This is not about politics - but this is a way you can send a message to Obama about one of the first decisions he will make if he wins the election (or not). I guess (according to a letter to the editor in my local paper) that, win or lose, the Obama family will be adding a dog to the family after the election. (And KUDOS to Barack and Michelle for *NOT* adding a dog during an election cycle).
There is a group called the Best Friends Network that has an online petition that you can sign, to tell the Obama family to get a rescue dog.
Recycling, it’s not just for paper anymore.
(Hmm, I can’t think of a time I’ve ever clicked both “politics” and “animal rescue” categories at the same time.)
The other day Chip and I were out shopping. Okay — as a normal 11 year old boy he doesn’t have any nice clothes, and I needed to get him appropriate clothing for his grandfather’s funeral (I got a suit for $25 - but then when adding in a shirt, dress shoes, socks, …..)
Anyway — when we were at Kohl’s we found some t-shirts that were 2/$20. I saw one that I wanted, so I told him that he could get one (mostly so I could get the other one).
Looking at the stats though — It’s kind of interesting. A lot of the people I know who moved here years ago (including us) could probably not afford to move here now.
And while I’d admit that the burb is fairly low on racial diversity, you’d never know that on my street.
This week I got to spend some time with DallasMom and her lovely kids (I even got to see her elusive, hard working spouse for a few moments).
One of the things we did with them was the moms and kids going to the Adler Planetarium - a great museum in Chicago you should visit if you get a chance. There, there was an exhibit called the Milky Way Galaxy, and in that exhibit was a vortex with marbles for a description of a black hole. The vortex had a crank and you could spin it some in order to slow the marbles running off the edge of the universe into the black hole, but no matter what you did you could NEVER keep the marbles moving, and eventually everything would run into the black hole.
Sometimes that’s just what life feels like — no matter how hard you try you can never manage to keep all the marbles spinning.
