No coherent theme today, just random thoughts and observations, sharing where my head’s at.

 I received an unprecedented amount of feedback to my 12 reps post.  I received comments here, messages on facebook, and direct emails.  It was surprising to me, that so many people read it, and, moreso, that so many people bothered to share their thoughts with me.  Of the responders, those with whom I’m closest tended to dive right to the obvious metaphor, and just express optimism that my perspective sounds promising.  Several other friends focused on the workout piece, and had questions or comments comparing my approach to their own.  One (you know who you are), was just critical, suggesting that I should get over myself and get a life.  To be fair, though, when I showed her some pictures of my new house, her initial reaction was to criticize my cheap toilets. I suspect she’s projecting some unresolved internal angst.  Still, she’s hilarious, and her husband’s a plumber, which is always a handy guy to know… so I’ll continue to cut her some slack.

Moving on…  I’m already sick of hearing about this Supreme Court strip-search case.  Seriously sick of it.  That any reasonable person thinks school officials should have unfettered authority to direct a teenage student to strip down is terrifying to me.  That they could do it based on nothing but the verbal accusation of another student who was herself trying to avoid punishment… absurd.  No matter how this case plays out, I would most certainly direct my child (when I have one) to insist that they call the police, and that they call me as soon as possible.

 So much to do, so little time… More soon.