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Got a nice card from an old friend today, Lindsay. She apologized for being late with the cards but she has had a lot going on at her house, so she wrote a nice long letter and enclosed it with the card.

Her husband was on his way home from work a couple of weeks before Christmas and some woman with two little kids on the car ran a stop sign and broadsided him. He has been in the hospital in traction since the accident. To top it all off, the woman who hit him did not have insurance.Of course, his car was totalled. Thankfully he was driving a big Mercury or his injuries could have been a lot worse.

I feel really bad for Lindsay and her family. Just when you least expect it, something catastrophic like this happens and your whole world grinds to a halt. Of curse, she is lucky that no one was killed. But that is small comfort when your husband is lying in a hospital bed and not able to work for an unknown length of time.

Talking with my Aunt Evelyn last night and she told me a few things about taking care of dogs that I never knew. She has 5 dogs and treats them like they are her kids. She doesn’t dress them up in silly costumes though. She just spends a lot of time with them, feeds them well and plays with them outside so they all get some good exercise every day. She talks to them and fusses over them – they are lucky dogs!

So all the summer blockbuster movies are hitting the theaters now. There are a few that I want to see. I think the one about Super 8 is the most interesting so far. The Hangover sequel, Hanover Part II, is supposed to be hilarious.

I know all the kids are looking forward to the new Cars movie. I think I’ll take a couple of young nephews with me to see that one in a couple of weeks.

Last time I visited my mom’s house, she gave me a big box of stuff that she found in the garage. It was a bunch of old model car kits, some old spray paint cans, and all my old baseball trophies.

It’s kind of cool to see the trophies again. They meant a lot to me when I was playing Little League. I don’t have any place to put them out in my house right now, but I might go buy a wall shelf and put it up in the living room to keep my trophies on.

Usually I am one of the first adopters when it comes to technical things. I am so very interested in computers and the internet, and I work with computers and telephones all day. So, unfortunately, when I get home after a hard day at work, the last thing I want to do is get online again and work on the computer at home. So I have avoided signing up for Facebook.

My wife has been on Facebook for several months and she loves it. So after a lot of nagging gentle prodding by my wife, I decided to bite the bullet and get onto Facebook. So far, it is easy to use and pretty interesting. But I need to search out “friends” to make it work.