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873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | I am very honored that you remembered that line Tim! Why are you going to Bolivia though? I met this girl from Bolivia in my uni the other day. She is married to an Icelander and so is her aunt (i.e. a different icelander :) ). She told me that in her city (can't remember the name of it) her aunt's husband runs a fast food restaurant called something like 'sagas-fast-food' (as in the 'icelandic sagas') which is in that city as known and 'important' as Subway! .... I'm telling you Icelanders are slowly but surely conquering the world! :) So, my thesis is due in 14 hours. It is 3 a.m. right now and I am pretty sure I will be working on it for the next 14 hours straight! Except for this one hour between 10-11a.m. Then, without hardly any sleep for the last week and no sleep for tonight I have to attend my second interview for a internship for the ministry of foreign affairs (or at least that is what I think that they call that ministry in english). 88 people applied, they interviewed 80 and now the group has shrunken down to the beautiful number of 15. Eight possisions are avaliable so my chances are pretty high... and the greatest thing of all is that there is this guy that applied from my school who I thought was the most eligible for the job BUT he is not in the group hahahahaha .... I am sooo mean :) Well, if anyone thinks that this post is somehow wierd, nasty or badly spelled, I blame too much coffee, no sleep and my damm university for making us write a thesis - none of you have to write one - right? anyway, take care, Svana |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ulli, Kevin and I got a good laugh reading about your tumble. I had some run-ins with spiked fences in Ireland, so I know your pain. As for the whale hunting, I am not so knowledgeable on the subject. I live far from the ocean and any whales, and far from any fishing towns. People here don't exactly protest the killing of corn or soybeans. I suspect your problems all stem from that damn movie, Free Willy. Everybody wants to save the damn whales now, and they think the best way to save them is to not kill ANY of them. Not always the solution. It's a good thing Runa, Lars, and Vegard killed Keiko. And who said Icelanders and Norwegians don't agree? I should be reading all about auditing and the US tax system right now, but I find Ulli's recollections of his drunken gallivantings much more interesting (better look up 'gallivant,' Ulli). Got a mean craving for bravas right now, but none to be had here. Heading home this weekend, so there should be some good Polish food awaiting me at my girlfriend's. Watching this funny European finance masters student across from me right now, and he looks thoroughly confused by his computer. Perhaps he has the same problems you had, Ulli. Well, time to go before he decides that maybe I can help him. Toodle pip (as Adam has been known to remark), Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | The other day all most every Icelander did get this letter from Greenpeace members asking Icelanders to unite not to shoot whales (not with a Capital W Adam). For last 15 years Icelanders haven't 'fished' whales for a profession but just before me and Svana went to BCN they started again with shooting 45 whales over a three year period. It was in some countries outshouted that it was a scandalous that people shouldn't go to Iceland for that reason. Well Greenpeace did go a more civilized way of protesting now than 15 years ago, when they sunk 3 whale fishing boats, and did do Icelanders an offer that would be beneficial to the country. Well we didn't listen!!! So German Greenpeace members did unite that every member would send a few letters each to every Icelander listed. And I got one. To start with the letter is in icelandic and says that the one who signs it did get a German version of it and does understand and agree with it. The biggest thing in this letter is that there are so many wrong things in it also it doesn't have all the facts like that we are fishing 45 whales out of (if I remember correctly) 6.000 and that they do eat a lot of fish away from us. The best wrong fact is that the letter states that over the last 15 years popularity of whale meat has reduced substantially due to among others chemicals in the meat. Ok I can only talk for myself but the main reason in my believe is that it hasn't been AVAILABLE. So now I'm writing this German Salim (good name for a German)to his email address he was kind enough to leave and putting him straight. If somebody else wants to do the same is email address is [email protected] About my injury I wrote about in last post the visual effects have reduced from the nose and chin and all I've got is this small Hitler like mustache. Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Yes, yes y'all! Hows it all hangin, I want a comment from everyone telling me how they are, what they did today and what the weather is like! Vale?!? Over here, it is scorching, there is no reason that I should be in the CPD typing away but I thought I would let you know how nice it was and how much fun it would be if you were all here!!!!!!! Take Sunday for example, started of with an enforced lie in after getting smashed off my face on Saturday at a house party. Was followed by a leisurely taxi to the beach with some CEMS and was subsequently treated to 4 hours of sun loving checking out all the talent that seemed to creep out when the sun shines, an unbelievable selection! Ulli you would have loved it! So after this relaxation I get a call offering me free tickets to Barça's last home match of the season, a couple of socis gave us their cards and we had prime position on the half way line in the second tier to see Luis Enrique play his last match. The sun was on us until well into the second half and a couple of spliffs made it an entirely enjoyable experience. A little local tapas bar welcomed us afterwards and after a few jarras I was ready for bed! I can only imagine how crazy it would be if everyone who had studied here this year was still here now! I spent the whole of last week in Paris enjoying the sun as Barca got the last of the rain out of its system. Spent two luxury days with the fam celebrating my ma and pa's bdays (same day, bit funky huh?!?) and then stayed with my best friend from uni who has an apartment 5 minutes away from the Arc de Triomphe. Even had the chance to have a few cervecitas with Steffen who was passing by to see some friends. In fact Steffen and Valerie are both coming back to visit in a couple of weeks. That means I am gonna TRY to get all my work done before that and then the real party will begin! Anybody else fancy it¿?!? Hope everything cool with the gang, comments galore remember. The blog is not dead, long live the blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace out, one love, respect, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | There hasn't been much going on this website for the last few weeks so I guess it my responsibility to tell yall about my life in the moment. I started working at the bank on Wednesday, the day after we gave a presentation about our report in this course called strategy... I think I've told every one that I we had this golf club and were trying to improve the service. The job is ok Im one of two guys in 17 people department which is ok. It will get rather boring coz I just putting numbers on a computer but hopefully I can get something better next summer. Funny thing the school had like a final party and we drove a little bit out of the city and to this, Id call community centre after a few beers I thought it would be a good idea to check out the pool but had to climb over this fence which was in the way. Long story short I look like Rudolf the rednose... My nose is red, my upper lip, chin on two places (how I did hurt both (under) chin and the nose at the same time is beyond me) and finally both my hands. It´ll be rather embarrassing to go to work on tomorrow looking like I was in the fight of my life.... You should have seen the other guy ;) Today and yesterday I've been watching The Office and its just so funny. Sometimes its so embarrassing I just cant look. Think the American version will be a flop though. Later, Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ive been thinking..... First I did make a mirror site of this on in case it could of any use to Vegard. The name url is urlLink www.bartomas.tk . The other thing is that Ive been thinking about changing hosts all togather and go to central.is this has everything in a very user friendly manner. We can vote, comment, put links and have a guestbook and everything else here is a urlLink link . We can change the colors but the other stuff no. I think ill put a survey on this site to check but its rather much mess to do it. Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey took this from the comment system its from Constance... by the way Vegards Hotmail adress is ... [email protected] Yizzo! I love reading this blogg! When Im in the computer lab and I start laughing out loud I get the strangest looks. Oh well though, like I care! Anyway, Timmy, Im so glad about the engagement! Tell the fiancé that I said congrats and instead of sending yall the Cava I´ll just go ahead and drink the entire bottle and think of yall. So, I have a crush on this French guy that is at the same uni (I cant believe Ive started saying that) as I am. He plays on the rugby team. He had a party at his house and we ended up kissing and now there are pictures of it all over this website (kinda like the fotki one we use). So this thing is being ghetto and i have to keep writing stuff over and over again sorry if its annoying to read. because im not an UPGRADED MEMBER i can only send comments Im going to New York City this Friday for my sisters graduation. Itll be good to be in the city for a hot second and then takin it back to Madrid. Instead of going club hopping Ill be going concrete jungle hopping OK, this is a long comment. Will someone please send me a FUNCTIOAL link so that I can actually post on here instead of writing dreadfully long comments. Oh yea, Vegard, what is your email address? if you wanna get a CD get Kayne West... its hot Ugh, the weather sucks and i dont wanna have to go outside to walk to the metro. blah blah no sun this hell should be freezing over any day now. Beso, Constance |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey hey, Jeg skal til arbejden på Landsbankinn... or what ever Ok Ive finally got a job and guess what its at a bank. Its actually the bank whitch is in the same house as the one I used to work. Im not really sure what Im suppose to do but its propably interesting and I think Im going to manage a portfolio for a retirement fund... not sure though. So I guess all of us are going to work in a bank next summer. The name od this post is mostlikly my new email which I dont like exept for the ending:D The owner of the bank is a big football fan and we support the same team in Iceland (remember the black and white stripe shirt... that one) so if Im having problems I just go and chat with him about the starting line up. There isnt really muc going on I finished my tests the 20th and started working on this project in the following. We are making strategy for Icelands biggest golf club (and Europes 5th biggest) and its been realy fun. Its an actual consulting work so I we arent just doing this for the teacher, this will be used. There are bigger companies around (which other groups have) but we are making a strategy for the whole club, some groups only have one department or something like that. Well thats it for know, Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey, The other day I wrote to Seema and Kat and got replies today so Im going to post some of their letters here first Seems: I graduated from UT at the end of May. Graduation weekend was wonderful- I had family come in from all over. It was really sad to say goodbye to my best pals, but I guess that's life. I have now moved from Austin back to Dallas where I'll attend medical school. I got into my top choice school here in Dallas, so I'm pretty happy about that. It's a four year program, and in my fourth year I'll apply for residency (specialization) programs. I'll probably try to leave Texas for that, just to have a new experience. I just got back from Las Vegas last night. I went to Las Vegas to meet up with old friends and my family that lives there (I used to live in Vegas), and then we all drove to Phoenix, Arizona for our cousin's wedding anniversary party. That part of the country is beautiful. I had fun playing with all my baby cousins :) Next week, I'm leaving to go to South America for a post graduation backpacking trip with three of my friends from college. We're going to spend a month there, and travel to Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. I'm very excited about the whole thing - it should be an adventure! Besos, Seema And then Kat: ....I haven't read the Bar Tomas blog in a long time too. I hope you and the rest of the barcelona crew are doing well. Well, what's going on with me... This summer I've been interning at the state capitol with a representative. She's the chair of the Border and International Affairs committee, and I've been doing research on Texas/Mexico border issues for the next legislative session. It's pretty interesting, and I'm definitely learning a lot. I don't know about a career in politics or anything, but it's nice to know that we could pass legislation that would address some of the problems there. I'm also taking a couple summer classes, and taking it pretty easy-- hanging out with friends and my family. My sister just graduated, one of my cousins got married, and another cousin graduated-- so lots of family stuff. Regular classes will start back up again in August and then it will be full speed ahead until graduation (I forgot how busy things are here compared to Barcelona). I can't believe it's my last year. I'll be graduating in May. After that I'm not sure what my next step is going to be. Hopefully I'll get some job offers maybe grad school... who knows :) I have a lot of mixed feelings I guess. It's scary and exciting, but I'm ready for a change. (then she replies to something I wrote) No, I haven't been watching handball, but since you're such a sports fan, you should know that the Longhorns (My university's baseball team) are in the finals of the college world series! It's pretty exciting!!! So the 'world series' is a bit of a misnomer... since its basically colleges in the US. Nevertheless, it's BIG TIME! Well, that's all I have for now. I hope to hear from you soon :) Katherine |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | A, Despite your love of Rooonaldo, I think ol' Sven might've gotten carried away. Scolari summed it up best, 'One is white, the other is black. Rooney is an excellent player but Pele is unique. 'There will never be another Pele, not in 1,000 years, even in a computer game.' I love the part about not even in a computer game. Apparently that was a necessary addition, because I was definitely thinking to myself 'Well, what about in a computer game?' A, hope you enjoy the last few nights in Barcelona. Say hello to all the old haunts. Don't forget to enjoy every sight and sound...the horns honking constantly, the motos whining uphill, the announcements on the Metro. Give em your best 'Adeu.' Hope you've got something to cheer about tomorrow night. Those Iberians all need a dose of reality. Cheers, Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | This could well be my last blog from Barcelona guys so I want lots of attention, plenty of comments and hopefully a few nice goodbye (rather than good riddance) notes! I went back to England last week for three days which was excellent, essentially I went back for a HUGE party called the 'Final Fling' which is for all the finalists this year which included most of my friends and all the randoms that I generally meet when I am out on the lash! Tuesday night was the warm up, which meant one thing and one thing only..............SUGAR! Yes, probably the worst night club in the West Midlands (respect) was hosting its very own VodBull night which consists of paying a pound and receiving in return a small plastic cup containing a shot of vodka and a dribble of red bull. It basically turns into carnage and I was all over the place which did not help the preparations for the next day! Welcome back to English timing anywayz, thats all I can say, we had to be at the party at 6 on the Wednesday to start eating which was ridiculous! Anywho, the night went on until three in the morning, so the sheer length of the night meant that I got drunk on three separate occasions and then sobered up! They held it in a country house in the massive gardens, there were two huge tents with all sorts of great acts! Ash headlined and then there were the Scissor Sisters, Amy Winehouse and Spooks too (pretty sure that most of you will never have heard of any of them as most of my friends hadn't but you will just have to trust me that it is a phat line up!). There was also a full blown fairground with dodgems and everything (great picture of me, soon to come on Walker's website!). Well, the hangover lasted longer than the night I am pretty sure! The next day was a bit of a washout apart from watching England labour to a 3-0 win over Switzerland which was neither pretty nor entertaining.... Luckily we spanked Croatia on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!Woooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! Quarter finals here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So on my final night in Barcelona, I think I could well be down Scobie's for some pre-game drinking and keep my fingers crossed that I don't leave completely depressed! It is gonna be a very good game I think, keep your eyes peeled for the young man, I think his name is..... ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONALDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had my final exam this morning in Marketing Internacional and it was a typical ESADE joke, started half an hour late, only took 50 minutes of an hour and a half, piece of piss ;op so I am as free as a bird (until Monday when I start work!) and may well go and burn some euros down Passeig de Gracia this avo... Hope everyone is keeping well, I may be able to get Steffen blogging soon so that it won't be such a close knit club! Funny story, saw good old Marta in the Sports Bar last night watching the Italy match, it is a small world I tell ya! Ciao for now, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Well, I suppose we have to beat England's former colonies before we can beat the big dogs themselves (though last I checked, US was ranked 9th, ahead of England and Italia). But the reason I mention this match is twofold. First, to warn Adam that we're coming for him, just like the Continental soldiers came for the redcoats. Second, one of the announcers yesterday made a terrible comment during the game. But a little background is necessary. Back in the 80s, the US invaded Grenada for some unknown reason (unknown to me, that is). The invasion was brief (Grenadiens number only 90,000) and I believe quite bloody. Probably an effort to put down some coup d'etat or other. But anyway, fast forward to 2004. The commentators during yesterday's match said 'Grenada needs a 4-0 victory to win on aggregate, and they have about as much chance of that as they did in the invasion back in the 80s.' I thought this was in poor taste, and I just wanted to comment on it. It reminded me of something George W. would say over coffee with his Yale mates. Kerry, 2004. Tóg go bog é, Tadhg Ffrench (cupla focail gaeilge just to keep you guessing) |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Graduations, returns to England, so bittersweet it seems. For a while there I was beginning to think Adam might forever remain a fixture of Barcelona. I suppose he will in my mind, at least until I see him in his natural habitat. But for now, it is the kings of Barcelona that I will remember, the princes of Scobie's, the lords of Danzatoria. Svana, congrats on the graduation, even though I could not begin to pronounce nor comprehend your new title. I barely mastered 'car' in Icelandic. And no worries about the length of the blog...since the response has been piss-poor, feel free to type all you want. That will give us sufficient browsing material for the weekly hiatus between blogs. What the hell is everyone else doing with their lives that they don't