What do you call today?

I cannot claim to have come up with this, since about a million people are posting it on Facebook; however it does sum up how I feel much more eloquently than I ever could.

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King, Jr

I've been trying to find the context of that quote and haven't been able to do so yet--too many people are Tweeting it and that's all you get when you Google. I will keep looking because I'm really curious as to whose death he was referring. In my Googing, I found this quote as well, which doesn't seem to be popular yet--I'll have to see if I can start a trend.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

Of course, I have been thinking about my friends today and wondering if their family experienced any measure of comfort today. I wonder if it was like an old wound being ripped open.

I probably have a very unpopular opinion, but I wish that Bin Laden had been captured, tried, and sentenced. I guess this is my blog, so I get to say whatever I want.

Enough depressing stuff (or maybe uplifting, depending on your point of view)...

In other news...

My ducks are two-timing me. We haven't seen a lot of George and Rebecca lately. I have been blaming that on the fact that it won't stop raining and the ducks don't want to stand out in the rain. However, as Sweet Pea and I drove home today, I saw one of our around the corner neighbors feeding them bits of bread and trying to get Rebecca to eat out of his hand! He must not know that those are MY ducks and Rebecca only eats Frito's out of MY hands.

Remember that play list that I made for Sweet Pea's party last night--well, she only likes 5 out of the 12 songs. I think that she is the most picky child in the universe (thankfully she is not picky about food; otherwise she wouldn't eat). I have decided that I don't care that she doesn't like the songs, I'm playing them anyway. I now also have two RSVPs to her party--hopefully we get more tonight, or I'm going to have to start emailing people. I don't understand the lack of RSVPs--people need to get some manners.

There's no amusing work news today. We had the Monday Morning Meeting as usual. Al Gore was there and criticised our tech set-up, but that's nothing new. It wouldn't be a Monday morning if Al Gore didn't have something to criticise.