In early 1990, my father was diagnosed with MND (known as ALS in the United States). At that time, none of my family knew anything about this horrid disease. On the 16th of September, 1991, less than 2 years after being diagnosed, my father passed away.

Over the last 24 years my family has learned quite a lot about MND. We have also been involved in some way or another with helping raise funds for the research into MND/ALS, while my mother spent many years as a member of the Victorian MND Association.

Recently, the MND/ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has gone viral throughout the world, and my family and I were, of course, going to be a part of it!

So for your viewing pleasure, here is my Bucket Challenge video - In honour of my Dad:



This next video was compiled by my niece. The participants are my mother, my wife, my 3 children, one of my nieces, 2 of my nephews and a cousin and her daughter.



I hope you enjoy the antics of me and my crazy family. But we had a lot of F U N doing it!

Mark, that was great Hope you haven't got a cold

Nice to see you have a happy and funny family. But it takes a lot of courage to play ice buckets challenge during the winter, although australian winter, as here, must be mild.

GREAT JOB MARK!

I don't care if it's 7 degrees or 27 degrees it is still COLD!

Our local fire department also did the challenge
but when they talked about the bucket part they failed to mention it was ice from the bucket of a front end loader!  

They dumped the whole bucket on about 15 of us... It was COLD and knocked most of us to the ground.

I'm a member of the fire department, but too old to climb
up & down the ladders so we serve as fire cops who protect the fire fighters
and direct traffic at fire and crash scenes.

Here I am doing just that....  

http://www.camphillfire.org/photos/image/31-img-1941#fwgallerytop

Oh Mark!

Mate you must be mad, wearing shorts and tshirt in Ballarat in mid winter is enough to get you certified. Let alone ice buckets!!

Good on ya mate, a great way to honour your dad and bring recognition to the disease. Motor Neurone does not get the funding it needs in this country.

Cappy wrote on Sep 5^th, 2014 at 6:00am:


http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/vv58/Markoz958/Ballarataveragetemperatures_zp...

AP means the Airport, which is where the weather recording equipment is.

Pinatubo wrote on Sep 6^th, 2014 at 4:16am:

The summer in Ballarat can get very hot. We had buy an air con last year because we had too many days that were between 35^o and 42^o Celsius. So there is plenty of complaints about the oppressive heat here.

Unfortunately for me, the hotter the temperature, the more pain I have!

Mark: speaking of ice buckets--and since you have one on your CPU--why don't you ever pop that pup over 4Ghz? Every time I see your signature, it makes me curious...

I've got a 3770K that runs stable at 4.7... yet I still lag with these CS (and other) aircraft...