Blog Number 271

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well we are almost through Season 2 of Little House On The Prairie and the whole family is still excited whenever we sit down of an evening and watch and episode together.  We already have the Season 3 DVD set ready and waiting.  It was a Christmas gift this past year.  As the wife and I watch these with our children, we remember almost every episode.  In fact, I have only seen one or two that I cannot remember.  I hope to get Seasons 4 through 9 eventually before they sell out (assuming the kids don't grow too old and stop enjoying them).

I have abandoned my quest to finish the Mission Earth Dekalogy.  Specifically I stopped on page 218 of the 3rd novel (The Enemy Within).  I tried, I really did, to continue on but man this book is boring and Hubbard appears to invent plot twists that have nothing to do with the story.  I am mildly surprised at the amount of sex and violence used (the main alien character is living at a warehouse and has tied into the mob).  Since Hubbard created Scientology and since Scientology is a religion, I had thought that it would remain on the moral high ground.  I am not sure why I was thinking this given that Scientology is not your run of the mill religion but at any rate, I have given up on finishing the series.  The library has sent me auto phone call messages a few times now on this 3rd book since I have had it checked out for over a month now.

Out house was supposed to host a ladies brunch today but the wife went to bed and woke up sick this morning so it is postponed.  To me it means that I do not have to vacate the house (with children in tow) for a few hours.  For the daughter, it means she can eat all those scrumptious strawberries that she had been eyeing in the fridge.  It is the first time in about 4 years that the wife has been ill so she had a good run.  I have turned on the gas fireplace for her and in general been her beck and call boy whenever she has wanted anything.

We did find out that the minivan has $2,300 worth of damage from the hail.  Subtracting the $500 deductible and adding in the $3,100 we are getting from the Buick damage, we are almost clearing $5,000 in checks for the hail.  As I told my wife, we are now about a 1/3 of the way to that Mini Cooper that we have wanted.

Well the kids are watching a Season 1 episode of Little House so I think I will grab some of those biscotti that were supposed to be for the brunch and go enjoy the fire with my wife.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon