weekend thoughts

I just got back from lake Vermillion. Here are a few thoughts.

Speaking of Faith, is truly an amazing radio show. I find that there are very few truly intelligent shows in any broadcast medium that explore faith issues in interesting thoughtful ways. This week's show was about South Africa's "Truth and Reconciliation" process and was fascinating. It's available online if you go to their web page. It will be interesting to see where South Africa goes politically and economically, and to evaluate the effect of the "Truth and Reconciliation" work in another ten or twenty years. SA is a far cry from the country I reported on in the sixth grade.

I have been using gmail now for a week or so. I don't get what all the fuss is about. It's very good web mail, but I can't really see what all the fuss is about at this point. (I still have invites, if anyone wants one, BTW.) Perhaps people are just excited about the disk space available. It makes most IT departments seem a little stingy.

This Michael Moore ala Che t-shirt is one of the wittiest t-shirts I have seen in a long time.

The kids love being at the lake. They love being outside and fishing (better know as tangling), or running around catching bugs. Its fun, but sometimes I long for the days when going to the lake meant catching up on reading and sleeping. The kids have very different ideas about what the phrase "fun at the Lake" means. At least they aren't eating things off the carpet anymore.

I didn't see much wildlife up north. I saw some woodpeckers and a turtle from a distance as well as the usual loons. There were a few suspicious noises inside the cabin, which I attribute to mice. I found that someone had left a large sack of sunflower seeds in the cabin, which must have been feeding quite a large family of mice. Hopefully, removing some of their food supply will drive the vermin to the many traps we have been setting out.