a tall personality

I went to a fireside (which is a spiritual address) this past Sunday presented by a couple who had been on a service mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  They showed slide after slide of people who walk miles and miles to get water for their families.  And after all theri efforts, many family members die because the water the return with is contaminated.  It was heart wrenching to see, and it made me so happy that the church is trying to help them have access to clean water.  Even if we can only help a few villages and cities, I'm so glad we are helping. One of the points they made was that no matter how hard our lives are, no matter how many tests we have, or dates we don't have, if the weather is too bad for us to go skiing--whatever our plight may be, when we come home at night we can turn on a faucet and out comes water that will not kill us.  As much of it as we want.  At whatever temperature as we want.  Any time we want. I've ne...

Probably seven and a half times every day I think so myself, "You should write this down, or blog about it or something, but don't lose or forget all the great things that are happening to you!"  So I'm going to try.  I'll try not to make it lengthy, or tell stories that aren't that interesting, and I'll try to include pictures.  All the good blogs have pictures! Today however I have no pictures.  Let me see if I can at least round up some thoughts. 1.While I was working on my research I noticed that when I changed one little thing about the way I was modeling the phenomenon I'm studying all of the results changed too!  I had to ask myself, which of all the ways I could model my research best represents reality?  There is no way to know, and that drives me CRAZY.  Seriously, crazy, I think about it all the time.  What drives me crazier is how scientific journals only publish very specific types of results which makes all public science TOTALLY...