We are GROWING!

We are making the Grant Clan larger! By two! As of last night my cousin Micheal is engaged to his fiance Carrie!

That makes two engagements in out family in as many weeks! Amy and I on Halloween (Saturday Oct. 31) and Mike and Carrie last night (Thursday Nov. 12). We do not fuck around in this Clan!

We love to drink and marry out sweethearts! Got a problem? Didn't think so.

So I am stoked for those two! It will be a hell of a Thanksgiving at the Grant house hold. I only hope Amy does not have to work on said day. He only has a week in at work, so she is the new girl and will probably get stuck working. But if she does, I hope it is her 3-11 shift, so she can get some dinner before she heads to work.

We eat dinner around 1 in this here family. This way Gram can see both of our Brides to be and their rings on the holiday.

I was thinking about blind people just now. People that were blind from birth, do they see images when they sleep? I found my answer. here it is:

"No, they wouldn't. Visual stimulus is necessary for the wiring of the brain centers that process and interpret vision. The way the brain works is to develop, early in life, a huge number of neural synapses (connection points between neurons that are used in cell-to-cell signalling). As you grow and learn, these synapses are pared away to make the brain function efficiently, and that's the central basis of long-term learning. However, if the brain or any part of it fails to get infromation from hard-wired inputs, then that part of the brain will atrophy (at best, fringe areas of a cortical region might be adopted by adjacent cortical regions for different processes). But the take-away message here is that the brain needs visual stimulus in order to devolp the cortical regions that process vision. In the use-it-or-lose-it sense, the brain will not waste energy building and maintaining processes that aren't used. The optical cortex would never know how to function as an optical cortex in a person born blind."

That is all, carry on.