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BBC NEWS Technology Fuel cells in laptops edge closer

reconciliation of faith 2

The day after I sealed the basement, my parents insisted on taking a trip down to the Basilica of
The National Shrine ofOur Lady of Fatima. http://fatimashrine.org/ Admittedly, its a very beautful setting and the grounds are quite peaceful. (I took a book - Phillip Pullman of all people - the Dark Materials series which I'm reading now was widely condemned by Catholics with no imagination in much the same way that the Da Vinci Code is now except this series wasn't made into a movie.) I attended mass with my parents (at my mother's insistence). She commented that she was not happy with my apparent lack of fait, or at least the lack of interest I show in the formalities of my faith and that I don't show my kids the faith in the way that she did for me and my brothers. She also made a comment comparing my faith and one of my brothers (who I know is atheist but of course hasn't told anyone else in the family yet) with my other brotherwhom she claims is a good Catholic boy. Of course I bit my tongue because I'm pretty sure the brother she's referring to is a very good liar.

I've been wondering this for a while now, but why do I still consider myself to be Catholic even though I don't toe the apparent party line on most issues. The Philip Pullman quote below seems to be a good basis to start. The church is such a big part of my extended family's daily life and routine and it was such a big part of my childhood, that I can't just drop it. I have to acknowledge the grounding that it has given me and I have to incorporate its wisdom into my life. To do otherwise would be to waste it. I commented to someone that I try to take the wisdom out of every experience and to not do so with my religion would be contradictory.

I suppose there is more to it than that, but it's a point of note anyway.

Weekend activities

We had a friend come in to help me waterseal the basement. Its this polymer material that paints on then cures like rubber. http://sanitred.com/

Cleanup was a bit messy - there was a liitle slip up during the removal of the roller covers from the handles. On the plus side I have confirmed that the polymer is indeed waterproof but now my hands are blue/grey. I suppose I also have a conversation starter.

reconciliation of faith

" But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it."

Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

 

(More on this idea later.)

Operation No Cheese Board: Update 3

All Mission Objectives ACCOMPLISHED!!!!

No cheese board and WoW is officially installed on my laptop. (Although I have to log in and set up an account.)

Google images meme

I noticed this on a friend's site and I thought it would be interesting to replicate.


Figure out your answers for each of the below.
Put them into a Google image search.
Grab the first interesting image for each answer, and post the images (without showing the actual answer) in your journal, along with the meme rules


1. The age you will be on your next birthday


2. A place to which you'd like to travel


3. Your favorite place


4. Your favorite food


5. Your favorite animal
 

6. The town in which you were born


7. The name of a past pet


8. The first name of a past love


9. Your favorite color


10. Your first name


11. Your middle name


 

12. Your last name

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Voyager probes detail Sun domain

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Voyager probes detail Sun domain

Neat neat neat!

BBC NEWS | Health | A daily drink 'only good for men'

BBC NEWS Health A daily drink 'only good for men'

Senses

NPR : Societies of Sound in the Forest

 

I was listening to NPR on my way to work this morning - a link to the radio expedtion that was playing is above. The commentator mentioned how people had known about these tiny insects called tree hoppers for a while, and they have been admired for the variety of colors and forms that they have. But that it wasn't until people listened to them with microphones that they realized that there was much more to them that their looks. Applying different senses opened the door to the study of social communications between these creatures and gives an indication of how communication may have eveolved in species. 

 

How much are we unaware of by not applying all the senses we have available to us in examining anything? Our senses are limited in the range that each sense can record. Sound is nothing more than vibrations that our ears can sense with a certain frequency range, beyond which some may be captured by sight or touch. There are ranges of activity that we can only percieve by conversion to sense that we can process and those representations are mere shadows and approximations of what really is. Creatures with sensory ranges different from our own most likelysee the world extremely differntly than what we percieve.

