Lessons taught by Life

This is something we should all read at least once.

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of Cleveland , Ohio.

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1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

46. Friends are the family that we choose.

Oregon from the air

These were taken by a man who pilots an Ultra-light Aircraft.

Balloons over Bend event.

North Twin Lake near Lapine , OR

Smith Rock near Redmond, OR

Tumalo Falls near Bend, OR

Mt. Bachelor near Bend , OR with snow. 

Mt. Bachelor near Bend , OR summer

Lava Butte near Bend, OR 

Painted Hills, near Mitchell, OR 

Paulina and East Lakes near Lapine, OR 

Fort Rock 

Mt. Jefferson near Sisters and Madras, OR 

Alkali Lake near Christmas Valley, OR

Alvord Desert near Steens Mtn.

Wild Horses near the Alvord Desert .

Oregon at it's best.

Why Computers Sometimes Crash!

Read this to yourself aloud - it's a must!


If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall......

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions cause unwanted risk, then you'll have to flash the BIOS and you'll want to RAM your ROM, just quickly turn the darn thing off and run to tell your Mom!

Well, that certainly clears things up for me. How about you?

Thank you, Bill Gates, for bringing all this into our lives

Some reminders from a friend:

Here are some friendly reminders and some interesting things to ponder:

*I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

*There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

*Life is sexually transmitted.

*Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

*The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

*Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

*Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

*Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

*All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

*In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

*How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

*Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out'?

*If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

*Why does an OB-GYN leave the room when the patient gets undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

*If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

*If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

*Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

*Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

*Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?