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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Reprieve over

Tom got up early again–7:20 AM. I am on watch now. Fortunately, he really loves the computer game he got yesterday, and is happily playing it now. This means Mia can sleep some more. All too often he insists that she get up in the morning–having Daddy is not good enough.

To do today —

  1. Buy about 30 $0.23 stamps–need to mail the hardcopy edition of colgaffneyis Newsletter.
  2. Go to Health Club–exercise.
  3. Computer network testing (on the home LAN)–more about that another time.

There are probably other things as well, but I am not yet sufficiently awake to remember them.

Relationships and Politics

I wish more people would think like this …..

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007704

which refers back to

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002678

The particular column comes from a conservative, but it can be reflected in a political mirror. My physics background would lead me to say that parity is conserved here :-)> Of course, the true believers on both sides will disagree …..