Fred Train Rolls On

The momentum for a potential Fred Thompson presidential bid continues to build. Word is that several close allies of Ronald Reagan are backing him. Fifty or so Congressional Republicans showed up to meet him in Washington recently. And a highly unscientific straw poll of Republican blog readers shows him winning in a rout. It doesn't sound like he can formally enter the race until after the Law & Order season ends in May, and he also has some Paul Harvey fill-in work to do, so that may be a few weeks off. But it looks more and more likely.



Update: Fred Commentaries!

NFL News

The Minnesota Vikings went ahead and drafted our old friend Adrian Peterson, running back from Oklahoma, with the 7th pick in the draft. Now that he is changing shirts, I will cheer for him, rather than against him. He now has my permission to gain a lot of yards and more importantly, not get injured.

Mormons on TV

Utah is abuzz about a two-part documentary about the LDS Church that airs Monday and Tuesday on PBS. One aspect of the coverage is the fact that the church will be getting some national exposure. The other aspect is speculation on how the film will portray the church. The two newspapers in Salt Lake City have apparently seen it, and consider it to be well-balanced. From my experience, Mormons are pretty sensitive about criticism, so when I see these papers say it's "balanced", I tend to think it will be on the favorable side. However, we shall see. I'm sure there will be a lot of commentary after it airs.

Kitchen blues

I give up - our kitchen stinks. We have officially decided to give up on our dishwasher. It never really did a very good job of cleaning but I figured we weren't being as diligent about rinsing as we should be. But even after extreme rinsing, no luck. In fact, the extra rinsing just allowed us to see how bad it really was, the dishes were coming out dirtier than they were going in. So far it has been about a week and it isn't tooooo bad. I mean, we were already washing our pots and pans by hand and there are only two of us so it isn't a whole lot more work. It's more the principle of the thing. We have a dishwasher so I want to be able to use it.

Ironically, as I was pondering our loss of the beloved dishwasher, a semi-relevant country song came on the radio. The singer talks about when his family got their first microwave. Then Craig commented on how he remembers his family getting their first and I FELT REALLY YOUNG. I don't remember our family ever not having a microwave. I do remember using our old microwave stand for my 10 gallon fish tank when I was in 10 or 11. Since my mom let me use it for my fish, I am pretty sure it was at least a couple of years old. Not only did I not remember getting my first microwave, it was actually kinda weird to think about life without a microwave. I guess I knew that they were invented not too recently, but I never thought about it. At the end of my little pensive moment, I reassured myself that life without a dishwasher may be inconvenient but at least I have a microwave. BIG MISTAKE. Tonight, in our attempt to enjoy some lovely leftovers, the microwave decides to fail us too. I never should have thought about how much I like microwaves, I set myself up for this. Maybe it is just a phase and it will get over it? I fear the worst.

Sheep vs. Poodle

At first, I was going to summarize this article for you, but it's short and I think it reads best as it is.

Oh, those silly Japanese. It seems to have taken a couple of the "poodle owners" quite a while before they figured it out. I'm just shocked that the swindlers though up this idea. I guess they knew that some people are really really dumb.