I'm Back, and it's About Time!

I apologize profusely dear readers to my extended absence.  First it was depression, then an extended vacation, next, I was simply out of the "groove".  I promise not leave you hanging like that again, and I hope that is a promise I can keep!

Tuesday I saw my psychiatrist, and I finally got approval to take Chantix!!!!!  You see, with taking all the psych meds that I take, I have a higher than average potential to have the negative side effects associated with Chantix.  Like depression, abnormal behavior, thoughts of suicide, all the good stuff ya know.  I have smoked since I was 14 years old; that is 34 years of damage.  I feel that my chances of lung cancer grow each year, so the benefit outweigh the risk.  I feel very confident that I will be able to quit using Chantix, I have before and it was easy-peasy. 

Yesterday was Dad's 73rd birthday!  Nearly 3/4 of a century.  Born in 1938, when gas was $0.10 a gallon, the average price of a new car was $763.00, Adolph Hilter was Time Magazines Man of the Year, Seabiscuit takes the Roses and beats War Admiral, the first Superman comic was issued, radio was "Hot", and Evil Knievel was also born on this day.

A quarter of a century later, in 1963, it was a most memorable year.  Dad became a father for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, the President John F Kennedy was shot, a gallon of gas was $.029,  the average price of a new car was $3,233.00, the Beatles released their first album, a tsunami in Bangladesh killed 22,000 people, the tape cassette was invented for audio recordings.

Fifty years after Dad's birth, in 1988, he saw the World Wide Web become a household word, the Hubble telescope go into orbit, the price of gas was $0.91, the price of a new car was $10,400.00, the Iran-Iraq war was over, Time's Man of the Year was Planet Earth-Endangered Earth, and an earthquake in Armenia kills 60,000 people. 

Present day, a gallon of gas is $3.59, the average price of a new car is $28,400.00, cellphones are the new computers, the first black man, Barak Obama, has been elected to the Presidency, the US is at war and in civil action with half the planet, the world is on the brink of financial crisis, Time Magazine's Man of the Year is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Who? The inventor of Facebook, What? A Social Network on the internet). 

Dad, what will you see in the next 25 years?  Let us know on your daily and I will copy and post here!