I feel guilty sometimes that we haven't re-caned the rocking chair that makes (e:matthew) so happy.



Stickboy [inlink]stickboy,88[/inlink], I am a mafia prince, if you watch my back too long they will find you, right (e:mike) hahaha. This leads me to a great war story from Nonna [inlink]paul,558[/inlink].

SET: WWII NEAR VENICE
She told me that one time during WWII in Italy, her brother was bombed in a nearby and broke his back. She and her family were farm people living in rural Italy.

After a long stay in a military hospital she had him brought home so that she could take him to a venician hospital that specialized in bonecare. After she got there, via a multitude of transit methods (the train tracks were bombed out and he was in an almost full body cast) she was told they couldn't take him. She was really angered, first of all, because she had the proper paperwork and secondly because she said he would die within a day or two if they didn't take him and she couldn't turn around cause it would be impossible to get back.

Then she remembered her brother was police man in that area before the war and knew the police there. So she called them and told them the situation. They instructed her tell the people at the hospital that if they did not take her brother immediately, they would come down with machine guns and promptly kill everyone.

Needless to say he was taken by the hospital and received great care. His other sister, stayed there near the hospital for two years and worked as a house servant in order to have a place to stay and to take care of him. Now that's dedication.

I went to see the outdoor movie downtown at Bacchus on Chippewa (Note: NOT MY NEIGHBORHOOD). Matthew, Rachel and I each got near 10 dollar glasses of wine. Mine was the Soave Classico Superiore at 9 dollars/glass in a super classy place. Here is the catch it comes in a plastic cup and its raining out. Also, the bar tender took ten minutes getting our change and then told us he didn't have enough, so come back later.

I had to go to compusa to buy the Unreal
Tournament 2004 DVD set with developer tools. It was on sale and
includes a DVD tutorial. Hopefully, my students can get some of their
cemetary models into the game
engine.

On the way their my mother and I stopped at Michael's. They had a major
clearance sale on junk. Here is a

Here, I am writing in my blog about Rebecca Blood , the matriarch of blogs.



I just snapped this picture from the current June 21st issue of time magazine. In this issue they have a five page article on blogging. Quick sidenote, why the all too outdated OS 9 window. It's time to upgrade the clipart Time Magazine.

Congradulations Rebecca, you have made it really far. According to the magazine, "Everything good in her life came from her blog. The blog, which she created in 1999, about the time I got my first computer.

I guess its really main stream now. I should use the term blog more often. For a year now, I have used the term journal because I was afraid blog sounded too techie or worse still too trebor.

Well, now even my mom knows what a blog is, so I guess I coming out of the "blog closet" and admitting that I created an elmwood blog site, not a journal, haha.

We started out with some games of bocce? For those of you that don't know, it's a lawn bowling game played by Italians. Here are the rules.





What else could you play at an Italian birthday celebration.

Here is a picture of my dad and my uncle. They are identical.