Should this be in thoughts.........well nobody reads that.......so guess ramblings works better. I want to tell a story that is kind of strange. I went to the career center where I work at the university to get help with my resume. I then talked to someone about how I could look up jobs through their website. The woman there just randomly chose Modesta, California to show me how it worked. She let me know that there were lots of jobs there in my area. I told her how I had visited California and how much I liked it after she did that. So is that all just a coincidence? My big dream was to visit CA and finally after many, many years I did. Everyone said I would be so disappointed. I wasn't, not at all. I am almost avoiding people who live there that tell me that they saw this connection with me and there. Sorry Linda and others that is meant as a compliment, not an insult. It's funny to think how many friends I would suddenly have that close that I do not have now. The funny thing is that I absolutely love New York City, I really do, but I can't really see myself living there although I think it would take a couple of years living there to see all the things I want to see. I would never want to not have the chance of visiting NYC anytime I could. I guess California just had that effect on me that I always thought it would. I believe I always thought it would be southern California and I have not been there so who knows about that. I just know that there was this pull on me while I was there. Going out of San Francisco a little, I actually saw cows grazing in a pasture with the Pacific Ocean behind them, curvy roads, redwood trees, eucalyptus trees, and it was just beautiful to me. Within San Francisco Linda had a lemon tree in her backyard with small lemons, but there were many small lemons. There were stout Palm trees with big crowns not like the thin lanky kind that I am used to. People think that where I am from is the most beautiful place on earth and maybe it is. I guess maybe I just don't see what they see. Maybe I take it for granted.