This is a practice of awareness of the sensationalism of life moment to moment.We are beings of the senses. We make sense of our world via the senses. The senses are gateways. They keep us locked into a certain reality but they can be the medium of freedom from the limitation we call "our life." For too long religion has labelled the senses as something "not quite nice." For too long we have separated our senses as being something "not spiritual." Many of our religions have done the same with the sensational experience we call sex. As an Aman Cara I teach spirituality of the senses.

I teach what Van Morrison calls "A sense of wonder." An Anam Cara teaches you to honour the sensuality and grace of the body. They teach you to honour this grace by letting go "disgrace that is inherent in our social conditioning. Our nature is the nature of grace and not the illusion of disgrace. Our nature is the nature of beauty.Coming to our senses is what I call, "The feeling way." Being attentive to the senses allows life to be felt as sensational. We tend to see that which is sensational as being outside ourselves.

We gather more and more sensational images in our newspapers, on our televisions and from other media forms. We ourselves do not enter the sensational. Thus we lock ourselves out of heaven. This heaven is this wonder called "life" in the eternal now.We do not enter the sensational realisation that we are the "flow of life." We have become non-sensible people. We have become cerebral people.

We try to "make sense." We do not attune ourselves to being "able to sense." This is not surprising. As children we felt sensational. We knew in ways we have forgotten. We knew what we liked and did not like. We just did not have the words to explain.

This was until we were told that trusting our senses was "not nice." It could mean that you told the truth and God help us someone might then be offended. You might have known that Joe Bloggs was not safe to be around but you overrode this fact by being told that you were not "being nice." Thus your sensational body and its wondrous intelligence were swapped for the experience of "niceness in all things." You took the first steps away from trusting your "inner telling sense." For most of us the experience of trusting ourselves was downhill from there on in.An Anam Cara encourages you to return to the wisdom of the body and the senses. This is the whole body and not just from the neck up. The Anam Cara values your sensitivity. They value trust in your sensitivity.

The senses take you into a deeper appreciation of beauty than any cerebral description. The senses take you into the place of the now. This is the only time you have to be alive. This is the only place where you can have the time of your life.Developing sensitivity means trusting the wisdom of the senses. It means trusting the wisdom of the body.

It means trusting your inner knowing. This is your intuition and your inner teaching. It requires the ability to feel the feelings that flow in, or are blocked in, the body. These are all feelings. Thus you begin to perceive life in the body and not life in the head.

Your body becomes a vehicle for seeing the real life beyond "thinking about" your life.Coming to your senses makes you more sensible. This is not sensible in a cerebral sense. This is the less used bodily wisdom we call the "ability to sense." When you are more able to allow your body to sense you make clearer decisions. You are not so threatened. You have no need to constantly rationalise your choices.

When you begin to come to your senses you may in many ways appear rude. This is only at the beginning. You are changing the vibrational rate of your body. You are becoming more refined. You are becoming more holistic and holy.

You are becoming an individual with your own sense of who you are.As you come to your senses you begin to drop what is no longer needed. You may drop toxic relationships. You will begin to avoid toxic people even if to do so may make you appear not "a nice person." Let me tell you that you will survive such a judgement. Just stay with this. Coming to your senses gives you a sense of your own authority.When you begin coming to your senses you allow others the opportunity to come to their senses.

They are toxic because they are separate from love. Coming to your senses allows them to sense the perfume of wisdom. This is the sense of knowing who they are and knowing that they belong here as a Divine being. Is this not a gift worth spending time to discover and sharing with others?Coming to your senses means you learn to avoid senseless action. Much of the action we engage with is designed to make us senseless.

We turn up switch off and switch on the television. We zone out and we call this re-creation and renewal. Over a period we shut down our senses and we need greater sensationalism in order to get the same fix. More powerful images of violence and unhappiness are required to penetrate our defences. We become people of the part and people apart.

We become what my teacher Osho calls "logic choppers. We rationalize our lives. We forget who we are and do not wake up to this miraculous gift of life.Thus we miss beauty. Beauty is sensational. Our inner beauty is sensational.

It has been covered in the dust of judgment and unacceptability ever since we were small children. Beauty is expressed from the inner to the outer. While outer beauty is a delight it will diminish in time. Inner beauty is the essence of love that lives within the timeless. Learning to know and be this can be one of our greatest gifts in growing older.

