Busy Monday

Cutting For Stone was one of the first books our club read. I think it is one of my all time favorite books. We had a chance to see the doctor that wrote the book in Modesto but it was one of those foggy days in winter and we didn’t go. He still works at Stanford Hospital. Glad you are feeling better. Don’t do to much! Love you guys.

Yesterday was busy but enjoyable. The oldest and I headed out to the swim meet at 5:45 and arrived home about 9:15am. He swam well and beat his head to head match up in the relay. We’re not sure if their team qualified for state or not as we left when he was finished. The youngest slept in until 8:37 which makes all the difference in the World. At 11am we picked up the Bocci’s, our winemakers and friends, and headed off for the day. First stop was Red Rocks which to them was like seeing the Eiffel Tower or something. I guess we take its beauty for granted. Then we headed up to Evergreen where we stopped at the lake and let the boys wade and catch tadpoles and crawdads. It was perfect up there as the temp was about 80 degrees instead of the sweltering 100 in the city. They were amazed that we could build homes in the forest as this is not allowed in Italy. In fact, the size of home you can build is based on how much land you have. For example, if you have 10 acres, you might be able to build a 1000 square foot house and that’s it. If you wanted to build a 1500 square foot house, you’d need to own more land, WOW.

We then headed down the hill as the girls had a 3:15 appointment at our friends spa. We dropped them while we left the boys with Uncle T for 30 minutes. Alessandro and I then came back to the house, picked up the boys and waited an hour before it was time to get the girls. I had ordered a bunch of sushi for dinner which was great. We picked this up on the way home and all enjoyed it for dinner. Around 8pm I took them back to their hotel. Today I will get them around noon and be on the go until about 8pm.

The misses has another doctor appointment at 11:15 this morning. The youngest has a play date while the oldest will probably go with mom. Hie friends mom called the misses over the weekend asking if she could leave her neighborhood pool and join ours. When the misses asked why she replied that she had accidentally disrobed down to her swim suit top and underwear not realizing that she had on no swim suit bottoms! I saw her at the meet where she could only laugh about it but was mortified. She said she just stood there for a bit watching her kids getting ready to jump in when she looked down and realized she was standing there in her underwear, poor Andrea. I told her at least she wasn’t wearing a thong!

Everyone is still sleeping and as the misses said yesterday, you can’t get away from the news coverage of the shooting here. It’s just over the top, too much. Only time or another tragedy that will garner more ratings will make a difference. At least our democratic governor said “no law would have stopped this guy” which is true. But of course you have numerous nobody politicians trying to make a name for themselves calling for all guns to be banned. How do these people get elected in the first place? As the news pointed out, the guy in Norway that killed 77 did so with some of the toughest gun laws in the World. If the government would just enforce existing laws from immigration to guns, things would be  a lot different. This guy was obviously sick as he dressed up and acted out as the Joker from Batman. While laws didn’t stop him from purchasing a gun, gun advocates such as the owner of a range he applied to join, did deny him and note that something wasn’t right. My point is, banning all guns is not the answer. Look at your history as the banning of the citizens rights to keep and bear arms is essential to a free society. There’s a reason it’s the 2nd Amendment and in our Constitution. Now this doesn’t mean I’m against banning things like 100 round magazines but who decides? Some democratic mouthpieces are saying things like “how can a guy purchase 6000 rounds of ammo?” Well, there’s been many months where I and friends have shot off much more than 6000 rounds. In fact most people I know buy their ammo in 1000 round cases as it’s more economical. We can’t let one madman take away our freedoms and rights under the Constitution. Too many of our rights are being stolen from us in the name of “it’s good for you” as it is. Where does it stop? I was watching Mayor Bloomberg in NY this morning who is outlawing all kinds of food from large soda’s to fried food. You have to be able to make these decisions for you and your family on your own or sooner or later it will affect you. We’re turning into a nanny state, passing law on top of law is not the answer. In fact there are so many laws the government can’t enforce them anyhow. Some would shock you, I promise. Oh well, enough for today but watch out for politicians passing laws in the heat of the aftermath of horrific events “for your own good” as they never turn out that way.

A friend just called saying the Today Show just showed a guy buying a gun on line from an individual without a background check. First off this is illegal just like buying drugs from a guy on the street. Both should go to jail, period. Second, this has nothing to do with the shooting in Aurora as the guy passed background checks and would have passed any background check for anything whether working at a pre-school to flying an airplane to being a cop. There was nothing in his background to alert anyone that he was crazy and demonic. Face it or not, there are just some of those people walking among us. It was also pointed out that this guy targeted this particular theater as he knew through research that they did not allow concealed carry firearms in the theater. He also apparently chose Aurora as they also don’t allow concealed carry. So he purposely picked a place where he knew no one, if they were following the law, would be carrying a gun. Hmmmm.

God Bless,