Preacher Gary has moved to Lynchburg and is teaching Old Testament at Liberty University. It was great catching up with him. On Saturday we went to the races at New River Valley Speedway in Radford:

Late modified race.

I left this morning at 9:00 and expected to be home in 5.5 hours. I was held up for an hour by an accident. No worries, I spent my time calling, IMing, and taking pictures of the scenery in front of me:

Jessica's car turned 40,000 miles old this trip.

When I arrived Sir Puddy was pretty well sacked:

Germany in Brief

Politicians call for children's vote

A group of cross-party politicians in the German Bundestag has called for the introduction of a children's vote. With the "voting right from birth", parents should be able to vote on behalf of their children. The group said their aim was to attract more attention to children's issues: "It is unfair that more than 5 percent of Germany's citizens cannot vote". The group's draft petition which was presented on Thursday calls for the possibility for parents to vote in the name of their children until they reach the age of 18 and that parents should talk to their children about election decisions as soon as they reach an appropriate age. Critics say these propositions are naive. "Many parents have a completely different opinion in politics than their children", Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk from the Greens said.

Goethe loses out to TV Presenter

More than one-half of younger Germans think television presenter Thomas Gottschalk is more important than poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. When asked which one was more significant, 51 percent said Gottschalk as opposed to 49 percent for Goethe. The survey, carried out by a Hamburg paper, asked 507 Germans between the ages of 18 and 45 their opinions of several famous Germans, past and present. Beethoven beat out pop music producer Dieter Bohlen. When asked about sex versus emacipation, 60 percent of those surveyed preferred erotic store founder Beate Uhse to feminist Alice Schwarzer.

Guess who's house?