Try this Game

If you enjoy a great challenge with your computer, give this game a try. Make sure you have your sound turned up. It will help. Good luck!

Let me know what you think.
Dave

http://www.winterrowd.com/maze.swf

Good Friends are Hard to Find

Tonight was a special night. My good friend Steve, his wife and kids stopped by for dinner. They moved away a couple of years ago and have moved to 3 different states since then. Steve is not only my good friend, he's also my mentor. I think the world would be better off if more men had mentors. Steve took the effort to invest time in me. He has been with me through the good times as well as the bad.

Steve is one of those "real men". If you're read the book, "Wild at Heart", Steve is a wild at heart kind of guy. Men like to be around Steve because he sees the best in people and knows how to encourage people to obtain their best.

Steve would say that I've helped him as much as he's helped me. I guess that's what good friends do.

You know you're a good friend when you can get together after a long separation and pick up like it was yesterday.

Thanks Steve,
You da Man!

No More TAG at School

Next thing you know we'll have to do away with the grading system because it creates self-esteem issues amoung weaker and less-smarter children.

School Says Game of Tag Is Out
Thursday, June 20, 2002
By Anita Vogel

SANTA MONICA — A Santa Monica elementary school has banned the game of tag, once synonymous with youth and innocence, because they say it creates self-esteem issues among weaker and slower children.
"We had some children who were not playing 'it' appropriately. How do you differentiate between those that are playing correctly and those that aren't?" asked Franklin Elementary School Principal Pat Samarge.
In the school's weekly newsletter, Samarge told parents that without adult supervision, the game would be banned. The principal said children playing tag suffered both physical and emotional injuries.
"Little kids were coming in and saying 'I don't like it.' [The] children weren't feeling good about it," Samarge said.
Dr. Judy Young, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, disagreed with Samarge, saying that games like tag "are organized to have a winner and a loser," which is simply a part of life.
"Self-esteem should not be imbedded in whether you win or lose a game," Young said.
Tamara Silver, a parent of a fifth-grader at Franklin Elementary School, said the school sent her two letters informing her of the new rules. The second letter cited safety concerns, not issues of self-image, to justify the tag ban.
"I want my child to know that he can have some freedom," Silver said. "I want my child to know he can play. I want my child to know that he can fall down and skin his knee."
Fox News' Alec Melman contributed to this report.

Gun Control Really Works

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota --- After Minneapolis Police initiated a gun turn-in program, city officials say they are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of guns being voluntarily turned over by gang members and other criminals.
"When I proposed this ballot initiative, I knew we'd rid the city of guns," said Chief William McManus. "I guess I wasn't prepared for the massive turnout by local gang members so eager to give us their guns. We're having to take away from resources in our Diversity Training initiative that passed in the last election in order to handle all of these guns."
Gang members were lined up for several blocks outside of a Minneapolis police station in order to turn over their guns. "It's the right thing to do, yo," said a gangbanger known as Fizzle. "Da peeps on the North Side said no to guns, so we got no choice but to hand over that shizat. Now I gots to go be an organic farmer or some shit like dat. It ain't right. I stole this .45 two years ago, and now I have to give it to the police. It just ain't right."
The gun ban is so effective that police are reporting gang members and violent criminals from as far away as Albertville lining up to turn over their illegal and stolen firearms. "I've never seen anything like it," said one officer. "We've been talking about turning over our own guns, because we won't even need them any more. This is exactly what we thought would happen, and it's just so amazing to see it actually coming to fruition."