We have to start now.We are becoming more deeply separate from what is elemental. We are becoming more separate from our essentialness. It is time to return to the wisdom of the body. It is time to return to the senses and the sensational inner awareness of "what is." Then you may glimpse what it is to go beyond the senses to the timeless wonder of now.This winter do not fight tiredness in the body. Take more rest.

Go to bed earlier. We often think we should go to sleep at set times. We forget we are embodiments of energy subject to the rhythms of the seasons. Most of the life force on this Northern hemisphere is now deeply asleep. This energy will begin to awaken in its own time.

All life will begin to open to the coming of the light.This week I wish you a sensational, sensible and sensuous experience of being in your body now. Remember to breathe in and breathe out. Remember too that the blessing is already here. You are it. All you have to do is become sensitive to your own sense of wonder.

For a time this week give up "logic" for the "illogical" and the sensational. After adequate rest in the body wake up and expect the miraculous.Love and blessings to you all.? 2005 Irish Blessings Matter.

Most of the leading Personal Computer (PC) providers are major players in this paradigm shift. They are selling new technology from leading networking equipment companies that enable homeowners to wirelessly connect their Personal Computers to their Home Entertainment centers. Through a Wireless Media Adapter, connected via standard cables to the Home Entertainment Center, and a Wireless Router connected to the PC, homeowners can enjoy their digital photographs and MP3 music collection on their Televisions and play their MP3 music collection through their stereo system. Photographs and music stored on the PC are wirelessly transmitted anywhere within the home to their Home Entertainment Center. The wireless protocol interconnecting the Media Adapter and Router is known as Wireless-B (802.11b).

The Media Adapters typically include a Remote Control, and have user-friendly menus that are displayed on the TV. They can support JPEG, GIF, TIF, and BMP type file formats and the Remote Control can also be used for browsing your MP3 or WMA formatted music collection. Today, the cost for a wireless Media Adapter is around $100, and the cost for a wireless Router is around $50.There is still a benefit for some Cat-5 wire in the home, but without a doubt, wireless is the present and future technology for interconnecting home electronics. Definitely take a look at these products prior to paying any type of "wired" premium on a new home..

Higher capacities will allow for even better picture and sound quality than the existing standard, and will become more popular as high definition televisions really start to take off.There are two competing high capacity DVD technologies, HD-DVD (High Definition DVD) and Blu-Ray. HD-DVD works by using multiple layers on a single disk, and its main advantage is its low production costs. Blu-Ray is technically superior ? it uses blue laser light instead of the red light used by existing players. This blue light has a smaller wavelength, and so the pits that it creates on the surface of the DVD to encode the data, are smaller. Smaller pits means more pits in the same space, which means higher capacity.

Blu-Ray can store more information than HD-DVD, but presently is more expensive to implement. When Blu-Ray is combined with the multi-layering technology behind the competing format, it will see capacities rise to as much as 200 Gigabytes. Existing DVDs hold only 4.7 Gigabytes.The battle will most likely be won by the format that gets the most support from the big Hollywood studios ? nobody is going to opt for a DVD standard with a small catalogue of titles. With Blu-Ray being backed by the likes of Hitachi, HP, and Sony (who own MGM studios), it would appear to have the edge. Hollywood however, is remaining non-committal, afraid of backing a losing horse.

For now then at least, the formats are caught in something of a chicken-and-egg situation. As has been the case so many times in the past, only time will tell which format will come out on top..

As recently as 30 years ago, the average new construction home would have only been wired for one or two rotary-dial telephones, a mast antenna for picking up the local TV channels, and perhaps an intercom system in the occasional luxury home. Today cable TV and telephone jacks are a virtual requirement in every room of the house and many homes are coming standard with high-speed Ethernet connectivity for the Internet. Add to that wiring for built-in stereo speakers, intercom systems, and video security cameras that even a modest homeowner can afford to buy, and the typical new construction home can have as much wiring as NASA's Mission Control!"Our customer's demands for technology has changed the way we build homes," says Jack Cavanagh, owner of St. Louis based Highland Homes. "If you had told me 10 years ago I was going to be including a TV and a computer router with every home I made, I would have told you that you were nuts.

