Nice Thing About Retirement

After my college days, I rarely found the time to enjoy the many experiences I had while attending a university. Now, in my retirement years, I have the time to revisit "Hamlet", without the concern for test questions and essays regarding my thoughts. Of course, my understanding of the words are much different than they were during my youth. The words have much more meaning today. Truly, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all".

Hamlet- Act 3 - Scene 1 - Soliloquy (two versions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JD6gOrARk4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdp6dpiK8Ko&NR=1


Hamlet:To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause—there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of th'unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscovere'd country, from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pitch and momentWith this regard their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action.

Jumpin" Jack Flash

They just get better with age! Check out these videos to see what I mean -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5rxVHfAlo&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULitGKV3pJ8

Flip Videos

These videos are not of the highest quality, they were made with a very inexpensive Flip camcorder, but they will suffice to introduce you to two new and very different automobiles making their debut for the 2012 model year.

Fiat 500:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0gcGl1s3s




Hyundai Veloster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjEg7rowkE&feature=feedu

saabkyle04 reviews the 2000 Plymouth Prowler

Kyle Lindsey does some of the best interior/exterior auto reviews to be found on the Internet. He is very knowledgeable of many types of vehicles and his You Tube channel has received over a million views. The below link will take you on an interesting tour of a Plymouth Prowler, one of the most unique vehicles ever manufactured and sold by Chrysler. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFWAKjFqsPY&feature=related

You Got Me Rockin

Want to get your feet moving? Check it out with Mick and the Boys -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDTbuoCd3ho

Halloween 2011

The trick-or-treaters started ringing our doorbell around 6:30 pm. The last ones left our house at 9:30 pm. By that time we were down to our last dozen or so pieces of candy. All and all - we had a little over three hundred visitors this year.

It was great fun, as you can see from our pictures. Chili greeted a few trick-or-treaters early on, but she soon grew tired of having to run to the front door from the kitchen and instead decided to take a nap in the laundry basket. Nancy did most of the work putting together the Halloween decorations and wrapping the candy.

I had all the decorations down by ten fifteen. Afterwards we watched the DVR of Dancing With The Stars and tried to figure out who might be the next to go. The dancers danced to Halloween themed music in their creative costumes. It was a nice way to end the day. HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL and DON'T EAT ALL YOUR CANDY IN ONE NIGHT!! YOU'LL HAVE A TUMMY ACHE IF YOU DO!!