Ahhh.. home sweet home.  We’re back after a very nice whirlwind visit to Diane’s folks.. Always good seeing them .. The one mishap in an otherwise perfect stay was that I managed to put my bluetooth headset in the wash. .. I tried to pull it out and dry it.. but.. no dice.  wouldn’t be so bad.. but this is at least 5th that I’ve ‘processed’ in this way in the past 3 years or so. .. Come to think of it, I’m pretty hard on all of my portable electronics. I just retired my 5th blackberry… This one was still working when I took it out of service..  the other 4 were not so lucky…  And. I’m now on my 4th .. no 5th… portable camera.. The first was eaten by the desert at burning man, another got  was lost in the snow, another got jammed.. … These things need to be made to be washed. and dropped.

 

The trip back from endicott was sunny and uneventful… we listened to a good Freakanomics podcast on how people make decisions called There truth is out there.. isn’t it ?  . I love this show as oyu always come away thinking a little differently after you’ve listened. The main premise I liked in today’s podcast was that we rarely use research and facts to form a personal decision.. instead, we often use our research to help reinforce the opinion that we want to support. In fact, the more educated a person is , the more likey he or she is to have an extreme view on a subject.. The more we dig, the more black and white things become to us..

 

or red and green.. as we now see the Richmond Bridge that welcomes us home painted.. They had to stop mid paintjob for the winter.. leaving us with a seasonally appropriate mixed paint job.. hohoho !

 

The rest of the day was a pleasant drift.. We all went to Gabe’s last indoor soccer league game.. the season playoffs.. and wudja beleive it .. they won !!!!

OK.. not much more to report.. just trying to stay warm. it’s 9 degrees F and dropping outside..  guess it’s really almost winter !

nite all, nite sam

-me