Top Few Things I Want to Do Before I Die

I decided today on my way home from work that I would like to make and keep an up dated post about the top few things I would like to do before I die. I don't think I can list them in any particular order and I have accomplished a few of them already. But I will list them as they appear to me and I will try to update them.

• Go Skydiving - Yup I have always wanted to go. I just want to feel that free fall and the parachute feeling
  
• Get Married
• Give Birth
• Get a real job with a real salary
  
• Go to Paris
• Get a College Degree
  
• Go see an Italian Opera
• Go on a cruise to Alaska
• Write a Check
• Buy a car
• Buy a house
• Take a trip to Israel
• Get rid of headaches
  

Milk Does a Body Good

I was thinking about this today for whatever reason I was drinking coffee. I had another headache and needed some type of caffeine to get rid of the headache. Usually a coke or some sort of caffeine will take care of it. I have found that sleeping does not, any longer.

So I was thinking about coffee houses and what keeps them going. Well reverting back again, what keeps coffee going. Well coffee has been around for thousands of years. We all know this, it has been grown for many many years. But.. have we always put the usual in our coffee or tea. Milk cream sugar honey maybe.

Then AGAIN I got to thinking in the normal human round about way about milk. Do human adults normally drink milk in its purest form? Well, no not normally. Unless you are vising a dairy farm milking the cows. Do we need milk to survive? Well we need a form of calcium and it seems that milk or milk based products can provide the easiest solution to that.

In essential, human adults, that means you, do not need to drink or eat milk on a daily basis. We can HARDLY process the milk that comes from the cows in our bodies. Look at the increase in products that offer different types of milk. Soy Milk, homogeneous milk, even the same in cheeses and in ice cream. We do not need to drink milk, or use cow milk in our foods. Our bodies cannot process milk or cow milk at an adult level.

So again what is keeping these coffee houses in business? I would say its not the sugars or the doughnuts. Its not the coffee either. Milk is like part of the gear in a large machine to keep it going and going and going. It is part of the essential of the coffee house.

And Remember at the end of every universe exists a Starbucks!

Animal Suicide

I saw this recently in the news paper about a cow that ran off a cliff, or possible scared off a cliff.
Animal Suicide huh. Kinda interesting I think.

From ComTexNews:

Believe it: Cliff-diving cow hits minivan

WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A Michigan couple are happy to be alive after a cow fell from a 200-foot cliff and landed on top of their minivan outside Manson, Wash.

Charles Everson Jr., 49, of Westland, Mich., told The Wenatchee (Wash.) World Monday he never saw the incoming animal until it landed squarely on the minivan as he and his wife Linda traveled along Highway 150 last weekend.

"It was just 'bam' -- you just saw something come down and hit the hood," he said of Sunday's accident. "I'm like, 'I don't believe this. I don't believe this. I don't believe this.' "

Chelan County Fire District 5 chief Arnold Baker said the cow, which he estimated at nearly 600 pounds, had been reported missing by a local breeder.

Whatever caused the animal to hurtle off the cliff remains a mystery, but Baker told the World the couple was lucky to escape with only a heavily-damaged vehicle.

"It's funny because it was such a close call," Baker said. "Inches different and the couple in this car would have been killed."

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Copyright 2007 by United Press International.

Vince And Larry: The Crash Test Dummies

What ever happened to our beloved Crash Test Dummies? I am not speaking of the band folks, I am speaking of the two characters that we used to see on television during the late 80's and 90's. I did some research on them. The whole purpose was to get people to use their seatbelt. Did it work? Indeed it did. In 1994, the seatbelt usage went from 21% to 73%. Thats a big increase. But what ever happened to these two actors that worked to the Department of Transportation?

Seems too sad that they were retired in 1999. The new slogan is no longer "You Can Learn a Lot From a Dummy, Buckle Your Safety Belt. It is now: Buckle up. Always. Well does that still seem like a quick catch phrase? I would like to see the difference from the time they switched the slogan and retired Vince and Larry to possibly in 2001 or so. If there was a increase, decrease, or stabilization in persons wearing seat belts.

Anyhow, I saw a bumper sticker for these guys on the refrigerator today and wanted to give them a good woot shout out to them for helping our government succeed in a great campaign to help people protect themselves if a crash occurred.