You are glucose. People feed off of you. You are sweet, caring, and a source of energy for everyone around you.

You can inspire others with your creativity and depth, and you can keep people alive when in times of famine.

People love you...or at least the way you taste.

I was crusing Amazon for CDs when I ran across a "free download" of the hit track from Three Days Grace .

I thought I'd give it a try. Download... download. Drag and drop onto Windows Media Player. What ho? A popup saying need to get an "identification" and a licence for my for-free music track. I press "yes" and "yes" and here I sit, 10 minutes later while Media Player sits saying "Aquiring license...".

This is not an improvement. I just sat through a day of seminars on how companies can do what they know how to do without really addressing the customers needs or priorities. For me, the spontanious wish to listen to this song is passed and they've missed their opportunity.

They still don't get it.

The new master bath is finally usable and it's time to move in. The remodel has taken forever-- 9 months total!!

My new motto is: Never remodel -- just buy a new house.

Our local community newspaper prints a "public safety" section which lists the week's DUIs, car breakins and other police incidents. Well, it's clear that police work is not all car chases and high tension stake outs from these police incidents I've collected the last three weeks:

• Police helped a woman retrieve her keys from underneath the seat in her car.
• A concerned citizen reported a man on the sidewalk holding his head. Police reponded and found the man talking on a cell phone.
• An employee of the Indoor Tennis Center called to report a leaky toilet in the men's room.
• Two people found laying on the railroad tracks near Summit Driver were told not to do such things.
• Reports of a glowing orange apparition in the dog park on Stafford proved to be unfounded -- just a light held by a dog walker.
• The intoxicated driver reported at Lakeridge High School was actually a person learning how to drive.

As Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.