Six years ago this month I completely changed my life.

I retired, remarried and

moved away from my long time hometown. I lost the daily contact with many friends.
My personal Facebook page helped me stay in touch. I don't want to lose that. I
don't want to lose the memories and photographs I've shared. No…no……I will NOT. My
personal FB page does contain some of my opinions about our government (as it
stands or limps along today). I share political memes, animal memes, pictures of my
grandson (without being specific about his full name and where he lives), pictures
of my pets, animal memes…the usual things an old lady would post. There are days I
cry on the virtual shoulders of my FB friends about my sometimes oblivious spouse
and my clinical depression. It's good to know that I'm not alone with either one.

Yesterday, my wife and I watched the film, For Here or To Go? at our local San
Francisco theater. Set in 2009, the film is one of the first bilingual films to be
nationally released in the U.S. It tells the story of high-skilled immigrants and
the challenges & emotions they go through with their lives?—?from love,
entrepreneurship, acceptance, assimilation and hate. Depicting multiple
generations, the film does a masterful job of making people laugh, think and
empathize. This is a rare entrepreneurial effort by first-time filmmaker and full-
time Gap employee Rishi . In 2010, Rishi taught himself screenwriting through
Google and 7 years later sees the fruits of his labor on 29 big screens across the
nation. We couldn't be more proud of this film, as it tells the immigrant story
through a lens seldom seen?—?authentic and light-hearted.

I hate the way WWE crowds act during shows. I respect that you paid a decent amount
of money for your seats, therefore you feel entitled to act however you want within
reason. But these stupid chants of CM PUNK and passing around beach balls is
infuriating to me. I get it, I love and miss CM PUNK as well but I have come to
grips that he is most likely never coming back to the WWE, so you stupid idiots who
chant his name should too. As for the beach balls leave that shit for baseball
games because that shit is so boring in person that you do need something to pass
the time. And let's not act like this is just a "Raw after WrestleMania" thing
because it isn't. I don't want to turn this into a piece about WWE crowds needing
to behave but I wanted to say that I think it definitely needs to stop.

Since Theresa May's announcement on the morning of 18th April, a sense of panic
seems to be encapsulating the UK yet again. political parties are preparing their
campaigns, social media is full to the brim with support and hate for every party,
and people are already struggling to decide who to vote for. However, there seems
to be a real lack of acknowledgement towards the smaller parties on social media.
It seems the only ones people want to talk about are Conservatives, Labour, Liberal
Democrats and UKIP. But these aren't suited for everyone's needs, and there is a
crucial party that's being missed; The Greens.

Surprise in 2018? I see more opportunity for negative than positive. For all the
press this year, it could get worse. What if company executives knew their service
was harming people and did nothing or worse, covered it up in the interest of
profit? It is what happened in the industries we love to hate: cigarettes, auto,
oil, & pharmaceuticals. As bad as it was in 2017, it would be a surprise if we find
infotech on that list. But it's not impossible. Elon Musk this year began mass
production of an electric automobile and regular use of a rocket with vertical
landing of its launch stage. He unveiled a new way to make tunnels, plans an
electric semi-truck, and plans for the largest rocket ever conceived to take
hundreds of people to Mars. Oh, and didn't he launch some connect-your-brain-to-
the-internet initiative too?