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Jet laaaaagg
Well, tonight is the first night of my trip to Virginia. The flight was uneventful, except that I sat next to a very interesting man, so I got to spend half the flight talking about… well, everything. He was in the army and now works for a company that forecasts logistic technology for the army. He was a battalion commander in Desert Storm. He really thinks Bush is screwing up in Iraq and should have never gone, and that many of his military buddies feel the same. I feel bad for all the guys (and gals) sent to fight in Iraq. I asked him his opinion on the National Guard/Swift Boat controversy, and he thought that probably there was some truth to both stories, but what does it matter anyway. He thinks it’s just getting in the way of talking about real issues. I had to agree with everything he said (I basically had all the same opinions, but not necessarily the same information). He reminded me of talking to my dad about politics and history. He really seemed to know his stuff and was a lot like my dad. My dad died in October of 2001 of pancreatic cancer, and I really miss talking to him. He worked for the Department of Defense Inspector General’s office as Program Director of Readiness and really knew a lot about the government and the military and could give great insight into issues surrounding these entities. Not to mention that he read avidly, so he really knew a lot about everything. If you played the family against him in trivial pursuit, we didn’t stand a chance. He could answer most questions.
Well, I fell asleep at 9pm and now I’m up and wide awake at 1:30am. Argh, time change!
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Public urination in Germany
I just saw a commercial where a guy in a suit is driving in a nice suburban neighborhood in a black BMW. Suddenly he stops, runs to the nearest flowerbed and starts peeing, sighing in relief. A large tree in the front yard then falls over, crushing his car, then straightens up. The announcer says, “Take care of your house and it will take care of you.”
One of my neighbors is a district attorney and tells me that they have a big problem with people peeing on the entrance to their building. She also says that many people with warrants out on them hang out in the neighborhood, so all they have to do is watch out the window till someone wanted comes by, then call the police to come pick them up. Stupid criminals hanging around outside the DA’s office…
Good news! I get to spend 2 weeks in the US! Woohoo!
Decline of the English Language
I was just perusing blogs here on blogger.com (push “next blog” in the top right corner) and I have just one comment to make:
OMG!!! ppl… dat write like dis… needz ta lurn sum writin skilz…
What is reality?
Do we really experience reality, or does reality depend on the person experiencing it? A schizophrenic lives in an alternate reality, but who’s to say that what they experience is not real? Is it because a schizophrenic can take drugs that make him/her more like everyone else? But, if I took a drug like LSD or peyote, I would be experiencing an alternate reality. What if that is the real reality? What if there is no reality?
Women snore just as loud as men
This is being reported on the German afternoon news even as I type. They filmed a woman sleeping, then showed her and she’s “shocked.” Interesting.
Okay, I think I will make a trip to the video store now and hope they have Kill Bill Vol. 2. If not, I might be forced to watch Gothika. Aaaah!
Mission: Religious Conversion
So, I just got visited by some Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were explaining to me how they want world peace and that when that happens, there will only be one religion and that is the one founded by Jesus. First, I tried the whole, “Uhh… I don’t speak German well,” but they weren’t buying it and kept talking, so I was forced to explain my belief that religion is often an excuse used by people to inflict their will upon others and that Christianity has split into many different churches, so there is not one “true” religion founded by Jesus, and that, by the way, Jesus was Jewish. At this point, they ran away.
Okay, they didn’t actually RUN away, but they left pretty quickly.
Hurricanes
You know, before the Age of Reason, these multiple hurricane hits might have been interpreted as God’s wrath. Hmmm…
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