Last year we left a snowy, grey, blowy rochester and headed south and west. This year we are settled in a snowy, grey, blowy new mexico and it is 52 degrees F in rochester! 21F here. Wow. Luna likes it of course! But we did get a couple of warm days in Texas and that was super-nice. Christmas dinner at the trailer park, where I found out to my surprise that if only everyone in the world would accept the "free gift of salvation," there would be no more wars, and "our young men and women in uniform could finally come home."See, I foolishly thought that the wars were to spread democracy. Or at least commandeer the world's oil supply. But no. The U.S. population in its multiplicity and kaleidoscopic diversity is represented by a craven military machine whose ultimate mission is to convert the world to Christianist ways and bring on the damn rapture. Cool. Can I have a tank?