Weekly News 3

Time to look at the latest news from the week.

Welp, don’t ya just hate when you have a funeral for a complete stranger? Well, that’s what happened in Philly as a service was held for a woman…a woman that was apparently still alive. Now, the casket had a body in it which was identified by relatives as the correct woman. Oops. The woman showed up two weeks after the funeral. Mmkay. Seems it was an honest mix-up; no faking death. But, in the end, there’s no details about how this all could’ve happened. What happened to the woman for people to believe she died? They thought she died…what did they say the cause of death was? Is she mentally stable (she showed up at a mental institution)? This is one of those stories I’ll be keeping an eye on so hopefully I’ll have an update for you soon.

Oh man…here’s a great story. Lego calls this kid a hero for his charity work. And, it’s Lego so you know legos are involved. They built a life size statue of the 10 year old. Stay classy, Lego.

Sleep texting is becoming a big deal. Man, the human body call be crazy sometimes.

So we got a guy offering a homeless man…who apparently is pretty darn smart…to code.  It looks like this could grow into a diamond in the rough.

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Women Are Beautiful

As a guy…a straight guy…I look at the women of this world. And the following words are from the mind of a guy. This is such a simple post with an interesting ending.

Women. Ladies. Girls.

You are beautiful.

You need to know that. Especially in this country, you’re only beautiful if you fit a size 8 dress…and you’re only valued if you show more of your body. You have to wear this type of clothes. Perhaps even smell a certain way (I’m kind of a freak because I do sniff people from time to time. I need help). But I feel like that’s not fair.

For one reason, there is so much more to a woman than just her figure. I will be honest, thinner women are more attractive to me than…larger. But, make no mistake, a woman’s figure only plays a part in what makes a woman beautiful. Some say how personality isn’t important. It is to me. Even in my list for what I look for in my future wife, personality traits appeared while figure made no appearance.

Besides, when we’re become old, all of our bodies will start looking…rough…

I love a woman because she’s caring. She’s strong. She’s funny. She’s smart. A woman with any of these characteristics and more positive attributes are what make a woman beautiful as well as her body.

Some women are blessed with beauty in different areas. Her voice. Her encouraging words. Her body.

Ladies, I want you to know that you are beautiful. You are. You are in your own way. Don’t let the media…the world tell you what real beauty is. God made you beautiful the way He wanted to. You may not believe this, and that’s fine with me. It’s hard for guys to approach certain women because an honest compliment can turn into something nasty because you apparently can’t be as beautiful as that person said you are.

But you are. You really are. So smile, dang it! Take a compliment. Not everybody is trying to get in your pants.

I’m doing a lot of talking here but I’m about to do something that could be crazy. I’m in the process of making these business cards. They read: “Smile! You’re beautiful!” That’s it. And I intend on giving them to random strangers of all ages. Well, maybe not kids as that could get me in some trouble. So I guess 18+ women are all eligible. There’s so much beauty. Some obvious and some not so obvious. Some need to know it while others already know how beautiful they are.

So if you are in my neck of woods, don’t be surprised if I hand you the card and then walk away. Just smile. Because you’re beautiful.

-DALANEL

Daily Good Stuff 166

It’s Friday! Ya made it to the end of the week. And I hear this is a special weekend. So, let’s end this week of DGS with a bang!

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

Expectations

 

No worries! Now for an awesome prank. Maybe not awesome…at least cool…

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DALANEL Stats

I always like to give you a behind the scenes access to DALANEL. Normally, I talk about views and followers. But, and you know this if you run a WordPress blog, there’s more to talk about.

On Tuesday, DALANEL had its best day of views. It was incredible because this is coming off of two bad weeks in a row for the blog and two days after I mentioned the setback. What was interesting about it was that most of my referrers were from Pinterest. If I’m not mistaken, this was the first time I ever got anything from Pinterest. And so I took a look at my referrers from all time and I was right.

The top post from that day was Daily Good Stuff 77. I looked at the post. It wasn’t a special themed post. It was just a standard post. And yet it took over 60% of the views. What made it special? I don’t know.

But then, on Wednesday, I had an even BETTER day. What was interesting about it was that it performed similar to Tuesday. Two great days in a row after two weeks of crap.

Now that we’ve talked about the best day ever, let’s look at the site’s entire history.

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Daily Good Stuff 165

Ah, Thursday. Quite the amount of posts today. We got the DALANEL Review, last episode of the Breaking Down the Book series, an update on my blogging career, and a look into DALANEL’s all time performance. So let’s not forget about DGS.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher

Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor. Proverbs 18:12

Tired of losing in classic video games? Welp…

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Yaaaaaay! And now a video of wins:

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DALANEL Review: Pop-Tarts

As a college student, I’ve learned how to cut costs. Thank GOD, for pop-tarts and generic brand versions of it. There’s something to simple and special about it. I actually eat it straight from the wrapper. Only once have I toasted it and so the hot filling was never a problem for me.

And there’s so many flavors. It’s like…so many. You got your standard Strawberry, blueberry, cherry, brown sugar. Then you got some of the “newer” flavors like hot fudge sundae, cookies and cream, and chocolate fudge. There’s other flavors I know I’m missing. I started to really get addicted to them when I worked for UPS.

Yeah, some background info: I used to work UPS shift from 12 am to 7 am. And right after that, I had an 8 am class and an 11 am class. That was for just four days a week but still…stressful. Anyway, in between my drive home from work and then to class, I would snack on a simple and cheap snack: Pop-tart and a bottle of Gatorade. It was a nice little snack to keep my energy up because I’d be worn out after work.

Ah, pop-tarts. I love you.

-DALANEL