Guest Post by "The Corsican" (Pen Name)

In light of my absence from blogging, I actually have a "Guest Post" - please let me know if you too would like to write a guest post. It is indeed hard to have your own blog and write posts all the time - but you might have something or some ideas you'd like to post...and....well, I'd let YOU be a guest blogger. Here we are...after all, did you know that 20% of the World's fresh water was in one lake? :

So the blog has become quite dormant recently. In an attempt to help you out, I thought I would do as I suggested some time ago, and hit the random article generator on wikipedia. First up was Sani-Flush, which wasn't much of an article, and I don't have any opinions on that. Next was an English painter (Charles Lucy). Again, not much of an article, and what little was there did nothing for me. Next was Darren Sheridan. He seems to be a pretty interesting fellow, obviously really loves playing the soccer. I was more intrigued by the picture, where I couldn't tell if he was happy, annoyed, or what. Maybe the sun was just in his eyes. Anyway, good picture. The next was the 108th meridian east. I was surprised to get that one <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_meridian_east>. Then you look at it, and it tells you what all it goes through, and I was intrigued. First up, it goes through Russia, then something called the Khatanga Gulf, which I had never heard of, and now I have. There doesn't appear to be much going on there, as it's normally covered in ice, but there is a penal colony looking over it. Then it goes back into Russia, where it passes through Lake Baikal.

Lake Baikal has always fascinated me. I'm not entirely sure why, but I remember reading about how it was the deepest lake in the world was, and that it holds more water than all the great lakes combined seemed insane. And its own wikipedia page is pretty good.
The 108th then passes on south and eventually goes through Java, which seems nice. When it hits Antarctica, it goes through a section claimed by Australia. I had thought that everybody said "hands off" on Antarctica at the UN or something, so I was surprised to see that, but I didn't investigate further. Maybe I was thinking of the moon.

Fun With Photoshop

I downloaded a free 30 day trial of Photoshop Elements. I haven't learned a lot yet... but here is some fun with color and black & white. I always wonderered how those black and white wedding shots were done....with the bouquet in color. Now I know. Here is Dakota wearing a Larry Boy hat from when we were in Colorado vacationing.

'ello gov'nuh!

Dave's favorite commercial...... And, yes, we've been saying it non-stop:

In one word.... THIS is .....

Hilarious!