Operation No Cheese Board: Update 2

Today was a qualified failure - we didn't get WoW, but we didn't get a cheese board either. There's still a few days left and maybe my wife will surprise me with a copy later. I still have 10 more days before my birthday, but today was pretty much a wash. *sigh*

Operation No Cheese Board: Update

Things aren't going so well... I picked my parents and brother up at the mall to take them to the zoo around noon, but they only had time to shop at a couple of stores, both of which I know to not have WoW normally in stock. Current plans are to return to the mall at some point this evening so they may continue shopping, so we'll see what comes of it.

Your Horoscope | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Your Horoscope The Onion - America's Finest News Source
The Gemini Onion Horoscope is:
"Remember: Give a man a complement and you'll sate him for a day; teach a man how to fish for complements and you'll feed his ego for life."

Heh.

Cheese Board Avoidance

N: how goes it?

Me: coming along

we'll see how this day turns out

N: busy?

Me: My wife is taking the kids to a playgroup at a park and then afterwards to the zoo

N: ok...?

Me: My parents and my brother are going to the mall and I'll be taking them to join them at the zoo later

I dropped not so subtle hints as to what I might like for my birthday should they choose to buy me something

N: omg, BIRTHDAY

Me: I wouldn't normally do so, but last year they got me a cheese cutting board

N: *giggles hysterically*

Me: which I really really want to avoid this time around

N: do you at least like cheese?

Me: well yes, but not so much that I need a cheese board

so yes, I mentioned WoW and made a notation on my blog about the incident

N: maybe this year they will get you CHEEEESE

Me: well we have cheese at home

and we've never had need for a board before

N: Exciting cheese! Spectacular cheese!

Me: although we did actually use the board for the first time at the party after the baptism this past weekend.

You realize that this conversation has suddenly become very bloggable, right?

N: As long as you correct the typos ;-)

Me: I'll do my best

Does CHEEESE have 4 or 5 E's?

N: some! *giggle*

Me: so, yes, we'll see how the day turns out...

 

 

WoW Acquisition Campaign

I've given up on hinting to my parents and my brother about what I would like if they were to get me a birthday present. I came right out and not very subtely told them that if they were thinking about it while they are out shopping today that they could probably stop by the game store and pick me up a copy of WoW... and while they were at it, they could also pick up a 60-day pass or two. We'll see if this works. This past weekend I went to Best Buy with my cousins, one of whom had to buy a computer game as a gift for her brother, and tried to convince them to buy WoW for me as a gift. It was amusing to tease them, but I don't think they took me seriously enough. After all, as my mother put it, what 30-year old father of two should eb playing computer games? To which my brother pointed out that computer gaming is a much lesser vice than drinking, gambling, and a whole lot of other things I could be doing. Go Bro!

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC News 'wrong Guy' is revealed

BBC NEWS Entertainment BBC News 'wrong Guy' is revealed

I read about this eariler but didn't think much about it, but when I watched the video of the interview, the first expression on the guy's face is priceless! I wouldn't want that to happen to me!

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Happiness Formula | Test your happiness

BBC NEWS Programmes Happiness Formula Test your happiness

Another interesting article...

BBC NEWS | Health | Unhappy home link to appearance

BBC NEWS Health Unhappy home link to appearance

Wow. Nature or nurture... interesting, In a convoluted sort of sense this reaffirms my feeling that if there are ever two opposing camps, the truth is somewhere in the middle...

Another time waster...

http://www.pixelcop.net/blojsom/blog/chetan/dev/java/2005/01/22/jsettlers_fork.html

Settlers of Catan on your desktop.

family

I made an observation to my parents and my wife in the middle of another disagreement I was having with my mother that she's the only person I can be totally annoyed with even though she's being completely reasonable. It seems to me that I'm a completely different person when I speak with her. I get defensive and stand-offish and my temper flares for seemingly petty reasons. The others in  my family who were up this weekend, my two brothers, several cousins and uncles and aunts, I have no problems with - it's just my mother.

friends

L came down from 2 hours away and joined us for our Baptism celebrations for our daughter this past weekend. It was completley unexpected. She isn't very good about keeping in touch. I hadn't realized how long it had been since we saw her last and how much we had all gone through since then, but it seemed from when she walked through the door that nothing had changed and we were all together like there was no distance apart from us. It was refreshing and reaffirming of the bonds that we've made over the years.