have time to blog? Vegard I can understand, but where's everyone else? Perhaps people need a reminder, Ulli. Caroline did say she was interested given proper coaxing (aka information concerning signing on). The others could even blog in Spanish or Italian if they want...I'm sure we could figure out some of it. Steffen and Valerie have no excuse with their English skills, nor does Magnus, who is at times more American than the Americans and more English than the English. Funny sidenote...I told Conor that Magnus was Swedish and he was like 'What!!??' Conor thought the entire time that Magnus was American. Apparently he's got a good accent (or Conor's just deaf and unobservant--or observative, as Manolo would say, right A?). I'm in the process of paying a fine for a speeding ticket, as well as registering for the Drivers' Safety course that is required to keep the violation off my record. Gas prices have tamed down a bit, though I suppose I shouldn't complain considering the fact that we get nearly 4 liters for $1.80 and consider that high. I do think I'll buy one of Honda's new hybrids when I get around to buying a car. But for now my old one will have to do. I suppose I should study a bit now...I've got 2 exams on Thursday. Summer classes suck, I tell you. La culpa es mia for registering, I suppose. Anyway, stay Euro all. Ciao, Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Adam, Lol... reminded me of a game at Camp Nou few years ago. Liverpool took care of England:D What England lacks is a good right back, any left winger at all and decent strikers, Owen is ok and though Rooney was great yesterday the rest is rather average. If Eiður were English he'd be in the starting line up every time. At least better than my country that has something like 4 decent players. Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey, how is everyone doing? Last weekend must have been one of the best in my life! I finally graduated from university and threw one of the best parties I have thrown so far! Now I have the respectful title 'Svanlaug Jóhannsdóttir, Viðskiptafrædingur' The day started at 9 a.m. at the hairdressers. There I spent an hour trying to get my 'straighter-that-anything' hair to curl a little. Then at 11 we met at school to take a photo of the whole graduation group. In the e-mail that the school sent us before it said that the photo was to be taken outside if the weather good but inside if the weather was bad. It was poring rain - but still they decided to take the photo outside and all the beautiful curls I had just spent and hour and 35 euros to make just straightened in a few minutes..... The ceremony was dead boring. It was held in the city theater and all the students sat on chairs on stage in front of the audience. Lucky me, in my short skirt, ended up on the front row and spent the next two hours trying to keep my legs together and not show the audience my underwear. Being so short that I can usually not reach the floor when sitting on a chair this was a hard task and after the two hours ceremony my 'keep-legs-together-muscles' were quite sore. So when the whole thing was over I went home to meet the whole family over coffee and cakes. My boyfriends family and grandma came as well and this was the first time that the two families and grandmas met. It was very funny to introduce the two grandmas, I don´t think that I have actually introduced two old women before. Around 8 p.m. my friends came over and we had a summerly barbecue despite the rain and wind - and as expressed earlier, the party was a blast. We went down town where I hardly met any of my classmates - my guess is that they all drank to much and passed out way too early. The whole thing ended at 7 in the morning when my friend spilled tomato-sauce of her fajitas over my white suit! I started working again in the bank last week and I remind myself every day that I only have to work here for a couple of months. It is a nice bank and the people I work with are great, not to forget the great parties that the bank likes to throw but even though I am learning new things I just know that once I learn to do what I am suppoused to do work will get so routine-like and I will be bored to death! I shouldn't complain though. It is a better job than many have and my boss really likes me so I get away with doing almost everything that I want to...... like GOING TO NEW YORK after two weeks !!!!! : ) So if anybody is going to be in the neighborhood of NY from the 25th to the 30th of June, please let me know so that we can meet up. From the 30th of June until to the 4th of July I will be in my friends wedding in Philadelphia. So, now all I have to do is figure out how to afford this all. After BCN, Croatia and NY I am going to be pretty broke and I have no idea how I am going to survive without any paycheck from september to january. All extra jobs pay pretty low..... except for maybe prostitution!!! : ).... so if anyone likes small, soft and dark haired - let me know ;) Take care, Svanlaug Jóhannsdóttir, viðskiptafræðingur |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ok, so maybe only 5 people read this damn thing but for their benefit I am gonna express just how much I am looking forward to what is gonna start in two hours time. Once again my subject matter is football related but as I sit here in the newly opened Locutorio on Borrell in my England shirt the sense of anticipation continues to build. England vs. France my friends will kick off very very soon and as soon as my time runs out on this machine I will most probably start on the pre-drinking, on my own if I have to! Of course, I may well wake up hungover and devastated come tomorrow morning but whilst my optimism still exists I find it worthy of celebrating! Three of my friends from back home have just left me following on the heels of Steffen and Vali, which capped off 8 days of hectic living in my apartment! My body was racked for days with various ailments and I have only just started to shit solidly for the first time in a week (sorry, very crude I know!). The flat is back ship shape and I started to pack up some of the crap that I have managed to accumulate over the last ten months, you would all be surprised by how much stuff is in my room and I may well be surprised by how much I might have to leave behind! It is strange to think that my time here is coming to an end, it is strange even to think that I am still here considering that most of everyone else left over 6 months ago and I have said hello and goodbye to more faces than I can remember. I am really looking forward to going home though, my time has come and I am really glad that I will be leaving on a high.... So off to the football I go, wish me luck won't you, we wouldnt want those frog bastards to win now would we ;op Be good boys and girls, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ok, Yes it did hurt!!! 6 fucking 1 and the thing was that England wasn't really that good we were just terrible. If England thinks that they have shown what is about to come they are wrong we just sucked 12-0 wouldn't had been unfair. 3 of the goals were deflections (gol de los churros) and unlucky really but England also had really good changes they blew and scored one more goal that was ruled offside though it wasn't. What went wrong then? Quite a few things as you can imagine but some more extreme than others. We did in last year loose the leaders of team so we have got a quite silent defense which isn't good in team work these players are Guðni Bergson, Eyjólfur Sverrisson and Rúnar Kristinsson the last one is a midfielder but we are also lacking leaders there. Now the only leader we have is Eiður. We didn't have enough midfielders since players playing in Norway weren't allowed to play and Brynjar did get a red card against Japan for a two footed tackle. For that reason Eiður was moved to the midfield where he doesn't work. There are a lot of explanations but simply we played badly. The bright points: Indriði (the left wing back) just salted Gary Neville. Eiður did get some things going but all and all sucked. Herman (the Herminator) sucked but every header against Campell he had in the game he one remember the goal A. Kristján (the first substitute) wasnt that great but just ate Joe Cole and he is the fastest MoFo around could probably out run Henry!!! Will back to crying there will be sometime until we will do anything and we have to start looking for leaders. We had one generation with 5 but now no one. Well I going downtown to hunt, later. U |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | I am gonna keep this short and sweet, I don't wanna rub too much salt into the wound ya see. The thing is that there was a little football match today though I'm not sure if everyone knows about it so I shall clarify. You remember the little cold island where Ulli and Svana live........yeah, Iceland, thats it! Well they just happened to have the misfortune of playing the best country in the world today. No not Brazil, ENGERLAND, ENGERLAND, ENGERLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would love to say that it was a case of David vs. Goliath and that the underdog came out on top but unfortunately it wasn't. We crushed them, thrashed them, smashed them out of the park, 6 - 1 Thats right, some of us had to remember how to count up that far! I for one did! So ends the gloating, at least you scored a goal guys, well played! I am sitting here with Steffen, Valerie just left today. We have hit all the top nightspots though disappointingly Bar Paris has not received a visit! We did it the only way possible and hit Dicotheque VIP last night which is always nice. The night before saw us taking in Danzatoria Tibidabo and Club Sutton, all about the free entries really. And finally, on the first night we all got fairly emborachado and ended up trying to dance to salsa............big mistake! Steffen and Vali actually managed to pull it off, I on the other hand just preceeded to do a very bad impression involving a lot of twirling ;op Was really nice, though very interesting at the same time to have the guys back, especially Vali as it had been such a long time.... I have my friends coming tomorrow so the carnage continues but in all honesty I am not sure if my body can take it, I already have the shits and the shakes and I am not sure how much more