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Cracker Commentary
Not to know what has transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Wednesday, December 25, 2002Who decides? KQED (San Francisco public television) has a pushme/pullyu poll on airport security. Under You Decide they ask, "Should U.S. airport security use profiles that include ethnic characteristics to screen passengers?" I clicked Yes and was asked "Are you sure?" then given four more chances to answer, with additional information accompanying each. Merry Christmas from the left coast Spending Christmas with young'un #1 in Silicon Valley and checking up on the grandchild construction project. It's the first time we've seen the new house, about nine feet from the Hayward fault in the shadow of the Mission Hills. Nice house. Great view. I think we raised him well. Another indication of good breeding was the night before last, when he put us in the car and drove down the coast for a Christmas concert by Chanticleer at Carmel Mission. They made several of the best CDs I own, but I hadn't seen them live before. Being away from our home church, we expected to be spectators for a change, instead of choir members, at Christmas eve services, but that was not to be. The kids have become involved in a small church here, and the two of them constitute half the choir. When the baby-in-making decided to complicate things for the daughter-in-law, she had to back out and asked my missus to sub for her. In rehearsal, they found out I could find middle C on the piano and drafted me to accompany one number. Obviously, their church does a good job of making you feel at home. It's being a really good Christmas. Hope yours is, too.
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