Here's my dad, balancing a beer mug on his head. I don't know how he did it! ----- This evening I looked at my report card from Grade 3. That's about 16 years ago. I noticed a couple of "needs improvement" marks on it...and those two areas are areas where I still need improvement. It's funny how some things never change! ------ I was also thinking about identity tonight...how do you determine what you are? This is an idea that my TA in my Anthropology class introduced to me about 5 years ago...Obviously, each one of us is made up of many parts and lots of ancestry and many stories and lots of experiences...the example I'm thinking of is your ethnic/national/regional/cultural identity. For example, I call myself a Newfoundlander, and I believe this is an accurate claim because I was born there and raised there. Simple as that. That's how I define my identity as a member of a people. (I also identify myself as a Canadian, because I was born here and have lived here my whole life. However, I'm a Newfoundlander first and a Canadian second.) But other people define themselves differently. For example, I was listening to a George Carlin routine where he says that he's Irish, and fully Irish because all 4 of his grandparents were born there. Another example of this type of definition is when a friend said a couple of years ago that I wasn't fully Newfoundlander because my parents weren't both born there. Obviously I took offense to that, and that brings us to today :) So, how do you define yourself?

Flower's 1957 BMW Isetta - The Silver Bullet - at the 2009 SoCal Vintage BMW Meet in Woodley Park, CA. on October 24, with E.T. Junior as the co-pilot. He is wearing a fashionable Pumpking outfit and hat, while the car is featuring a Halloween theme. Broom Power added to go faster!