It’s been a quiet and laid back weekend. Yea! Weekends like this make me marvel at how wonderful the mundane can be, which comes as a welcome reminder to maintain perspective and be grateful for the “little things” that build such a full life.
Sunday morning we slept in and just wandered around the quiet house until lunch. Hubby asked me what today was, so I told him it was the 7th. He said, “So only 3 days until the world ends!” To which I shook my head and said, “What?!” Apparently the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is hoping for its first particle collision on Wednesday. Thankfully my friend (thanks, T!) had sent me a wonderful nerd rap YouTube video about the LHC, so I actually knew what he was talking about! But all sorts of people are freaked out about the uncertain outcome of the experiments. The scientists don’t know exactly what particles will be created during the collision, but there are lots of conspiracy theories about black holes and rogue particles that would kill us all.
We spent almost an hour perusing photos that are actually quite impressive and beautiful. I watched 30 minutes of YouTube videos learning about the LHC and the goal of the research so I would know that any black hole created from the particle collision would decay so rapidly it wouldn’t be a danger. Then, just as quickly as the topic started, we moved on when hubby was flipping through our TiVo list and suddenly exclaimed, “Did you see this Cops?! It was spectacular!”
Really, I wonder… how many households move so quickly between high and low brow discussions? 
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