blonde counter coffee experts is going to ask me to order something soon. I'm not a coffee drinker,

Morbid but Funny

A list of things not to buy a two-year-old [http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3HL4G7VMNOLXS/002-1193240-6943254?%5Fencoding=UTF8] .

PSA

Blogging could be light the next couple of days. I'll be spending time with family. There will, however, be at least a few posts every day.

11:00 p.m.

"Gratitude: The virtue by which a person acknowledges, interiorly and exteriorly, gifts received and seeks to make at least some return for the gift conferred." Fr. John Hardon

10:00 p.m.

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people." Samuel Johnson

9:00 p.m.

"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks." Shakespeare, Hamlet.

8:00 p.m.

Turkey for me Turkey for you Let's eat the turkey In my big brown shoe Love to eat the turkey At the table I once saw a movie With Betty Grable Eat that turkey All night long Fifty million Elvis fans Can't be wrong Turkey lurkey

7:00 p.m.

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and tha gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton

6:00 p.m.

"Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians." Mark Twain