Travis spent close to two hours screaming his lungs out early this morning. We have no clue why. We hope he’ll get over it and learn to sleep again.

I wound up staying up late to watch Black Hawk Down. Then the Boy kicks in an hour later. After Kelly and I trade turns, I finally settle him at 3 AM. Whoa. Kelly was a real sweetie, though, and let me sleep in until 9 today! It was heavenly! I can’t remember when I did that before.

Something about the day, or the late wakeup, or something, got me into a creative mood today. I felt compelled to play music and sing today. As I was cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast, I made up and sang a little song about Travis. Afterward, I strolled around the house playing it for everyone.

It just seemed so natural to do, like I was in a zone. Right then, I seriously considered dropping all of the little side projects I have and making music my only hobby. Yet, there is so much more that I can do.

While I was in this interesting state of mind, I looked out the window and felt that familiar certainty that I can achieve anything in this world that I want to achieve. It was a moment when all the can’ts and won’ts and impossibilities fade away, the excuses for not getting what I want.

Then the window slammed shut again as I once again faced the question, “well, what do I really want to do?”

That one stumps me every time.

A Brigham Young University physics professor has analyzed the mysterious collapse of the World Trade Center buildings and concluded that the most likely explantion is controlled demolition.

In his paper, professor Stephen E. Jones writes:

A New York Times article entitled “Engineers are baffled over the collapse of 7 WTC; Steel members have been partly evaporated,� provides relevant data.

Experts said no building like it [WTC7], a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire. (Glanz, 2001; emphasis added.)

That’s correct – no such steel-beam building had ever before (or since) completely collapsed due to fires! However, such complete, symmetrical collapses have indeed occurred many times before — all of them due to pre-positioned explosives in a procedure called “implosionâ€? or controlled demolition. What a surprise, then, for such an occurrence in downtown Manhattan— three skyscrapers completely collapsed on the same day, September 11, 2001.

Engineers have been trying to figure out exactly what happened and whether they should be worried about other buildings like it around the country… Most of the other buildings in the [area] stood despite suffering damage of all kinds, including fire… ‘Fire and the structural damage …would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated’, Dr. [Jonathan] Barnett said. (Glanz, 2001; emphasis added.)

The observed “partly evaporated� steel members is particularly upsetting to the official theory, since fires involving paper, office materials, even diesel fuel, cannot generate temperatures anywhere near the 5,000+ oF needed to “evaporate� steel. However, thermite, RDX and other commonly-used explosives can readily slice through steel (thus cutting the support columns simultaneously in an explosive demolition) and reach the required temperatures. (It is possible that some other chemical reactions were involved which might proceed at lesser temperatures.) This mystery needs to be explored – but is not mentioned in the “official� 9-11 Commission or NIST reports.

Evaporated steel. Hmm.

Fortunately, the U.S. Government never lies. Now go back to your shopping.