Neglecting the blog

Maybe you noticed that the last couple of posts have been short and kind of far between.  Blame that on vacation.  I was on the beach and had very limited access to the Internet.  The beach in Door County was pretty good this year.  Not too stinky from the geese. Not too much crud in the water. Not too many weeds growing right up to the water's edge. A good place to sit and read. Beach reading for me consisted of Patriot Battles, Michael Stephenson's technical, but very well written account of how the Americans won the War for Independence, and The Courtier and the Heretic, Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart. There's nothing like a cup of coffee and a book about philosophy on the beach to start a summer day off right.