Yet that's exactly what we are doing today. A 42-inch Plasma TV comes standard hanging on the wall of our living rooms connected to a datacenter in the basement that supports everything out there-- from multiple phone lines to high speed internet, satellite and cable TV, security cameras and alarms, wireless networking, and built-in stereo speakers.""A few years ago," Cavanagh adds, "you didn't sweat running a couple of phone lines-- it was an afterthought. Today, it's an important part of the design and construction phase just like running plumbing or electricity. We also have to stay up on what's new out there because you can find yourself setting on a house that people don't want because it's missing wireless or some other new thing."Fourteen million households now have high-definition televisions. Products like TiVo, which records TV shows on a hard drive, and PC's with high speed network capabilities to download and play audio and video files will replace the VCR and DVD players of today-- blurring the lines between technologies and putting an even greater demand on our home network.

The only thing that appears to limit the needs for greater wiring solutions in future new home construction is the rampant advancement of wireless networking.Nation's Building News Online (http://www.nbnnews.com), reports in an article titled, "Structured Wiring Among Technological Advances Transforming the American Home," that home connectivity is, "one of the fastest growing trends in home technology."So, what does the wired home of tomorrow have in store for you? For every gimmicky refrigerator with a built-in TV, there are real innovations that will change the homeownership experience. Computer controlled water heaters and furnaces that send out e-mail alerts over your home network when there is a malfunction or filter that needs changed may sound trivial until you are setting in a freezing home on a cold January with a broken furnace.Once the network is in place, connecting the "odd-ball" appliances like the furnace and water heater becomes a minor expense. Computer automation of heating, cooling, and lighting-controls can produce dramatic energy savings by using the home PC we already own- which makes putting a solution in place easy and affordable..

Webpavement has a strong reputation for large digital signage network management systems, with open support for all media formats. Message Builder is an easy-to-use, Web-based enhancement that will excite customers who require a template-driven video messaging system." William Wu, Chief Technology Officer of Webpavement, adds, "We are impressed with PointWare's behind-the-scenes technology. It's an integrated solution encompassing Macromedia Flash, Action Script, Java and C++. It drives Message Builder's point-and-click interface, and gives users lacking time or multimedia skills the ability to build good-looking Flash presentations and quickly post them to LCDs, plasmas and other large-format digital signs."Steve Youngblood, President of Motionspeak Studios believes this alliance will help both companies advance the state of the art for digital signage. "Our team has spent a lot of time in Europe and has seen many implementations of advanced advertising technologies in public spaces there.

We believe there are substantial growth opportunities for digital signage in the United States. Webpavement is a known digital signage leader, with a technically adept and business savvy management team. It was an easy decision to form an alliance with Webpavement as a first step in growing our business in the digital signage market." Volker Schulz, CEO and Chairman of Motionspeak Studios, adds, "The powerful technology alliance between MotionSpeak Studios and Webpavement combines online content creation with real-time signage distribution over the Web. It is a truly novel advance for this industry. Our companies make a powerful team and can do a great deal to drive growth for each other."Webpavement will begin shipping MotionSpeak Studio's PointWare as part of its Message Builder application immediately.

For more information on MotionSpeak Studios and PointWare, contact Joel Deitch at (678) 528-3070. For more information on Webpavement Sign Server, contact Eric Unold at (770) 992-4064. About Webpavement LLCWebpavement, a technology company based in Atlanta, has developed the most advanced platform for digital signage advertising and information display. Webpavement is a progressive company that adapts to new requirements in the ever-changing digital signage industry. Webpavement solutions are available for corporate communications, advertising venue locations such as out-of-home place based digital signage, retail, transportation and other public venues suited for advertising.

For more information about Webpavement, visit www.webpavement.com. ??????About MotionSpeak Studios LLCMotionSpeak Studios provides exceptionally easy-to-use full service rich-media presentation products and services. MotionSpeak Studios' PointWare application simplifies the creation of sophisticated Flash presentations without requiring advanced programming skills, while also maintaining centralized content administration and control. PointWare is sold as an enterprise solution, as a service for individual users, or as part of a private-labeled OEM platform. For more information about Motionspeak Studios, visit www.motionspeak.com.

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One word of advice, fix the antenna well outside and buy a load of batteries" said one Sirius subscriber from Florida about how he dealt with the Hurricane Frances. Sirius is not just for your car, they offer several portable devices so you can virtually take Sirius anywhere you go. Better known as "Plug and Play" (PNP), they currently offer several different models including the new Sportster. The Sportster is geared towards sports fans with it's live sports score streamer and is currently the latest PNP to be produced by Sirius. Added with the optional boom box, the PNP's let you listen to Sirius anywhere and anytime, especially those times when you lose power.

