My vote for "Empty Gesture of the Day" goes to...

...celebutard (a term I first heard on the Neal Boortz show and really like) Mia Farrow for declaring today that she is going on a hunger strike to stop the fighting in Darfur.  Boy, that'll really get all sides to the negotiating table!  I can see the Darfurians (?) now.  They are probably thinking, "Whoa, we better stop killing each other or the great has-been actress Mia Farrow might go hungry for a couple of days!  We must have peace!"  Does she really think that anyone but her gives a flying darn if she eats or not?  Her grocer probably wouldn't even notice that she quit buying groceries, as thin as she is.  

The last time I saw a picture of her she was so skinny that if she stood sideways and stuck out her tongue, she would do a great impression of a zipper.  She must really expect results fast because I don't think she can afford to miss too many meals.  

I guess she feels good about herself for "taking a stand."  A meaningless stand, but a stand.

Loralei's Easter adventure

Loralei was at our house for Easter morning and went to church with us.  This is a picture of her wearing her Easter dress.  I took three shots, one that shows the matching shoes and another that was more of a close-up, but I couldn't get her to stand still and the facial expressions weren't that flattering.  This was the best of the three, so it's the one you get to see.  She had a lot of chocolate from her Easter basket so she was all wound up.  She stayed wound up in church, too.

Saturday night she colored eggs with Cathy, and had a great time.  She made sure we each had an egg with our name on it.  Sunday morning she gave me mine and told me I wanted it for breakfast.  

After she went home after church she got another Easter basket with more chocolate and presents from the Easter Bunny at her own place.  That's almost better than Christmas.  

Yesterday was my 30-30-10 day

I rode thirty miles on my trusty recumbent, jogged for thirty minutes after riding, and then about an hour after I finished my jog, I swam ten laps in the Fruita high school pool. You'd think after all that, I would be in terrific shape. No such luck. I am still a fat old man. I didn't sleep very well last night because the old bod wasn't quite up to that much exercise and decided to protest. I had to take a couple of aleve to get to sleep.

Also, you notice that I said jog instead of run. I am pretty slow still, but getting better. I will call it a run when I actually run.

So, to add insult to injury, I rode in to work this morning, and then on the ride home my front tire decided that it had lived long enough and failed on me. Cathy had to come and pick me up. I can't be upset about it, though, because it was the original front tire from when I bought the bike. I have had three or four rear tires since then. Anyway, no more riding to work until I can replace it. It's a good thing I have the stationary bike in the garage to ride to keep up my training.

In my last post I talked about all the evil spirits ganging up on us. I didn't think they could work on messing up bicycles too.

I figured out why life is such a challenge sometimes.

I went to the internet and learned that it is estimated (by somebody) that up to now there have been 110 billion people who have lived or are living on the earth. Since people are still being born, I SWAGed that another 10 billion would be born before "the end." That makes 120 billion. It also makes the math a little easier.

So, let's say that those 120 billion are the "hosts of heaven" mentioned in the scriptures. If one third of them rebelled and were cast down to earth, that's 40 billion on Lucifer's team that are hanging out here, with nothing better to do than bug us and tempt us and try to discourage us; all that bad stuff.

Now the population of the earth is expected to be 6.8 billion by 2010, which is next year, so I will use that number. Divide 40 by 6.8 and you get 5.88 bla bla bla. That's 5 bad guys for each one of us and some rovers who can go and help out on whoever they think needs to have an especially bad day. No wonder life is a challenge, with each one of us being ganged up on by at least five evil spirit dudes all the time, who have lots of practice and experience and are ticked off enough to want us to be as miserable as possible. And then there's the rovers who jump on the pile when the want to.

It's a good thing we have our Savior and the Holy Ghost, which makes us a pretty much unbeatable team, even though it's still 3 on 5. Or more.

Just something to think about.

Here's a few more shots...

...Of our Denver trip a couple of weeks ago.  Jen & Erik already posted their photos of Kendall's birthday, but here's a couple of mine anyway.  

The house is pretty quiet right now.  We were supposed to have a bunch of family down for the weekend, but the weather had other ideas.  We understand, but miss everybody.  

P.S.  The photo of Kendall wearing the monkey leash may be a repeat from my last blog, or a slightly different pose.  They are all a bunch of cute grandkids though.  We love'em to death.