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OCTOBER 2004 |
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Friday,
October 29, 2004 |
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HALLOWEEN!
...well, almost. Probably my favorite
holiday, Halloween is!
This year I wanted to get warmed up for the
Christmas Holidays and decided to wear this cool Poinsettia Leaf
costume. Everyone keeps laughing at me, though, ...really not
sure what the joke is.
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Thursday,
October 28, 2004 |
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Tuesday,
October 19, 2004 |
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Okay, so I'm studying Russian at Southern Methodist University. I thought it was an easy language (compared to say, French;), but it is NOT
easy! My comrades in the Motherland tell me it is actually
harder than English, which I guess, simply could not be true.
I was wrong! Russian is beautiful, but very difficult, ...and
here's the BIG culprit... ...why do Europeans (non-Brits) assign sex to everything?
I blame the Etruscans, by the way, but that's only a guess.
Everything has a sex, a gender, ...even inanimate objects. The chair is male? What do you mean, the chair is male! You mean every chair is male? In addition to being ridiculous, that must be very boring for the chairs! Even more ridiculous! ...the key is
female, the milk is male? ...I'm not even going to ask why!
Having to know the gender of every word, and then alter the
spelling/pronounciation/grammer, is FUCKING INSANE! ... ;)
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Tuesday,
October 5, 2004 |
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Yes! ...that IS the Levelord in a suit! ...it is
NOT a really good Photoshop job! ...and YES, it is MY suit!
I haven't worn one of these since 1995 when I first entered The
Industry. I used to wear one every day at my last job. The
place, an aerospace firm, was so uptight that you had to wear the
jacket all day, even while sitting at your desk working. The
only exception was while working at a test bench because of the
frequent sprays of caustic, toxic liquids.
I had forgotten what an absolute pain in the ass suits are,
too! A noose around your neck, everything is starch city,
multiple layers so you sweat like a pig, and the leather shoes are
enough to make you try to chew your own foot off like some trapped
vermin.
On top of that, you are constantly watching for anything that can
spill or stain or be brushed up against that will cause permanent
damage to a few pieces of clothing that cost more than a mortgage
payment.
Then, there are the dry cleaning hassles and costs.
I sure am glad those days are gone! Wallabees, jeans, and
T-shirts!
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Monday,
October 4, 2004 |
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Wow! ...I went to a very cool wedding last weekend. It was
my good friend Peter from New Haven. Although we have traded
emails and phone calls over the years, we hadn't seen each other since
1968! Very strange.
The picture on the left is from 1st
grade in 1964-65. The one on the right is from last
weekend. Time, obviously, does horrible things to the human body
;)
It was also strange to see where we had both gone over the
years. It was like one of those stories about two brothers who
get separated at birth, ...one goes off to do work for the betterment
of mankind, ...the other, to only use his powers for evil.
Peter is a Very Reverend Priest in the Episcopalian Church.
The wedding was almost completely attended by bishops and arch bishops
and priests and fathers and deans and... ...from all over the world.
Everyone had huge hats and robes and sashes. The cathedral was
magnificent and the organ was breath-taking. The atmosphere
would make even an atheist like me sit in pause and awe.
Then came the reception. I
must say that the Episcopalians are a fun group of people.
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