 

Living where we are now, apart from our friends and the people we love, we immerse ourselves in our kids to confirm that there are people out there who want us and need us. That's all well and good, but its difficult to have an adult conversation with a two-year-old who has no choice but to love you. :-)

 

family

Wow. What a busy weekend. I've got a lot to think about and a lot to write. However I got a little distracted with a quetion from a friend. I'll have to get back to it when I have a bit more time. Short story is I haven't got WoW yet :-(

hmm

I had some witty and insightful comment to make, but I can't seem to recall what it was at the moment...

Spam comments

I suddenly got a ton of comments on this site and at first I was pleasantly surprised until I noticed that all of them had little links at the bottom directing you to spam and some of the comments were repeating and referencing content I didn't have. With apologies to anyone who actually wants to include a comment (so far only two people I know are genuine), I will add a letter recognition requirement to any new posts. Sorry about this.

Douglas Adams quotes

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.


Life is wasted on the living.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Gloria Steinem quotes

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Law and justice are not always the same.

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.

Logic

"Logic is in the eye of the logician" - Gloria Steinem

temper

My mother commented that I'm "hot-headed", that I have "a temper", and that I'm impatient. This is odd because I'm one of the calmest people I know and I'm pretty laid back - my wife agrees with me. But we both see what my mother means - I have a temper with her and I often choose to bite my tongue over yelling at her. My mother pushes my buttons whether she knows she's doing it or not. It surprises me sometimes how very different my brothers and I turned out relative to my parents - not necessarily in a bad way but in very different directions. In my mind my mother still treats me like a kid, and all commentary about how I'll always be my mother's child, aside, I know precisely where I lost confidence in my parents. I know I can't blame them for not knowing how to handle the situation - it's not something most parents have to deal with, but the entire situation was a significant factor in making me the person that I am and if they were more up front with me then, I think things may have worked out differently. As it happened I shut myself off from everyone and turned inwards - I didn't have anyone else to turn to. It took me a long while before I turned outwards again and when I did get my confidence I think it was surprising how easy it was for me to be outgoing and social. Neither of my brothers are lacking in social graces, but for a long time I thought I was but I'm finding out more and more that I can handle myself in social situations. Maybe I resent my parents for holding me back. Maybe.

 

My wife has commented on how far removed my parents seem from her parents. She compares their view on the world as more akin to her grandparents and I have to agree with her. In any decision we make I have to either explain to them in painstaking detail why we did whatever it is we did, or else just bite my tongue and say "That's what we decided. End of story." Frustrating.

 

That said, its nice to not have to cook as often and to have someone watch the kids and do the dishes while we try to get the things done that we need to.

Origami

What's NewAnother neat site.

Virtual Street Reality

Virtual Street Reality

These are really neat.

This is the artist's official site:
Julian Beever's pavement drawings

Perambulating

A friend commented on the spiritual bent of this blog. While I don't know if I intended such a slant, I guess it is true that it has come to be more spiritual. Maybe it's just so right now. The title indicates some wandering of boundaries, so I suppose if you aren't clear where the boundaries are then part of the wandering does go into unknown or not-well-known areas and I suppose it would have to go to spiritual matters at some point or the other.

BBC NEWS | Health | Women 'sense qualities in a man'

BBC NEWS Health Women 'sense qualities in a man'
"Women are fine tuned subconsciously to detect the qualities they are looking for in a man - just by looking at his face, US research suggests.
Women can spot subtle signs of interest in children in a man's face, and accurately assess his level of the sex hormone testosterone, it claims.
Child-friendly men were rated as good long-term bets, masculine men as ideal for a more short-term fling. "

Interesting. Makes me wonder at some of the couples I do know about that really shouldn't be together.

