Steve left to go to work this morning, and Kaylee let me sleep in an extra hour after he left! She sneaked into my room once; I heard her softly tip-toe in, and then she leaned down, kissed me on the cheek Ever so lightly, then tip-toed back out. It was really sweet and it made me smile.

I read "Wild Fire" by Nelson DeMille today, and it is rather scary in a "huh, this could actually happen" kind of way. Anybody remember MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction? The reason Russia and the US were at a stand-still during the Cold War? Each knew that if they went nuclear, the other would retaliate, and basically everybody would be wiped out. So that MAD kept either side from hitting "the button". Well, this book was about a program instituted by the US Government that was similar, called "Wild Fire", and they let the Islamic countries know about it--that if a nuclear attack happened on US soil by any of them, there would be a hard-wired and automatic response-a devastating and huge nuclear attack on the entire Islamic region. Capitals, Religious sites, entire countries wiped out. Well, the government and a few other people got tired of waiting to see when and where the terrorists would hit, so they planed suitcase nuclear bombs in two US cities. The plan is to detonate nuclear bombs on US soil, which would immediately and irrevocably initiate the annhialation of most of the Middle East. It was again fascinating, how they would justify murdering millions of Americans to "save" America from the terrorists, how they picked which cities to blow off the map, how their plan was to wipe out our terrorist threat and put us back to a permanent "Level Green" on the terror watch alert area and put every other country on "watch" that we went nuclear once and we'd do it again. It's a conspiracy theorists nightmare-or dream. The author said that most of what he wrote about, while fictionalized, is true. And he says as for "Wild Fire" and its program, there are some who claim it is bunk, some who claim it is real, and the rest of the people say "who knows", but most people bet something like it wouldn't be illogical. Sometimes ignorance probably IS bliss!

Tonight we had leftovers of my fish and wild rice, and Steve cooked steaks and I made rolls, and we ate too much. It was good! Then Kaylee and Steve played the Xbox games for hours and hours while I read my book. A good day was had by all. ;) Well, until Kaylee smashed her knee into the bookshelf by her door, she didn't much enjoy that. But other than that!...

Tomorrow is a Colt's game, and they'd better win in a better way than they did last week! Oh, Steak & Shake made an "oops" around here--they switched promotional ads with Steak & Shake in Denver, and they ended up with promotions all over about how they supported their "Dallas Cowboys". And in Dallas, they are supporting the "Indianapolis Colts". Whoops. So to appease customers, they are giving out free shakes to all Colts fans who come in tomorrow (for a 6 hour time frame!) in Colts gear. They'll still make a killing on all the food the Colts fans buy to go along with their free shake, I'm thinking!