Lorena and I drove down to Leander, Texas on Saturday to celebrate her brother, Rigoberto’s, birthday. With some of their friends from church. It has been such a long time since we had an evening to just sit around and talk with friends, we are kind of forgetting what it was like. There was another family there we had never met before who are engaged in a lot of interesting work and projects. We discussed, work, college, kids, geopolitics, American politics, health, medicine, energy technology, and just about everything else under the sun. We had no agenda other than to eat lots of red meat, sing happy birthday, and chew that fat. I need more of that.

During the geopolitics part of the evening, our new friend, Lyle, recommended a book. I ordered it and will put it up as soon as it arrives.