Random Thoughts

I took Anya to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville this past weekend. I found it interesting but for a five-year-old the best part was the small playground with a slide. I seem to remember lots of things for smaller kids to experiment and explore when I went there as a kid. Plus I was amazed at the number of mistakes and typos in the descriptions of the rockets. For instance, a rocket designed to fire from the ground to hit targets in the sky is a surface-to-air missile and not a surface-to-surface missile. Not good.

Anya managed to get sick the last couple of days and not pass it on to the rest of us.

Arwen is into everything as usual. She loves the Christmas tree. And she turns one on Thursday, how the time has flown by!

Allison is still working on being mommy again to a baby. Getting used to having a toddler and then suddenly a baby again is not always easy. But she’s doing good and hopefully she’ll be repaid soon with a full night’s sleep.

We got new lights for the tree and they are the new fancy LED based lights. I wasn’t sure about them at first but I have to say I like them. They are bigger than the normal lights so they have an old fashioned feel to them.

I’m amazed at how bad people are about discussing politics. The hateful us-versus-them attitudes I see is just not productive nor beneficial. If this isn’t resolved I fear it will eventually tear us apart as a country. The current crop of politicians we have in Washington, Executive and Legislative, is not really helping in this. For instance, the majority constantly blaming the minority for everything even though they have no ability whatsoever to do anything to prevent the majority from doing whatever they want. It’s madness.