Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Well, the news is out, Sarah is pregnant. I've had a lot of hits on my blog since I've sent out a link and now probably need to put some more interesting things on here. Now that we have our new camera, I can post a lot of photos. Other than a short trip to Chicago this weekend for a wedding, life should be slow until we go camping July 15.
So, you may be stuck reading my musings. I've been wanting to start a journal about all the fun things I've done in my life (mostly so I don't forget them) and maybe I'll start compiling random events on this page. I'll start with a short one:
In 1990, while working for Congressman Ralph Regula, I had a chance to have lunch with the Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. This was not a cast of thousands but was a small lunch of probably six people in a hotel room at the (now) Marriott in Canton. Al Albacete, the Director of the Canton Art Museum, became a friend and arranged it. For a 25 year old kid who had just visited Spain it was a memorable experience.
Which somehow just reminded me of another cool thing I did in 1988 while interning for Regula in D.C. McGeorge Bundy debated someone else famous (this is why I am writing this down, so I can try to remember things like who the other person was) in a Senate hearing room about Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. Now you have to know that I was an International Relations major at Kent State and they had a prestigious NATO program so I had taken a lot of defense/NATO/military history classes back then so it was a fun thing for me to see.
I supported missile defense then and wonder if the doves and liberals appreciate Reagan's foresight now that North Korea has the ability to shoot nuclear weapons at us?
So, you may be stuck reading my musings. I've been wanting to start a journal about all the fun things I've done in my life (mostly so I don't forget them) and maybe I'll start compiling random events on this page. I'll start with a short one:
In 1990, while working for Congressman Ralph Regula, I had a chance to have lunch with the Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. This was not a cast of thousands but was a small lunch of probably six people in a hotel room at the (now) Marriott in Canton. Al Albacete, the Director of the Canton Art Museum, became a friend and arranged it. For a 25 year old kid who had just visited Spain it was a memorable experience.
Which somehow just reminded me of another cool thing I did in 1988 while interning for Regula in D.C. McGeorge Bundy debated someone else famous (this is why I am writing this down, so I can try to remember things like who the other person was) in a Senate hearing room about Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. Now you have to know that I was an International Relations major at Kent State and they had a prestigious NATO program so I had taken a lot of defense/NATO/military history classes back then so it was a fun thing for me to see.
I supported missile defense then and wonder if the doves and liberals appreciate Reagan's foresight now that North Korea has the ability to shoot nuclear weapons at us?
A missile shield would be nice with all the kooks in the world.
Next up, more stories from my internship in Washington, D.C. in 1988. Has it been that long?
