Where Did My Weekend Go?

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We all hate it when there's gorgeous weather during the week and crummy weather during the subsequent weekend. Somehow, I managed to be productive on Saturday. It was raining cats and dogs, but I set myself up in the garage so I could saw some plywood. We needed some additional storage space up in the attic, so I resolved to cut some plywood to cover some of the rafters up there. The only access to the attic is a 2.5' X 2.5' hatch in the top of my mom's closet, so I had to cut 4' X 8' sheets of plywood in half lengthwise to get them up there. Once I had about 8 pieces up there, I took down an ancient TV antenna we had suspended from the rafters on one side of the attic - It hadn't been used since the pre-cable TV days. Then I hammered down some of the sheets to create a floor up there we can put some boxes and plastic bags on.

The crummy weather continued into Sunday morning, which affected our plans for the usual Sunday morning skeet shoot. But the rain stopped around 10:30 AM, so Craig, Dan, Jeff and I went to the Yankee game.

It was a terrific game, with the Yankees beating Texas by a score of 11-1. Afterward, we went to Frank's Steaks in Jericho for some eats.

It was a great weekend considering the crummy weather. But every Monday morning, I find myself back in the office wondering where my weekend went.

And the Alienation of Progressive Catholics Begins...

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Thanks to our new pope and his officials in the Vatican for calling on people in Spain to resist a new law legalizing gay marriage.

Interviewed in the Italian newspaper, Corriere de la Serra, Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said the Church was making an urgent call for freedom of conscience for Roman Catholics and appealing to them to resist the law.

He said every profession linked with implementing homosexual marriages should oppose it, even if it meant losing their jobs.

I can understand calling on Catholic priests to resist the law and avoid marrying gays, if that is the official stance of the church. No law should force a religion that doesn't support gay marriage to recognize it.

However, I can't condone calling on "every profession linked with implementing homosexual marriages" to resist. That's overstepping a bit. There are other religions other than Roman Catholicism out there. Seems the new pope doesn't understand that very well.

There are approximately 1.1 billion Catholics worldwide. I wonder how many of them will abandon the church in the coming years as Benedict XVI alienates progressives with antiquated policies like this. I'm not saying the RC Church should recognize homosexual marriage if it doesn't want to, but I don't think it should be trying to influence how non-Catholics lead their lives either.