Family

My oldest daughter did mom a favor this weekend and took the weekend off from work. This allowed us to pick her up late Friday afternoon in Madison, and get out of Dodge (so to speak) for a family weekend together. Since our youngest daughter had an egg drop challenge at school, we opted to pick her up after school. We drove to Madison straightaway, picked up daughter #1 and headed to Verona, Wisconsin. We rented a room at a new Holiday Inn Express. Nice place--new, modern and super nice staff. Ate supper at a brew pub...again, super nice staff, but the food sucked. Could not keep my eyes open and it was fairly early. The girls went swimming in the pool and Corey and I watched TV. A nice, relaxing evening. Today, we started the day at a holiday arts and crafts show in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. I bought cat nip toy for Zorro, an ornament for the tree and the girls got tatted ornaments for the tree. I try and buy them both an ornament each year so when they move out on their own, they will have a tree full of ornaments. Since it was early, we then drove to Mineral Point, Wisconsin to tour the galleries in town. Drove down Shake Rag street (from the old iron ore mining history) and to a gallery outside of town. Drove all the way back home so Sarah can have one night at home. Christmas portraits tomorrow at JCPenney.

Right to Vote

As much as we bitch and moan about the numerous phone calls, junk mail, knocks at the door and commercial press trying to convince us to vote one way or another, you have to love that we live in a country that allows us the freedom to vote. More than anything, I'm glad that Facebook posts and Twitter updates will no longer have a political bent (after today that is.) You can't help but look at a coworker or neighbor differently if they don't lean the way you do. But again, it comes back to us living in the United States where we can agree to disagree. My flag is out flying proudly today. I'm heading out to vote over the lunch hour. I hope you are voting as well. All votes count. Freedom matters. Our futures depend on your vote.

Full Moon

What is it about a full moon that brings out the weirdos around the world? I can always seem to tell, even if the full, bright moon isn't obvious in the sky. Requests come in at work like gangbusters, weird system issues come out of the woodwork, and it always seems to happen when I'm at my busiest. Is this something that can be measured or quantified? My instincts seem to think so.