“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
That's a quote from author Douglas Adams. If you don't who he is, give him a Google. He's British and, prior to his death, wrote some pretty witty sci-fi. He had an interesting outlook on life.
That being said, he hits the nail on the button with that quote. No matter how hard we try, there will always be mistakes. We all make them. That's what makes us human.
Late Friday, I learned of a mistake I've made. It's quite a doozy. I won't bore you with the details other than to say it's really got me off kilter. I spent much of the weekend with my stomach in knots over it.
But as James Joyce once wrote, "A man's errors are his portals to discovery."
Mistakes happen. Admit them when they do and then learn from them.
If not, the greatest mistake you will make in your life will be to continually fear you will make one.
• As a kid, I remember watching repeats of the original with my mom so I was excited to sit down and watch a little of
this last night.
• One man fights hunger on an empty stomach.
Good story. Talk about your leaps of faith, though.
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Interesting concept.
• A story to get Don J.
teared up on a Monday.
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Good news for my fellow Catholics fearing an aporkalypse.
• My wife was excited to see how good
Jim K.'s football photos were. Her exact words, "You think you can get him to shoot games for you some time so we can have a night out?"
• I was in a funk on Friday so I missed this, but Christina had some pretty cool history behind
Friday the 13th.
• Have you voted in the Herald's
online poll?
• I can hear the wind picking up outside my window. I'm hoping when I wake up, it actually feels like fall.
• Local attorney
Robert Guest gets mention in a
DMN story on Dallas County constables. (Scan down about halfway into the story).
• I'm always hesitant to update my status on Facebook too often because I think it might be a beating to my friends to know what I'm doing every minute of the day. Apparently, though, it's also
a very good alibi.
Have a great week!
