Family Life Adventure Insights

I purposely believe God is trying to get us farther away from cities, as I have been feeling we need to prepare just to survive.  20 years ago I worked on a project at a company in Silicon Valley that was approached by the World Bank, even before "Euros" were introduced as currency overseas.  My project team was asked to come up with a credit card number that could be issued to every person on the planet.  At the time Bar coding was just being introduced.  The  NSA (National Security Agency) as well as the world bank, was interested in having a plastic credit card encoded with a person's bank info, drivers license info and passport, all on one card, embedded on a magnetic strip on the back of it.  Just look at how credit cards and many State license's are today. Our team developed the card and tested it on 50 subject businessmen here in the United States, who traveled the world.   With their permission, these test subjects helped us to work out problems for this

Yes that's right "Fight Club" v.s. "Bike Club"  It all started with the Timing Belt going out on my Isuzu Trooper and not having any transportation, while it was in the shop being fixed. I thought it would only take a day to get sorted out, but owning an Imported truck means waiting for a part to be ordered from the Dealer. A mere few days, perhaps a week? Who really knows?  So I thought walking would be good. The first day I needed food, so of course I had to walk to get it, only I cheated and took the bus. ("The Shame Train, as Tavis calls it!").  Next since I was bore and decided I wanted a movie to watch, but there were No Video Stores in that direction and it Forced me to have to walk all the way to "Circuit City". This is only 3 blocks away, but hell I still didn't want to have to walk there. Gee, I must be getting Lazy in my old age!  Then here I was at work yesterday after having to walk all the way there from home. It t

I wanted to share my Heartfelt feelings in regards to the vacation we got to take before Christmas. You see Teresa and I had planned to visit Rossah & Imad in Las Vegas for a vacation and come home on Christmas Eve. But without proper coverage at work, I was told I could not go very far, in case of an Emergency. As you can imagine all the planning & Teresa was really looking forward to going away. We needed a trip! When Danielle and Toma surprised us with they got a special deal on a place right outside Yosemite Front Gate and they would be coming over with a car for us to drive and we would caravan there for the weekend, it meant we could have a mini vacation and it was close enough to get back to work, just in case. Of course we were already packed and ready to go, even before they showed up. I thought we would leave at 5am in the morning, but no - we left at 5pm in the afternoon and I realized I would be driving not only in the dark, but possible snow and black ice on the ro

Well this year I planned for 3 months of where to go on my Vacation. What I really wanted to do, was to take a trip to places I've never really been to and probably never get a chance to go again. The thought I had in my mind was the only place I have never been to, in All of California was: The North East Section.  So I looked on-line and saw that there really is not a thing in that section of California that nobody would really be interested in going to see anyway! Then I went to Triple A and got some Road Maps and took a closer look at the State. I came up with Mount Lassen and Lava Beds National Park.  I saw the area was pretty much barren and I wanted to do camping along the way and I remember back from about 10 to 15 years ago, I wanted to go see the Oregon Caves. But at the time I first wanted to do this, it would have been a 50 mile Detour on a gravel road that dead ends at the caves. There was the chance of breaking down and being stuck out in the middle of no where.  This

War in Iraq,..What I will Always remember about it.  I have keppt this Blog mainly for myself to reflect on and any friends or family who may not have heard the complete story to read. PFC David Tavis English was a victim of a Suicide Semi-Truck Blast at a power plant in Bagdad, Iraq on Sept. 14th, 2006    PFC David Tavis English was a victim of a Suicide Semi-Truck Blast at a power plant in Bagdad, Iraq on Sept. 14th, 2006 CNN reported 2 dead, 25 injured, my son was 1 of the injured. However as of today, I now know there are 3 dead, 1 died on the plane to Germany, the same plane my son was on. These 4-5 e-mails are in Diary form 1 each day sent to my family and friends through out the past week. I am home in Santa Cruz, CA. now and Tavis will be in the hospital until Christmas Eve. The Army said they will fly me back to Washington DC to bring him home to San Jose if he is still unable to make it on his own then. Dear Everyone,I got the call no parent ever wants to get. T