I didn't get a whole lot done today. My brain and my body both refused to go at anything above "deliberate" so I focused on quality, not quantity. At least that's what I'm telling myself as I sit here in my chair watching HGTV.
Now that I'm not a pastor we can travel over Christmas. More specifically we can go to Seattle for my mom's birthday which is on Christmas Eve this year. It's a five hour drive so if we leave home early we can go through the crazy Seattle traffic mid-day when you can do almost 20 mph.
Am I the only one who found the media coverage of the Pope more than a little cloying?
Because it won't work in MoHo or the tiny house I took out the Yamaha 5.1 sound system we have. It came as a single-box unit that also included the amplifier w/tuner. I replaced it with a Samsung sound bar I got at Costco that has sound at least as good as the Yamaha system with a much smaller footprint. Unfortunately, there's no radio now so I'm looking for something that we can plug into the sound bar, mostly so we can listen to NPR. It's turning out to be trickier than I expected; nobody makes radios anymore. There are a few boom box options and everything else is a bedroom clock radio/alarm. And most of them don't have an output port.
We went out for a weekly dinner date - Paradise Bakery this week - and on the way home had a conversation about growing up. Specifically, was I dumb through 12th grade and then gradually got smart, or was I smart (enough) all along and just had too much stuff in the way?
Do some people get more intelligent as they mature or is that part fixed at birth? If the latter, it's just a case of pulling out what's already there...assuming it's there to begin with. The downside: if it's not there things are pretty much stuck.
If people can get smarter it seems like there is a lot more hope for any struggling 6th grader.
I dunno. I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
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