it can take! Ulli, hope your not still crying........... One love, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Well, Adam, our school system really is not all that complex. Most students start off in kindergarten (some German word we stole...why, I don't know). Then you have 12 years of school before heading off to Uni (assuming you pass each grade in 1 year...some people need more than that--they ride the short bus to school). Grades K (kindergarten) through 5 are generally called primary, elementary, or grade school, depending on where you're at in the country. Then grades 6-8 are called middle school or junior high, unless your junior high happens to be grades 7-9 and your grade school happens to be grades K-6. Or, if you go to parochial (Catholic) school, you usually go to the same school for grades K-8, which in Chicago we call grammar school. I don't know what they call it elsewhere. Then it's off to high school, which nowadays is usually grades 9-12, often called freshman (9), sophomore (10), junior (11), and senior (12). Many high schools used to be only grades 10-12, and some specialty schools still are, like the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Then, after high school, it's off too Uni, which we usually call college. College years are usually referred to as freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior just like high school. This is the undergraduate curriculum. Then, if you so choose, there is graduate school. This would be like the 5th year at ESADE, but it is generally longer than 1 year, and you can earn a Master's degree, or a doctorate if you study longer. So you see, it's really quite simple. The system pretty much runs like this everywhere in the country, though they might have different names for some of the schools. Got it? Well, back to work with me. Please post any and all questions concerning the above system :) Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hola a todos, Como va pa Uds?? Al final funciona mi cuenta de blog para poder escribir aqui de verdad!!! Acabo de terminar mis clases de verano y me alegro tanto que ya se acabo. Ayer tome el examen mas dificil que he tomado en todo mi vida. Da igual para mi, la nota q recibire de la clase porque he dado todo mis esfuerzos. Pero bueno, la semana que viene voy a visitar mi familia en Acadiana (Lafayette es la capital de Acadiana)! Tb voy a una fiesta en Nueve Iberia y una en Opelousas. Eso sera la unica vacacion que tendre en mucho tiempo, pues hay que gozar! Oh yea, hay dos tios de ESADE que van a venir para estudiar en Loyola y me alegro muchisssssssimo. Gracias a Carlis estamos en contacto. Pero pobrecitos ellos... ellos tienen que vivir en lo peor residencia en todos los estados. Pobrecitos, pero lo demas sera muy bien. Ahhhh, voy a pasar un poco de info interesante de Louisiana :) Yo estaba leindo la prensa latina de nueva orleans y lei que Louisiana tiene muchos raices bascos. Nueve gobernadores del 'terrirorio' louisiana fueron bascos. Nosotros tenemos casi 6,500 apellidos bascos (no sabia eso antes). Tenemos un gran influencia Basca pero no creo que eso es una sopresa para Uds si sabes que louisiana era un parte de espana y tb francia. OK bueno ya me voy, ojala que uds tengan un finde super 'guai'!! Un beso!!!! Otra cosa! Hable ayer con Manolo y el se va a Miami para pasar tiempo con su novia y luego regresara a Puerto Rico!!! El esta muy bien y tome su ultima clases como undergrad de tu vida! Q envidia estoy!!...; OK me marcho ya de verdad! adieu |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Yo!!!!!!!! I am reaching the end of a very long working week! It is Friday evening, half seven and I am just about to leave! I have had a maximum of five hours sleep every night for the last week, and have spent a maximum of twenty minutes in my house apart from in my bed, and the train has become my new best friend! But hey ho, work hard and get the rewards hey! I am gonna go and have a nice cold pint down the pub, go for a curry with the boys and then potentially collapse and try and watch the Tyson fight, but somehow I don't think that is gonna happen! Will try and leave a longer note this weekend, maybe provide some explanation as to why I am working these crazy hours - an insight into the world of an investment banker perhaps......... For now, good night, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | I just finished watching Senator Ted Kennedy's speech at the Democratic National Convention. Bono was in attendance, in his shades of course. I do believe the internation community would've liked Ted's speech because it bashed Bush's handling of foreign policy and his alienation of long-time allies, allies which helped to win 2 World Wars. If you can get ahold of his speech online, you should check it out. I'm also told Barack Obama's speech was good, though I didn't see it. He's a Chicago boy, and he's family friends with a good friend of mine. So, in case you couldn't tell, I'm a Democrat. I'm still working on some way to sneak all of you into the country to vote, along with Luis de Sebastian, the Latin American Economies teacher. He was a big Dean supporter, but Dean is an over-emotional lunatic. I know that Ulli wanted candidate info at one point, so if you're still interested, try to find the speeches from the Democratic National Convention online, Ulli. Sidenote, did anyone know that Famke Janssen of X-Men fame is Dutch? She speaks better English than I do. She was on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn tonight, and I watched simply because she's hot. Sadly, Craig does not live up to the Late Late Show's illustrious international history. He's a horrible interviewer who babbles and makes piss-poor jokes. If you don't know who he is, keep it that way. Well, off to bed now. Hopefully we'll oust Bush in '04 and the world will like us again. It really does suck to travel when you see 'I hate America' and 'America sucks' t-shirts (as I saw in BCN), and when people hate you as soon as they hear your American accent. Oh, to be Icelandic, where they piss on the main plaza. Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey I was checking the official Barca web site and they were talking about two guys, youngsters, who are travelling with the squad to Asia and talking about the later guy, Mora, they said this: Con respecto a Mora, este defensa central ha entrado a formar parte del Club blaugrana esta temporada 2004-05. Nació en Valencia el 11 de junio de 1981 y se inició en el fútbol en 1991 con el CD Benicasim y en la temporada 1993-94 se incorporó al CD Castelló, donde ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera deportiva, empezando como infantil y acabando en el primer equipo. Ok for all of you who don't know Edgar that well he is half Spanish and is dad, the Spaniard is from Castellon. So if Edgar supports one team in the world it is Castellon and I think that there are more pictures of Edgar on Castellon web page than any player in the team. Also you don´t have to know Edgar all that well to know that his last name is Benicasim. So does Captain Europe have his own personal team.... Respond. Anyways got drunk last weekend, nothing much to say expect that I did hit serioulsy on my bosses sister... Goooooooooooood Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hi Tim, I didn't know anything about your trip to Bolivia, r u going on vacation or what? How long r u strying? who r u going with? going back to Lucca today, bye bye bea |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | I checked this blog every day for months and sometimes would get nothing. Now I don't check for like 2 days and I come back and there are 5 new posts. I love it!! Never thought Manolo would get a new 'do (spelling??). He got so pissed that time at Walker's. Was that the same night that Daniel and the Dutch kids broke both lifts? Bea, glad to hear that the interviews went so well. This project sounds like way too much work, but I guess you Europeans are all about large, end of term projects at Uni. So Adam, are the late nights due to work or extracurriculars? I had a little extracurricular myself yesterday. I skipped class and work because Conor got last minute bleacher seats for the Cubs (baseball) game. Wrigley Field, where the Cubs play, is one of the oldest stadiums in baseball (1914), and the bleachers are a tradition there. All of the seats in the outfield are bleachers, and it's first come, first serve seating. Everyone shows up at least an hour before game time and gets really trashed. It's usually a bunch of twenty-somethings skipping school or work. Well, I started off with 7 or so beers on the train on the way to the game, then had at least 10 or so more at the game, so I was waxed. Then it started pouring so we all got soaked. Some of my friends (Conor included) fell several rows in the bleachers due to drunkenness. Went to an Irish pub afterwards (who would've guessed?), but it was pointless because we were too drunk to do anything. Longest train ride home ever, and then when I finally went to bed I started having drunken hallucinations about weeping willows pummeling me to sleep. Odd, I know. Had to wake up this morning at 4 to drive back down to school and finish a project by 8. Had a few Old Styles tonight (a local lager, the beer of the Cubs, brewed in LaCrosse, Wisconsin), and now I'm getting ready to hit the pit. Old Style and Strongbow makes a mean snakebite, A. Trying to decide what's the best way to handle the blog when I'm in Bolivia. Not sure what kind of Internet access I'll have, and I don't want to forget anything that I see, so maybe I'll just write stuff down in a notebook or something until I get back. One of the guys we're going with is of European stock, but the other guy is an indio, and we get to stay with both families. It should be interesting to see the two different worlds of Bolivia. I'm thinking of all of you a lot as I get ready to head out of the country again. It seems like I should be expecting to see some of you walking around a corner in La Paz or something. Maybe they'll have a good Irish pub..... So, funny story. This kid that I grew up with, lived down the street, came over to pick up the rest of his furniture the other day. He lived in my apartment last fall when I was in BCN, then he went to Ecuador this spring. Anyway, his name is Nsangou Ghogomu, and he's from Cameroon. He came over to pick up his large leather desk chair, his minifridge and a desk. He told me he was waiting on a car, then he would be over. He showed up and said he would just take the chair for now, come back for the fridge later. I just figured he didn't have room for the fridge in the car. So he calls 10 minutes later and says he should have a car in about an hour. I was like, 'how did you get that huge chair home?' He says, as if it's the most normal thing in the world, 'I had my bike.' So, I'm obviously busting up laughing, picturing Nsangou riding down the street with this huge desk chair, but he thought nothing of it. So if you see anyone riding around on a bike carrying large objects, ask them if they know Nsangou. Now that I've officially written the longest blog ever, I'd better get to bed. Ulli, great job recruiting people. Oh, one more quick story. One of my friends, this Polish girl, went to see Poland play the US in Chicago. She said the entire stadium was filled with Polish flags and that the chants of Polska drowned out the American chanting. I guess they ran out of parking, so the Poles just left their cars in the street and walked the rest of the way to the game. I think Chicago should get representation in the EU with the number of Poles we have here. Alright, now I'm done for real. 