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White Castle for Valentine’s Day… Seriously???
http://digg.com/food_drink/White_Castle_for_Valentine_s_Day_Seriously

Incredible!

Absent Memories

Just finished reading the book Absent Memories: Moving forward when you can’t look back. A fascinating first hand account of a 47 year-old women who lost all of her memories, and the 9 years since. A college graduate, a black belt, and former member of the National Guard, Beki Propst struggles to re-learn the most basic rules of social interaction, much less the skills to keep a steady job. Her view of life through new eyes sheds light on the things we take for granted.

The author loses all of her “declarative memory”.  After her loss, she still remembers how to do many of the ingrained daily rituals, like driving a car, but she couldn’t describe the rules of the road.  As she describes it in the book, “A computer geek might have said that I’d lost lost some data from my hard drive, but my operating system was apparently unaffected.”

Checking in at 117 pages, this book is a quick read, but well worth it.  You find it at Amazon.com here (or I’m sure anywhere else books are sold or borrowed).

While on vacation, I decided to take my family to SkyVenture Colorado for indoor skydiving in their big vertical wind tunnel. Pretty fun stuff!

I’m going to my first ever hockey game tonight.  That’s professional, amateur, or otherwise.  Kurt called to say that he had extra tickets… and expensive ones at that.  Apparently the food and drink will be free.  Maybe I could get into this sport!

Learn how to register here.

The roses in my back yard that I don’t even attend to have bloomed again.  Click on the photo for a larger version of the photo.

I was woken up a little after 4:30 this morning to an earthquake.  Except I didn’t know it was an earthquake at the time.  All I knew is that my bed was shaking back and forth, and I couldn’t figure out why.