Buddhists are cool

BURNABY, British Columbia - A small Buddhist congregation has sold one of its temples to raise money for victims of the Asian tsunami.

Abbot Thick Nguyen handed the Canadian Red Cross a check Monday for $405,000, representing the entire proceeds from the sale of the Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation's temple in Mission, east of Vancouver.

The group still has its main temple in the suburbs of Vancouver.

"This is phenomenal," Red Cross spokeswoman Carmen MacKenzie said.

A Vancouver-area Tibetan Buddhist group agreed to purchase the temple in Mission after learning of plans for the sale through news reports.

Wow.

I'm trying to imagine the Roman Catholic church selling, say, Chartres.

Nope.

"Alton Brown would not approve. You shouldn't have items that only have one use."

My gelato maker and I give Alton the finger.

Well, to be complete, they were trying to sell the place anyway to raise money for some expansions, then the Abbot decided to donate the money instead.

My gelato maker and I give Alton the finger.

So does my frozen pizza cooker.

And I'm sure they have temples they wouldn't sell. I was being snide.

Possibly due to the fact that I am student teaching at a Catholic high school. Haven't started yet, but I'm find the idea QUITE hilarious.

My gelato maker and I laugh and laugh and laugh at P-C's frozen pizza cooker. Because we are mean.

I just spent five minutes setting up a meal for Annabel while she squawled in her playpen. Toward the end, as I was carrying the food to the table by the highchair, she got mysteriously quiet.

Naturally she's asleep.

I hate to be all cold and shit, but I've got to stand over in the laughing corner with Betsy and the gelato maker. Because, gelato.

Whereas, frozen pizza.

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Do people even take the ACT anymore? I never hear about it and I thought I'd heard at one time that they'd quit giving it. I took the PACT as, I think, a sophmore. The numbers 14 and 16 spring to mind, but I couldn't tell you which was which when it came to verbal and math. I never took the SAT or ACT for some strange reason. Fortunately, as a person in the military, it usually wasn't required to attend any of the colleges providing evening courses. And by the time I was going to regular universities, I had a substantial transcript to throw at them and my GPA more than sufficed. I wonder sometimes just what I would have gotten on the SAT or ACT. I was not a great believer in studying back then.