Sirius recently released the Xact that was featured on the Home Shopping Network. There are two things that make the Xact unique. One, like all Plug and Plays, it is completely portable. Two, this unit is much smaller than other PNPs. It is size of a cell phone and has sold out twice now on HSN within the last week.Another popular PNP is the Orbiter SR4000 Receiver that is sold exclusively at Radio Shack.

Radio Shack is currently offering a $50 rebate with the purchase of the Orbiter, boombox, and one year of subscription to Sirius. Go to www.radioshack.com for more details.Sirius is currently running a special in which you can get the boombox for free. For only $149.99, you get the receiver, car kit, and boombox. For more details on this special offer, go to http://www.siriusnews.com/specialoffer.shtml .Sirius is a service that offers 65 digital commercial free music channels as well as over 50 news, talk, weather & traffic, and entertainment channels, including broadcasts of every NFL, NBA, and NHL game. To find out more about Sirius Satellite Radio, just go to http://www.siriusnews.com for more details and to view the different products they offer.http://www.siriusnews.com"All you need to know about Sirius Satellite Radio".

I am sure they enjoy the costumes almost as much as overdose on sugar and chocolate, but the Thanksgiving story is even more important.Why?Because the two most important words in the English language are "Thank You". This is true for business success, for social pleasure, even for self-actualization.For business success, a thank you tells a prospect or partner that you are appreciative of what she has just done. It shows you have a genuine interest in that person and the business relationship.For social interaction, expressing gratitude is equally important to show how you value the other person and the social relationship you have with him. Thank you is a bonding phrase.But thanksgiving is most important on a personal level for our own happiness. This is true for anybody who has ever lived, but it is even more true for us today.

Consider how much we have. More than any of our ancestors, we live in the Land of Plenty. We have more than anybody who lived at any time before. And for those of us who live in the developed world, we have more than most people on our little planet even today.I'm not just talking about our abundance of "stuff". Oh sure, we have ten-foot tall digital color televisions with 594,798,345,691 channels and computers that send us around the world faster than the speed of a race car on growth hormones.

And we have 31 flavors of ice cream waiting for us on every second street corner. And we throw out more "junk" than we ever could find a use for in the first place.But we have so much more than just stuff. Consider the following:FREEDOM: More of the world lives in a democracy than ever before, and democracy is becoming more open or "democratic" with every year (perhaps in part due to the Internet).OPPORTUNITIES: With freedom and affluence comes opportunity. We have more opportunity to make more money, to earn it the way we wish, to choose our profession, our location, even our lifestyle. Women have just about reached equality with men in most of the developed world, and more people are able to flee oppressive regimes.

Actually, does that not sound like a continuation of the original Thanksgiving story?KNOWLEDGE: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? With freedom, comes the ability to satisfy our curiosity: knowledge. And with knowledge comes a thirst for freedom. Let's face it, the idea of "the ignorant masses" has become an anachronism. Even the dumbest among us has more knowledge than most people who lived a couple centuries ago. (I said more "knowledge", not more "wisdom", but that's another topic.)HEALTH: Just surviving past childhood used to be a major accomplishment.

Now we expect to live into our 80s or 90s. And we expect ? no, we demand ? to have exceptional health care all along the way (even those who are afraid to go to the doctor!).This list could keep growing, but these are the major benefits I am grateful for living in twenty-first century North America. What does that have to do with Thanksgiving Day and happiness? Well, follow this train of thought. Whatever you have, you can either appreciate or not. If you appreciate it -- I mean really notice that you have it, that it is good, that you feel good about having it -- it will bring you happiness.

However, if you get used to it, take it for granted, and focus on things you don't have, what you do have just won't bring you happiness.Appreciation is the key to happiness. Whatever you truly and proactively appreciate, whether "stuff" or education or a vacation, will bring you happiness. But in this fast-paced, dog-eat-dog, over-stimulated society how can we appreciate anything? Sadly, many of us who have the most to be grateful for express gratitude the least and feel the least appreciation. It seems the more we have, the more we want. The more we want, the less we appreciate what we have.

The less we appreciate, the less value there is to having anything, which may explain why we keep wanting more. We who are drowning in luxuries and hold the world in our hands can't seem to find the time to appreciate what we have ... but we still make time to whine and complain. We still find things, however petty, to feed our negative thinking. How can we learn to appreciate our abundance and live a happy life?The secret to feeling that appreciation we often overlook is in expressing our gratitude vocally or in writing.

