CAN YOU LAST 18 SECONDS?
GOOD THING I'M NOT AN AIR FORCE PILOT

A friend sent this game that helps Air Force pilots practice their reactions:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

If you can stay "alive" for 18 seconds, you're doing well. I tried and tried, and made it for 9.7 seconds. Yikes! Here's hoping those in our military defense have a LOT better hand-eye coordination than I do!

DAILYSUSAN BACK FULL STRENGTH!!!

Sorry for the long hiatus. Let's pick up where we left off:

LISTEN TO THE SOUND
OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Our daughter's church youth group visited a retirement home to sing Christmas carols and have a little party with the residents the other night. I was among the six or seven moms who came along for the ride.

The girls filled the stage, and started singing. The little old lady sitting next to me leaned over and confided, "I'm nearly blind and deaf, but I'm still enjoying this very much."

I leaned over, and said loudly and slowly how much I loved hearing that, and wished her a Merry Christmas.

She replied, "Would you ever guess that I am 98 years old?"

Amazed, I leaned back over, put an arm around her, and said, loudly and slowly, "That is fantastic! You don't look a day over 60."

Just then, the little old man sitting on the other side of her whirled toward us, and snarled:

"FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, WOULD YOU SHUT UP?!?!?!?!?!"

Had to hunch over to hide my laughter, but the shaking shoulders gave me away.

How ironic: that comment got me TOTALLY into the Christmas spirit. So I guess it really WAS for Christ's sake!!!