'Do somethin!' Take it easy, Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hi guys, i'm curious about Manolo's new haircut, by the way I think I'm blonder than when I was in Bcn. My interviews in Ubs and Rothschild went great. I'll do more in other banks at the end of Augost, in Italy this is a vacation period and the offices are emty, so I'll wait the end of next month to do the others. Gotta go, luv Bea |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | MANOLO HAS A NEW HAIRCUT!!!! I just spoke to Constance and she told me that she just met Nolo the other day and he has changed haircut. I dont know how many of you were at Walkers place that day we tried to make it a little funky but the boy fought!!!! Constance is going to bring her camera to school in the next few days to take a picture and we will be getting that kind of evidence soon. Another thing with the new look every user has a profile so please click on me to see what it looks like and if you want to make your own you can do it on the dashboard. Later, Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | hi guys! I'm writing because I'm nervous. Today I have an interview with UBS. The strange is that is not for a job, but for my research project, so I'm gonna go there and ask questions to them.. hope it goes fine! Tomorrow I'll be going to Switzerland and do the same with Rothshild, another huge Swiss Bank. By the way, I'm back in Milan and it's 35 degress (maybe 9387 F) and awfully humid, guess what! I don't have air conditioner here... I'm melting. I see Adam is just working and Ulli is busy with a bunch of cheeks... have fun! Bye bye Bea |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ok since sending this mail yesterday there I have signed up Mara and Petrum and also due to a lot of problems with Bea's account I made a special guest account. I would like that every user has his own account but if there are problems I will give out the other login. Also I made Adam and Tim admins on the website so they can also sign up people and do other stuff. Last thing about the name now its 'Cava and other luxuries' but if you have a better idea please do comment, also the about the subtitle 'Barcelona unofficial fan club'. Ok about my life, last week I went golfing for the first time in something like 8 years. I went with a friend of mine who's brother is a professional golfer. I did ok, had quite a few good strokes but in between I had terrible ones, so the total was about 180 strokes on 18 holes. Quite fun I think Ill start golfing now, regularly. The weekend was as sweet as can be, I haven't had so much fun for weeks. I first went to a move-in party where I drank my Estrella Damm beer and spoke mostly about football with my friend from school because I didn't know much people there. Later I went to a birthday of an acquaintance of mine it was also very fun but there I spoke to this Indian-American guy (you can guess if I spoke about one particular friend of mine). Also there is this one guy I know a bit and we always talks to me while drinking and we always talk about the same thing and nothing new ever comes up... rather boring. After the party I went downtown and in the line of the most popular bar around here but they have terribly long line so I 'bailed' with a girl I worked with. I went to another bar which I usually don't go, there I met my cousin, three people I work with and other friends. To was so strange because usually I don't meet that many people I know. One of the girls I work with is so pretty and I hope that we can go on a date soon, the move is on the books. So now I'm just working not to much fun... but when the weekend comes... Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Yo yo, now Ulli, that is impressive, one email and we already have a new (and extremely gorgeous) new member! The charm still works over the internet eh?!? Suana, you are gorgeous too! But nice to know that our little community continues to grow, if ever so slowly..... I am at my desk, was another late night and early morning but I am getting used to it, becoming more of a robot every day and actually enjoying it, which is a bit sick! But hey ho, whatever floats your boat! Apart from work I don't really have much of a life so I wont even pretend that I have anything interesting to say, all I wanted to do was encourage more people to post so that at least I know that other people are doing interesting things (this is turning into a bit of a sob story!). Ciao for now, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HHHHHHHHHHHHooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, it's me!!! I dont know from where I sould start telling you... First of all, (Adam already knows becasuse I wrote him a great email) for whom doesn't know me very well, I don't like staying in front of my pc and write, especialmente en ingles. Mi problema es que no me gusta mucho escribir en un idioma que no es el mio, tengo que pensar demasiado y me gasta mucho tiempo... just kidding!! but it's a good excuse for my spelling mistakes. I started reading what you guys have posted here, and it's really cool!!! I know that Ulli has told me at least 10 times that I should have signed in... now I join the club!!! better later than ever! Main events of my life since I've been back: It's been really though at first (as for everybody I guess), didn't know what I wanted to do with my life... didn't know where I wanted to live... bla.. bla.. defenetly (?) a 'don't know period'. Thank God after about a month it was over. I finished my examens, and I started an internship with a pretty big Italian bank, I worked there for 3 months in the Private Banking area. I liked it so I decided to do my final project over the same topic. De hecho el trabajo es sobre la synergias intra Private Banking y Corporate Finance en la pequena y media empresas italianas. I should graduate in October, if I wont be done with the project by then, I'll graduete in December. It doesn't make a big difference, here the final projects are always huge works of almost 250 pages that sholud include some research as well. El mundo de los trabajadores puede esperar un rato mas! I'm still living in Milan and I come home (Lucca, Tuscany) once in a while, usually for the weekend. During the 'don't know period' I broke up with my boyfriend, after almost 2 years. it's not been easy to handle the consequences of that decision, but now I'm fine. This summer I'm going to Menorca with Francesca, we'll spend a week there. Everybosy says it's a beautiful place, I hope they are right. After that I'll be going to Elba Island with my family. It's a tiny cute island in the Mediterrean Sea, more or less in front of Tuscany. Dont know if you have ever heard about that, but Napoleon lived there for a while. Tim, I received your email and I can't belive you are going to get merried. I'm so happy for you and I truly wish you and your fiancee (spelling?!?!) the best. In Italy there is the bad habit of getting married too late, around 30s, when you have a safe job and you can afford a nice house. Your way to approch marriage is much more romantic. Adam and Ulli are working hard, Ulli told me is working in the asset managment division, hedge funds and stuff like that. You, Adam, are you working in the Private Banking division? After my studies I understood that UBS is the leader (at least in Europe) in the Private Banking market.. .if they need somebody... eh! eh!let me know! I dont want my post to be too long and tired people, I'll write again in a few days. love to everybody Beatrice |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Beatrice, It's great to finally see a new face on this blog. It makes my day when I check the blog and there's a new post (a sad existence, I know). And I envy you Italians for the ease with which you pick up Spanish. No hablabas espanol antes de tu llegada en Barcelona, y ahora escribes y hablas mejor que yo. I just wanted to drop a quick note for Beatrice saying benvenuti (??)...now I have to study before SIESTA TIME!!!! Take care everyone. Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Vegard, you're damn right I didn't want anyone else to snatch her up. Adam, I thought we shared the same language. A seminarian is a man studying to become a Catholic priest. I think Lutherans call them seminarians too, at least the ones in the US. Schedule sounds rough, A. I know what you mean about the creature comforts though. All my friends think I'm crazy for living at home next spring when I'm interning in Chicago. Same situation--hour and a half on the train, early mornings, late nights. They told me to expect 80 hours per week. But with mom doing the cooking and the laundry (when I'm home to eat or get clothes washed, that is) how can you go wrong? It's just too expensive to live in Chicago, although not as expensive as London, I think. Well, just finished a helluva week, with 2 exams, an essay due, a corporate tax return due, etc. I've been boozing all night on Strongbow cider and Coronas, I've had my IHOP (International House of Pancakes), and now I'm ready for bed. Ciao, Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey everybody! I apologise for not blogging for a while but I have been working my arse off! Now I know that some of you might find that hard to believe but when you here my timetable I think you might be suitably impressed! I have to be at work at nine on most days, but the main problem is that I am still living at home which means that I have to commute into town. Now obviously I am glad to be home and there are certain services (ones that only mothers can provide i.e. cleaning and washing!) that I am glad to have available to me but it does take me about one and a half hours to get to work. Now some of you may be confused as you thought that I lived 'just' outside London, well I do but our public transport system is crap so it takes forever! That means that on an avergae day I get up at quarter to seven to get to work..... This would not be half as bad if I did not have to work to past eleven in the evening as I have donw twice this week, that means that I can only catch the last train home which gets me to bed just before one in the morning. Now you are all clever people so I will leave you to do the maths but essentially it leaves very little time for sleep and nothing much else! Any remnants of a social life have been relegated to the weekend when I am invariably to tired to indulge myself fully but hey ho, gotta get used to it I guess! So now I am taking a cheeky few minutes off to post to you all and hope that nobody else is slaving away as hard as I am, then again the weather outside is extremely grim and there are worse places to be than in a nice warm office... However the beach in Port Olimpic seems a very tempting proposition right now! Well seeing as work is my life I don't really have much else to say, until next Friday probably, be good all, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ulli, I knew you could spell better than you showed. Much better this time around ;) To ease the troubled minds of Vegard and Ulli, I'll be getting married June 17, 2006 (703 days from now). I know that seems like a long time, but Kasia and I will have to be apart for a year while I'm in Champaign for grad school and she's in Chicago, so we decided to hold off until I'm done with school and can move back to Chicago. Carles, great to hear from you man! And after seeing how well you write in English, I'm embarrassed about making you struggle to comprehend my castellano on MSN. When exactly does Vegard make his triumphant return to the Northland? Good to hear that he'll be working with people more at his intellectual level when he gets home ;) Methinks Adam is quite busy as we've not heard from him in some time. Or perhaps he's just been on the piss for a few weeks now. Carles, thanks for the offer of accommodations, and I'm sure we'll all make it back to BCN, it is only a question of when. And the same offer stands for you here in Chicago (and anyone else for that matter). I could use some international flavour (other than Polish and Mexican, at least). Interesting fact: Chicago has more Polish people that any city in Poland except Warsaw, and 50% of the seminarians in the Archdiocese of Chicago are from Poland. At the parish where we're getting married, they offer more masses in Polish than in English. I thought perhaps I would have a reprieve from all the Polish when I went to Ireland, but when we got to Kylemore Abbey, all the people working in the cafeteria were Polish. Ya gotta love em!! Take care everyone. Adeu, el teu amic (I just guessed on that one....Carles??), Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | How are you?? It seems pretty good according to what I've read so far! :) Úlli ask me to tell you all what's going on me! Next year is the last one of the degree!! As some of you may know, I'm going to China (Shanghai) on the exchange program (Jan 05-April 05)! And I'm so happy with it!! :P I really want to know how an exchange is like! You are so lucky!! But I'll be joining the club next year too! ;) This summer (July & September) I'm doing an internship at McKinsey & Co in Madrid. For those of you who may have not heard of it, it is a quite well-known consultancy firm. The job is quite interesting, even though I haven't done much so far. I just hope to be joining the firm by september 05 when I finish my degree! This haven't been the year of my life definetely, but since May things seem to be going better! I'll be telling you sth more next time! :p I miss you all a lot! I hope you sometime stop by Barcelona again! You know that you'll have always a friend (and a bed if needed :p) in here! I look forward to hearing from you soon! Carles (your buddy) |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Ill try to keep this brief and badly spelled! First of all my arse got kicked after last post, because the bilingual Stan and Lorell had some issues with spelling. I didn't have TIME, I have to work... sometimes. Anyways, know I'm wondering, because I wrote it like there were a lot of readers....? I spoke to Vegard yesterday on MSN where he was about to leave China for his native Norway. There he will be working with mentally disabled children, one could find more politically incorrect term for that. These Norwegians are so healthy!! He asked me one thing I didn't know and that I would like to know... When are you, Tim, getting married? Last weekend I didn't do anything at all. Just played Championship Manager and watched videos. Next weekend though I'm going to a party because my friend just bought his first apartment and also a girl at work invited me to come to a party. She's two years older so there might be some hot moms at that party, think I'll go to the other one. Good for now, just the spell check left. Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | First of all sorry y'all for not bloging for a long, long time. I haven't been able in work and I never bother while at home. Another reason has been that not much has been happening in my life for the last few weeks but last weekend something finally something happened.... (written later, I haven't got time for a spell check.) First on Thursday I went to buy a bed which costs over 1,000 dollars (200*135cm). I had spoken to my friend about helping me out giving me the do-es and don't-s of that business coz he used to work in the store I wanted to buy in. Well I had sent him an e-mail but he want able to talk to me until almost six, so at five when I was walking into the store I rang him to give me the short version but hey he had just moved in with his girlfriend and had a year old bed, same size which he was willing to give me for little over a third of the price. I was so glad for the next few days. Earlier that I ha gotten an email from the head of the asset management department that due to great results this quarter, when we became the biggest fund in Iceland, we were all gonna meet at the bar and get some drinks... free. I got there late coz I had the bed thing and was wearing the Mickey shirt that gave everyone quite a laugh, the first thing my boss said 'have what you want in the bar' I replied with 'I wished you'd say that more often to me' she said we should go out more often!!! I came home at twelve after watching a depressing match where Greece made it to the final... Why god, why?!?!?!?! Not entirely sober The day after me and my cousin moved the bed from my friends house to mine while moving a shelf a statue fell from it and to my cousins back ... It needed stitches. We went to the emergency room where my cousin knew everybody coz he used to work there so we got it for free, gained some 40 euros there. Few hours later there was a welcome party at that same cousins house for him coz he´s a med student in... Hungary and just came home last Sunday. I got very drunk (has that ever happened) and in the end I think I did hit on an friends girlfriend who has been with this guy for years and years.... not good. On the Saturday I woke up late and went to the grocery store bought some stuff and the ríkið (Icelandic for government) which is the governments alcohol store. Then I picked up another cousin of mine and his friend and we all went to my grandmothers summer house (the worst one ever, no electricity, no running water no nothing... but nice). All of a sudden there came this song on the radio which is called I whish I had an Evil twin pretty funny. There we BAR-b-q-ed, I got drunk and then we went to my schools camping. When I came the first thing I saw was my friend walking towards me and this girl who always 'the drunk one'(that means that Im not always that person). The girl was walking little behind him and walked into a little mud fell like Chaplin it was hilarious!!! Then later that evening was two person getting it on in a car few moments later the drunk girl came and I said 'knock on the door' well she did and then opened it. The couple wasn't too happy with that and when she had opened the door 5 times they locked it, so she opened the next.... classic. I then started talking to a very, very hot girl :D who had a boyfriend in the camp :( But she was giving me gave me a lot of tips on hitting on girls:D. Then just before O left I went peeing and so did she, I just walked to the next tree (not Tim style) but the girl went further into the Forrest. Ok so when I'm pulling up the pants, an idiot that had wanted to kick my ass once before for not supporting his team comes. In the same moment the girl comes back pulling up her second pants (the ones who hold water). Ok the guy figures we were doing it, I was so pissed. Also because this girls boyfriend is a nice guy and I don't think she would leave him for me (no offence.. to me). He threatened to tell the guy and I just said go a head... He didnt. Ok to more things there are some hot 40 year old moms here .... just for you Tim ;) And launch is genius. Úlli p.s. This has become over a page on word so nouff said |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Well guys, I will continue to blog even if nobody else will! As you all know I left the sun and have come back to the land of rain and clouds last Friday, and returned with a storming hangover which was a must! Nothing big on the last night, but a couple of spliffs in the ghetto (Raval), near