In At The Deep End

I use LinkedIn, mostly to keep in touch with former colleagues who’ve gone to work elsewhere. (Yes I know it’s so last year, how very un-Facebook/MySpace of me, quel dinosaur.) Every so often I check if anyone I know has joined, and today I found an interesting name in the new friends of friends of friends list. A quick jump to his profile revealed his summary:

I am running for the Presidency of the United States of America, but this campaign can’t only be about me. It must be about us - it must be about what we can do together. …

Not something you see every day, even on LinkedIn where the VPs of Sales go to preen. Yes, Barack Obama is a friend of a friend of a friend.

I went with the bigger three to the library today, so that the boys could borrow some books about their chosen animals for Badgers (boa constructor (sic) for K and tarantula for J) - we resisted the temptation of going straight to Google. On the way back K said that he thinks that there are two heavens - when you die you go to the first one, and then when you die there you’d go on to the second one. Logical, but not orthodox and it would need an infinite number of heavens.

I said that in heaven there is no death, no suffering, nothing to make you unhappy. So we launched into a list of things that there wouldn’t be, and one of K’s suggestions was “No President Bush trying to dig up Alaska”. Amen to that, my proto-revolutionary :).

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