Randy Pausch

An earlier post I made included video of "The Last Lecture" given by Randy Pausch.
As he knew it would, the pancreatic cancer has ended his life.

I for one, am saddened that such a bright, energetic, "doer" and a man of such intelligence has died. I am also glad that he got the time to say the things that he wanted to say before he died.

I hope that his family and all that knew them can find peace in what a great man he was and all that he gave to the world before he left it.

Here is the link again to the last lecture if you have not seen it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Kinda Whiny

Its HOT here now.

HOT makes me NOT want to ride my bike..

I can not complain too much, because compared to last year, we had an absolutely COOL and NOT HUMID June this year! WOO HOO :)

I fell in love with the treadmill at the gym that Jim is working at for the summer... and then I found out that it runs aproximately 6900.00 (That's right, almost seven thousand dollars american) hehe..

We will most likely get a treadmill before summer is over, but it will not be the one I have been using at the gym :) ;)

We have planned a trip to the beach for Friday, as Jimbo has the day off, and it is expected to reach 96 degrees here.. Cool lake water here we come :) We were rained out a couple of weeks ago when we made the journey, but I looked at the weather forcast on 3 websites, and no rain is forcast at all on any of them :):)

Jim got a new digital camera in anticipation of the Orlando Florida trip at the end of August, so he will no doubt be busy trying it out in the meantime.. :)

I have the Casio Exilm exZ57 and he has the Casio Exilim ex Z9 :) I have 5 megapixels and cruddy video capability, and he has 8 megapixels and High Quality video capability.. its all a trade off.. hehe..

I just asked Jimbo for the model # of his camera to post it here, and he said "why, are you looking it up to see the huge price drop that has happened since we bought it.." haha.. I didnt know about that. Such is life.... Wax On, Wax Off... hehe

We also got some "beginner type snorkel gear" for like 5 dollars at Kmart the other day, so Jimbo wants to get me all practiced up on my breathing through a tube etc etc before Florida.. wish me luck, I am not sure that this will be one of my strong suits.

Part of me wants to see if there is a safe reliable underwater case for my camera, but then the majority of me says "that was a big purchase, you would be devestated if it was ruined by water" ...

Oh, we got a great deal on woot.com today.. 2gb flash cards, a micro sd card for only 5.99 plus shipping. We got two of them at that price so in total we have 8gb worth of cards to take pictures and video with in Florida :) what great timing for that woot.com item.. we always joke here that "woot only puts the cool stuff up once they know we are broke for the month :) " ... this time we got lucky :)

Ok, this is getting long now. I wish you all cool breezes and plenty of iced tea/lemonade/soda :)

Angel

Sites I love (Most of them are daily must visits)

www.rosie.com (Rosie O'donnell's website. She is the inspiration for me starting a blog...so I shall list it first here :-))

www.drdeborahserani.blogspot.com (Dr Deb's site, she always has new and interesting pychological topics and keeps your mind thinkin!)

www.ted.com (Now available online are many TED talks..check it out!)

www.thepioneerwomancooks.com (Cooking blog that I have come to love)

www.facebook.com (I am addicted to scramble game and wordtwist game)

www.keloland.com (Local news and weather)

www.woot.com (One deal per day, usually tech-related)

www.sparkpeople.com (On this website, I track the foods eaten each day and exercise done)

And of course...

www.jimchasse.com (Jim's great, and often updated website)
and
www.angelchasse.com (My ok, not so often updated website)

I would love to hear from anyone reading this on what they think are their "go-to must read daily sites"

Of course there are the more mundane ones for me, like my bank account online, cnn.com for news, shopping websites, and general news and current events sites... but the ones listed above I thought might be new for some people. I also am a part of 2 "free samples" type websites :) I love those.. Jim and I never have to buy things for our "Travel and toiletries bag" now :):)

4th Of July :-)

This year we spent the 4th of July with my parents, at their house.

The day was laid back and relaxing. My sister and niece were able to make it, so that was a welcome surprise :) My niece is just shy of 3 years old and my has she grown! She used to take quite a while to warm up to us when she came to visit and it was great to see that that was not the case this time!! :)

The boys (Jim and my dad) made a contraption to explode a fire cracker and that in turn would blow a can off of the top of the little tube they were using. Sounds simple (and scary) enough, but it made for hours and hours of fun for all of us! Who knew blowing a can off of a tube could be so captivating?

We had a great time and ate too much for the diet.. but I guess that is the way it goes at holidays... We also got to discuss a little bit of an itenerary for our Florida trip at the end of August, so that was fun, and got us even more excited to be going.

A great time was had by all, and I hope that any one reading this now had a great 4th of July as well!!