I just heard about a contest to win a book called Travel Guide Book. It’s got 444 pages.  They are giving these books away to expose people to travel and global cultures.  This book is written by a group of educators that are sharing their travel experiences.  I think it’s a great thing especially if I was to win it.  Check it out for yourself and see if maybe you could win one too.

I have a cousin that has a couple small air planes and even landed upside down in a tree once.  He was hinging there upside down laughing like some kind of idiot.  Well now he’s looking for a Florida villa that he can fly into. Oh yeah, I can just imagine him flying into one of the other houses.  I have to admit there are some really nice houses down there.  He’s really a pretty good pilot but I wouldn’t go up with him.  I wouldn’t mind going to visit him if he does buy one of the houses he’s looking at in Florida.  He’s checking out one pretty close to Disney World.  Be a good excuse to go to Disney World if we went to visit him, ya know?

Oh have you seen the Olympic Mens Beach Vollyball Team?  Are they just the cutest or what?  Talk about tall, dark, and handsome, well I think they all are.  Boy do they have great bodies too or what?  I think I have found a new sport I want to watch, how about you? 

As you know, I have been thinking about diet pills to help me lose a few pounds.  Well I think I have found a better way.  I know it’s probably a much healthier way too.  It’s with a low carb diet.  I found an article on http://health.msn.com/ and it talked about a low carb verses a low fat diet.  I can handle a low carb diet better than a low fat one because you don’t have to count calories with a low carb diet.  I can’t stay on a diet that I have to weigh everything or count everything I eat but I can cut out some of the breads, potatoes, and other carbs I eat.  That’s not that hard to do.  I’ll let you know how that works and yes I will ride the new bike too.

A lot of stars that had either worked with or knew Bernie Mac paid tribute to him.  He died suddenly Saturday from pneumonia of all things.  How does someone get pneumonia in August?  I thought that was something most people came down with in the winter but I guess I was wrong about that.  It’s always a shame to lose someone too soon and Bernie was only 50 years old.  That’s not very old at all in the real world where you see plenty of people on TV that are over 100.  I guess when it’s your time to go, you have no choice no matter how old you are or how young you are.  Life isn’t a given, it’s a gift and we should all cherish each day just as that, a gift because tomorrow my not come for all of us.  My heart goes out to his family and those that knew him personally.