The Weather, No Religion, & Very Little Sex

First the weather: some overnight snow flurries with maybe an inch of snow by the end of Wednesday morning. If they close the library I will have to believe they are East Texans, those wimps.
Second, if you post a comment at the end of one of my posts (remember, when I list a new entry in my blog it's called a post), I will always try to respond with a comment, and so, with her permission if she gives it, we might talk about Hong's comment when she is next able to join us. She commented on my last post, and told a story of her own. She reminded me of how brave so many of you are in the living of your lives. I cannot fully imagine the experience of leaving your country, your culture, friends, family, and all you have known in your life, to come to a new country, an alien language as well as an alien culture and people. You may not think you are very brave, but trust me, you are. The closest I have come to this experience is when I went to San Francisco, California about a year and a half after leaving college. It was a great, and sometimes harsh, personal growth experience. It was quite an adventure. Exciting and very scary as well as overwhelming. I did not have to deal with a different culture or a different language, but even though it was in the same country it was an alien place, and with the exception of a girlfriend who was soon to go back to Connecticut, I had left all my friends and family behind. I view that time of my life as being a time of great personal change for me, and while I was going through it there were many times I regretted being there, but I am very glad I did. Although I feel that in many ways it was a very painful experience for me, I believe it was necessary in order to become who I am. I don't believe it made me a different person, but it helped me in the end to be more of the person I wanted to be. Ok, enough of that. I will now share with you Annie's (my friend Pamela's 9 yr. old daughter) homework. Well, a little of her homework. The boiling point of water is 212 degress fahrenheit (I think I spelled that right).Freezing is 32 degrees. There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter, and 3 feet in a yard. There are 12 inches in a foot, and 5,670 feet in a mile. You measure the weight of a grape in ounces, and a baby in pounds. Questions of the day are: how many ways are there to see, and is it only the eyes we see with? Is a pretty woman a beautiful woman? Is a smart man a wise man? And finally, what did the groundhog see when he came out today? (Hint: will we have an early spring or 6 more weeks of winter) Ok, Edgar's yelling at me, I have to end this. Stay warm, spring will come.