I finally got to go see my new grandaughter, Katie, my grandson, Grant and Nancy and Jason.  It was a terrific trip, only much too short.  I hope to go again between now and the start of football season, maybe while my friend Kent (from Thailand) is visiting his folks in Kentucky during August. Katie, who primarily still eats, sleeps and poops, is starting to develop a personality and an engaging smile.  Grant, who is an early riser, managed to get me out of bed as early as 5:30 am to play ball, and allowed me to spend two days in the pool with him for his swimming lessons. I also spent one evening with Jason working on a bottle of bourbon and learning quite a bit about the whole social media arena of the PR business and how it might apply to my funnel cake business.  All of you recieved an email about the first change.  I apologize for the inconvenience, but  we're changing the notification system when I post an entry and the new system, due to privacy issues, won't accept my "old" list of subscibers.  So if you want to continue receiving my prose, you have to resubscribe.  On the other side, it will give us a much better picture of who reads my stuff and from where.  Hopefully that will help us to understand why. As most of you know, I started this blog to keep family and friends up to date on what Peggy and I are doing.  And, secondly, to entertain.   As the family has expanded, my readers have too.  But, we've found that I get readers from 30 states and 35 countries.  I need to know why.  I can understand readers from about 10 states, from Thailand (Kent) and Australia (a friend and loyal reader of Jason's).  I'm not sure where the others are coming from.   Some are from  Jason contacts like an exec from Elijah Craig (my preferred brand of bourbon), the guru of Dell's social media work and a writer from the Wall Street Journal.  But where are the rest coming from. One explanation may be that there are folks out there looking for resources in the concession/funnel cake business.  Because I get so many hits, I've moved up the search engine chain,  and if you search for "funnel cakes", I rate like fourth or fifth on the result list.  That being a possibility, I need to spend some time and space to responding to what those folks are looking for.  In the future, I may have posts specifically designed for that type of reader which may bore some of you, but I promise to continue to try to entertain a bit even in those circumstances. I'm also considering several of the "new" techno advances like "twittering",  picture galleries, instant messaging and text messaging.  Sounds impressive, huh?  Actually, I'm still the same dumb, fat guy I've always been.  Just regurgitating info I learned from my son. Upon returning from Kentucky, I took Tank with me to Richmond and Amelia.  Two reasons:  I didn't have a booking for him this week and I hoped to buy another vehicle at the auction for him to use this fall for football.  Having Tank and Peggy allowed me to spend the time bidding and we got a Mitsubishi Montero.  Tank drove it home. Business both days was average.  But that's OK after last week. I thought I might have to save Tank on Thursday evening.  We checked into the motel and went for a swim.  He was attacked by a nymphet in a skimpy bikini looking for a little action.  He handled it like a pro.  Not that kind of pro!  I didn't have to intervene and his integrity is still intact. More next week.