End of week thoughts

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

The week is ending, and there is the promise of at least a moderately relaxing weekend ahead.  Finding ways to make the running interesting so I can keep it up.  Looking forward to a couple of hours devoted to the World Cup.  Plans to actually get back to working on the yard for a change.  And totally disgusted by a charge by a columnist I used to actually like.

Weekend plans

Finally a little bit of a break, only have plans for Saturday.  Sunday still appears to be open, so maybe we catch up on the yard a little.  There's certainly a lot to get done there.  I think the kids would like a Sunday where we don't have people over or they have to go somewhere either, just a day forthem to relax.

Sports

Looking forward to racing home from James' baseball game to watch USA versus Ghana.  Not expecting much, but still quite hopeful.  Glad to have a chance to devote some time to actually watching a game live on TV instead of another ESPN Gamecast.   

Running

Now that I have finished the Couch to 5K challenge, and completed an actual race I have to find myself some new ways to make the running interesting.  So today I decided I would start picking up the pace, ran 3.5 miles in 30 minutes, plan to keep increasing those numbers gradually.  Goal is maybe 5 miles in 30 minutes, but not totally certain on that.  I know that it will take some time.  But given my time constraints for running time it makes more sense to focus on increasing pace over increasing time spent on the runs. 

Politics

I have seen some really bad things in the last couple of years written about the President, both during the campaign and after the election.  And I have read some bad columns from Thomas Sowell before.  But this column really takes the cake.  Effectively saying that Obama = Hitler because he asked a multi-billion dollar corporation to set aside a fund to pay damages for an incident brought on by it's own negligence.  Yeah, that really makes Obama the equal of the man who caused a World War and directed the deaths of millions of innocent people over an accident of birth.  Yeah Uncle Thomas, that's a real apt comparison there.  And then to have Palin quote from the column?  Just par for the course I guess. And to flip the coin I seriously doubt Sowell thought anything of the Bush administrations multitude of civil rights violations.  I guess violating constitution rights of citizens over national security is not as big of a deal as ostensibly violating the rights of a huge muti-national corporation.