The Aerie
So that was the weekend. I could talk about something more interesting to the world at large if I could think of it, but I can't, so we'll start with that. The funny thing about the weekend is how little of it I can recall. Saturday, for example, is a blur. Ah, right, it started with Church. My spouse was off teaching her class at the Loft, so it was up to me to get my youngest to church. He's part of the "Visiting Faiths" program which takes the religious education kids around to various churches, temples, and mosques in order to expose them to other religions.
This is one of the characteristics of UU'ism that I like so much. When I was in Religious Ed we sat around and read the Bible: discussion of other faiths was limited to informal slander about how they had everything wrong - a habit that's hard to break, as you see. Our church informs our kids about the other religions and teaches the common themes connecting one faith to another. Inasmuch as the Latin root of "religion" means 'to reconnect,' this strikes me as a good way to do it.
Since I was heading over to the church anyway I brought along the wireless equipment for my self-assigned project to link the church library to the rest of the building network and hence the Internet. I'm about ready to break down and buy a spool of cat-5 cable, but I'm going to try turning a WRT54G access point into a repeater first. Sorry, I've just lost half of you, haven't I?
Anyway I was going to work on that impenetrable mass of technobabble, but the church was closed, so I went home. In the afternoon i took my daughter out for Dad 'n Kid Day, where we had a wonderful conversation while eating good Chinese food at Camdi in Dinkytown.
Sunday was church, where I worked on the wireless task, and then I had an appointment to donate platelets at the Red Cross, which ended up eating the rest of the afternoon. I spent the 2+ hours on the needle catching up on reading my Biology coursework. After dinner my spouse invited me out to see the Simpsons Movie, so now I can say I've seen that.
And that was the weekend! Sorry, but the blog updates can't all be gems.
Oh, one thing that happened this weekend was interesting: a character in the ancient "Funky Winkerbean" comic strip finally succumbed to cancer. Reading the strips leading up to the death brought back for me a lot of the feelings surrounding the cancer deaths over the past few years of my friend Moldy, my father, and my birthfather, and before that my mentor Noel Johnson. One fellow referred to my post about these feelings as being PTSD and he may be right: certainly it was harrowing reading through the three- and four-year-old posts about their deaths. It's hard to believe that it has already been so many years.
Posted by Albatross at October 8, 2007 11:46 AM | TrackBack