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Does anyone know what was dedicated the same year I was baptized? No fair asking Becca! Oh, I forgot no fair asking Anna! Plus, no fair asking Paul, either!

Truck Driver Story

Our family was on vacation in Stockton California visiting my Grandmother. We had spent a couple of the several nights in a nice motel. You know that kind of motel with that kinda fake new smell it has. All the free ice you could eat, suck, munch, chomp, or throw at little brothers and sisters. The kind of motel that was lucky enough to have three children in a room above the managers room. That kind of motel; at least it had a pool. My mom was really out of it that night. I guess she had been chewing to much motel ice.

After all the ice us kids could eat we decided to get rowdy. We jumped off beds, wrestled each other and chomped ice. The phone rang after a few minutes of us kids exercising.

“This is the manager. Will you please control whoever is making all the noise up there.”

“Okay we will keep them quiet.”

After this conversation took place twice the kids were sent to bed. I jumped on the bed and tried to steal as much of the covers as possible. My brother got next to me and then my sister next to him. They soon stole the covers back from me and we were trying not to smell that fake new smell.

“Paul you had better not wet the bed tonight,”I said.

“Oh yeah, this just might be my only chance,”said my younger brother.

“Will you three be quiet,”ordered Mom.

Pretty soon Mom and Dad had turned in too and the room was dark. All that nice exercise of picking on my younger brother and sister had tuckered me out and I fell asleep.

I didn’t sleep very well considering the threat of the bed wetter next to me and the almost noiseless hum of the air conditioner. I woke up one time in the night when I heard a large thump. I didn’t think anything of it at the time and tried to sleep again.

The next morning I was the first to wake everyone else up by hitting my brother and us wrestling on the bed.

“How did you three sleep?”asked Dad.

“Pretty good except for the loud thump that hit the floor,”I said.

“Oh, that was just your Mom falling out of the bed from laughing,”said Dad.

“Well why did she fall off the bed?”we all asked.

“She just couldn’t stop laughing and wouldn’t go to sleep,”said Dad. “I asked her if she was a truck driver and she thought that was so funny rolled right out of bed.”

My mom just laughed at the story.

“A truck driver!”

“It looks like mom had the Wakies,”said my little sister.

“I guess so

September 2006 Update

Well, how are things? For me it kinda goes up and down quite often. Just typing on the keyboard seems great. How do I create a new topic that someone else will read. I thought a lot about this BLOG. I started out adding at minimum two BLOGS per week. Then there was the lull. Have you noticed the same article on the top of the screen? Well things get pretty busy, and I have not been able to update as regular as I have in the past.

There are also articles that help people from writing BLOGS.

I have also been rethinking the purpose. It was great to have all the family input items. However not everyone uses a browser as often as others. So sometimes a tidbit of information may lag and not get to everyone immediately. I have also been considering to have only my immediate family to be able to create a post. (Gary, John, Paul, Sarah, Becca) This BLOG may not be for the whole family, but just for my immediate family. This may simplify the layout. Of course anyone can leave comments, as long as you have a blogger account.

For me it is great to have a picture to share, and have you leave your comments. Then I find I leave two kinds of pictures: Current pictures and Past pictures, or family pictures that perhaps you have never seen before.

I have also been busy installing a new operating system on my play computer. Randy Nelson was getting rid of some computer parts. Believe me it is time to move this stuff out, as it was getting old fast. But I was able to acquire a mother board and memory. So with new hardware for me I installed 'ubuntu'. This is another Linux os. (I used to run Mandriva Linux, remember JR run SUSA Linux from Novel) Wow, it runs great. It is much faster than the main computer. I can run most of the same programs. But it is the faster part that I like best. Plus it runs on the slower systems. {AMD is comparable to a Pentium III} This is actually the computer John set up with Andy one Christmas. Thanks John.

ubuntu will run with a minimum of 128 MB of RAM and 1.8 GB of disk space. It also comes with a live CD. This means you can boot from CD and be running Linux on any computer. This is nice because sometimes a hard drive crashes and this can be used to save data without having to reformat.

Firefox is the browser of choice. I like running my windows in tabs. Plus I don't get all those virus things as I do with IE.

Another program is Open Office. This is a suite of programs like the Office suite from Microsoft. This is the office suite that the Church uses for its word processing. The best part of this is it is free. By the way did I tell you it is FREE! Because of the open standard, the creators want people to use their programs, and there is no cost. So now I don't have to feel like I am stealing software (which I have in the past). Another great part of Open Office is that it imports documents from the Microsoft Suite. It can also save them in Microsoft format, although it does better in its own format.

Another program I like to use is Picassa. This keeps all my pictures organized and helps with some editing features. I can also easily share pictures with email or the blog. Plus it is now available on my Linux box.

Another new program from Google is 'Sketch'. I like the free programs. With this one you can create 3D drawings like a schematic with exact dimisions. Well we are still learning how to use this program. There are many other programs available from Google Labs. Have you found any worth sharing? Well enough of these other programs.

Dance with Cameron

And here is John and Uncle Paul dancing with Cameron. They all like the closing shot from 'Little House on the Prairie'.

Nils with perm

Something just has to be said about Nils with a perm to his hair. Doesn't this just look great?

IE for your browser

It has come to my attention that when this BLOG is viewed with IE it appears as one column. When I view this BLOG I use Firefox as my browser. It appears as two columns. It is very pleasing to see the items listed with two columns.

• How many of you have this difficulty?
• Would it more readable in two columns
• Should the appearance of the BLOG be changed to accommodate IE?
  

Thank you,