Today is the Day

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, To A Mouse by Robert Burns

As I sit here this morning looking at the last few thing to load up, one thought comes to my mind. Am I crazy? It sure has felt like it the past few weeks as we put everything into motion. It seemed every plan we put into place had to be changed a moment later. Every timetable we put it place couldn't be kept. But.....

Today is the Day

No, not a swipple day, but a day when there are no more plans or time schedules. Just a direction. Living on a peninsula it really narrows down your direction of travel. North. We will be leaving out a little later this morning and heading in that general direction prospecting for America.

Along the way we hope to meet some of the great people we know on the the Internet face to face. Meet some new friends and see things we have never seen before. I will be writing all along the way in my journal and I will share our experiences with you.

Till next time my friends....

ROFLOL.....and I start to cry cause it's true

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany .

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep....

Now give me back my dog.

A buddy on the gold forum had posted this......thought it would be good to share.