Greatest Inventions in my lifetime

These are some of the greatest inventions as I see it in my lifetime:

1. The Personal Computer (both Apple and Windows PC).
2. The Segway (personal transport vehicle).
3. The Cell Phone (which needs to have full time GPS even when the phone is turned off, for tracking abducted kids or rescueing people) this will cut down on preventable deaths.
4. The Internet (we now have access to all kinds of information that we didn't have when I was growing up)
5. 5 point safety harness for car seats.
6. Digital Camera's
7. Small video camera's
8. Camera's in cell phone so that everyone has a camera with them when they need one.
9. 
   

My Bucket List

These are a few things I plan to accomplish in my lifetime before I Kick The Bucket:

1. Live a storm chasers life for a month.
2. Visit Alaska (either by air or cruise).
3. Return to the greatest state I've seen so far which is Hawaii.
4. See more of my home state which is Arizona.
5. Visit Jamaica via cruise ship.
6. Visit my daughter and son-in-law in Japan before they come home (he is stationed in the Navy, based in Japan).
7. Visit my son and daughter-in-law in San Jose, Ca (who both work for Apple now).

FYI Videos

These are some of the video clips that might be of interest to you:


Cough & Cold Medicines under age 6 - From GMA

5 Point child safety harness car seat - From GMA

Days Off Chart - From GMA (Do the math, Charlie is on to something)

Books to Read

These are some of the books I've heard about on various TV shows that sounded very interesting and worth the reading. I recommend that you read them when you get the chance:

Eat, Pray, Love - Oprah Winfrey show.

From The New YorkerAt the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing." These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert's exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, "It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.'" Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson - Oprah Winfrey show.

By Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA) - 'tuesdays with Morrie' is a short, simple book that proves a work doesn't need to be long or bloated to touch the soul or sell. Renowned sportswriter Mitch Albom reconnects with his professor from college after hearing the sad news that his beloved teacher is dying from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). What originally was supposed to be a visit inexplicably turned into the non-fiction book that never was meant to be, as Morrie decided that with his final time on this earth he had one more class to teach. As Morrie's health deteriorates, it doesn't stop him from sharing what he had learned in his life, wanting to help others, and reconnect with the individual that he considered to be like a son to him. There's no genre of reader that this applies to because this book applies to everyone. It's a short, quick read, and it will leave you thinking about how to enjoy life better and why family and friends are so vital. From someone who is used to covering baseball and sports comes a heart-warming tale that ensures that Morrie's legacy will live on much longer than his physical time on this planet. ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

For One More Day - Oprah Winfrey show.

From Publishers WeeklyIn this second novel from Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven author Albom, grief-stricken Charles "Chick" Benetto goes into an alcoholic tailspin when his always-attentive mother, Pauline, dies. Framed as an "as told to" story, Chick quickly narrates her funeral; his drink-fueled loss of savings, job ("sales") and family; and his descent into loneliness and isolation. After a suicide attempt, Chick encounters Pauline's ghost. Together, the two revisit Pauline's travails raising her children alone after his father abandons them: she braves the town's disapproval of her divorce and works at a beauty parlor, taking an extra job to put money aside for the children's education. Pauline cringes at the heartache Chick inflicted as a demanding child, obnoxious teen and brusque, oblivious adult chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of a baseball career. Through their story, Albom foregrounds family sanctity, maternal self-sacrifice and the destructive power of personal ambition and male self-involvement. He wields pathos as if it were a Louisville Slugger—shoveling dirt into Pauline's grave, Chick hears her spirit cry out, " 'Oh, Charley. How could you?' "—but Albom often strikes a nerve on his way to the heart. (Sept. 26) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Make the right choice

Make the right choice

We all have choices to make in life,
and those choices produce consequences,
people pay for those consequences.
Either ourselves, a family member or a friend,
and we pay for them financially, emotionally, mentally and/or spiritually.

The key to making the right choices,
is to gather as much information that we can before making our choices,
which will affect the least number of people in the least possible way,
and hopefully we'll make the right choices.

However, only time will tell if the choices we made were good one.

(Hindsight is always 20/20)

By Patrick R Julian