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WOW!!  Do you love it?  What do you think of the "Breaking Bad-ish", chart of elements title?  Sally's brother, Tommy G from the 57350, hooked me up with that.  He's a great artist.  Tom and his wife, Steph, are the ones who took Cass' senior pics.  They do good work.  Thanks guys!

SPOILER ALERT!!  No Sex, Porn, or Intimacy this article.  I know some of you will quit reading but I can't provide good gossip fodder every week.  However, I hadn't planned on writing the things I wrote the last two weeks, so you never know what you might get.  One of my weaknesses is that if I think it, I'll probably say it, or in this case, type it.  Reminds me of the story from when we used to live up in Alaska and worked at Echo Ranch.  Each summer we would have volunteers come in to help make the camp run.  There was this dear, sweet old lady named Maude who worked in the kitchen.  It's Alaska, so everyday, pretty much it rains.  One morning I'm in the kitchen before she gets to the Dining Hall.  Maude comes walking around the corner with a plastic sack over her head.  And I say to Maude, "You look like a bag!"  Probably had to be there for it to be funny, but they wouldn't let me forget I'd called her an Old Bag.  Good memory nonetheless.

OLYMPIC UPDATE:  I enjoyed the Olympics.  I "hate" the NBC execs for putting basketball and soccer on the former Versus channel, but I also understand they are wanting to drive traffic to their new channel.  As you probably heard, the USA won most medals.  46 gold and 104 overall.  Did you know 31 were in Swimming and 29 in Track & Field?  Amazing.  2/3 of medals came from two venues.  My favorite story of the Olympics comes from my birth country of the Dominican Republic. In their history, they had only won 4 Summer Olympic medals...ever.  2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze.    One of the gold medals won in 2004 was by Felix Sanchez.  He runs the 400 m hurdles.  In 2008 his grandma died the morning Felix was to race in the Olympics.  He came in 22nd out of 25.  This year, school had already started at the University in Santo Domingo, so the administration setup TVs around campus and let the students out of class to watch him run.  Felix won the 400 m hurdles again.  1st, 22nd, and then 1st.  I read that they are going to rename the Olympic Stadium in Santo Domingo after him.  He is 35 years old.  So do you think proportionately that Sanchez is a bigger deal to the Dominicans than Phelps is to the Americans?

SCHOOL:  Tomorrow is the first day of school in Hesston.  Cassidy is a Senior in high school.  Carson starts his Freshman year.  And Sally is still at the middle school.  Mondays are my day off.  I can't wait for August 20, my first Monday in 3 months with nobody around.  It's the little things.