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If you’ve seen better pictures than THESE please leave a link to them in the comments. 
On second thought - leave a link to any good Olympic photos you’ve seen

WOW!!

Hebrews 10:25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (NIV)

Our president has, and continues to, receive a lot of criticism. It is good to see that he remains committed to promoting religious freedom for all. (click link below)

Bush presses China on religious freedom in visit

In the sidebar (on the left of this page) - down a ways - is a box that shows Pic of the Day From Taiwan. I put a disclaimer underneath it about how it comes from somewhere else and I hope it isn’t offensive. Well on August 4th (Taiwan time I guess) I know it will not be offensive. How can I predict the future? I’ve been told that on that day the Pic of the Day will be one of my photographs! Be watching that space on the 4th

This was too good not to share:

They said on the news tonight that the political campaign has only a hundred days left. Only! I don’t know what’s less likely, Barack Obama getting enough experience in 100 days, or John McCain living another 100 days.

Thanks to the terrific and blazingly fast support of the plugin author I was able to get the “gallery in a post” thingie working. See the post below this one.
If you click on one of the pics it will come up larger on the screen as a layer on top of what you were viewing. Underneath this larger pic is a more detailed description of it. When you hover your mouse cursor over the larger picture right and left arrows appear near the edges of the picture. This allows you to click on the arrows to go forward and backwards in the group of pictures. When you reach either end the arrow for that direction does not appear. It’s really simple.

Tech stuff - the two WordPress plugins it takes to make this work are:
PhotoJAR and Lightbox
Thanks again to the PhotoJAR author for the quick and accurate help.

Let’s see what this thing will do . . . .

Hmmmmm . . . leaving here in hopes of getting help.

All fixed!
Let me know if it is too slow to load.

Yesterday we celebrated the fact that Fran has grown wiser by another year. We started off with lunch at the only Romano’s Macaroni Grill in Taiwan. She had a create your own pasta dish and I had a calzone. After we stuffed ourselves, the Chinese speaking Taiwanese wait staff sang an Italian song to these two English speaking Americans . . . .

and treated us to a chocolate birthday cake - FUN!

Then we were off to a theater in a different mall to see "Journey To The Center of the Earth" in 3-D. We both enjoyed the very realistic effects. After the movie we went exploring at a riverside park and took a few pics. We then capped off the night with a snack of Double Stacked Quesidias TGIFriday’s (after cooling off with a Starbuck’s Mocha Frappuccino). It was a very fun day of celebrating Fran’s increasing wisdom!