Sunday, December 6th open thread: I Love a Man in a Uniform

  Here is the open thread for Sunday, December 6th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

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  Well, I returned to work on Tuesday after a month of convalescence and I have to admit it took a couple of days for me to get back into the swing of things but in all honesty it feels good to see the guys again and to get back to my normal life–or at least a semblance of my normal life as I am on a 32 hour work week for December and cannot lift anything over 10 pounds for three months. The 10 pound restriction is hard to get used to because basically it means that I cannot lift more than one gallon of water, I cannot even lift my own tool bag without asking for help! I have to ask people to do things for me that I would normally do for myself and at times it feels like I am not carrying my weight but everyone is understanding.

 So many people have come up to me after the surgery and told me they were praying for me and I have to tell you that despite what some on the left have been saying recently prayers really do mean something and I have been touched by how many people were praying for me, including many whom I did not know were believers.

 Think about it this way: if people care about you enough to include you in their petitions to God, which is the most intimate relationship a person can have, you are truly blessed and you should not take it for granted. I would like to publicly thank everyone who kept me in their thoughts and prayers, you will never know how much it means to me to know you cared so much about what I was going through during the most difficult point in my life and were praying for me. 

  Now on to the musical selection the week: my posts are automatically shared with Facebook so people who follow me there but do not necessarily follow the blog will probably wonder what the title of this post is all about, but of course regular readers of America’s Watchtower know that the title of this post is a song title. Perhaps curiosity will encourage some of my Facebook followers to come to the blog to find out and that is a good thing.   

  I could not decide what band to share with you today but I knew that I wanted to post something from a band that I had not shared before and this song suddenly popped into my head last night. I have not heard this song in years (decades) but here is Gang of Four performing “I Love a Man in a Uniform” live from 1982.

frui diem