To put us in our place...

"A minor earthquake occurred at 10:54 P.M., July 26, 2005. (4 miles from us) The magnitude 3.6 event has been located in SOUTHERN ALASKA. (This is a computer-generated message -- this event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.)"

Ohkay then! Just chillin' writing my new children's series "Adventures of Wilma Willow" (pending title please:), and shakey shake. Thought it was just Bo and Casey coming down the "homemade style" staircase in our rental...but no!

What's been the Alaska life lately you may ponder? Sleep, eat, watch Clean Sweep, download music from Itunes, go through pictures to discard doubles, blurries, and dummies, wrap up some loose ends on old scrapbooks that have like one minute of work to be finished! And WAIT FOR NORDICTRACK TO FIX OUR TREADMILL!

I shan't discuss that anymore, but I highly recommend not EVER purchasing Nordictrack, unless you for sure live like 20 mins. or less within a servicing type place/dude.

So, YES! And your lives, do tell. Seems like I haven't talked to J, Mike (well gabbed a bit the other night), Matt or Tracey in forever. If we still lived in Chow, you know it'd be a crash in S.D. deal for us mouching. Ahh...the good old days.

Dreaming of beach days: who wants to go in on some property in Hawaii in 5-10 years. No joke. We only need about 1 acre for a nice little fruit and veggie garden and a simple house would only be 10-15 grand - according to Casey's pals who live on the big island (no insulation needed yo - just a good roof and screened in porch).

We could all meet there and/or spend our own private vacations there at different times of the year. You know, we could secretly rent it out to "trusted" friends for more than we pay on the mortgage. Oh, that's just me pretending it's easy to own, work, and pay for property 3,000 miles away from any of us.

So, I talked to the padres today, good, great stories of Africa! Must hear more. Must see a movie on your lives.

Airtrek.com everybody! Around the world in 30 days: $2500. Still gotta check that out dad!

Check ya!