Back to Work

Well today was my first day back to work after my two weeks off with the new baby. She's so cute. The other kids are doing well with her, it's pretty cool. Work is new to me, since I got this new job. New cube, new responsibilities, new atmosphere, new coworkers, new stresses... It should be fun.

My two weeks off was pretty productive, I conqured a good number of the things that I wanted to get done. I started big with fixing up my rock garden. It was a two day job and I got a lot of help from my kids. They got two new Justice League movies out of the deal. I also got our new microwave put up. This was a big feat as it was installing a new plug and hanging it over the stove. It looks nice. The garden got weeded and tilled, since there isn't anything growing in it besides weeds, it was pretty easy. Overall it was a fun productive two weeks. I'm glad to come back to work, but I will miss the days with my wife and kids. It was a fun time.

Now I'm looking forward to my vacation that starts Thursday. I love taking time off.

Family Reunion

This weekend is the scheduled of our bi-annual (hope I got that right, every 2 years), Philbrick Family Reunion. I look forward to this trip because it is a camping trip with my Grandma and Grandpa and we usually get to see all of the aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Since it is at the East Canyon resort, we have camping as well as tennis, mini-golf, swimming pools, horse shoes, volleyball, baseball/softball, and a variety of card, board, and dice games. The kids look forward to this as well.

I'm so excited. I'll get to see my mom as well as some other suprises. It'll be an exciting weekend.

Mason's Tattoo

Just wanted to share a picture. On Monday, Mason had a tattoo on his head. This is one of those removable tattoos. Why he put it on his forehead, I'll never know but wanted to show the pic from today. Anyway, here it is....

Random Thoughts

It has been a while since I've posted last and thought it time to put down in words some of the thoughts that I have had recently. As I was trying to pick a topic to blog, I realized how jumbled up my brain is and how in need of some mental housecleaning I need to do. Its almost as if someone took the deck of cards that is my brain, and shuffled them and then scattered them in the wind. Nothing like a rousing game of 52-pickup when its your mind that is the deck. Anyway.....

There are so many things going on in the world around us and in our daily lives. Work, family, entertainment, spiritual growth, mental growth, etc. Each subject demands so much attention that it tries to take away our attention to other things. We spend our lives running constantly from one place to the next. Spend too much time on spiritual growth, you miss some opportunities on family. Spend some extra hours at work, you lose some of your much needed liesure time. Its a vicious circle and each can be a major distraction from the others.

Finding a balance between all of the subjects of our lives becomes difficult when you realize that there are only 24 hours in a day and some of that time is needed for rest, eating, transportation and/or preparation. (Preparation to include grooming, washing, dressing, etc.) Chores around the house need to be done. Chores in the yard are being neglected. The family needs to spend time together. So many times we say, "I'll get to that as soon as I can." "If I can get this stuff done, I can then concentrate on these other things."

We put off so much to put out fires that we never find the time to make an appropriate balance. There are those out there who are willing to offer advice and help but their advice and help is in areas that they think you should be spending time. So much to do and so little time.....

How do we focus on what is important and how do we know what that is? How can we balance our lives to find an appropriate amount of time for everything? What sacrifices do you make to accomplish other goals?

For example, you can either do "A" or you can do "B". Both you very much want to do, but how do you choose? Which is more important? Which is going to give you the maximum amount of benefit to your happiness and your live as well as the lives of those around you?

Sometimes, A and B are linked in such a way that you want A and your partner wants B. (By partner, I am refering to spouse, kids, or whomever else your life is entwined.) When do you say that A is the way you are going and when do you give in to allow B to happen to make your partner(s) happy? When do you consider your own personal growth vs that of your partners? So many questions... So few answers....

I guess this was my little gripe about having to make so many decisions. Sometimes you just want to sit and tune out the rest of the world but you can't. Sometimes you just need a break to recharge your batteries. Maybe that's where I am. I need to recharge the batteries.

Anyway,thanks for the talk. I think it helped put a few things in perspective. Even if the actual issues weren't discussed here, they light at the end of the tunnel is getting a little bit brighter.

A New Baby, A Renewed Respect

Well Keighlee Jo joined our family last Friday. It was kind of fun and hectic hence the reason this blog is being written today. Just got to lazy really to do it. So I decided to write it today. Plus I've got some good pictures now. I just wanted to say that she is a dang cute little girl.



