We took our baby to church today and blessed him; basically the process by which a kid gets added to the church records. After that we had a get-together at my sister's house with much of the local family in attendance. It was a pretty good time.

I have not had any time to even think about hobbies this week, for obvious reasons. I have changed a lot of diapers. That's been an experience.

I added a link in my sidebar to Massad Ayoob's blog. He is perhaps the foremost authority on home and personal defense, and has a lot of interesting things to say if you're into that sort of thing. I recall as a kid in 3rd and 4th grade reading his books In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection and The Truth About Self-Protection. Pretty heavy stuff for a young person I suppose, but definitely influential in my life and my outlook on the subject of firearm ownership and self-defense laws. I don't want to delve too deeply into politics here, so I'll leave it at that.