A Quiet Night at Home...

I guess I am somewhat deficient in sleep, as I am fairly tired... definitely feeling it.  But, as you can see, I am carrying on, as there is much to do!  OC budget and administrative stuff for one, follow-up emails, that sort of thing.  I should be doing them now, but it is also a good thing to blog.  As for the day, it was...fine?  Very productive in the AM, then a couple of meetings hit and it was hard to get back in the groove, if you will; there is something to be said for some hours of no interruptions and you can just do what you are supposed to be doing.  Then it was off to the gym, home for dinner, and going through the pile of emails and such.  Very exciting, I know.  I always say that the diligence in doing all of these things just generates twice as many in response, but...in this case it is correct.  Sigh.

We Engineered This Housing Crisis — It Didn’t Just Happen
Quite true, and the solutions are equally good...but I think we know that the implementation of the solutions would indict the people who run our cities for their gross incompetence, and we all know what is going to happen then...

I Drank Every Cocktail | Adam Aaronson
This is pretty cool, and were I a drinking man, I would want to try some of them.  Hell, knowing how I love lists, I would want to try them all!  More seriously... I guess I would try to make them at home.  Part of it my cheapness, and part of it, though, is that I would think the sense of achievement is learning how to make them (correctly) and then doing so... of course, even hooch at home is an expensive habit, and I would rather have new windows, a new car, and to pay off my house.  Once you buy booze, you can't have it lying around...

Data show: Vatican II triggered decline in Catholic practice | Catholic Culture
Am I surprised?  No, not in the least.  I always joke about needing a Vatican III to make up for the errors of Vatican II, and this to me, is more evidence of that...