Let's forget self for a minute

I've been trying to get to know a friend of a very good friend better. What I know of this person so far has impressed me greatly and I know that my friend's selection of companions is impeccible so I know that this person is above reproach. I am however only getting my impression through the internet, which is a flawed communication method. This blog is proof of that by itself. If I'm on a journey of introspection I don't have the vocabulary to properly convey all my thoughts and the thoughts I do have down are incomplete at best and filled with obvious exceptions that I haven't had the time to put down. An IM conversation with someone you haven't met in person is much worse as you can't read visual clues from a person's reactions to anything you're saying. IMing someone you know is different - you can at least visualize how that person will react to any one thing. I guess this may be why internet dating is so popular - you leave so much to the imagination and depending on how you feel at the time what you type and the responses you recieve could blow everything out of proportion.

World of Warcraft - Screenshot Gallery

World of Warcraft - Screenshot Gallery

OMG!!!

Penny Arcade! - The Unmistakable Scent

Penny Arcade! - The Unmistakable Scent

*sigh*...and I say yet again that I don't have the game yet.... (huh, I said "yet" as if at some point I will get it but in all likelihood I won't. *sigh*)

Blah :-P

That is all.

Staining

My parents are in town to stay with us for a whole month and we're taking advantage of this opportunity to get things done around the house. I spent most of the weekend staining our deck. It took longer than I anticipated, but it worked out well and I'm pleased with the result. we went over to a hardware store to discuss our options with fences to fence in my wife's garden plot - we may have to expand it a bit to accommodate the fence and gate orientations that are available to us - my wife was not unhappy about that, but my back might complain later. Digging up and tilling the first 20 feet by 20 feet square was bad enough, now I'll have to dig up an additional 5 feet by 20 feet to accommodate the gates... Oh well. The things you do for love. :-)

 

With my parents here we have higher church attendance to look forward to. I'm not the greatest Catholic, in terms of attendance, but we do try to go to church every week. Unbeknowest to me, that mass was the First Communion mass for the parish and therefore much longer than normal - if I went to church last week I would have known it. One of my co-workers who doesn't go to our church was there because of a friend - he just popped into my office to complain about how the priest was pontificating and making the mass longer which is interesting because I was just about to type about how much I like the priest. His sermons are amazingly mystical - very introspective and personal. He seems to acknowledge that there is a personal striving for understanding that we all have to go through and his outlook is refreshingly liberal. He renews me faith that the balance I've been striving to reach between how I've been brought up, where I am, and where I'd like to be isn't all that far removed from each other. I don't have to completely reject my "Christianity" (to the extent that I have it) to be the person I am and want to be. My impression is that if I told a "true blue" Catholic exactly what I feel, I'd probably be burned at the stake as a heretic, but I think that is because of a lack of understanding of what the precepts of the Catholic Church are. Church dogma teaches that a person must find a balance between what the Church says, what Society says, and your own personal reflection and that balance is where you should live. Unfortunately that's not a dogma that's well publicized, because it would lessen the importance of the Church in some people's eyes. Most "good" Catholics take what the Church says as gospel (heh) and leave it at that, but that ignores the other two factors. It seems to me that most people like to be told what to believe and will not spend the time to reflect on what they've been told. This is true of politics as well as religion. It constantly surprises me that I think the Catholic Church has a place for me - it's just the devout Catholics I have a problem with. Come to think of it, I generally have a problem with anyone who takes a firm stand on any topic. Science, religion, politics, personal relationships, whatever. If you known with absolute certainty that something is true, then there's usually something you are missing.

 

Which sort of leads into a discussion of God and self in a sense. Having been raised a Catholic, I've always been told that is everywhere and see everything. But my impression is that if you asked a Christian what the though about God, the answer is that God is some sort of being in "heaven", and in most cases I would guess they would say that God is seperate and apart from them. I don't agree. My concept of God - if you want to call it that - is that an omnipresent God can only be omni-present and all-knowing if that God is everything. In other words my concept of self incorporates an acknowledgement that I am part of this greater whole that extends to every single thing in the Universe - an extenstion of the GIOAT. (This resolves the Catholic - three part God mystery - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.) My love and respect for every person I meet is an acknowledgement of the "God" in everyone. It means that everything and everyone is deserving of respect because in essense we are all part of the same whole. Damage to one part is in essense damagin "God".

