I just put my wife on a plane... she's off to run a marathon on the other side of the country. That leaves me to run the house for the weekend. It's Thursday morning and I'm trying to get the kids up and get the day going around here. Little logistic things: clean house, money for the roofers (a remodel update is coming soon, I promise) and a situation for the dog. All this with cats walking on me.

I'm off to poke the kids again and get them to school and me off to work.

Over at the BuzzMachine , Jeff Jarvis blogged about some similarity between Christian and Muslim religious "fanatics". The article is Our American Taliban

While often a discussion on this topic degenerates into an apples and oranges comparison shouting match ("How could you possibly equate someone who wants to stop all non-married people living together to someone who cuts the hands off theives!!"), there is some truth in there somewhere. Our founding fathers fretted about the separation of church and state not because they thought the state shouldn't give any money to religion but because they didn't want the "clerics" making the decisions. God fearing men must run the secular government, but the governement does not do things because it is God's law.

Easter Dinner at Grandma's was enjoyed by my mother, all her sons, wifes and kids, kids fiances and spouses and a collection of grandkids. Much good food with a game of pool, Easter egg hunt and bocci ball.

As part of our Polish Easter traditions , each year, we take some of the food we are cooking for Easter to St Stanislaus Church to be blessed. Most of the service is in Polish so us people who only married a Polish girl and who didn't grow up in a Polish house, just sit and enjoy the Catholic iconery. Picture collection.

Today I took my camera on the weekly Portland Fit training run. We're training for the Portland Marathon . The marathon is in October so we have a ways to go... today's run was a mere 5 miles.

So, after taking many standing rest-stops, I have a collection of pictures .