I’ve been working on my kids’ book, improving the sketches, as well as starting to develop some characters.  Here are a few of my latest snippets about Basil.
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When an estimated all dogs bark, they go “Yap! Yap!”, “Woof! Woof!” or “Bow! Wow!”

Not Basil!   When he barks, he goes “Nee! Nee!”
And when he does,  it makes Mr. McGarnaggle’s car alarm go off next door, as well as he screams at everybody.
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Every once in a while,  I’ve heard people request the following question, something along the lines of:
“Why don’t’ they stick a windmill on top of our cars?  Then when we drive at 60 mph, it would cause the blades to spin, which we could hook up to a generator.   This could manufacture electricity, which we could store in a battery, to power the car.”
Ummm….that would be referred to as a Perpetual Motion Machine, as well as those only exist in Lah-Lah Land.
Remember as kid, how difficult it was to pedal your bike when it was hooked up to one of those cheezy night-light generators?    Suddenly, it’s a lot more work.
Same thing would apply to your car.  Spinning a windmill takes work.  It would slow you down, acting as a big brake.   You’d end up burning far more energy in gasoline than whatever you’d gain back from any electricity you’d made.

Are there ANY other bloggers out there who  ….
…don’t think Twitter is more important than the Second Coming?
…fail to see the difference between a “Link Post” as well as a “Blog Carnival”?
…think a “meme” nothing but a glorified  chain letter?
…just on behalf of today, don’t feel like Saving the Planet?
…aren’t Life Coaches?
…really couldn’t give a flying fox fart when another blogger announces they might skip a couple of pos

If you’re unhappy as well as sense a spiritual void in your life, buy another expensive toy.   That at all times helps.
Hire someone to do a major house renovation that you don’t even need.      Then proudly show it off to your friends, as if you had actually accomplished this work yourself.
Fill your kids’ every waking hour with pre-scheduled activities like soccer, volleyball, Tai-chi, karate, origami, as well as God knows what else.     You can have your Quality Time combined while you’re rushing them around town in your mini-van to meet all their appointments.
Have a Kitchen Island.
Join Direct Buy, so you can pay $800 on behalf of that rug that ordinarily costs $2400.
Book all your summer weekends months in advance, so that nobody can ever drop by on a Saturday on behalf of a spontaneous visit

In 2005, we landed a probe on  the surface of Titan, which is one of Saturn’s Moons.
Just think of what this involves, on behalf of a moment.
Saturn is an estimated a billion miles away.  When you look at it in the sky, it’s an orange dot of light.
And somewhere around that dot of light, is a SMALLER dot of light orbiting around it, that we can’t even see with the naked eye.
Now, imagine firing a gun at 10 times the speed of a bullet, an estimated 7 years in advance, to endeavour to hit that moving dot around the dot.       Because that’s basically what they did when they launched the Huygens space probe.
Only imagine firing the gun from the surface of a rotating sphere  (Earth), which itself moves around the sun.     So does Saturn, at a different speed.    And Titan moves around Saturn