 

I've always had a problem with my mother telling me to pray for things that I need, partly because she also says God will do what he wants to do (in which case, why bother praying if he's going to do whatever he wants anyway), partly because it doesn't fit into my concept of God, and partly because of the GIOAT. My recieving something means that someone else doesn't. The point isn't to ask for things that you don't have but to live with what you do have and maybe strive to be able to have the things that you want. "God helps those who helps themselves" is true on several levels, one being striving to reach your goals is almost self-serving in that you are more likey to reach them if you try than if you don't.

 

What does GIOAT do to the concepts of heaven and hell? Well I think that the Universe (God, if you will) is always striving to reach something better, it's evolving and changing. Our consciousness seems to be affecting the world around us significantly. Whether that's planned or not, I don't know, but if accept the concept of free will, then it isn't planned so much as a hope that our consciousness will reach enlightment to a collective level such that we are able to positively affect the nature of the Universe. Heaven then becomes the place that the Universe is going to and hell is where we came from. (Parallels to the birth of the universe, the solar system, and this planet in intense heat and fire, and the postulated eventually cooling down of the uniiverse as its seemingly expanding may be inserted here.)

 

Spirits? Souls? Not excluded under GIOAT, just different that the way its thought of.

World of Warcraft

Me: so my character is now going to be a paladin who's an alchemist and a herbalist

N: oooooh really

Me: I was toying with mining & blacksmitting for a long time but i was never really comfortable with it and after reading the descriptions in more detail I think the other two are better

N: Wait... do you HAVE WoW?

Me: of course not!

But I'm still obsessed

N: *giggle* Right, right.

Me: can't get the damn thing out of my head :-P

The Dilbert Blog: Getting Abused Toward Success

The Dilbert Blog: Getting Abused Toward Success

I'm not sure if it's abuse so much as being open to criticism. If you didn't have a feedback mechanism that you actually responded to you would be stuck in a rut. Scott Adams improved his comic by including his e-mail address in his comics and responded to the comments he was recieving and acted on them. It's not so much getting abused as being aware when you're not doing something right.

How Gemini Are You?

How Gemini Are You?: "

You are 80% Gemini

How much do you match your zodiac sign?

"

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Universe 'child of previous one'

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Universe 'child of previous one'

I thought this was an old idea, but it seems to have some resurgance. I'm going to have to think about this for a bit.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Builders find body in rum barrel

BBC NEWS Europe Builders find body in rum barrel

It had an interesting finish...

Poetry

It amazes me how some people can spout out poetry without apparently much thought. A friend is running an informal themed poetry competition in which he picks a topic and its open to anyone to respond with poetry on that topic. I read the responses that come in and they are staggering. I couldn't possibly come up with what is produced. It just isn't in me. My own meager contribution on this blog is the only one I've ever done and that was done in an odd time for me. I suppose we all express ourselves differently, but to know so many people who are able to communicate effectively in that medium makes me wonder if I'm missing something. Is the ability to create verse innate? I know it's not easy to be a poet and that to be good at it you have to proactice and develop but it appears that some people are a lot better at it than others. If I had to do it, I'd have to really struggle to put something decent together.

Capt. Kirk

Last Friday I attended the annual Law Day luncheon sponsored by the local Bar Association. The keynote speaker was Bill Curtis a journalist and documentarian (is that a word? He used it in his bio.) All I could think of as he was speaking was William Shatner. This was Capt. Kirk in the flesh! Well in the vocal cords anyway. His speak was picking up speed and slowing down in places you wouldn't expect. Emhases were all over the place. It was fun to listen to him and try to anticipate where he put them next. I wonder if he's aware that he does it? He was an anchorman in Chicago, so someone must have told him.

Addiction

I'm additied to World of Warcraft, and I don't even own the damn game. I spent a large part of yesterday surfing Blizzard's website instead of working. I've already got a number of characters in mind I would love to try out. And because JDJD was kind enough to let me look over his shoulder while he was playing, I have somewhat of an idea of how the game should feel. I think had a WoW dream last night. DAMN YOU JDJD!

I PASSED THE FRIKKIN' NY BAR EXAM!!!!

