It was a very hot, humid day, but Michelle still saw it as a good day. Michelle called our friends, the Swope family, to see if Michelle could bring kids to her house for a visit. Many of Claire's closer (by proximity) friends are away on vacation this week. Michelle took the kids over to see Jenny Swope and her kids right after the twins' second nap. Jenny Swope has seven kids so far. The two families packed into their vehicles and headed over to the nearby health club that they belong to. According to Michelle it has a very nice pool setup. Claire was a virtual fish in the water. The girls and boys all had a great time. It kept them from moping around the house complaining about boredom and the heat.
I finished my training of some of our customers. It was rather mentally exhausting because they didn't want a canned training. They really wanted to "peel the onion" and get deep into certain aspects of VAutomation's intellectual property. They were great engineers,though. I'm thinking of taking tomorrow afternoon off to recuperate and join my family. Michelle is planning on taking the kids north to see the Nix family. They have two daughters, Kelly and Melanie, who are the same ages as Claire and Abigail. I'd like to join them, despite the fact that tomorrow looks like it will be even more unbearable weather-wise.
Before I go, I wanted to close with a quote from Alan Keyes that I just read in this week's issue of The Wanderer. It again refers to the current debate over embryonic stem cell research. For me it put an interesting perspective on the debate.
"Laboratory techniques such as cloning and embryonic manipulation are now confronting us with a temptation no different to that of slavery -- that we may disregard the dignity of some human beings for utilitarian 'benefit'."And yet we are now (in hindsight) horrified by the fact that we were once a nation that permitted slavery. I think of those pro-choice bumper stickers I occasionally see: "Against abortion... don't have one". I wonder if 125 years ago there were "horse and buggy" stickers that read: "Against slavery... don't own one". Wouldn't we be shocked to see that today?!