Thank you Steve Jobs

I was never the Apple groupie as several of my friends were.

Through the 80s, 90s and 00s, we were impacted by significant technology shifts.

- IBM brought computing into businesses
- Microsoft brought computing onto our desks
- Apple brought computing into our hands

Each company had it's guru, visionary and driving force, without whom, these changes would not have happened.

Today, it is appropriate that I write this short tribute on my iPad.

Thank you Steve. We will always ponder what other wonders you could have brought us if you had the time.

Rest In Peace.

Are we?

"Ultimately, the thing that is super important in the grand scale of history is 'Are we on the path to becoming a multi-planet species or not?'" [Elon] Musk said at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference in San Diego this week. "And if we're not, that's not a very bright future," he added. "We'll simply be hanging out on Earth until some eventual calamity claims us."

What made our country great was our perserverance and our drive; we could out-think, out-run, out-maneuver, out-anything anyone anywhere anytime. When President Kennedy told us to go to the moon, we did. In an era before serious computer technology, it was skill, intelligence and guts that got us there. Our entire country was proud! We had no equal anywhere. We were the best and after the moon landing, we knew it.

In contrast, our leaders now want us to be just another face in the High School Yearbook of Nations. You all know those faces - not the valedictorian, just the many unexceptional faces.

Is this really what we want America to be?

My Guardian, My Protector,.....

Thank you  to my Guardian Angel, God, Jesus, my Mother,....  for helping me bring my father home safely.

Your intervention saved me and so also, my father.  You helped us get home safely.

Thank you for being there when we needed it most.

Obama said Osama's Dead!

Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!
Obama said Osama's Dead!

There's a nursery rhyme in this somewhere....