Thanks be given

Well i had a fun thanksgiving weekend. The two brothers were up, one was my brother the other my girlfriend's younger brother.

It was interesting to see the two of them meet actually, not much was said between them but it was interesting nonetheless.

I cooked a whole chicken for the first time and I have to say it turned out pretty well. Now that that's over I guess it's time to get back to work. Not looking forward to it, the day after long weekends are always busy at the bank, and we're short one person and we'll be short 2 people later in the week, this will guarentee a busy week for me.

I must have read Ayn rand's book Atlas Shrugged about 4 or 5 times. Now I find it interesting that i enjoy her books so much because I am deeply opposed to her views on almost anything. I do however find that the sense that her characters are outsiders misunderstood by the world does appeal to my sense of self and some of my own struggles in my childhood.

I find however through reading her writing as well as starting to follow more conservatives blogs and just through changes in my own thinking I am becoming more conservative over time. Though I would consider myself a moderate in almost eveyr way, I find that the conservatives (in general and the political party) are becoming more appealing.

It also helps that i find a lot of the progressives that i know and a lot that i have read are barking up the wrong tree and are just as vitriolic and stupid as the religious right in the US. On many many issues I find myself disagreeing in fundamental ways with the NDP and many on the left.

Now this does not mean that I am going to embrace the religion of the right, ie 'the free market will solve everything' nor will I ever believe that cutting taxes is the solution to every problem, btu I do find my political stances moderating.

Now I have always been a moderate in most ways, I think in terms of economics I was on the radical side of things, if you finished my post on intellectual property rights, I have moved from the position of abolishing them, to trying to find some sort of accomodation of property rights within a more humane and just system. In the end though I may end up being in favour of abolishing them. (Some radicals call the enforcement of these rights tantamount to criminalizing sharing)

ANyways thats my two cents for the moment.

The latest member of our family

Welcome to our family de-humidifier I hope you help with our windows being covered in water and that you don't break down for many years...

Been busy

So I haven't really kept up my pledge to post more often. I am still trying to get my life organize and settling into a routine. There's alos been a few curveballs at work, with one person leaving and the hunt for a new person beginning.

Things are going alright around here, i'm definately enjoying playing badminton twice a week. i'm really happy i made that commitment and my Spanish lessons are going well so far.

I feel that there's so much for me to learn in Spanish (which i guess is true), I am slowly feeling like i'm beginning to stop thinking about the grammar all the time and i'm beginning to think about what it is I am trying to express.

I'm wondering whether I should take French classes too next semester. I really need to improve my French grammar skills.

Thats what i'm thinking about these days..