We are having a lot of fun with her here at home. The kids continually ask to hold her. It's cute. So there is the new baby part of the title, moving on the the renewed respect part now.

I have always known that my dear wife is a wonderful person. Watching her go through the birthing experience once again gave me a renewed respect for her strength and love for having a family. She is the most amazing person I know, truly a hero of mine. She is my queen and I know that I could not of found a better woman to be the mother of my children.

Having a Baby

Here we are in the hospital waiting for the baby to come. Chels is doing well, a little sore but that is from all the little needle pricks to get the IV in. She's doing well and we will keep you posted.

Woah, What a Day

Ok, so I can't believe that it is nearly 4:00pm. Today has just zipped by and now I am ready to head home. I finished up a web report for the directors of our IT group today and that was a big win for me. Yay, me! Anyway, I thought about doing my top 5 favorite things today, like my top 5 novels, top 5 songs, top 5 albums, but now it seems that I may have run out of time. I am actually waiting to see when my ride is going to be hitting the road so I'll work on it until he comes. So here it goes, and I might not get all of them done but it will be a start, espically the top 5 songs and albums. So I will start with books.

Tracy's Top Five Novels:

1. Honour Among Thieves, Jeffrey Archer


2. Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer


3. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card


4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling


5. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

I did novels because then I'd be able to get away with not putting Green Eggs and Ham. My favorite book of all time is probably the Book of Mormon, it's a good read, if you haven't read it I'd suggest it.

Now while that list is numbered one to five, those books aren't in any particular order, although I think if I had to choose a favorite of those five it would be Sons of Fortune I think.

I'm going to skip the songs and albums as I want to ponder them some more. Have a great day.

Book Review - Speaker for the Dead

Synopsis:
Book 2 in the Ender Wiggins saga begins 3000 years after Ender destroyed the entire bugger race with the exception of one hive queen in a cocoon. Ender, because of the war with the buggers is seen as an evil person who committed xenocide. Due to his space travels, while 3000 years have passed for everyone else, only about 20 years have passed for Ender.

Another alien race of piggies have been discovered on a planet called Luisitania. One person is killed by this alien race for unknown reasons and Ender is called to speak his death. While in transit, 20 years have passed and the original caller has since cancelled the call but 2 new calls have come in.

Accompanied by the hive queen and Jane, a computer intelligence, he begins the research that will lead to the speaking he was summoned for and the secrets that will be unleashed may be too much for the community to bare. Can he save this community? Can he understand this new race and their society? Will he be discovered as the benevolent Speaker for the Dead or as the vile Ender the Xenocide?

Review:
I relly think this is a good conclusion to Ender's Game. At first, it went a little slow and wasn't sure what to expect when this was to pick up the story 3000 years AFTER the end of book 1. I was pleasently suprised to find Ender and Valentine still youthful after 3000 years. I would recommend this book to almost everyone. While Ender's Game was written to be enjoyed for 10 years and older, this seems to be more geared to the older crowd. Both have many different levels of understanding and there are so many "outside-of-the-box" concepts that it can really make you think about the possibilities. After reading this, I REALLY want to read The Hive Queen and the Hegemon refered to in the book but know that it doesn't exist.

I hope that if you haven't read these stories, that you would concider this. It was very well written and Orson Scott Card is a master story teller. Having read now 4 of his books, I can truthfully say that his sci-fi mastery and exceptional story telling make his books a joy to read.

Avert Tragedy... Plan Ahead

I'm struggling with a title for this blog to really indicate the subject matter of this blog. So, I'll write the blog and maybe it'll come to me.

For those of you that don't know, I work part-time at Albertson's as both a cashier and a night-time manager. Last night, I was the manager. This week, I don't want to be there at all because Smith's is closed all week.

The information that we have is that Smith's is remodeling and was to be partially open during the remodeling. Well, rumor has it that someone did something that caused a part of the roof to collapse and so, they have been closed all week as of last Saturday. They will re-open this Saturday but in the mean time, we are getting a lot of thier shoppers during their crisis.

Add to that problem that we are understaffed to begin with because we cannot find any qualified candidates to work as cashiers. So, we are able to be just busy enough for our normal shopping business but with the Smith's closure, we are just frantic.

