No Smoking in Ohio and Pearl Harbor

Today, December 7th, was the first day Ohio's no smoking ban went into place. This means no smoking in bars, restaurants, workplaces, and any public place. This is awesome. I can now enter the lunchroom at work and not come out reeking. Also this means the smokers at work will actually have to do work instead of sitting in the lunchroom. I bet there are a few people that spent around 4 hours a day smoking. Of course there were plenty of people bitching about the ban, but when they were asked if they voted and their response was "no" I wanted to laugh. Voting gives a person the right to bitch and complain. It was also hilarious that the first day of the smoking ban happend to be 20 degrees and snowing outside. Ha ha! (Nelson voice)

On a less spiteful note, today is Pearl Harbor Day. B.J. and I visited the USS Arizona memorial last year when we were in Hawaii. It was an interesting and moving experience. The memorial did a good job of giving both the US and Japanese points of view. Since both my grandfathers (Kohl and Sterling) were in WWII I really wanted to see the memorial. If you ever go to Hawaii, visit the memorial, it is very humbling.