Wow, a lot has happened in the world over the past couple days, but I'm not going to cover it all here. No point in rehashing stuff covered fine and dandy elsewhere. For example, info on the thing spelled g-o-m-e-r-y is covered by Andrew nicely here.
Instead I'm going to mesmerize you with trivial stories of my weekend thoughts, ponderings, and activities. Onwards!
Overall the past week really sucked. Bad weather, no evening walks, wife had severe neck and head pain (which had her depressed, which had me frustrated and depressed), and the freaking daylight savings time change to boot. Fortunately, things started to look up yesterday and I was only mostly groggy this morning instead of completely groggy.
I'm still playing the Rome: Total War game, in fact the same game session I kicked off near the beginning of March! I cannot believe how playable and awesome this game is, and its only entering the end phase now. I have control of a third or quarter of the map and the time is ripe for my legions to march on Rome and become Caesar. Of course, the Scipii and Brutii families won't like that!
The philosophy reading continues. I finished the Utilitarian chapter and the Deontological (wow, spelled it right first try!) chapter, and I'm in the next chapter covering Virtue Ethics.
I've discovered that so far I can't identify one philosophy that fits me perfectly. While I often employ features of Utilitarianism, I have seen myself oppose actions on purely the value of the action itself and not the ends of the action. For example, the major reason I opposed the war in Iraq was because I felt that war requires the greatest of justifications before being employed regardless of the good that would be realized in the end. Or rather that the good had to be many orders of magnitude greater than the result of not having the war, and in the case of Iraq I felt that to be untrue. This is more of a Deontological position than Utilitarian.
Regardless, the exploration continues. I do have to say that this has been an enlightening experience even if the reading is sometimes very difficult.
We played hide and seek with the kids we were watching yesterday while their mother was at a course in Ottawa. Man, I love that game. It was always a favourite growing up and I sucked at it then. I rock now, but then I've had lots of practice hiding from extra assignments and managers at work.
Spring is finally here! I can tell because yesterday my garage door actually closed all the way.
You see, my garage is actually more of a carport converted with walls. I.e. not professionally done (hey, I didn't buy the house for the garage). Anyway, the main door of the garage has a poured cement blob for lack of a better word where the paved driveway meets the gravel floor of the garage (yes, I typed that correctly. Really, the house is great, the garage sucks). When winter comes moisture in the ground under said cement blob freezes and pushes blob up preventing the garage door from opening and closing. I leave the door partially open all winter so I can get in and out with recycling and garbage.
In the spring the ground finally thaws and eventually the garage door will allow itself to close again. And yesterday was that fateful day. Ah Spring!
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