Anyway, I'm not going to go into a lot of the supervisorial details but needless to say, at the end of the night, I have a LOT of work still to do. We are usually very excited to close and lock the doors right at midnight and last night was no exception. Exhausted, I hurriedly locked the door at midnight and then about 10 after, walked out the last customer. So, now we get to the reason for the blog......

Standing outside is this girl who tells me that she needs to buy bird seed. First of all, who buys bird seed at midnight? Duh!!! I told her we will re-open tomorrow morning at 6am. (It's actually the same morning because its after midnight but that's more of a technicality.) Anyway, her comment was, "Well, you just lost my business."

Oh my goodness!!!!! I'm so freakin' heartbroken... Woe is us!!!!!!!! Ok, now that there is a bit of dramatic sarcasm, I'm over that. I just found it very funny that someone would be so conceited that to think we are just going to say, "Oh, so sorry miss... I know we closed 10 minutes ago and our hours are posted on a BIG freakin' sign on the front of our building but we can't have your birds go starving, now can we... Let me rush you right in and help you get that right away!!!! Albertson's paying me overtime is so worth the purchase of BIRD SEED!!!" Sorry, that was more sarcasm again, right?

What gets me is she probably feels we owe her something because she came to shop at our store. I'll bet 10-to-1 that if the roles were reversed, she would have no problem telling someone that they were closed under the same circumstances. Not to mention, I'M NOT ALBERTSON'S! I only work there and they pay me a small wage to do so. Just as you work some where and they pay you a wage. You don't own the company and neither do I. I work for a living just the same as you and you don't get that we are all trying to work together. Be kind enough to acknowledge that the posted hours are when we are going to be open.

The only time I have ever made exception or will make exception is for medicine for a small child. Everything else can wait until morning. Better yet, PLAN AHEAD! Got pets? Make sure that when you fill their little food tray, that if you use the last, go to the store at a reasonable time within the next 24-hours and life is great? Don't have 24-hours worth? Shoulda thought about that when you did have 24-hours worth. Hello?!?!?! Doesn't take much.

So, now that I got that off my chest..... Back to the title.

Red...

You Are Apple Red

You're never one to take life too seriously, and because of it, you're a ton of fun. And although you have a great sense of humor, you are never superficial. Deep and caring, you do like to get to the core of people - to understand them well. However, any probing you do is light hearted and fun, sometimes causing people to misjudge you.

What Color Red Are You?

Weather

Ok so as most of you know I am here in Decatur, Illinois. Its in central Illinois. We have been here for a little over 2 weeks and we have had some interesting weather. It rained the first few days and it was not bad. Still kinda cool and what not. Then it heated up fast. We went from 60 degrees to 90 in like 2 days. But the glorious thing about the middle of the US is that they have this wonderful stuff called humidity. Ok so we do have it in Utah but we have nothing like this. It is around 80 degrees here and with the humidity if feels close to 100. But really thats not the worst part. The worst part is now when it rains there is a mist that stays in the air. Seriously you walk out and there is dew on the grass mist in the trees, mist in the air and its still hot. Its almost like when your camping in trees but usually its cool there here no. So today I wake up a little late so I decide to order pizza. I was tired cuz Jaxon decided to freak out at bed time (he's teething and he sucks at it). Then about 1-2 hours into my lovely sleep we get one of the loudest craziest thunder storms I have ever heard. Rained like mad and the thunder was one right after another and sounded like it was right on top of us. Very crazy. Anyhow... I order pizza papa john's of course and they won't deliver because I don't have a local phone number so I have to go pick it up. Now here is where we have issues. We live in a apartment and our neighbors across the hall are of another ethnicity. Not sure what but their is a stench coming from their apartment that basically smells up the entire hallway and then at the end of the hall we have in home smokers and it seeps out as well so basically It smells so bad you have to hold your breath if you don't want to throw up. Opening the doors to the building won't help because we have yet another stinky problem. We I guess are in the Soy Capital of the world or something like that. Basically they have a very large soy plant here and on one of my ventures around town I drove by it and ugh. Even filters can't keep the smell out. Well I am sure you can guess it. When you mix heat, humidity, soy, ethnic food, and cigarette smoke it is the worst combination of smells and will make you gag if not throw up. One of our guys have cuz of the hall way. I can say thank goodness for central air and a towel at the bottom of our door. I did put a very good plug in air freshner in the hallway that sadly is doing nothing. It is the same kind that I can drop a few drops in my Hyla vacuum and it makes my entire home smell good. Lets just say it is not helping much in the hallway. The combo is just to potent for it.
I guess what I am getting at is be greatful for good clean air. And if you produce stinky air. Be kind bathe, clean your home and air things out. There are other people in this world that would like to keep their food down when the go out. And as far as stinky cities well I found one of the stinkiest....

