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Thanks Khalid for the tip off to Le Parkour. I love to find new French fads, good or bad. Here is another video. L’art de deplacement, the art of moving oneself. I guess it is spreading out and not just confined to France. I don’t see anyone that looks over 2 doing it, they must [...]

Well we have been out of the loop politically but we had heard about the now famous Obama speech. We also heard about the silly remarks of his former pastor. Well I don’t like either Hillary or Obama too much but I’ll vote for either one come November so it doesn’t really matter. Of course [...]

We spent the weekend of Paque in the Dordogne. The weather was not very nice. It rained a lot and it was quite cold. The pets loved it. We brought both the dog and cat and they love being in the countryside. At least we ate well. I took a bunch of pictures which I’ll [...]

Image from WikipediaI recently made contact with someone I went to school with on Facebook. I didn’t really know this person but they looked like they had lived an interesting life in the 20 years that have almost passed since high school. He told me about a “sport” in France called Le Parkour. I thought [...]

If you did something over and over and it proved to be ineffective, would you continue to do it? What if it also cost you lots of money, would you still continue to do it? As the US economy continues to tank, maybe someone will be brave enough to pose the right questions. Whether you [...]

I went to the gym today. Usually when I go I wear a tank top because I get hot very quickly and it is cooler with a tank top. I can’t help but notice that I have been very under dressed. Generally the Toulousain wears heavy sweatpants and sometimes even snowpants, at least that is [...]