Jul 17 - 23

Ok, it has been a week since Cooper and I have had our adult talk. So far it does not look promising. 

“Cooper, remember now, you are an adult and you are going to require us to play with you less”.

“Oh yea, I can play a lot less, really a lot less. Why, I can go the whole day without playing. We are still going to play fetch though, aren’t we? I love playing fetch. I can play fetch all day without a break. Yea, do you want me to show you? Here is the ball. Ruff, ruff, in case you didn’t know that is the sign to throw the ball. Ruff, ruff. Ok, do we have to have this talk again? I told you when I go ruff twice that means you throw the ball.”

“Cooper, I am trying to explain that I can’t play all day, I have things to do.”

“Well, I have things to do to you know, now, Ruff, ruff. You know I can do this forever, so do you want to get on the ball?”

“Yes, sorry”

Jul 10 - 16

This is an interpretation of a conversation between me and Cooper…

Me: “Cooper, you have to understand that you are now 2 years of age and please sit down, you are no       longer a puppy.”

Cooper: “Wow, that means I am a grown up dog, but can I still play, because I love to play, you know I really love to play. I love to fetch the ball and bark at the birds and squirrels and I love to just play.”

Me: “Well, Coop, you can still play, you just can’t play all the time. I mean, we need breaks now and then, and you keep bringing us that ball and bark at us until we throw it, and after about 45 minutes we get tired.”

Cooper: “Ok, so after 40 minutes I should give you a 5 minute break. Because I can do that, I am an adult now, and I can even give you a 6 minute break. I do not need to play all the time.”

Jul 3 - 9

There are many different kinds of cycles. There are weather cycles, there are solar cycles, there are lunar cycles. There are cycles for everything from when the next recession will hit or when the next flu outbreak will hit. There are cycles for sleep, cycles of matter, there are obvious cycles of the stock market. Our dishwasher has cycles. Cycles are everywhere. However, when your daughter is on her cycle, it is best to be on a cycle with wheels and travel to a far off place.

Hey, it has been a year since I got my Ford Electric Mustang, and so far so good. In the past I have had 2 gas-electric hybrids and the problem with those is since the range in full electric is so low (40 miles in comparison to the full electric at 300 miles) you tend to charge them to 100%. Well, I found out that if you continue to do that you then lose about 8% of your range every year. Since I have a 300 mile range I only charge it to a 80% charge and after a year I actually have over 300 miles of charge. Also I charge at a slow rate (a regular household plug) and at 4 miles per hour of charge, I get about 55 miles of charge a night. Anyway, the electric cars are not perfect yet, but they are close.

Jun 26 - Jul 2

Ok, so I told you last week I was going to experiment with some of those brain chips from Amazon. Well, I don’t think I followed the instructions very well, because I seem to speaking in a language I didn’t recognize. My wife asked me if I had been watching Star Trek because she said it sounded like Klingon. Anyway, getting the chip in through the nostrils isn’t that difficult, however, getting it back out I found extremely nauseating.