Some brief notes...

...church meetings are not my favorite things...
...Obama has been doing pretty good overseas. A huge risk for him, but he doesn't seem to have made any big blunders (unlike McCain who has blundered just trying to criticize Obama).
...I hate the fact that the shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are getting bailed out. It isn't the mortgagees who are getting bailed out, they are still getting foreclosed on. No, just the rich investors who bought the lousy mortgages are getting bailed out. Man that sucks.

Here's a neat poem:


I Sit and Think

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

JRR Tolkien