TUESDAY
> Cheryl is off at the SF Giants game tonight -- selling nachos as a fund-raiser -- fulfilling her calling as a band mom. I hope the bandies appreciate all that the adults do to keep the bands up and blowing.

> Kevin and Sandra are selling their house and are getting ready to leave Turlock. Kevin -- the mountain bike unicycler -- is so much fun because he marches to the beat of his own drum. Sandra gets my jokes -- and laughs in all the right places during my sermons -- even when what I say goes right over everyone else's heads. Sigh.

> Some guy in India sent 182,689 text messages in one month -- generating a 1,411 page phone bill and a place in the Guinness Book of World Records (he hopes). He may not know it yet but he has also contracted a bad case of carpal thumb syndrome.

> "What I did on my summer vacation..." Google is offering $4,500 to students who successfully complete an open source software project by the end of the summer.

> I got mail in the office from a company offering to submit our website to "20 MAJOR search engines" for $35. They've got to be kidding. One link on any website or a quick submission to Google will accomplish the exact same thing.

> Now that's service! Yesterday I ordered three books from amazon.com -- using their standard shipping so that it would be free. Estimated shipping time "5-9 business days" said the confirmation email. The books arrived via UPS this afternoon. How do they do that?

> G-rated films are more profitable than R-rated films. But profitability is not necessarily what drives the film industry. The bottom line isn't money but self-perception. Those in the industry don't want to think of themselves as G-rated people.