Olympics, walking, Cyndi Birthday

Walking Stats:
3-18 -did not walk
3-19-3.356 miles, jogged three different times for 2 minutes each
3-20-2.104
3-21-3.261
3-22-3.393
3.23-did not have formal walk but hiked around the area of the fishing tank at Garry's in
Rockdale
3.24-no walk
We enjoyed watching the Olympic games and marveled at the American Swim Team fantastic success and wondered what was wrong with the USA Track Team who seemed to falter with the exception of a few brilliant runs. What shouldn't be overlooked in all the hoopla is the harsh reality of the Chinese government whose zeal to host these games lead to massive forced evictions of Chinese citizens from their homes and salary loses from factories closed to present to the world a 'smog free' Beijing. Arrests, detentions, and harassment of critics lead to repeated violations of media freedom, and increased political repression. No world leaders that I know of spoke out to challenge this behavior in a forceful way.
Over the past weekend we enjoyed a visit from Pam, Rick, and Lauren who came down not only to visit but to help Cyndi celebrate her birthday. Many thanks to Garry and his family in Rockdale for making us feel welcome and showing us a lovely time. I know we all enjoyed and that Rick and Frank truly enjoyed the fishing. We missed having Derick, and Frankie and Sandy there. Check out the photos that Lauren took and if you have a MySpace page you can see a few more that she took that I didn't add here.


I'm not completely thrilled with Joe Biden as the VP because my first choice would have been Hillary Clinton but you gotta go with what you're given so I'm supporting the ticket.