richards 2 cents wrth
well here goes with my pathetic attemtpt to add to this blog. as we alays say do you want the truth or a good story. maybe i will give syou some of each. as joyce said we are in big sky montanna at this fnacy skiing resort we are at the e mortel because it is too icy to go any futhter it is supposed to be beter tomorrrow so will giv eit a try.
any way to day we sjust saut around the mmotel joyce workked on her afgahn and i mostly readd. i'm readubg billl brysons boook a short history of nearly everthing. it is some pretty heavy duty stuff explainig how the universe works chemistry geology and like the tirtle says nearly everythin. i was reading today how lucky we are for us to even be here considering the biillions of galaxises in our universe and howthe odds are extremely slim for conditions to be exctly right for the world as we know it ito even exist. then i got to thinking how extremely lucky i wsa to live in this country, have ajob a s wife , the health and the desire to go on a big adventur like this one. we are both wild with anticipationn of all the things we will see.
so far it is a pretty biig deal dragging that big camper around. the first day i got 8 mile to the galllon but was bucking a headwind and had the hammer sdown yesterday it got 9 so was a little better. joyce actually drove some the first day on the interstatea and did quite well. it is a little trickier driving on these twisty hilly mountain roads this laptop is working great and am using skype to call everybody who will listen.
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Dad--I'm glad you took my suggested and gave me some food for thought on what you are reading! Like I said, I started the book before but wasn't able to make it through it. Maybe if it was called "A brief history of just a few things". A history about everything feels a little daunting to me!
So true that we enjoy so many blessings; to have the ability to eat a $37 Buffalo steak just for the heck of it, watch mom crochet the afghan for her daughter and future son-in-law, and contemplate the fact that the big bang even happened and we somehow managed to make it here....I'll never be able to forget how you used to make me listen to the "Universe Song" On your MPR Morning Show Keeper Casette Tape when I was a self-involved teenage girl. I was worried about my hair and you'd make me listen to the song about the Universe...."Lighten up...there are stars in the sky...lighten up...." A great message for me to keep in perspective for my last weeks of the semester. Thanks dad, Love ya!!
Georgia :)
I love that book! When we meet we will have to discuss it, it will make Georgia want to read it.
~Nia (Georgia's friend)
you won't have any luck reading the book georgia. it's in my bookshelf after stealing it from yours. i made it my typical 13 pages in, and moved to the next book.
My two cents: Dad, go ahead and enjoy reading it BUT before you get any further, you better contemplate us even having a planet existing in this universe. According to Al Gore in his An Inconvenient Truth, we may not be here a whole lot longer if we continue to burn up our entire planet and replace ice with CO2!
(I just can't get the "facts" out of my head over this global warming thing.... Am astounded, shocked, hurt and shocked. and hurt.)
wait, woah, did you just write that you have "a job as wife?" I do believe so. Now typing errors, ok, but you better have your editor check your entries before submitting.
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