AEDs, ankles and irony

I'll be honest. Until Saturday, I didn't even know what an AED was. Now I have an adult AED certification. Scary, huh? :-)

In case you are wondering, AED stands for automated external defibrillator (say that three times fast!). It's basically an electronic device meant for shocking an abnormal heartbeat to get it back in a normal rhythm. My Mom and I took a first aid/CPR/AED course Saturday. Ever since I was younger, one of my favorite books to read was the American Red Cross first aid book that my Dad brought home from his work one day. I now have the updated version!

The hardest part of the course was putting the mannequins together. I think a good part of the beginning of the class should have covered that necessary detail. :-) I put the plastic bag "lung" inside my adult mnqn and the poor guy STILL didn't breath, no matter how much CPR I did on him. I think he had a hole in his lung. :-(

Anyways, it was a good class, and the Red Cross first aid book that the teacher gave us has a lot of good information in it.

Now here's the irony. Shortly after I got home, I was going outside to water the newly-planted snap bush beans, and as I stepped off of the landscape tie onto the driveway my right ankle decided to turn. My first thought was: ouch. My second thought was: This is ironic! I get home from a first-aid class and the first thing I do is sprain my ankle. Great! :-)

Some advice... :-)

This last week I went to Buckit Week. Buckit stands for Bible University Christian Knowledge Intensive Training. It went from the evening of August 15 through the afternoon of August 20th. It was a wonderful time of good, solid Bible teaching, reading and study, and it was also a great time of fellowship with other believers!

One of the two Bible teachers, Mr. Wilson (all the way from Down Under!) spoke a bit on how not to study the Bible. When some people study the Bible, they take things out of context, read things into the text or misconstrue it in some way so badly that all one can really say is... well, watch this video and you'll find out! :-)  

Some puns

So my sister found some puns on the Duct Tape Guys website in one of their newsletters. Some of them are pretty funny!

• A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
• A will is a dead giveaway.
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
• A backward poet writes inverse.
• A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
• The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
• You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
• He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
• A calendar's days are numbered.
• A boiled egg is hard to beat.
• He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
• When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
• If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
• Acupuncture: a jab well done.
• The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
• He acquired his size from too much pi.
• I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
• No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
• A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
• Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
• I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
• A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said 'No change yet.'

Birds and flowers

I found a book on a website called Project Gutenberg (which has a lot of books online, including older books (classics) and some audio books) which is called "How to tell the Birds from the Flowers", by Robert Williams Wood. It's a children's book with photos of birds and flowers, and a poem for each that tells you how to tell them apart. I thought that some of them were pretty clever.



You can find the rest of the book at Project Gutenberg here.