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the Bar. In order to allow a reasonable time for the results to arrive by mail, requests for duplicate
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with no charge for those requests received prior to May 31, 2006.

Study: US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary | Reuters.com

Study: US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary Reuters.com

Wow. I believe it.

BBspot - Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?

BBspot - Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?:
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Which Nigerian spammer are You?"

BBspot - Which OS Are You?

BBspot - Which OS Are You?: "
Which OS are You?"

BBspot - Which File Extension Are You?

Which File Extension are You?

Independence v. Parenthood

I think in our relationship, we've tried to set ourselves up to be independent people, but I think we've grown to become interdependent which is a more nuanced dependence, if that makes sense. As I said, we can both function well apart, but particularly with the kids, having each other for support is essential. I applaud and marvel at single parents and parents with absent or virtually-absent partners for being able to raise kids on their own, but we've noticed that for us, we both need each other to subserve any other interests we have in favor of the kids. This doesn't mean a loss of independence, but a recognition and redefinition of ourselves to include the "parent" identity which, it seems to me, by definition requires us to give of ourselves to raise good people. Maybe part of that "parent" identity involves a transfer of identity to our kids? Maybe that's too strong, but the hope is there that our kids will like what they see in us to at least emulate our good points and avoid or learn from our failings. Every day as a new parent is a day of discovery and wonder at the little people growing up and testing themselves. Last night as were unloading our car from our return trip, our son (the two year old) insisted on helping and we both stopped and watched him carry this one bag from the car and wind his way through the cluttered garage and to the door. You could see him calculate the weight of the bag in his head and figure out the best way to walk around everything and slowly climb the steps. He was taking his job seriously. We both smiled and laughed to ourselves in wonder. Did we make that? I think he'll grow up to be a great guy. I hope he'll hang around and talk with me when he does. I think it's days like that that I was missing. My dependence on seeing the kids grow up and learn.

Mr. Spock

I was driving to join my wife and kids this past weekend and the book on tape that I was listening to ended (The Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams a hilarious and insightful book to be expected from Mr. Adams I laughed out loud several times through it.). I didn't have enough time to go through another book on tape so I put on some music to get me through the rest of the trip. I started contemplating on some of what I heard on the book. I started thinking about my wife and kids who I'd be seeing shortly and I was picturing myself holding each of them individually and what it would feel like to touch them again. For some reason my thoughts wandered to Mr. Spock who often says that "Emotions are illogical." I've always had this beef with Mr. Spock. Your logic is only as good as the assumptions you base them on. If you assume that there is no point to emotions, then yes, emotions are illogical. But there is a logical basis for emotions. Emotions drive us to act or not act. There are distinct survival advantages to emotions and if you accept that as given then emotions are logical. If you limit your logic to not properly account for proper framework in which something you wish to analyze lies, then it's not the thing you are analyzing that's illogical, but your logic that is faulty.

 

I was going through this line of reasoning when I realized that emotional jumble that my mind has been these past few weeks had fallen away. I have not reasoned in such a systematic and logical way since at least the time they left. It startled me to realise that. I knew I was lonely and that I missed them and I suspected that their absense was affecting my work, but I didn't expect that their absence was affecting my ability to reason! When I finally got in and held my wife for the first time in weeks it was like... umm... huh... I don't remember.... like home I think. The kids were asleep (it was past 11pm at this point). I went in to check on them and my son stirred - his eyes were half open. At some later point when my wife and I went to bed I stepped away for a drink of water and my wife called me back because my son was calling for me and asking where "Daaee" was. I could have hugged him forever at that point. When my daughter woke up the next day she recognized me and beamed! She's always been a morning person. She still preferred me to her grandfather who'd been around for the last couple of weeks.

 

We're back home now and it's soooo good to not be alone anymore. My wife made her delicious cappuccino this morning. Hmm. Our bed is soooo much more comfortable with another body in it.

 

If my introspection was solely because of my loneliness than I don't know what the near future will bring. I think there's more to it than that, but certainly the lonliness heightened the introspection. We'll see.

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