RANT: If the weather people and city officials call for a MANDATORY EVACUATION due to a hurricane and warn of CERTAIN DEATH to those who stay, and you decide to ignore that order, don’t expect the rescuers to rescue you. You deserve to be ignored, but the rescuers won’t ignore you because they understand the concept of grace. I’m sure they want to slap you, though.

RAVE: Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter against the Astros and came within one walk and a hit batsman of a perfect game. I remember seeing the end of Nolan Ryan’s 7th no-hitter against the Blue Jays on TV when I was a kid. The replays of Zambrano’s feat reminded me of Nolan’s glory days with the Rangers.

RANT: On a few websites, such as apartmentsratings.com, people can post and read reviews of apartment communities. Sounds great, right? There are two significant problems, though: 1) Those who take the time to post reviews are generally unhappy enough to want to complain, meaning that the reviews have a tendency to make the property sound worse than it really is. 2) There’s nothing to stop unscrupulous employees of competing apartment communities from posting fake reviews, and supposedly it does happen. Other rating sites such as Expedia, Travelocity, and Hotels.com have the same problem.

RAVE: Facebook is one of my favorite sites because it does a great job of keeping me connected to my people, both the ones I see often and old friends whom I haven’t seen in years. Through Status Updates and other posts, we can see what everyone is doing throughout the week or even the day. For example, thanks to Facebook I know my friend Rudy from Irving is going to the Cowboys game Monday night, my high school friend Scott is thinking about angels in Boston, and my friend Tamra in Keller hasn’t had her baby yet. If you’re not on Facebook, I HIGHLY encourage you to get onboard. Jenny’s mom did recently and already has over 100 friends, many of whom she thought she might never talk to again.

GUEST RAVE FROM JENNY: Food Network cake challenges rock! So does dinner with friends! Our small group plus some other friends go out to eat every Sunday after church. The dinner schedule is on my site.