One more thing regarding most recent post. Many people seem to get caught up in nostalgia. We could all go silly remembering everything that was. SOme people still use/have the items other people only remember.

I like the concept of Facebook. However, it seems to me that a lot of people don't know how to communicate.
      Instead of talking about real events, happenings, we put trivial facts about our eating or hygienic habits, we allow pictures to be posted of people who are friends of a friend, we get people to play mind and time wasting internet games, trading points of products.we think every photo of family of which we are interested, will automatically be of interest to everyone else. Not always.
    Evaluate your friends posts, and evaluate yours. DOes it really matter to the world you are wearing your red shoes today?
    Instead of really communicating, we are electronically babbling.

Here is a political observation, and you can take it to reflect whomever you think it best fits. In political ads, it seems like a perfect plan is in the course of action of your past experience to cause blatant problems to which the public would negatively react,  - and rightly so. Then blame the opponent in the TV ads for doing those exact things of which your own hands caused similar problems. That's brash, that's wrong, and that's happening now. I hope America is paying attention to what is being said, and what has really happened. The Novemebr elections are much too important  - literally - for the future of the USA to dismiss this

After watching the Olympics, and in the never ending quest to find new events, here are some of the suggestions from family members, followed by perhaps an obvious comment. (Go ahead and blame the heat wave).

• The 10 meter dash - The key to this is literally all in the start
• The irregularly spaced 200 meter hurdles - good luck
• The uneven rings and the even parallel bars - Now that will mess with the mindset
• The synchronized unique diving - between a sumo diver and a pixie gymnast. Points are scored on how far the little pixie is tossed by the indoor tidal wave.
• Sumo short track bicycling. - MAy want to reinforce the tires.
• The shot put catch - Anyone can heave it, who can catch it?
• The church steeple chase - Even run only on Sundays, to see who can get to church the fastest.
• Javelin pin-the-tail-on the donkey. Becasue of animal rights activists, the target will be like at kids birthday parties - drawn, instead of a real donkey. Don't forget to attach your tail to the javelin before throwing it.
• Trampoline really high hurdles. The trick isn't in getting over the hurdles so much as it is advancing down the track.
• And in an effort to promote positive events, how about goodminton?

Coming in the next few months! Book about Steinbeck (and affiliated families) antics. Watch for details.

A pre-Halloween thought (Hey if the stores can go early on the holidays, so can I). If a certain social networking message is sent on Oct. 31, is it called a Twitter Tweet?

Why is it so many Olympic athletes want to bit on their medals? They don't even look like chocolate, unless it actually is chocolate and the "gold (or silver or bronze" is actually aluminum foil hiding something delicious.