It has been too long since I wrote anything and I need to get at it, but my brain is so blank. School, the farm have been consuming all my time to the exclusion of almost everything else. Except my running of course, though it has suffered a bit also. Still, another test coming up! I am running a 10k this weekend at the Saskatoon Police 10k/Half-Marathon. I am hoping that my training will allow a 57 minute time. In any event, I plan to run hard and have a lot of fun!

On the political side of things, I am totally entranced by the current brawl over long-gun registry. While I realize that a lot of what is currently being said is grandstanding, some of the 'hate' and violence/inflammatory language seems to be meant to be taken seriously, and that scares me. I would like to think that we are a nation of law and a people who believe in the rule of law. Garry Breitkreuz apologized for what he staffer wrote but his apology seemed to be pretty close to an affirmation of what had been written originally. Do our legislators approve of violent and unlawful responses to opposition to their opinions and desires?

Easter break and time is flying soooo fast. Frantically trying to do all the things that I can't get accomplished during a normal week, hauling loads of stuff out to the farm and trying to get the house ready for the contractor starting on the 12th.

I still have some schoolwork to get done before Monday, primarily homework and mid-terms graded and mid-term grades ready for posting. I also need to call a few parents. However, my planning for next week is almost complete, about 95%, so I am feeling good about that.

I am very disturbed by the U.S. Federal Court decision this week on the authority of the FCC( Federal communications Commission to regulate the internet. If this decision holds up and legislation is not passed to provide that authority, I really do think that net neutrality will very soon be a thing of the past, which will end up making entities like Credenda much more difficult to keep functioning. While Credenda itself may continue to have the needed access and speeds, most of our students will not and that will make their successful participation difficult if not impossible. My wife thinks that I need not worry so. She thinks that popular opinion and consumer power will keep something approaching net neutrality a permanent reality; I am not so optimistic.

On other more trivial issues, why is the media spending so much ink on Gilles Duceppe and Tiger Woods? Is it because their readers really think these topics are more important or is it because the media corporations don't want to spend the times and money to do the investigative reporting needed for the more serious issues facing us in Saskatchewan, Canada and the world? I certainly don't know the answer but it is frustrating to find so much time and ink wasted on such monumental trivia.