Wednesday was diverse to say the least.  Watercolors, Rattlesnakes and National Security were on my schedule Wednesday.   The collection of watercolors at one of the downtown Austin Banks was not very good.  The best thing about the collection was getting to it. A walk down Congress  Ave on an early  weekday morning is always full of activity and the city of live music was as usual humming right along.  I knew there were to be rattlesnakes in the Capital's outdoor rotunda but because of the cold temperature I thought the event might be canceled.  I was wrong, the snakes were right where they were suppose to be and I was able to get as close as I wanted to the slithering creatures.  The lunch hour found me at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law  where I joined about seventy other people for a luncheon.  The guest speaker at the luncheon was the Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  He holds B.A, M.A, and Ph.D  degrees from Harvard University.  The title of his talk was Dangers, Dilemmas, Delusions in National Security.