Family Update

1. So it didn't take Kim long to find a new job. She starts today as a courtesy clerk at the King Soopers by our house. In a way it's kind of a dream job. What I mean is that she has always wanted to work there as kind a fall back. And it's tough to get in, but once you do get your foot in the door there's a lot of chances an opportunities to move up. And she's happy, which is really what is most important.

2. I want to spread the word about a show I have been watching on TV. It's called Mad Men, it runs on AMC on Thursday nights. Here's a link to the show's web site: AMC » Mad Men. This is really an excellent show. It really does an excellent job of capturing a time and place in our country. The scene that best capture's what the show is about was from the second episode. In this scene you have 2 housewives sitting in the kitchen talking, smoking cigarettes (everyone smokes in this show, everyone). One of them comments about how the kids are too quiet so she yells for them to come. When the kids come you see one of them with a big plastic bag over her head. Then one of the wives stands up and you see that she's pregnant. Then the other one starts to speak to the girl with the plastic bag over her head, and you anticipate a statement like get that bag off your head, but instead she asks the girl if the clothes in that dry cleaning bag were hung up or just tossed on the floor. This scene brilliantly captures a time when things that we commonly accept now as wrong were just normal: smoking while pregnant, kids playing with plastic bags on their heads etc. Most of the show is like that.

The chartacters are all pretty flawed, for some of them the story is like a train wreck, you don't want to watch but you can't stop yourself. But I still find myself drawn into it. It's a lot like the Soprano's in that way. Anyway, I really like the show and wanted to recommend it to everyone who might read this blog.