Now we are cooking with gas! Tracey has decided where I want to go on vacation and it is perfect! Since Aaron and Ben really don’t want to go we are going West once again. We are taking a train from Bloomington, connecting in Chicago to another train to Grand Junction, Colorado. We even got the sleeper cabin for the long haul there and back. Once in Grand Junction, Colorado we shall rent a car and start exploring Utah and Arizona ... hopefully seeing wondrous sights such as Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, etc. After about 5 days of wandering the desert we shall arrive in Flagstaff, Arizona where we ditch the car and board a train home via Chicago again. I made the reservations for the train rides and managed to screw that up the first time and had to cancel and redo it. Then Discover Card sent me an email and I had to call them to report some “suspicious activity” on my card with all these train tickets bought and cancelled. Today I need to be getting reservations for hotel rooms the first and last night there and coordinating those with transportation to and from hotels, train stations and rental car lots. Oh what fun! Also a doctor appointment to be re-scheduled and letting the roofers know we won’t be home that week and ... well there has to be more I haven’t thought of yet!
I took a moment to add to and reorganize my Blogging links in the Cool Links section. I still have some work to do on the rest of it but thought I would let you know some changes have been made. If your link is not right or not there and you want it there ... let me know and I will fix it. If your link is there and you don’t want it there, let me know that and I will remove it. I have been trying to keep an eye on all of them from time to time and anything that had no traffic in the last 6 months or so I removed.
Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them.
A scroungy dirty lookin’ guy goes into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says “No chance. I don’t think you can pay for it.”
The guy says “You’re right. I don’t have any money, but if I show you something you haven’t seen before, will you give me a drink?”
The bartender says “Only if what you show me ain’t risque.”
“Deal!” says the guy, as he reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a hamster. He puts the hamster on the bar and it runs to the end of the bar, down a barstool, across the room, up to the piano and starts playing Elton John songs. And the hamster is really good.
The bartender says, “You’re right. I’ve never seen anything like that before. That hamster is truly great on the piano.”
The guy downs the drink and asks the bartender for another.
“Money or another miracle else no drink,” says the bartender.
The guy reaches into his coat again and pulls out a frog. He puts the frog on the bar, and the frog starts to sing Michael Bolton numbers. He has a superb voice and great pitch.
A stranger from the other end of the bar runs over to the guy and offers him $400 for the frog.
The guy says “It’s a deal.” He takes the 400 bucks and hands the frog to the stranger, who runs out of the bar with it.
The bartender says to the guy, “Are you nuts???! You sold a singing frog for $400? It must have been worth millions. You must be crazy!”
“Not so,” says the guy. “The hamster is also a ventriloquist!”
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Now we are cooking with gas! Tracey has decided where I want to go on vacation and it is perfect! Since Aaron and Ben really don’t want to go we are going West once again. We are taking a train from Bloomington, connecting in Chicago to another train to Grand Junction, Colorado. We even got the sleeper cabin for the long haul there and back. Once in Grand Junction, Colorado we shall rent a car and start exploring Utah and Arizona ... hopefully seeing wondrous sights such as Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, etc. After about 5 days of wandering the desert we shall arrive in Flagstaff, Arizona where we ditch the car and board a train home via Chicago again. I made the reservations for the train rides and managed to screw that up the first time and had to cancel and redo it. Then Discover Card sent me an email and I had to call them to report some “suspicious activity” on my card with all these train tickets bought and cancelled. Today I need to be getting reservations for hotel rooms the first and last night there and coordinating those with transportation to and from hotels, train stations and rental car lots. Oh what fun! Also a doctor appointment to be re-scheduled and letting the roofers know we won’t be home that week and ... well there has to be more I haven’t thought of yet!
