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Cybersalt Shaker Episode #009 is now online!  Have a visit with me and my hot water tank by watching "Lukewarm" at:
www.cybersalt.org/3adq

Enjoy the rest of today's digest.

Somewhat skeptical of his son's new found determination to become Charles Atlas, the father nevertheless followed the teenager over to the weight-lifting department, admiring a set of weights.

"Please, Dad," pleaded the boy, "I promise I'll use 'em every day."

"I don't know, Michael. It's really a commitment on your part," the father pointed out.

"Please, Dad?" the boy continued.

"They're not cheap either," the father came back.

"I'll use 'em Dad, I promise. You'll see."

Finally won over, the father paid for the equipment and headed for the door.

From the corner of the store he heard his son yelp, "What! You mean I have to carry them to the car?"

I bet the NSA's nickname for my mom is 'all caps in Florida'.

He said "Your obsession with cats is out of control. I can't handle it anymore."

She cried, "You're kicking meeeowt?"

"A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time."
- Anne Taylor Fleming

Our son had only heard his grandfather pray at Thanksgiving, Easter, and other special occasions; when he, typically, said a long prayer over the food. One night, after a fun camp-out and fishing trip, grandfather (to our son's surprise) asked a very brief blessing on the food.

With a gleam in his eye, our son grinned at his Grandfather and said, "You don't pray so long when you're hungry, do you Grandpa?"