How can we possibly fail to appreciate something when we say "Thank you" for it and focus our attention on the appreciation?I offer several ideas on how to express gratitude in the "Get Happy Workbook" and my book "Climb your Stairway to Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum happiness", including keeping a gratitude journal, saying grace, practicing "bolsterism", or just sending flowers, cards, or an appreciative e-mail message ? to name just a few ideas. Perhaps the most useful of all ideas is to make Thanksgiving Day every day. Christmas is important. Easter is important. Halloween is important for the kids.

But for our own personal happiness, there is nothing like a truly heartfelt Thanksgiving..

Establish a Set Homework Routine:

Because the A.D.D. child functions best in a consistent environment, homework should be done in the same place, at the same time and for a set amount of time every day. Work with your child to develop that routine. Some Attention Deficit and hyperactive children work best immediately after school while others need an hour or two to settle down before jumping back into studies. To help the A.D.D. child better focus, the work area should be free of distractions, such as televisions, video games, music and other people.

The kitchen table might not be the best place if there is too much activity in that room. The bedroom can offer distractions if the television or stereo have a way of "turning themselves on" when you are not there to monitor.

We are strong proponents of establishing an allotted amount of homework time on school days. This set amount of time gives consistency to the hyperactive or A.D.D. child and discourages rushing through homework.

Talk with your child's teachers about the average recommended homework time for the child's grade level. In general, elementary school children should spend about 30 minutes each night on homework. Middle school and high school students should spend about one hour on homework. If the child does not have homework that evening or they finish before the allotted time, the child can read until their mandatory homework time is over.

The hyperactive and A.D.D. child often experiences difficulty with long-range tasks. "Chunking" homework for the hyperactive or A.D.D.

child helps break the homework task into smaller, more manageable pieces. You can break a 20-problem math assignment into four chunks of five problems each, with a small break in between chunks. If using the mandatory homework time schedule, set a kitchen timer to ring every five to 15 minutes, depending on the child's attention span. At every break, give your hyperactive or A.D.D. child a few minutes to move around or grab a snack to refocus their attention.

As with any parenting issue, rewarding good behavior and disciplining poor behavior motivates kids toward good behavior.

The A.D.D. child needs all the rewards they can get, along with firm and consistent consequences. A "homework contract" is an effective motivator for the A.D.D. and an especially valuable tool to encourage the A.D.D. child to accept responsibility for their work. The homework contract clearly states that when the homework is completed, the child will earn a reward.

The contract also clearly outlines consequences for not completing homework. You can offer daily modest rewards like earning time to play Gameboy, the right to choose a favorite dinner or a modest treat or special privilege. Or, you can develop a point system for larger weekly rewards. You can give out one point for every night of completed homework for the child to cash in for a trip to the zoo after earning five points, for instance. Effective consequences for not completing homework are losing phone, computer, stereo and television privileges for the evening. To add a little more discomfort to the situation, have the child stay inside for the evening without friends. It is important that you remain calm, firm and consistent on nights when Attention Deficit Disorder child decides to get into a power struggle over homework. It may take a couple consequence days before the child realizes that completing homework makes for a better night than not doing homework. It is also important that you reward for effort and not just grades for the A.D.D.

child. The goal is to develop a solid homework habit. With a homework habit established, better grades will automatically follow. Don't forget to offer the intangible rewards of smiles and praise when your child puts the effort into completing his homework. A "way to go" goes a long way in positive reinforcement for Attention Deficit Disorder children.

• Using an assignment book for the A.D.D. child helps parents keep track of the child's daily and weekly homework.

  If the teacher does not use an assignment book, develop a system with the teacher so you know the child's homework assignments.

• If the A.D.D. child insist on heavy parental homework help, require that the child attempt problems at least twice before asking for homework help. They may need homework help, but make sure he puts a genuine effort into solving the problem first.
• Attention Deficit and hyperactive children may not be able to receive "A"s on every homework and school assignment.

  Instead of getting hung up on the traditional grading scale, give you're A.D.D. child an "A" for effort.

