May 29th

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
- JRR Tolkien"

It seems like Nuclear energy is really the only way out of our energy crisis. I'm not a big supporter of coal since it does horrendous things to the environment, visually at least.

Got myself a little vacation goin' on here. One of those stay at home vacations that go really fast. Checkin' out some movies. Went to Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, and we're up for pirates 3 next. Sense a pattern here ? What is the deal? The only really 'original' movies coming out here are Simpsons and Transformers, both look good.

Looks like I'm getting to visit my ny home here in a few weeks, which is nice. I've missed my sisters and mom very much, and my friends, who were a big part of my fun there. I wonder if the mealoncholy will be as powerful upon my leaving there this time, after having spend 20 challenging months there. I do miss the guys at Delta Funding though....what a great bunch of guys.

I'm reading the book 1776, the non fiction one, it reads like butter. My oh my the things I'm ignorant of astound me. I'm sure at one time my excellent public screwl education gave me some of this information, but I recall none of it, so did it happen?

George Washington hasn't won a battle yet and I'm more than halfway through the story. Its stunning how inept he appears, but really he wasn't ready for the fight. The war machine of America wasn't ready...we hadn't had control of the sea nor did we have sufficient training. It was very impressive how they ran them out of Boston, but I think the brilliance of that came from Knox, not Washington. So far the only good thing I've heard of Washington is that he looks good in a uniform. I'm anxious to learn what events turn the thing around. Its interesting the Congress was so involved...down to specific battle strategies, and they were bad at it. I'm going to try to get to some of the sites where Washington stood down the British.

New Rush album! Ahh, the days that I can say that are not over yet! I'm so grateful for those guys....I should send them some notes on what they've done for me. Its a supreme irony that these atheists are so helpful to a Christian. What comes through so strong in all their tunes, even the most ardently secular songs, is a pure ethical humanism, a hopefulness in the future of humanity despite ourselves.

Family is great.. Chub is so cool....he's getting big though, very strong. He headbutts you and you see stars. Brianna got glasses and they look right on her. She's too pretty. Bryce is fabulous -- he's ramping up on Chess really fast. We bought the passable Chessmaster Challenge version, but I'm not terribly bowled over by it. 3 chess sets in it....? no tutorials. no animations....it just lacks the full features of what I thought the Chessmaster line had....oh well, its fun.