Monday Meanderings - 6.24.2013

During the NBA Finals, Toyota heavily featured the commercial where the Tundra pickup lugged the space shuttle Endeavor across the 405 Freeway overpass in Los Angeles. You probably saw it, too.

My question has to do with the two guys who walked across the bridge alongside the pickup - one on either side. Just what was their role in this process? Was it to keep the driver from suddenly veering off the bridge? Were they pointing the way - across a mere 45' of roadway? Maybe it was a union thing; driver, fireman and engineer. Inquiring Minds...

On the way to church yesterday we saw some roadway signs that promoted "Fresh Oil Family Church." I commented on the "fresh oil" phrase and wondered if that was a specific Biblical reference. Barb did a quick search and came up with several instances of that phrase - including Psalm 92, which says (in the King James version) "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of the unicorn. I shall be anointed with fresh oil."

Wait! Did that say unicorn? The Bible talks about unicorns? Yes, it does. There in Psalms and in 8 other places in the KJV. How did I miss that? Probably because the translations I use say wild ox, for the most part. Still, there is that persistent and oft-told story that the unicorns were off playing games when the other animals lined up for the ark.

The Sunday travel section of the paper featured sights to see and places to visit in Brenham. Barb's response was "Who cares? Just show me where the Bluebell Creamery is. Everything else is surplus."