Generic Title

There is so many things I wanted to blog about today that I couldn't pin a title to it.

First off, I got a new job. I will be working with the Privacy Office at the University here. Basically, I'm moving from one team in ITS to another. I'm even in the same building so it is nice. With that comes a certain level of wonder and excitement as well as a little bit of saddness. The team I am currently on rocks and we have a lot of fun, but I felt the need to move on. So I am excited and will start working with them once I get back from my time off when the baby comes. It will be fun.

Second, the BABY! When is the big question. I wish that calculating the due date was more of an exact science. This whole wondering when and all that stuff is for the birds. So we are due in a little more than two weeks, but it would be nice to know when exactly. Other than that, the baby is moving and streching all over the place, by the way Chels winces I'm guessing that it is very painful. I feel lucky to be a man and not have to go through that. Yep, I'm a wimp.

Third. My son and daughter are learning to ride their bikes without training wheels. Minus getting on the bike, Jarik has it down pretty good. It took all of about one push to get him up and going. Tiaree on the other hand is turning out more difficult. Reason, she's learned bad habits depending on the training wheels. She was finally getting it when it got too late and we had to go in. We'll work on it again today.

I have a movie review that I'll do a seperate post on. We went and saw Over the Hedge last Wednesday. It was good, but I'll give a little better review later.

Time for the Song of the Day! I know I missed last week, but that's because I decided to listen to a movie while I worked instead of listen to music. I listened to most of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was cool. And believe it or not, I got a lot accomplished. Today's Song of the Day is from Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. We just got the CD from BMG, one of the free ones. Anyway, the song is The Candy Man. Now, the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp, is awesome, but the old musical with Gene Wilder is awesome and the music is dang cool.

That's about it for today. I may get to the movie review, but in case I don't, don't hold your breath. Laters.

Book Review - Ender's Game

As we were preparing to go camping last weekend, I thought it appropriate to take a book with me. I decided on something that I have never read before. After searching through the library catalog online and coming up with nothing at the branches I was looking at, I finally stumbled across the Orson Scott Card books. They had Ender's Game in stock at the library close to my work. So, I ran over and picked it up.

I had read Orson before years ago. In fact, I still have the book. It is called A Planet Called Treason and I really liked that book. Boy was I in for a suprise. Anway, here's the synopsis.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggins is a 6-year old boy who is very intelligent but also, very small. He can't comprehend the "kids" around him and wants nothing more than to be left alone. He doesn't get much help from his older brother who continues to threaten him with his life and is quite capable, physically and intelligently, to commit such a crime.

Ender is being tested by the International Fleet to join their battle school. As the youngest person to ever be admitted, he is wisked away to the battle school orbiting earth. His goal, to be trained to fight a war against the buggers, a race of insect-like creatures that have invaded earth previously and were fought back. Unbeknownst to Ender, his training is actually to command the fleet against the buggers.

Will he succeed? Will the human race be saved? Is Ender the hope humanity has to insure its survival?

I really liked this book. Written for all ages, it is easy for the kids to read but also very though provoking for the adults. For those of you that have not read this book, I would highly recommend it. If you like Sci-Fi at all, it is a very good book. For those of you that don't care for sci-fi at all, it is very philosophical and will make you think.

Honk if you are .... STUPID

As I was driving down the road yesterday, close to the rush hour traffic time, I heard someone honk their horn. This was one of those honks that was mean and angry. The duration was longer indicating that someone was upset. I started thinking about the use of a horn.

My take is this, the horn is to be used as a tool to alert others to keep them out of harms way. It should only be used in extreme situations so we do not become desensitized to its usage.

