Page 22 May 2011 By Greg A. Bruns With summer approaching at a nauseously high rate of speed, it’s time to start thinking about those car rides through the nautical equivalent of the “horse latitudes” – namely Interstate 8 down through Yuma. The westbound drive isn’t so bad because there’s so much to look forward to, right? That eastbound journey back to satan’s blast furnace leaves a bit to be desired, though. If you don’t have another getaway penciled- in on the calendar before Halloween, driving home can make a man feel itchy. Like in Rambo, when the guards were about to slap ‘ol Johnny on that electri fi ed mattress one more time. You can pause the movie right at that point and really get a sense of the tension freakout that’s about to happen, which is going to end up killing every single person in that room. So don’t let that drive get its life-sucking tentacles around you and make you feel like you’re doing a dime in the county’s tent-based correctional facility. That’s my advice for this summer: plan some escapes, even if they are just simple weekends in the pines. It will give you something to look forward to even when the weasels start closing in. This year I’m trying to think of a few time zappers to help with those long beach-bound car rides through the sun-baked desert. If the kids aren’t at least halfway entertained, then the missus and I will surely arrive tense, twitchy and agitated, and we can go ahead and lop a couple days off the front of the vacation for “re- assimilation” time. License plate games, “A to Z” and “I spy” are solid consumption for any journey, but today’s children are tomorrow’s engineers. I know most of Hambone’s preschool class can handle an iphone or Android device with surprisingly deft precision. I know this because I recently reviewed my wireless phone bill and discovered my wife’s phone had been carrying nearly $40 per month in extra charges for subscriptions to games like BioShock 2 and Need for Speed . For six months. It’s kind of scary, really, because the swiftness of his actions in these little handheld computers is combined with what appears to be inherent knowledge of the device and its operating system. It’s almost as if the 50,000 hours I spent playing Asteroids and Defender in the 80s (instead of talking to girls), somehow actually enhanced my “outbound” DNA, peppering my offspring with rudimentary instincts with Unix- based machines. While this “hard-wiring” might not be as temporal as a panicked baboon who brains Continued on page 23 Remember Mom with with B  Colorful Roses Colorful Roses  B Blooming Shrubs B Beautiful Orchids B Quality Houseplants Quality Houseplants B Custom Color Bowls we carry fountains, statuary and benches. Add an extra touch to your garden this season! Garden Tips For May Garden Tips For May  Plant summer flowers now! Plant summer flowers now!  Increase watering as temperatures rise. Increase watering as temperatures rise.  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