New Year's Eve

Last day of the year and I am lying in bed watching reruns if NCIS, love my thrillers. They show all of the high tech spy techniques used to catch the bad guys but the down side is that they can be used on perfectly innocent people also. 

The end of the year

     As always at this time of year I look back and evaluate what I have  accomplished for the year, which is not near as much as I would have liked. I hopes of getting more done around my house but I did not do as much as I had planned. When people at work asked me what I wa going to do once I retired I always answered that I was going to work  on my house. I did some things on the outside but next to nothing on the inside. I will try to do better next year.

Xmas 2013

      I woke early this morning-I went to bed early after binge watching a new series that I got hooked on,NCIS. I guess one of the redone that I like it is because it features some current topics dealing with terrorism, both foreign and domestic,and as a sidebar commentary on American society. Some of the episodes are corny but I have picked a few nuggets out of some of them,especially the forensic and spying capabilities of the government. Some of it is pretty scar stuff.

Changes in mores

I read quite a bit and lately I have come across so many gay characters in various situations. They have have now move to a mainstream part of society and it is politically incorrect to make negative remarks about them. My, how times have changed. Same sex marriages, once in the realm of speculative fiction is now a reality in many states in the United States and various countries around the world. I don't know if this will continue or if there will eventually be a backlash.

    As far as changes in society, there has been a redefinition of what a family means. Single parent, with a child being raised by his mother (or father),multi generational families(mainly immigrants),gay parents and more. No more nuclear families in the majority, at least in the U.S..

Is it spring or is it winter?

      We had cold, snow and ice earlier this week, but yesterday warmer temps and rain came our way. The temperature, right one is 58 degrees when earlier this week it had been as low as 20. However, this won't last because by Monday it will drop back into the low thirties. I do not know if we will have a white xmas(which I can do without) .

new technology

I bought this keyboard a few months ago so that I could make journal entries . I do not write as much as I should or had hoped to do once I had retired, but I have hopes of doing better.

Coast to Coast

Listening to the program over the past few days, I have learned some new things and different perspectives on things past and future. Ed Danes  gives a very grim prognosis of the future and I hope that his scenario does not come to pass, because if it does the the whole world will be in a dire situation.