Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

Here is a nice story to chew on while wondering if Ryan Shealy is really going to be our 1B next year...

So there is this girl from Nepal, Ruchika or something like that, who used to attend Missouri State. She didn't know anyone here and somehow struck up a relationship with my former mother-in-law. My ex-mother-in-law, a Christian Democrat who came from extreme poverty, made friends with her, helped her out with money, got her a TV, stuff like that. In exchange, Ruchika (sp) painted her some wonderful watercolors. Well, Ruchika went home to visit her family in Nepal some time after 9-11 and then couldn't get back into the U.S. So she got a job in India, but she still stayed in contact with my former mother-in-law, Martha. Anyway, Martha died about a year-and-a-half ago. Cancer. But the family got a call from India this weekend. Ruchika had a baby girl. Now there is a little Nepali-Indian girl whose middle name is Martha.

If that isn't nice, I don't know what is.