Monday I should have said ...

Monday was 85 degrees. The sun was shining, everyone's mood was improved and I finally got an opportunity to wear my Australia: Everything is better down under tank top/singlet.

Spending the weekend at Hope and Mikes was peaceful. Taking walks around the lake with Mike and the dogs and Ethan passed out in his pouch. Mike and I shot the shit and Hope and I finally got a chance to catch up. Have you ever wondered how much influence science fiction tv shows from the 60's and 70's (like Star Trek and Lost in Space) had on inventors of today. I mean the correlation is obvious between the communicate that Kirk used and flip phones of today. How much insight Gene Rodenberry had when writing Star Trek about technology that was in no way considered possible at the time. OK I ADMIT IT! - I am a trekkie, its in my genes. The political world at the moment can be interperated in so many varied ways that its fun to debate them and try to gleam someone biases.

Friday night Mary, Kevin, Travis, Kat, Andy, Sinque, Joey, and I all got together to play pool and drink at Murphys. I only had two drinks because the evening was split by a trip back to the farm to bottle feed the baby goats. But it was fun and actually adult - kinda, Mary got hammered. Mary's family party the next night was fairly peaceful, everyone talking and relaxing, toddlers running around hiding under desks, infants pointing at eachother curiously. The high point of the night was right before Hope, Mike, and I left. Ethan (4 months) was fussy and Jayson (3 years) leaned in and said "Don't cry Ethan, there's no crying in baseball". None of us knew the last time he saw A League of Their Own but it was one of the first times in a long time that we all (exluding Mercy) laughed together for a simple reason. I came back up on Sunday with Hope, Mike, and Ethan and we had lunch at the Crackerbarrel. Being back at school has a sombering effect on me but that should change next semester.