TO: JULIE, ROBIN AND SHERRI

NO MATTER HOW SERIOUS YOUR LIFE REQUIRES YOU TO BE, EVERYONE NEEDS FRIENDS TO ACT GOOFY WITH...

FACEBOOK FRIENDS WITH YOUR BOSS?

Facebook has creeped into the workplace and creating some sticky situations for employers and employees…We send friends quick posts and share photos…everything is instant…'instant!...I still haven't learned how to post pictures, thank God...

You may know someone whose postings got them in hot water with the boss, but it isn’t always what you post, it’s what your friends post…

Use privacy settings to block some friends and your boss…Think about it …

I don't have a boss but I'm thinking of blocking some of my 'unusual' Facebook friends...

Like the sergeant on Hill Street Blues always said: “Be careful out there!!!”

THE NEW CATHOLIC DUI: TEXTING DURING LENT

Italian Catholics are sacrificing texting for Lent!!!  

After beginning in three dioceses in Italy a campaign to give up texting, as well as social networking and computer games has spread to other parts of Italy...(too much wine?)

This effort, after earlier comments by Pope Benedict XVI's  praising young people 's ability to link new media with their desire to be connected to others as fulfilling our deepest need to become fully human...  He also added that loving is what we are designed for by our Creator...(at times the Pope knows what he's talking about)

But, the Pope "warned against an obsessive desire for virtual connectedness which may isolate individuals from real social interaction; it would disrupt patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development."...

(I dig silence...isn't that why we text?)

For Lent I'm giving up John Wayne movies on TV...I've done it for years even tho it's almost impossible to live without those great old Western movies...

MARCH FORTH

Wouldn't it be great if we had the day off tomorrow to celebrate time to invest in ourselves by doing something important?

To make it a year round state of mind to continue to achieve personal and professional goals?

To make it a day to challenge ourselves to push the envelope?

To adopt a March Forth attitude all the time?

 

Time to March Forth back to work!

'TALKING' TO HER FRIENDS

After all these days of learning to manipulate Facebook (it's been at least three weeks since my kids befriended me to join), I hardly use it to write anyone...

but  Donas is nuts about it after reading mine, so she is on Facebook too...

I wall-to-walled her a few days ago when she 'friended' me and I confirmed with a post saying "now that we're friends, what were we before?" I haven't heard from her since...she's is always on the computer and loves to 'talk' to her friends...

When I get home now I can watch hockey and golf with no interruptions!

I'm expecting  a phone bill soon that we can afford...

I love Facebook!!

p.s. During TV commercials she comes in to tell me that her niece, 'what's-her-name' , is taking her kid to pizza after her soccer game...

I’M AN OLD DOG

I’ve never given any thought to the question of dog longevity until last week when I saw Paul McCartney on a TV Awards show…I looked him up and when I discovered how old he is I just about CROAKED…he is the same age as me!!! Holy Cow!!!

If you can’t trust anyone over 30, should you listen to anyone over 60?

Not being one to lie (much) about my age I thought of celebrities and athletes who are around my age:

· Paul McCartney who recently said something like: “My new CD is a burning pile of shit but people will buy it anyhow”.
· Joe Torre who said “There’s still time for Manny to sign up”.
· Keith Richards who mumbled something.
· Mick Jagger, one of my all time favorites. A very cool guy who looks bad.
· Bob Dylan, also a favorite who looks way the hell old.

When researching ‘old’ rock stars I found many more ‘Dead’ Rock Star sites than live ones…
Old rock stars…an oxymoron?

I concluded that some of those guys look really old.
A few of my younger grandkids often slip up when talking to me and say “Papa, you look very, uh, er, um, nice today”…

SOM-NAMBULIST I AM…

As a kid from around age eight or nine to twelve or so  I was told I did unusual things while sleeping…like taking all the sheets and pillows off my bed and opening the front door prepared to go outside…other times I was told I acted out going to the kitchen and start taking things out of the refrigerator ready to cook something or opening the door to our basement to put more coal in the furnace…

Hi, I’m Pete and I walked in my sleep…

Lately I researched this dastardly disorder discovering sleepwalking may have a genetic tendency but if I had parents or relatives who did they kept it a secret…I kept it a secret too until I was married…it’s said that walking in your sleep can be triggered by fever, general illness, alcohol (I didn’t start drinking until later on)…, sleep deprivation or emotional stress…

I prefer to think it was the emotional stress caused by living in a very cold winter city and with a foreign born father and French Canadian mother… they drove me nuts at times like most parents… I like to think I was preparing to go on a long vacation… I almost remember looking under my bed for my passport…even tho I didn’t drive and had no money…

Before getting married my parents and I told my fiancé about the sleepwalking to warn her that I may wander at times…yes, it’s my current wife of 46 years…after marriage I remember only once getting out if bed in the middle of the night, putting some clothes on and walking out to the front of our house…it seems there was a loud explosion outside that woke us both up but I have no memory of it...

Now when I get up in the middle of the night she says: “Where in the hell do you think you’re going?”