So the convention has ended and we have the high-profile but politically explosive and frequently objectionable Cynthia McKinney as the Green nominee. I almost wish for Nader. I myself was pulling for this guy, in part because I'm from a DNA group called Johnson from West Virginia as well. I'm happy to see that he's been drafted for the gubernatorial race by the Mountain Party. Still, McKinney's a gadfly, and she's been able to demand attention. We'll see. I hope to warm to her.
In other parts of life, my brother and his family came, saw, exhausted our small apartment. The oldest boy has taken a turn for the geeky, so we had some long conversations about games, gaming, sf, and so on. This is going to be interesting to watch. The others are, well, still little kids. Strangely, and this goes to a couple of issues that Richard Louv has taken up in his work, these are are indoor kids. Given a choice to visit an outdoor playground and park space or an indoor space (the local Children's Museum), they took the indoor option. Now, the museum was a great place, but they'd already been there once. Let me add, in their defense, that these are active, wiry kids. When we did a nature walk, they had no trouble running around, but they didn't step off the path, and they didn't immediately go looking for bugs, rocks, nests, whatever. It seemed very strange to me.
But really, we had a great time. Hey, That's My Fish and ElkFest were big hits. And the oldest one, as I've hinted, pored over the games collection. And my brother and I had a great evening looking at some old RPGs that we played as kids and showing them to the boy. So, yeah, it was a good visit. This time, the fireworks were simply literal.
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