Questions/inquires

I appreciate the questions/inquiries that many of you sent. I will attempt to respond to them here and in future reports.

The "other than racing questions" involved stuff pertaining to the world situation and how things "appear" over hear.

One thing I have to stress is that I am living with a bunch of Americans, so current events still seem to sink into my brain in much the same fasion that they do when I am back home. However the televised news here does seem to show quite a bit more, along with a bit more variety, and less "programmed" repetition. Also, remember that Hertsberg is a little village in rural Belgium and that the nearest city is Brugge, which seems to thrive on lot of tourism. Although Paris is relatively close, if something is going on there…I would have to see it on the news to know about it.

I don’t really want to get into a whole ton of political stuff, but on the whole, people seem to have a liking for America. On the other hand they don’t really seem to like President Bush, at all. At the moment this doesn’t seem like it is a hard thing to do…even for Americans, but things are definitely a bit more liberal here and well I have to say that I don’t really like the taxes that I see on a lot of stuff here, nor do I like that I get a feeling of restriction when I start to look at how "businesses" operate here…so I’ll just leave it at that and not go down that road any further, especially seeing as I really don’t know what I am talking about…but who does anyway.
Some other "other than racing questions" pointed more directly at me and who I am.
Well when I am not riding my bicycle I like to do stuff like go hiking, camping…sleep, watch cartoons (yes, cartoons), eat sweedish fish, eat oreos with a big glass of milk, and those things called cherry flavored craisins, have you ever had any?? If you haven’t you don’t know what you are missing!! They remind me of these strawberry gummy snacks that I used to get when I was younger, this is before they started making them in all sorts of crazy animal shapes and whatever, besides I can’t say that I don’t want to eat them because they are bad for me or something, they are just cranberries ( I can probably make some sort of negative calorie claim about them too, well they might be too good for that but whatever)…..hmmm what else….I’ve actually taken quite a liking to cooking, I think this was some sort of influence Ted had on me. I often find myself trying a new dinner or something with out a recipe. I figure out how the basics of it work and go from there. I made this butternut squash risotto thing and it turned out pretty good, but I think I can make it better…did ya here that CarrieAnn? I’ll at least be a P-R-O Chef when I get back! Well, maybe not really, but in my mind I will be.

Oh, and something else. First you gotta promise not to tell anyone. Promise?? I was talking with Uncle Hert and agrees that there is a hole in the market here, and I’m going to capitalize on it! Big time! I’m gona bring the evil giant to Belgium. I’m gona start opening Starbucks up all over the place, next to all of the millions of bakeries in Belgium there is going to be a Starbucks, and they will be open 24 hours a day every day including holidays. I’ll have all of Belgium twitching from too much caffeine in no time! So who wants to give me a couple a loans?....