Last I wrote, it was about Memorial Day, and how we need to remember those who fight and die to keep us free. Well…a friend sent me (forwarded) an email with a link to a video by some service men and women in Iraq. Wouldn't you know it, the link did not work! Did not make any difference how I tried, just got a blank movie screen. Irritated me enough, that I decided to look at the page source (the code or stuff that your browser uses to create all that stuff on your screen). Looking through the source, found…
Remembering
Yesterday was one of those special days. Special because we remembered ordinary people who gave their lives to keep us free. Special because those who gave up so much were not Presidents or heroes we remember by name. We remembered those whose names may never actually cross our lips. Every now and then, we “knew” someone who fought in one of those far off places in a war that we don’t really remember. Strange, that I remember so many of the conflicts. My earliest memory is that of President Roosevelt announcing the end of WWII. Then came so many others…
Show and Tell
Heard some kids talking about taking their driving test. One kid asked the other "how many times did you take the test?" Obvious that if you took the test more than once, you did not pass the first time. But the "asked" kid said, "I don't know why he made me take the test again, I know how to drive." Well…thinking about this, I'm pretty sure that the driver's examiner has a list of things that you are supposed to demonstrate (show) that you know how to do. And…if you can't show how to do those things then you probably…