So this past year he put pen to paper and produced the presentation as a full news article and as a one page flyer that could easily be reproduced and sent out. A few clubs have included the one page in their electronic newsletter to members.He also created a web site where interested individuals or families can visit and select a four, five or six month plan that will aid them in 'getting a head start.' The web address is http://www.getaheadstart.info Full copies of his articles and the plans are available on the web site.If you are interested in "Getting a Head Start," visit the web site. Santa Tim hopes others will study the simple program and pass the word on to others. In this way he hopes he can reach more people and hopefully make everyone's holiday season more enjoyable. A Santa for over 35 years, Tim Connaghan is an accomplished performer, storyteller, comedian, professional speaker and magician.The author of "Behind the Red Suit ? the Business of Santa Claus." He is president of RealSantas.com, supplying 'real bearded' Santas all over America and is the Executive Director of the 400+ member, International, ?Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas.' He also directs the International University of Santa Claus (IUSC), and has trained hundreds of Santas in special workshops in cities across the U.S.

Tim has appeared in community theatre, at theme attractions & fairs, and for hundreds of organizations, corporations and private events including Capitol Records, Hallmark, In N Out Burgers, KIIS-FM, Los Angeles Country Club, Southwest Airlines, The St. Regis Resort and Spa, The Regent Beverly Wilshire, McDonalds, Marvin and Barbara Davis, Reese Witherspoon and Steven Spielberg.He has delighted tens of thousands of children and their families and appeared in parades, commercials and advertising as Santa, plus appearing on numerous televisions programs including 'Mad-TV', 'The District' and the ?Tonight Show.' His voice ranges from the baritone styles of Gary Owens & Don Pardo to the comic diversity of characters including Barney, Bullwinkle, Goofy and Mickey having studied with famed character voice artist, June Foray. As Stand-Up Comedian 'Kris K', he has appeared at the Improv, the Ice House and other venues. In the role of ?Kris Kringle' he speaks on "The Origins of Santa Claus," "The Symbols of Christmas," and "How to get a Head Start on the Holidays."For further information, Contact Santa Tim at: e-mail protected from spam botso or (909) 779-0536.

"Whoever zapped my show has five second to unzap it., or I'll get off this stool." Oh, well. I suppose there are still a few technical adjustments to tinker with.But I was thinking, "Hey. I could invent something useful like that. I could invent a high-tech brick to shut down those high-tech public nuisances for at least five minutes." So I did.First, I set out to defeat muzak. I invented a device called the Automated Elevator Hostage Taker.

I was so excited, I decided to take it for a test drive. I found a really high building and headed straight for the elevator.Half way up, I activated my Automated Elevator Hostage Taker. "Aha!" I called out. "We have your elevator hostage. If you shut the muzak off, we will release it unharmed."The other passengers looked at me like I had a purple horn growing out of one ear.

"I said, turn off the muzak and your elevator won't be harmed."One passenger was starting to get interested. "What the *$&% do you think you're doing?"I was positively giddy that my fellow passengers were so eager to participate. One of them even wanted to get his hands on my Automated Elevator Hostage Taker, but for public safety reasons I couldn't let it into untrained hands until it had been fully tested in both laboratory and field conditions."How did your test drive go?" my wife asked.I looked up at her from my hospital bed. "I think the next prototype will be equipped with life insurance."Fortunately, I came up with another invention as soon as I recovered. I call it the Tailpipe Plug-in.

Cars emit the most ghastly-smelling fumes. No. Wait. I take that back. Cars emit the second-most ghastly-smelling fumes.

Diesel buses emit the most ghastly-smelling fumes. But those days will soon be over, as people arm themselves with their personal Tailpipe Plug-ins."How does it work?" my wife asked."So glad you asked. It uses spidey technology.""Spidey technology?" she looked puzzled."That's right. You know, like Spiderman. Let's say a bus come within a few yards and threatens to belch out yucky black stinky stuff.

You just flick your wrist like this..."SPLAT! BANG! CRASH!"Oops.""You knocked over my prize lamp and broke it. And what's this ugly goop splattered all over the carpet and the wall? Yuck. Get it off," my wife demanded."I can't.""What do you mean, you can't?" she raged. "It's like that expanding foam insulation. No.

Wait. It's like very fast-curing expanding foam insulation.""Well, what do you plan to do about it?" my wife wanted to know."I guess I'll have to put on a warning label ? Do not use indoors."Once back in my hospital bed, I realized I had not given the right answer.I still had many inventions left in me. Like the Automatic No-parking Sign Dissolver. And the Perfumalizer, handy for use in crowded buses where people hold onto bars and posts above their heads. And I can't wait to invent the Escalator Fast-forward Button.

But for now, I am way too distracted by the very loud TV show my hospital roommate is watching. I sure could use Mitch's TV-B-Gone right about now..