Hi Don,

I just love the suspense when earthquakes start. You wait just a second or two until your mind can confirm that an earthquake is in progress. In these cases instead of everything seemingly like its slowing down, your mind starts racing. You can have a thousand thoughts in a milisecond.

But when the earthquake goes into full swing, the opposite happens. Its as if time slows down and you can remember everything in infinite detail.

Of all of the mysteries which surround a human being during the course of a lifetime, time itself will always remain the greatest. When you are busy or doing something you love, time seems to go by really fast. Yet when doing tedious work, you can look at the clock every ten minutes and feel as though your hours are taking days to pass.

Next to this memory is another mystery. But the one person here who seems to possess the greatest memory skills is Lowell. The rest of us are good for sure, but not the same as Lowell. Not that's he's odd, just someone who holds onto everything in his gray cells.

So, let the quakes roll out Don. You're back in the drivers seat and that's fine by me. It kinda perks up the place. But I still want that box of chocolates. I hope I get it.

Petra