I took this picture Saturday afternoon and at the time, it seemed things were being contained. Now, they definitely aren’t as I saw flames in the hills this morning on my way back from the gym. The kids don’t have school since their school isn’t that far from the fires.

Here is some coverage from the Times, photos and article

It seems with all the problems the airline industry is having lately and the addition of screening devices which look underneath your clothes, you’d think Amtrak would have tons of discounts and ways of getting people on trains. But I haven’t heard anything form them in the media. That’s too bad because I know the kids would love to take a train.

The Dallas Morning News has released PDFs of many documents related to the JFK assassination. These files have been locked away for decades and now people are able to go through them. I’ve always been fascinated by the theories coming out of that fateful day in Dallas and now even more theories will be coming out.

Wow, what a great concept! It would be very cool to go to something like this but after looking at who else is going to be there, I can see why I wasn’t invited. Heh.

I am still making my way thru the book though, writing Ruby code instead of the Python included. It’s helping me in both languages actually.