Poor Dan...

At his desk until midnight last night, or something like that, and looks like more of the same for tonight, and next week will probably be more of the same. Bleck.

The kids and a friend and I went to the park yesterday. Owen and his friend played basketball. They can actually make a shot in the real hoop once in a while. They were pretending to be the Tarheels and Michigan State. Tarheels won, of course.

It's raining today. Well, we need it as snowpack is 29 percent of normal statewide. It's too late for snow, unfortunately, but it may help the reservoirs a bit at least.

Yesterday there were a lot of thrills on campus as the only public meeting on the Real ID requirement by Homeland Security was held here. Why, I don't know. There were apparently supposed to be 10 nationwide and all of the other 9 were cancelled. Plus, the food service workers were striking, and others were striking in support of undocumented immigrants. Also, the Campus Republicans held a "Illegal Immigrant Capture the Flag" game with some playing the part of immigrants and others playing the part of border security. Har de har har. There were various arrests, chanting, barriers, etc. Quite a bit of excitement for our sleepy little campus.