Quiz

1. Who should be in jail? T-H-I-S guy (remember him?) or T-H-I-S guy? It's a tough call.

Do You Know This Man? You Should.

I don't know how many of you have heard about The Last Lecture. A question posed to selected beloved professors at Carnegie-Mellon: If you could give a last lecture, what would it be? Randy Pausch, the man you should know if you don't already, gave a now-famous and astounding "last lecture". He was dying of pancreatic cancer, and his lecture---meant for his children---inspired millions. If you haven't ever seen it, you must. You must. If you don't have the book, get it.

I bring this up because Randy Pausch died today in Virginia. After watching his lecture, reading his book...you feel like you know him somehow. Or you sure wish you had. You want to be like him and live life like he did. And to hear that he has died is just.....sad.

So take a little time sometime and become acquainted if you aren't already familiar. Two places to start are H-E-R-E and H-E-R-E. It's worth the time it takes; believe me.

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Can someone even explain how THIS is possible? I find it very disturbing--how does a judge allow this? What rationale could there be?

Could You Do It?

My feet are terrible and I'm in desperate need of a pedicure. But I really don't think I'm brave enough (or crazy enough?) to do T-H-I-S. Would you? People seem to love it---claim it's the best pedicure they've ever had. Hmmmm. Jury's still out for me.

Perspective Once Again

Almost two years ago I posted about a sweet courageous little girl we knew who was battling cancer. Her spunkiness and charm were endearing and her courage was humbling. She lost her battle to cancer last week, and this last weekend we went to her funeral. She just had her 4th birthday. I'll never forget the sight of that small little handmade casket, piped inside with pink ribbon. Her favorite little stuffed animal lay beside her as she was finally, finally resting without pain. I can't imagine being her parents, her grandparents, her siblings, her cousins. It's hard enough losing her and just being a friend.

Life is short. Don't waste it.

Summer

I'm finding that it takes me a very very long time to empty a box. I circle it, ponder it, take something out, avoid it, work around it....and then finally I'll empty it and put everything in it away. At this rate we'll be moved into our new digs in about 2012.

It's been an amazingly busy summer so far. We just returned late late Sunday night from a family reunion in Colorado. We were in a stunningly beautiful area outside of Denver called Winter Park, I believe, but the altitude completely wiped me out. The first two days I could barely lift my head off of the bed, which was a bit of a bummer. It was either the altitude or it was a combination of that and exhaustion and low immunity, etc. After the first couple of days, though, I felt a little more normal (if being completely stuffed up and learning to take very shallow breaths is normal) and so I was able to enjoy the fun of being with my mother-in-law's family---and a great great family it is. We had a great time.

Our flights to Colorado were out of the Bay Area, though, since we bought the tickets before we had an inkling we were going to move. It felt very strange to land in San Jose and then leave to come two hours north---it felt a little backwards and strange until we got here and then everything felt right and okay. The flight out of Denver heading to California was at dusk and the sunset there was beautiful. The best part was that we got to chase the sunset for over an hour. A perfect way to come home.

I'm hoping to post a picture or two as soon as I can. I'll be getting those shortly, I hope, from people who were smart enough to actually remember a camera!