Cheating women can try to blame unfaithfulness on their genes:

Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital in London, said that about 40% of the variation in faithfulness was due to genes. The figure means that if a woman is unfaithful, her identical twin sister would be twice as likely as average to be unfaithful as well.
A non-identical twin sister of an unfaithful woman would be 50% more likely to have an affair outside marriage.
Attempts to link infidelity directly to a specific gene or set of genes failed, although the researchers said that they did manage to locate some of the traits to three of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

The theory?

The study, published in the journal Twin Research, suggests that a genetic predisposition toward female infidelity may have evolved because it was important in allowing women married to “low status” men to surreptitiously become pregnant to “high status” males.

I don’t know about that, but I’m not qualified to opine on female motivations. I have yet to be sold on much of this genetics-controls-behavior research. It typically offers more questions than answers. But perhaps we’ll get a more complete picture over time.

I’m still pondering the plight of my Christmas spirit. It’s said that as a person ages, time seems to pass more quickly. Perhaps that’s a simple explanation of things; it gets harder to keep pace with the “faster” moving seasons. That might be part of it.
At any rate, I’m moving slower than many into Christmas. No decorations up yet. Nor was I among the 45% of Americans who participated in the Thanksgiving weekend shopping frenzy. Of course I’m not much of a shopper to begin with. So the “crowded stores” excuse works well for me.

Earlier this week–before Thanksgiving–I headed out jogging with my radio walkman in hand. I flip over to the local “light rock” station and make a disturbing discovery: Christmas music. Now, I don’t have any thing against Christmas music per se, but this was bad news on two fronts:

(1) Most Christmas music just doesn’t seem to go well with running, and
(2) It was before Thanksgiving

I’m a strong believer that Thanksgiving should serve as a line of demarcation for the Christmas season–no Christmas lights until after you put away the leftover pumpkin pie. Otherwise commercial exploiters retailers will just keep pushing the Christmas envelope earlier and earlier until we are hearing “Frosty the Snowman” in July.
So I had a pretty good reason to be turned off by the Christmas music on Tuesday. But then today I was driving about, flipped on said station, and they are in the midst of a Christmas music marathon. And despite the fact that I wasn’t exercising and we are now in the permitted Christmas window, I still couldn’t take it.
Kind of funny because earlier in the day I broke out a “Messiah” tape because it just felt like that time of year. But when it came to the radio station’s seasonal playlist, it was no-go.
What does this mean? I’m not sure. It may be that either:

(1) I’m becoming a disillusioned grumpy old Scrooge who will have a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year, or
(2) A person reaches a certain point in life where he cannot take weeks and weeks of “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”

I hope it’s the latter, because I don’t want some scary spirits to come visit me when I sleep.

This evening there were clear skies over Resonance world headquarters and I got to see a beautiful full moon rising. Sorry, no pictures. One of these days I should get to the Smokies and watch a moon rise over the mountains.
Moon fun fact: Did you know that the moon is moving farther away from the Earth? I didn’t either, until today. Perhaps 3.8 centimeters per year. Better build that moon station soon.

I’ve posted a few pictures from last weekend’s trip to Wilmington, NC in the photogallery.