The weather this weekend was typical for Michigan in March; utterly miserable. Saturday wasn't too bad, just gray and raining. Then at some point during the night it switched to snow. It never got below freezing, so it was a couple inches of wet slop on top of all the mud from the rain.

Yahoo.

Snow of course meant I needed to get to church early to plow the parking lot. We didn't make it very early, so we were plowing around people trying to park and walk into the church. Other than that little adventure, it was a typical Sunday of teaching, morning service, evening service, etc. The one atypical part was a farewell party after the evening service for our interns that are heading back to their home church. Being Baptists, there was food. Of course. In any case, we wish Dave and Megan well as they continue to prepare for the mission field in Brazil.

When we got home last night we watched Bruce Almighty. It was pretty funny. It's too bad that there are a couple scenes and some language that make it unsuitable for use in the youth group. One theme in the movie regarding answers to prayer is that what is good for you may not be good for someone else (or everyone else), which is something we discuss a lot. In any case, it was a good way to relax before bed.

What can you say about Monday's other than they are Monday. Friday, I had brought home all the stuff I was working on for Munson. I took it out of my backpack to make room for the stuff I needed for Sunday, so guess where it was when I got to the hospital this morning? Yep. At home. (sigh) I had some other less urgent things to keep me busy for the morning, then drove home and worked the afternoon from the cabin. Being brain dead is so wonderful.

On the political front:

Is everyone sick of presidential politics yet? Well guess what; we get to listen to this crap for seven more months. We were looking at getting a good antenna for the house so we could at least have the basic broadcast stations, but I don't know if I want to. At least home is a No-Kerry-Bush Zone. This would be a good time to be out of the country.

Haiti - now here is some encouragement for those that think Iraq will be a stable democracy by 2005. We've been mucking around down there for over a decade and the place has no functioning police, military, courts, or government. This is right in our backyard, dealing with a culture we at least have some inclination of how it works. How we will ever succeed in Iraq, I have no clue. Worse, I don't think those in charge have a clue either.

Speaking of Iraq, we continue to feed a soldier a day into the meat grinder. Meanwhile a bunch of unelected, unrepresentative people signed a piece of paper. Wow. Iraq is a good example of why democracies are not stable. The people that founded this country were smart enough to know that and created a republic instead. We seem to have lost that knowledge somewhere along the way. If we create a democracy in Iraq, it will be one man, one vote, once, followed by civil war. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I won't be.

Martha Stewart - Jerry Pournelle has a good analysis of what this verdict really means. As Jerry often says, at least we were born free...

SCO - Now these morons are suing Daimler-Chrysler. I worked for krauts for many years. They have a very low BS threshold. Between IBM and D-C, it won't matter how much money Bill Gates gives them, they are dead men walking. (Random thought: If the Mafia uses Linux that could be literally true. Could we get that lucky?)

Well, that should be enough to keep everyone busy for a bit.