I know I promised the full update about my trip, but I just didn't have time today. I will tomorrow, I swear! For now, I'll just wrap up that poll. This poll was close! When asked what one thing you'd save from your house in a fire, it was pretty much a 4-way tie between a photo album, your computer, a family heirloom, or 'other.'
So what was your answer and why? Of course, there was only one correct answer as usual. The correct thing to save is the computer. An external hard drive to be exact. I've already told Beeki that if there's a fire, the one thing she absolutely must grab is that hard drive. It's got all our pictures, music, and copies of our official and important documents on it. It's everything we need. But please, try to convince us that an heirloom is better than that. Or let us know what the 'other' is that is the one thing you'd take out of a burning house.
New poll and new Einstein as usual. Have a great week!
11 Cachinnations
Well when you said fire, i automatically thought that said fire was occuring in the middle of the night, so the one thing that pops into my head to grab is a pair of pants, I'm sure no one wants to see me running around in the yard screaming "FIRE, FIRE" in naught but what the good Lord gave me when i was born. SO pants first, but if i still had time, i'd go for the computer...me and Stella have gotten pretty close recently!
Posted on 7/25/2006
I absolutely endorse the pants plan. But for the sake of simplicity here, let's assume you already have pants. In fact, let's just always assume you have pants... it's healthier for us that way...
Posted on 7/25/2006
Hope you don't get a computer virus any time soon. Or trip over a cocker spaniel and drop the hard drive on the way out of your burning domicile.
Just some things to think about.
Posted on 7/25/2006
Oh sure, Kat, get all sentimental and make sense. Sheesh.
Posted on 7/25/2006
So we're all in agreement that I should grab some pants...so i'm fully clothed and running out with stella..and the harddrive. My only question is....with Cach grabbing his hard drive, and tripping over the Cocker Spaniels...
(who seem to be a fire hazard...if they catch on fire and start running round...goodbye to the neighborhood...forky do you sense a fun evening with that idea?? 2 cocker spaniels, lighterfluid, match...watch the fun)
...Whose grabbing Beeki while she's asleep on the couch from getting beat so many times by The Don in MarioKart??
Posted on 7/25/2006
Sorry, Cach, I don't think I voted in this one. I read it several times, but couldn't really come up with an answer.
Part of the problem is that you needed to define which things were already safe, like family members and pets.
But even so, you got me to thinking that I don't really know which, if any, material things I value over the others. I don't mean to turn a fun thing too serious here, but that's actually a pretty good question we could all be asking -- are there things in this world that we rely upon too much, or place too much value on? Particularly in a way that is an obstruction to our walk with the Lord.
You know, 'cuz wherever your treasure is, there will your heart also be. Meaning -- I'd grab my salvation! If there's anything I wouldn't want to lose in a fire, it's my salvation! :-)
(I wasn't sure where my comments were headed, so I settled on that. Sorry)
Posted on 7/25/2006
You guys are tools.
I'm grabbing the RUM. The only thing that matters.
(PS...Joking about the tool thing.)
Posted on 7/25/2006
Hammer raises an intersting point. It is all just stuff after all. But then Kat comes in with her pesky sense and sensibility. And it is quite practical to have copies of the marriage license and passport and what not. So I would say that if my house burned down today, but my family was safe, I'd be fine. But if I had time to run in and grab just one thing...
Magic Word: bokphopk. I ate that at a Thai place last week.
Posted on 7/25/2006
I still have to go with the family heirloom. Some things just can't be replaced because they don't make them like that anymore. I don't have them yet, but I'll inherit some antiques worth more than my own net worth whenever my grandparents kick the bucket. We Okies have thought this over many times in lieu of a tornado. If I'm gonna part with something precious, there better be a monetary value and a safe place to keep it.
Posted on 7/25/2006
Someone... help me...
Posted on 7/25/2006
Beeki, don't go getting all mad at me, i was just wondering why you're husband was grabbing the harddrive and tripping over the dogs while you're still asleep on the couch. And don't you worry about marioKart, i've been doing Thumb Excercises!!
Posted on 7/26/2006