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Beautiful Pictures of Christ Laughing

Keep your sound on for this happy website:

http://www.klub-odgik.org.pl/bajerne/be_happy.swf

Thought I'd let my doctor check me,
'Cause I didn't feel quite right. . .
All those aches and pains annoyed me
And I couldn't sleep at night.

He could find no real disorder
But he wouldn't let it rest.
What with Medicare and Blue Cross,
We would do a couple tests.

To the hospital he sent me
Though I didn't feel that bad.
He arranged for them to give me
Every test that could be had.

I was fluoroscoped and cystoscoped,
My aging frame displayed.
Stripped, on an ice cold table,
While my gizzards were x-rayed.

I was checked for worms and parasites,
For fungus and the crud,
While they pierced me with long needles
Taking samples of my blood.

Doctors came to check me over,
Probed and pushed and poked around,
And to make sure I was living
They then wired me for sound.

They have finally concluded,
Their results have filled a page.
What I have will someday kill me;
My affliction is OLD AGE

We had a great time bowling with Raf and Christina over Christmas. Raf and Christina are 5/8 done with their Bachelor's degrees, and going strong.

Greg continues to excel at Tech. Here are his college grades this term. He warned us "Hey D is for Diploma." But his 3.91 cum this term is better than that.

*Undergraduate Course work*
CRN	Subject	Course	Section	Campus	Course Title	Final Grade	Attempted	Earned	GPA	Quality Points
1062	AUT	212	04	Main Campus	Fuel System Theory & Service	A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
1063	AUT	213	04	Main Campus	Fuel System Service Lab	A-	2.00	2.00	2.00	7.34
1064	AUT	214	04	Main Campus	Ignition Systems	A	4.00	4.00	4.00	16.00
1065	AUT	217	04	Main Campus	Automotive Emission Systems	A	4.00	4.00	4.00	16.00
1066	AUT	218	04	Main Campus	Ignitions/Emissions Lab	A-	2.00	2.00	2.00	7.34

Justin in shades caught this tuna in Louisiana last week.

So that's what a 150 pound catch looks like!

Meanwhile, in the rest of the US where we are freezing, here's a great article in Fridays NYTimes:

Up North, Where a Cold War Still Rages

WHAT would Margaret Mead make of a tribe of 6,703 people that each winter celebrates its land as the coldest spot in the contiguous United States with an outdoor festival that features such rituals as "Turkey Bowling," in which frozen poultry takes the place of bowling balls, and a "Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run," billed as the coldest 10-kilometer race in the United States? (In 1987, that race was run in temperatures that plummeted to minus 28 Fahrenheit.)

But that's what things are like in International Falls, Minn., which hangs like a stalactite from the Canadian border, and for which "Ice Box Days XXIV" (to be held next Thursday through Sunday and not to be confused with Super Bowl XXXVIII) is a celebration of its idiosyncratic fame. Not for nothing, in fact, did the town fathers trademark the term "Icebox of the Nation" in the 1950's, thereby embracing its status as the punch line of weathermen from Maine to Maui, who each day let their viewers know there is always someone else in the country worse off than them.

Not so fast, says Roland Fowler, a 64-year-old former Army mule skinner, or driver, who lives 120 miles away in Embarrass, Minn., a hamlet with 640 people, just one gas station and no visitor accommodations. "There's no way International Falls can keep up with us," he said earlier this week, when the thermometer outside his farmhouse recorded a low of minus 25 and a high of minus 14. "Even in July we've had garden-killing frosts."

For two decades, Mr. Fowler has argued that International Falls has been dining out on its status as America's "Ice Station Zebra" for too long. Way too long. On Feb. 8, 1982, Embarrass hit 52 below on an unofficial thermometer that shattered while the mercury was still headed south. But it wasn't until eight years ago that Embarrass, honoring trademark laws, started billing itself with a less poetic, but more straightforward slogan: "The Nation's Cold Spot."

See the NYTimes for the rest of this cool article!

Here's another cold spot this week: the East Coast!

Fred, Pam and Mary were at this waterfalls in New Hampshire.

What a thrill to watch the Patriots on TV win in 3 degree temperatures!

Later, Kaarin showed us her quarterback Tom Brady autographed items.

Pete