I got off a line today that I thought was pretty good. Over at Threedonia, Mike Kriskey had posted a link to this article about all the trouble scientists have been having with the Large Hadron Collider. The article quoted Dr. Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute, who, along with Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan wrote a series of articles over the past year and a half in which they (semi-seriously) suggested that the project wouldn’t work because God “rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

I wrote in a comment that, according to recent reports, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is drafting a resolution to bestow its blessing on Higgs particles.

Well, I thought it was funny.

What a nice weekend. I don’t think I’ve been able to say that a single time before since last winter. Finally now, when the kindly part of the year is almost past, we’ve actually gotten a stretch of good days.

Saturday was especially nice for me, as I did absolutely nothing in the way of chores or maintenance (except for washing clothes, which is a Friday night job and therefore doesn’t count). Instead I spent the afternoon with four other Vikings at one of the guys’ houses, training for live steel combat. We have a new guy, a college student, who seems to be as unhappy as I am to be stuck in this millennium, and was champing at the bit for some cold steel action.

But it was a good exercise for all of us, and did my spirit a world of good. Afterwards our host made hamburgers and brats, and we watched the almost good Viking movie, The Viking Sagas (better than most on authenticity, weak on story, characters and acting). It was the kind of guys’ outing I haven’t had enough of most of my life, because of my peculiar tastes and interests. How bully to have a gang of like-minded sociopaths to hang out with in my old age.