Yes, we can and will

We've made it up to trying out the oven on the new appliance, baking away its new stove smell. Tomorrow we'll try some bread, and transform the dough to loaves. It's bizarre that one must pay thousands more to have an all mechanically controlled range, as in none of the programmable stuff and all knobs. I saw an Italian model which would have set us back about three grand; ridiculous.
Reading a fascinating book called Three Cups of Tea, a co-written biography of a guy named Greg Mortenson, who turned a failed summit atempt on K2 into years of building schools for tiny villages in Pakistan. It was his way of giving back to people who helped him recover after his retreat from the mountain, and seems to have served as a grass roots way to fight terrorism: Give kids a real school and not limit them to brainwashing in a madrassa. It's an amazing story.