Your Mother gets a new HP computer today. Her old one ran out of “capacity”. The hard drive on the old computer had 1/2 gigabytes of storage. Lots of pictures fill that storage very quickly. The new computer will put a spaceship on the moon. The hard drive has 2000 gigabytes. Whoa! That should take care of your Mom for at least a year.
Birthdays. birthdays, birthdays. Grasshopper No.4 celebrates on June 29th along with two others. No.4 was born in 1972. Grandson Nevin turns 27 (I think I got that right). A friend from Sheboygan who used to babysit for you younger Grasshoppers has a birthday and she would “hurt” me if I disclosed her age. Happy birthday to all.
Grasshopper No.5 always talks about how great it is to live in Minneapolis. The Mississippi is overflowing it’s banks and washing away shoreline. One hospital near the river is now without a foundation. The State of Minnesota has mandated a $9.50 minimum wage. No.5 will get a raise (just kidding). Minneapolis doesn’t have a Spring season. They go from Winter to Summer directly. It sounds like paradise to me.
This “soccer thing” is really getting to me. The U.S. Soccer Team lost it’s final first round game to Germany 1-0 and was estatic because it is moving on in the World Cup competition to the Round of 16. How can you be happy about losing? How can you lose and still advance in the competition. “Me thinks this a game that I fail to understand”. I still want to know how you can tell when the game is over.
Enjoy Summer. It is here.
Love,
Dad