Bits and Pieces

I have nothing to say really… nothing worth a whole blog post, anyway. So I will post many little, unconnected thoughts :).

Fall is a wonderful time of year. It is bright and earthy and sweet and spicy; it is dying and full of life. It makes me excited.

Sound mixing is fun. To get your mix to the point of perfection, where you can hear each voice and instrument and yet they all blend seamlessly into one… this is audible bliss.

Flight is total coolness. It shouldn’t work, really. This relatively simple business about the varying pressures of flowing liquids should not be able to lift hundreds of tons of metal into the sky.

Despite our many gains in the field of flight, we still can’t outdo tiny hummingbirds. I think God must find this amusing.

I need to make a functioning armillary sphere part of my apartment décor.

Shopping for couches involves much plotting and deciding and is a very enjoyable diversion.

This Day in History

I have a particular affection for this day, and yet, I can barely watch TV without being assaulted by news of what happened five years ago. It was neither good nor astounding the first time around. Why do people insist on reliving it each year?

To provide some perspective, I provide you with other September 11th happenings, good and bad, of as great or greater import than the happenings of five years ago:

3 BC: Some suggest this as the actual date of Christ's birth.

1297: Wallace beat the English at the Battle of Sterling Bridge.

1649: Cromwell's troops sacked Drogheda and killed the entire garrison.
1683: Jan Sobieski halted the Turkish invasion of Europe at the Battle of Vienna.
1777: The British won the Battle of the Brandywine in the Revolution.
1786: The Annapolis Convention (precursor to the Constitutional Convention) is convened.

1906: Ghandi began his non-violent movement for Indian freedom.

1933: While waiting for a red light, Leo Szilard conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1971: Khrushchev died.
1973: In Chile, Pinochet's coup toppled Allende.
1978: The Camp David accords were signed by Sadat and Begin.
1989: The first part of the iron curtain fell in Hungary.
1990: President Bush (I) threatened to expel Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

A Moment of Bliss

It is breezy and cool and rainy outside - a blessed relief from the still, hot, and parched of the last couple weeks.

And I got a half day off at work because it's a three day weekend. (Yeah, the logic's interesting, but I'm not arguing :).)

And there are chocolate chip cookies cooling on the ironing board.

And I am eating a gooey-centered one with a glass of milk.


There is a God and He loves me.