Great post. It’s nice to see the personal side of some of the pro-bloggers who’s posts I enjoy reading. The first pic is a great one of your daughter smiling.

You think that turning 30 that time is now flying guess again! I am and just turned 63 in the last of January. Time goes by as fas fast as you make it go by. By the time I was 30 I had already messed up my right ankle for life and now take 45 mg of morphine every 6 hours or I wouldn’t be able the stand the pain. My ankle is complements of Viet Nam and the USMC of which I would have stayed in if they would have operated on it and took the torn cartiledge and bone chips from it being fractured twice that floated around inside it for 24 yrs with no pain pills for the pain then. By that time I had gotten a hernied disc in my lower back. That was complements of International Paper Company. Don’t get me wrong I am not complaining about physcal difficulties. The and that sort of messed up my plans to be a automoble mechanic. I have other injuries from Viet Nam which I won’t go in to. So time flys you think well I got news for you in a lot of ways you control how fast it flies and what happens to you to a certain extent. But do every thing you want to do while you are young because when you get my age you may not have a body that lets you do any thing any more like me. My right ankle is wearing out and it forces my hernieated dics out to pinch nerves so that I can’t walk at all. When that happens I have to get on my motorized scooter to get around with. But I am, being taken care by the Veterans hospital in Portland , Oregon. Which takes very good care of me and they give me 1st rate care but it took about 40 yrs to get them to do that. I just wished I was 30 yrs old again. All I am saying is do what you want to do when your young because you may not be able to do them when you get my age.

This computer and Home and Garden TV keep me going since I can’t get out and do much any more. But when we get a house in Minnesota in 2 to 5 yrs from now I am going to have a model railroad that goes all the way around the room.

And I am in the process of learning Ubuntu; not qient as user friend as they would like you to believe that it is. But I really like firefox and use the windows version now. I haven’t tried Thunderbird yet but will do the line! And after I have gottentired of ubuntu then I will tackle Windows Vista, which I have read from Rich Pryor. And he claims that if you use some of the same enhancements(not put out by Windows) that it is no slower than XP. Boy what ever you do don’t try to run McAfee Anti-Virus and and the firewall and XP Pro tother because it slow your computer to a crawl . Where it takes 5 minutes just to get outlook express to open and work!

If I was to get a new computer I would get a quad with 4 meg of ram and 512 meg on the vidieo card then I would have a hot computer that would run everything that I want it to and for the most part all at once.!

So David don’t let a day go by with out getting to do whatever it is that you want to do.

Have a great day and don’t let little things bug you!

Allan W. Hoppel

I remember turning thirty. If I knew then what i know now…..

Remember, enjoy life. treat it as a game. Aspire to some goals and look past any stops that seek to impede your progress, to the goals and keep focused.

Nice to see some one happy and appreciative of live.

Live is what you make it and evidently you have made it what you want.

Well done!