People who just lay on the horn anytime to indicate frustration or anger or road rage only cause more problems. First, the person that just cut you off, do you really want to take their attention away from driving? They seem to be having a hard enough time of it and if they have to look behind them to find out why someone is honking, they can not pay attention to what's in front of them. Given their lack of driving skills, do you think it is wise to divert any attention away from that?

Second, people around you wonder if you are honking at them. Their attention is also diverted causing more problems just because you are upset.

Third, is it really important to cause others grief because you are a bit angry? If you didn't get in a wreck, move on with life. No need to ruin someone else's day because that horn doesn't really convey your thoughts on what the other person did. They may just think that you are rude and they get upset that you honked for "no reason".

Fourth, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG WHEN DRIVING, Right? No one is perfect. Have you ever accidentally cut someone off? Have you ever gone too slow/fast? Have you never got in to someone else's way unintentionally? If you haven't, you must be more ignorant than you think you are.

And last, get over yourself. Road rage and being angry and aggressive while driving will only ruin your day, raise your blood pressure, and cause undue stress on you. If you have such issues with "other drivers" then ride the bus.

Just A Comment...

I would normally comment on what B wrote at the bottom of his entry, but I feel that I need to have a little bit more room to ramble. It is funny how our past can come back to us here and there. I watch my kids and think of the times I must have had when I was younger. I have done a memory dump of pretty much everything in my life from before I was around 11. I have some memories, but they are brief glimpses into what I consider a pretty good childhood. Memories like getting smacked in the face with a baseball, playing cops and robbers at an empty house that was two doors down, then moving into that house, playing football and hitting golf balls at the school, swimming in the Higbee's pool. Although the memories are good they aren't always complete.

One thing that I hate is when you do something and you are having a blast and then it has to end. One of those special times in your life that won't be duplicated. It happens all the time. Special times come and go and hopefully your memory can hold it. If we were all wise, those special times would go in some sort of journal. The best thing though is that we do get to take them with us when we go. We go through life with experiences and the things we learn and do, these are things that will stay with us as we continue on our journey after this life. It's a great feeling.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane B.

The Best of Times......

I had a very sad dream this morning and it was one of those that you just wake up feeling really sad about some things.

Some of you may remember the Newman Elementary School in Rose Park, not the new building but the old building. The new building has only been in existance for a few years. Ok, maybe more than a few but still....

Growing up, I never went to Newman Elementary as a student. I did however play quite a bit in the school yard. As kids, we played softball, tag, football.... Sometime we even went over and hit golfballs. It was a place where we could go climb some of the trees, hang out with friends, or just ride bikes. It was quite upsetting when they changed it around.

I know that the school is now bigger and better, it just doesn't make me feel better that the neighborhood is changing. We like to keep things from our past. I'm no exception. We like somethings to change but others, well, they just need to stay the same. I have come to grips that they changed the school and the yard or at least I thought I had.

So, back to my dream. In my dream, the school yard, the original, was alive in a sense. It couldn't move but it had consciousness. It was aware of all the kids that would play on it. It shared our lives, our hopes, our dreams. It revelled when we scored a touchdown and felt sorrow when we scraped our knees or fell from the monkey bars. It looked forward to each day and loved all the kids that would come.

Now, a new school sits where the old playgrounds were. The old play field is now part of the school and parking lot. In the dream, it was as if the new school were dropped right on top of it. There were people who talked of progress and others who couldn't feel the pain that the field felt. Having a school dropped on you is a lot. The playfield was partially covered and you could see part of the grass and knew where things were. Yard lines were cut into it where the field had tried to modify itself to remind others of where the football games had been played but no on really listened. In its pain, it would emit a "mental scream" that would remind the people of playing on the field. It would remind them of their youth and the time that had been shared. The memories were strong enough that all you wanted to do was to relive those moments. To go back in time and knowledge to the times of your youth to when that time was important to you.

You could see that the field was dying and with it, all the memories of the years past. Some people felt it but they were few. They didn't know what it was like to be a child and couldn't remember their childhood much at all. Those people you felt sorry for because as they walked the field, the were oblivious to the pain that was being suffered right beneath their feet.

Anyway, I woke up with a very empty feeling. One that makes you realize that life continues down the path whether you are ready or not. It doesn't stop or slow because you say "Hey, this is fun.... Let's hang out here for a while before we move on." It trudges on with or without notice and if you are not careful, it slips by before you know it.

