Christmas Carol

This is one of my favorite Christmas carols

Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Canon

Awesome music

Something very beautiful is HERE

Harry Chapin's "Circle"

All my life's a circle;
Sunrise and sundown;
Moon rolls thru the nighttime;
Till the daybreak comes around.

All my life's a circle;
But I can't tell you why;
Season's spinning round again;
The years keep rollin' by.

It seems like I've been here before;
I can't remember when;
But I have this funny feeling;
That we'll all be together again.
No straight lines make up my life;
And all my roads have bends;
There's no clear-cut beginnings;
And so far no dead-ends.

Chorus:
I found you a thousand times;
I guess you done the same;
But then we lose each other;
It's like a children's game;

As I find you here again;
A thought runs through my mind;
Our love is like a circle;
Let's go 'round one more time.

Life On a Submarine

What's life like on a submarine? Imagine a VW camper bus with the windows painted black and a diesel engine. You have to spend three months in the van with four other people that you may or may not like. There are five people and three beds. When it's time to go to bed you just find a bed that isn't occupied and crawl in. Two or three times a day you have to pretend that there is a fire and everyone has to get out of bed and pretend to put out the fire. Then every Saturday everyone gets up and cleans the inside of the van for six hours. You have to drive the VW bus around town while someone else looks out a peephole in the roof. You get to shower every day but it's in a room just a little wider than your shoulders...and you only get about 3 gallons of water to wash and rinse. Don't ask me how the van gets rid of the poop unless you really want to know. Do this several times three months at a time and then you'll wonder why some submarine sailors go a little crazy. Now they get to share this life with members of the opposite sex and without smoking if you really want to.

Gen. David Petraeus

Americans must go to war to defeat old enemies -- not to create new ones.

That was the message delivered by Gen. David Petraeus at Brigham Young University on Thursday evening. The commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, delivered only a few minutes of prepared remarks, choosing instead to field a diverse and complicated array of questions from BYU students.

Top 10 reasons why BYU students make good soldiers

10 » They have already been on many a mission

9 » Army chow is no problem for folks accustomed to eating green Jell-O and shredded carrots.

8 » It's no problem if they don't know what rank someone is. They can just call that person "brother" or "sister."

7 » They never go AWOL -- the prefer to call it "less active."

6 » They will seize any objective swiftly if you tell them refreshments will be served.

5 » They know how to make things happen. If you ever need a base built quickly, you need only to plant a staff and say, "This is the place."

4 » They have innovative ideas for handling insurgents -- like assigning them as home teachers.

3 » They always have a year's supply of provisions.

2 » They are the world's most reliable designated drivers.

1 » They understand how far Iraq has come over the past 7 years -- and they believe that Iraq's old spot in the "Axis of Evil" can now be filled by the University of Utah.

Gen. David Petraeus