Make sure you all do this.

You can now go online and enter two (2) emergency contacts on your Florida Drivers License (electronically) which can only be retrieved by a police officer. This came about as a result of one woman's teenage daughter being killed in a car accident and it taking over 5 hours to locate the mother to inform her.  

Now if you are in an accident, the police can run the drivers license and have the emergency info ASAP!!! This is through the DHSMV Website. It is a good safety-net just in case anything happens.

MotherMary had a great post recently about listening to baseball on the radio. I just had to respond and thought I'd expand on it here...

I remember listening to Cards games too... although Jack Buck will always be the voice I remember. But mostly I remember listening to Indians baseball all the way out in MO. My dad would pace by the kitchen radio late into the night, fiddling with the dial to tune in the WWWE broadcast from Cleveland. Some nights it was a clear as a bell even though we were hundreds of miles away. Then with 5 brothers who ate and drank baseball, there was really no escape. Now, my husband isn't into baseball, my son is just 3 years old, and we live in a baseball-less city in a state where no one really seems to care. But baseball is in my blood.

Pick up games in the back yard. Run-down. Five Hundred. And dozens of dusty gloves carted off to every outing, just in case.

Mosquitos at little league games. Big League Chew. T-Ball, pitching machine, coach pitch, and then finally, the big time.

Hotdogs. Bleacher seats. Peanuts. Busch Staduim. Mark MacGuire and Sammy Sosa.

Bob Costas calling the Indians first American League Championship in forty-one years. On my dad's 41st birthday.

Sometimes, especially if I'm really missing my dad, I’ll find a game on the radio and just let it fill the room and my heart. The team really doesn't matter. But the sounds of baseball will, for me, forever mean home. And lots and lots of Love.

I love you, Dad! Long live the Tribe!

(And Go Cards!)

"Secondly, it's really important... that people not think government is a loving entity. Government is law and justice. Love comes from the hearts of people that are able to impart love. And therefore, what Craig [Scott] is doing is -- he doesn't realize it -- he's a social entrepreneur. He is inspiring others to continue to reach out to say to somebody who is lonely, I love you. And I'm afraid this requires a higher power than the federal government to cause somebody to love somebody. And therefore, it's a -- (applause) -- and therefore, one of the things we can do, though, is to call upon people -- we've got the USA Freedom Corps Initiative, for example, that calls on volunteers to take active participation in their communities."

- Excerpt from President Bush's participation in a Panel on School Safety, Tuesday October 10, 2006.