I'm not 100% on whether dreams mean anything or not but I awoke with such a feeling of dread and realized how many things I couldn't remember about my childhood. I hope, that once we leave here, our memories will be complete and not subject to the errors of this world. That we can relive in our minds all our lives. Remember the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. I think that was the worst part of the empty feeling is knowing that many of the memories are not readily available for recall and may never be here. I can only hope that it isn't permanent.

Greetings From San Francisco

Well I'm here in San Francisco. Sitting in a JavaOne session on Spring Webflow. Overall the conference has been relly good. We finished up yesterday at 20 after 11pm. It was a late night. I'm staying in a pretty nice hotel but the windows are old school and don't seal shut. Last night I was watching TV during one of the breaks that I had and I heard this drumming outside. So I went outside and saw this guy with a bunch of empty 5 gallon buckets, pots, and empty water bottles and he was drumming, it was pretty cool. I guess he will be in the a new Will Smith movie coming out soon. It was cool to watch him. I'll post some pictures laters. Anyway, life is good here in San Francisco, but I can't wait to be home. I'm headed to Chinatown a little later to pick up some souvies and then I got a free ticket to MI:3 so I might go see that. See you guys Friday.

Desperate Homemakers - Play Review

In the spirit of movie reviews, I felt that other "events" could be reviewed as well. We have season tickets to Deseret Star Playhouse. We enjoy the atmosphere and the kids love to go see the shows.

The show we saw Saturday was Desperate Homemakers which is a sequal to the show My Big Fat Utah Wedding that played last year. While we didn't get to see the previous show, there was not a lot of "catching up" to do as with most sequals. This show could have stood by itself instead of being a sequal.

The story line is that the wife of an "empty-nest" couple feels very bored. It starts of as an e-mail to her daughter that she has even gone to Idaho and purchased a lottery ticket. The husband, who comes in and reads over her shoulder becomes very distraught at the realization that his wife is a closet gambler.

While the arguement insues, the state of Idaho calls to inform her that she has won the biggest payoff in Idaho's history. Because of their fortune, they move to the "east side" and meet the variety of neighbors in their new neighborhood. They are now part of the private country club which has had the same president for 5 years because no one will run against her.

As the wife tries to play the societal games commonly sterotypical of money and wealth, the neighborhood goes through the "picking of sides" in the battle between the lottery winner and the social elitist.

This show was very funny. It is very appropriate to view as a family and offers song, dance, mystery and comedy. We enjoyed this show very much and would recommend it to anyone that wishes to see it.

Afterwards, the performers do an olio and this time it was the America Olio involving a variety of songs about America. During this, they do a Desert Star Playhouse rendition of American Idol where the audience helps determine the winner.

If you are into plays at all, I would highly recommend the Desert Star Playhouse for families.

Happy Friday

I like Fridays, most of the time. This weekend should be pretty good. Tomorrow is our Desert Star Playhouse day for the new show they have and then I get to spend some time repairing the trailer enough to have it workable for our camping trips this summer. I would like to rebuild it but it looks like it will just be some repairs.

I've already replaced the lights on the trailer and they are working wonderfully. Now, I just need a few brackets, some tie-downs and I'm set. We will probably set up the tent (weather permitting) to make sure it is functional.

Sunday is Mother's Day and we have decided that we are going to the Zoo with Irma. It should be a lot of fun. Then a bbq afterwards at the park.

Anyway, that's an update on what's going on this weekend. I hope you all have a great weekend and I hope your Mother's feel appreciated this weekend for all the crap you put them through. Make sure you at least call and tell them how much you love them.

A Good Tuesday

I know weird. Today has been a very good day, minus the fact that I suck at basketball. Oh well it's fun anyway. So today I'm working on creating a survey for our application that we are finishing up here shortly. The current survey is built in ColdFusion but we are going to move it into Java using Spring. It will be cool. Anyway, today's Song of the Day is by the Eagles. The first time I remember ever hearing it was the special TV concert they did not to long ago. It's called Hole in the World. It's on 'The Very Best Of' CD that came out shortly after the TV special. From what I remember this was the song that they wrote after 9/11. It is a really great song. The line I really like, they repeat quite a bit is "There's a hole in the world tonight, don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow." Good song. If you don't have it, find it on iTunes or at WalMart and buy it. I think it's worth it.