La Paloma (we were gonna go there but the music sounded menacing on our way in so we turned around and got the hell out of there!) I had a 21st bday on the Saturday and dutifully turned up and got suitably off my face ;op if you ever invite me to a party with free booze you can always rely on my to get suitably smashed! Anywho, I hope that my presence was appreciated and one day when I get some time I will put all the photos I took on Walker's website. I have been saying this for quite some time now so when it actually happens there is gonna be a shed load of new photos on there so ch-ch-check it out! After this final night of fun and frolics I actually started work on the Monday, my internship with UBS. Guess what, rude awakening! I had to be there at 8 in the morning, now this doesn't sound too bad until you realise that it takes me about an hour and a half to travel into work! That means that I had to get the first, yes the FIRST, train into town at just before half six. I am sure everyone agrees that we are more used to getting home at this time rather than leaving home! So far, the week has just been training, imagine being back at school with a couple of 'fun' teambuilding activities thrown in. The kind involving coloured hats and treasure hunts etc... It has been refreshing to actually be doing something with my days, unlike the days at the beach or in the flat sleeping off the alcohol.... I 'hit' my desk on Tuesday which is what I am really looking forward to as then I will actually find out what I am gonna be doing for the next ten weeks, up to this moment I still don't really know whats gonna happen....though I do know that we have our first social tonight with money behind the bar so I will have to be very careful to control myself and not end up puking outside the bar! Fingers crossed.... I hope Tim's arse kicking email persuades a few more people to join our 'community' but we will have to wait and see. I am gonna return to working my arse off and will check y'all later. Be good, A |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Today I had the most embarassing moment of my entire life. I am still sooo embarassed that I have the jitters like woah. So this afternoon I went to this place called CC's coffee. I went in to get a coffee and read a book that I have and I struck up this conversation with this Dominican hottie. So after a short while I decided that I needed to go to the bathroom and trying to be soooo cute for this hottie I managed to trip and fall and knock my coffee and his off of the table and since I was wearing a pink shirt and a white skirt I looked a hot mess with the new decorative brown stains. I just wanted to cry, I swear... thank God the place wasnt packed but there were enough people there for me to wish it was all a horrible nightmare. The guy, tomas, was really nice about it and he helped me up but then i looked at him and he just died laughing. Then the employees at this place came over and had to make matters worse... there were like 3 of them and everyone in the entire shop was staring at me. Ugh, hella drama... I guess they were worried that Id try to hit them with a law suit but Im way too shame to do anything like that. I managed to hang aroung the place for about 3 terribly long minutes more to try to offer the dominican hottie a new coffee but he wouldnt take it and then I walked out and I vowed to never return to this place for as long as I live. Why do these things happen to me? The new news is that Bonnie should be headed towards Florida and not my way but shit I think Id rather that than what happened today. Oh well. Hasta la pasta hommies, and role dawgs, Im out. Payce |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Charley is currently in Jamaica, and from about 8:00 tonight until 12:00 tomorrow it will be terrorizing the Cayman Islands. My family is there and I just read some news about hurricane warnings. Everytime there is a storm there, alot of people leave the island. A little insight into the Cayman Islands... The island itself is about 20km by 10 km and the highest point on the island is only about 20ft above sea level. The island is basically an overgrown coral reef that was exposed when sea levels dropped a thousand years ago (whatever). So as you can imagine, any significant storm that hit directly would pretty much wipe out the entire island. A little insight into my family... A few years ago when hurricane mitch (class 4 out of 5) (5 being 'the perfect storm' type of storm) came through the carribbean most of the people left the island. My mother got in to a truck and drove around the island taking pictures (one of which was shown in national geographic.) Orignially, the hurricane was on a path for the island, but ended up veering towards honduras so they only got hit at about 75% strength. Otherwise there would be no cayman islands, and those swiss bankers would be very happy. Charley is currently a category 1 hurricane (the weakest of the 5 ratings) so im not too worried about them despite some island hurricane warnings. Anyways, you can see the storm at: urlLink http://weather.yahoo.com/img/carib_websattropir_440_mdy_y.html , Grand Cayman is that little black dot between Cuba and Jamaica. |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey yall Its your girl again bee login from the dizzerty. This past weekend I got everything into my new apartment in New Orleans. Moved in all the furniture and i really like my new place. Im living on Saint Charles Ave one of the most famous cities in the entire south (right on the parade route for Mardi Gras). Im so happy here. We are now deep into Hurrican season and we are expecting 2 hurricanes back to back. One is named Bonnie and the other one named Charly. Bonnie is in the Gulf of Mexico and Charly is in the Caribbean sea right now. By Wednesday night we Bonnie should know what exactly Bonnie's strength should be before she hits but you can never tell. Right now she is a tropical storm but by noon tomorrow they say it will be a full blown Hurricane (yikes!!). Charly is predicted to be a lot stronger than Bonnie but its still too early to tell what harm and where Charly will strike. Becuase New Orleans is so far below sea level (we are so low that we have to 'bury' people when they die above the ground bc if not the bodies may come back up!) they say that a catergory 3 and higher directly on the city will cause almost unreparable damage and a catergory 4 or 5 will destroy the city. Catergory 4 and 5s are almost unheard of but they have hit in the past (before i was born) and have caused numerous casualities and decades of repair. They say that Bonnie will probably cross New Orleans and up towards Mississippi and Alabama that way even out to Florida. Geeeez... time to break out the ol' New Orleans style Hurricane preparation drink. If you dont know, the Hurrican drink is made up of white run, jamacian dark run, Bacardi 151 run, orange juice, passion fruit, vodka, and grenadine (it keeps the jitters off!). They have not yet started speaking about evacuations but all of this still kinda gets me nervous. We always have drama for evacuations because of the highways between Louisiana and Mississippi.... the Mississippians cant get out for all of the Louisianans trying to get out and use their highways and its a big mess and all kinds shitty burauracy. But it works out. Oh well, all they have to tell me is go and im gone. Ive seen enough hurricanes to know that they arent really that cool--just scary and loud like a freight train. This whole thing kinda sucks bc tons of people are gonna have flooded homes and lose a lot of their possessions and the city will shut down for a while. I guess thats what you get for living in a subtropical climate and the swamps :) Ok, im outtie now... its late and i need to get up early in the AM so that I can go home to Lafayette and help my parents buy wood to board up the house from the wind and flying debris and buy sand bags for the possible floods!!! Ok, yall take care! hasta la pasta! Sending yall lots of love... MWAH! Oh yea, Adam and Ulli right now Im not busy as yall but when the semester begins I will have NO LIFE. I am going to be taking 12 hours (4 classes) and working 2 jobs. I guess that means no clubs, no long nights out, no house of blues... you get my drift. Blah. ~~ Holla Back, Ceezzz |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Hey ya' For the last week I've been as busy as Adam. I began school on Tuesday when we began a course called Entrepreneurship and Internal Marketing with an American teacher who is just simply great, and he has begun 11 businesses and is an expert in his field. Its been really fun to get such a great teacher. The bad thing though is that we have school four times a week for three hours each time. In addition to this we have to do a rather complete business plan. Ok I still have to work at least 8 hours so time for this work is limited. Also we can not do any research because we are all busy at business hours, and no interviews can be made. So for that reason we can not use the idea that we want to. Also in addition to the business plan we do cases and I was until 1:30 in school doing it, showing up at work at 7:30... You do the math. A little story, last year in May I said to myself 'Ok Úlli now your going to get a girlfriend before you leave for BCN'. When nothing had happened I called it off in late July, guess what happens in the second week of august... I meet this wonderful girl but in the end due to my departure it didn't work I've known for sometime that this project would be difficult and I wouldn't have any life during it. Ok but I've been looking for a good girl to hook up with. So the only thing we could do before deciding on the idea was to write background description and since the teacher is American we decided to do these descriptions a little over the top on Icelandic standard. So I'm talking to my friend on Thursday and say 'In the description I'm so great I'm thinking of hooking up with myself' and my friend says 'Well you chose the weekend for it'... Ok I went out Friday and guess what happened.... that's all, Úlli |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Just getting ready to leave for Bolivia in a few hours. Wanted to say bye to everyone, and I'll miss the Internet. Expect a full report upon my return. Glad to hear Vegard took some wood in the ass in Mongolia, too. Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Cheerio lads and lasses, Finally I've been freed from the chains of Chinese censorship and find myself able to post my first blog in some time. It's kind of funny how the ever so smart Chinese consider Ulli's blogspot a threat to national security and choose to ban it. On my way back home I went up to the Mongolian grasslands for a 5-day horseback riding trip with the locals. Great experience that I strongly recommend, but they weren't obviously that used to dealing with tourists. After three entire days in a wooden saddle (no comfortable leather here) my ass was so sore I could hardly walk, but stuck in the middle of nowhere there weren't to many options. Two more days served the only purpose of changing my arse's colour from blue to purple. But the view was great, and the people despite their lack of understanding for my misery were the nicest. So, back in Norway I'm indeed working my balls of Adam. Maybe not cracking numbers until late, but taking care of those 'mentally dysfunctional children' or whatever you call it, is serious business. But I love it. Seeing those children smiling and laughing despite their every day struggles makes you realize how great this gift of life really is. Making a difference for other people is, all in all, the essence of our being. BTW, a small quiz for our true bloggers: The Mongolians drink a lot of tea. When they drink it, they mix it with goatmilk and ..... (what other thing?) Vegard |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | hey long time since i have had a blog on here. im sure you all missed me. so anyways, as some of you know, i just moved to new york on saturday. i got a decent gig working in corporate finance for a small company on wall street. very interesting stuff. they are looking to go public in the next year, and i will be on the team that goes through the whole process, it will be quite educational for me. anyways, i have only been here for four days, and i have already put in 4 - 12 hour days. cant wait till this weekend, when i get to go out and explore the city for the first time. i am staying in this apartment right on the southern tip of manhattan. it overlooks the statue of liberty and staten island. (pics should be coming along shortly) i am also one block away from ground zero. i walk by it every day, it is really weird, i get this spooky feeling every time i look in there. you know what else is really weird. 3 cops on every corner with machine guns. as you might have heard, they also just raised the alert level here from yellow (low) to orange (high) for the financial district here in nyc. whatever that means. what a silly system, i think it is designed just so they can claim there was either an orange alert or a high alert, depending on whether anything happens. so, celicia is here and lee as well, if anyone remembers either of them. i think i will meet up with them this weekend so they can show me around. peace for now peeps. -walker urlLink [email protected] ps. i love my new gmail. i dont care if they know everything about me. |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Well, I just got back from a speech and meet & greet session with Barack Obama, candidate for Illinois' seat in the US Senate. He's absolutely amazing, and he's taking the American political world by storm. He was virtually unheard of when he won the Illinois primary in March (this basically means that he was chosen as the person whose name goes on the ballot on the Democrat side), but he still beat the other 6 candidates by over 30 percentage points. Then he was asked to deliver a speech at the Democratic National Convention last week in Boston, and man did he deliver (speech available for free on iTunes, along with all of the other speeches). He had the US abuzz for several days, and then I found out while at the pub last night that he was speaking at my uni this morning at 8 in a very intimate setting. I got up early and went, and I was not disappointed. He's witty, well-spoken, and represents the America we aspire to be yet often come up short of. His father is from Kenya, his mother is from Kansas and he grew up on the south side of Chicago, and for those of you not from the US, just take my word that that's not your everyday combination. He rose from a 'dodgy' neighborhood to attend Harvard Law, and he now teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago, one of the top 5 law schools in the US. He's black, he's white, he's educated, he's working class and he's white collar. Many are predicting that the Democratic party is just priming him for the presidential nomination in 2012. It's about time we had an immigrant president, a black president, a president from Chicago (not Texas)! Sorry to write so much about American politics here, but Ulli loves it. I know you guys have probably never heard of Barack Obama, but you will. A Democrat from Illinois when meeting with President Bush a little over a year ago had to explain (speaking very sloooowly and cleeeearly) that the button she was wearing said 'Obama' and not 'Osama,' to which Bush replied, 'I've never heard of him.' She quickly advised him, 'You will, Mr. President, you will.' Sidenote: A woman in my hometown, the wife of a policeman, currently has 2 kids under age 7, and is expecting quintuplets. Her husband is about to ship out to the war in Iraq, a war we shouldn't have been in in the first place. It's families just like these all over the US that are suffering for George W. Bush's mistakes. (This message has been sponsored by the frustrated ravings of Tim French, and is in no way affiliated with the Democratic Party) Tim |
873,288 | female | 23 | Arts | Capricorn | 04,mars,2004 | Halló I'm sitting here in the middle of the night checking out pictures from BCN and figured I hadn't bloged for a while. So I can't sleep have something in my throat and am about to work 8 hours and then go to school for something like 4 hours. Oh yes its first day of school but I still have two weeks left at work it will be hectic couple of weeks and Im almost counting on getting sick. The reason why I start now is that they have this class that we only take for three weeks and get full credit for it and I owe some. The course is called entrepreneurship and Internal Marketing and is thought by a teacher my school stole from IESE (reportedly the best business school in Spain situated very close to ESADE). Hope it will be fun. I got a part time job at the bank I've been working at this summer which is very nice because it looks very well on a CV. The downside though is that I'm rather bored with it. I did tell Tim in an email the full story about big names in Icelandic business being my bosses and that I got great recommendations now but it was rather boring so I'm going to skip to something else. Today (Monday) is an Icelandic day of called Traders Day-of. This is the biggest traveling and party weekend around here. Many people leave town to go camping with perhaps thousands of others and its a blast. The onces who stay at home try to have more fun than the once who left and I was one of them. I went partying on Friday, Saturday I had a bit of a cold on Friday and on Sunday my vocal cords just gave up and I could barely come up with a word anyone could hear. Just before I came home I went to a sport bar to watch Chelsea-Milan with a friend. He had invited a friend of his who's girlfriend kissed me on Friday and we danced all night (She kissed me... To be noted). How do you handel situation like that? Also I'm going to Hungary to visit my cousin who studies medicine there I'm also hoping to visit Adam and Edgar on the way back. It will be a 10 day trip with five days in each country. I'm going to call A tomorrow from work (its free there:D). I think that's it for now. Later |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 21,August,2004 | First full week of school. I seriously need to consider getting my locker switched. It's currently at the end of the 200 hall towards the commons, and I'm convinced it's impossible to get anywhere using the 200 hall. I'm going to credit the traffic in that hallway partly on stupidity and obesity. First of all, you have people who stand in the center of the freakin' intersections, talking to their friends as if they wanted the entire school to know what they wore to so and so's house. Wow. Really? That's so interesting. Now, move you retard. Not to mention the fact that a lot of people are so large, they take up the entire hallway and roll over everyone else. Please lose weight in consideration of our safety? Thanks. One day this week, I was at my locker and this enormous black guy just shoves me aside so him and his 3 chins could get through. Well, I obviously didn't do much since I really didn't want to be sat on, but I sure did take comfort in the fact that he'll probably be bagging my groceries a few years later anyways. Of course, he's probably an idiot too and will end up putting the eggs on the bottom. Damn. Really, if anyone wants to switch lockers with me and you have one in the 300 hall (or even the other side of the 200 hall) I would pay you. Not really. But I'd be thankful. |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 15,August,2004 | Yep, it's 10:50 Sunday night. Which means one thing: I get to attend 5 consecutive days of Hell Hole fun at school. On a brighter note (yes, not kidding), I just checked out my horoscope for today: (Capricorn) Your personal thermostat is turned all the way up, which can only mean one thing: passion . You'll see it in everything you do and hear it in every word you speak. You won't be the only one! Therefore, tomorrow, I'm going to be passionate about learning! And see what it says? I won't be the only one! (Horoscopes are never wrong). Kickass, who wants to sizzle with me over some Pre-Cal? Mmm... oh baby, I'm hot just thinking about it. Ok, I realize some of you may say that the horoscope won't apply since it's actually for today. But since I'm not reading tomorrow's, this one is going to carry over. So screw you. Hah. |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 14,August,2004 | Well, I found out this morning that Bellsouth is gay (well, actually I've known that for awhile) and there's something wrong with my DSL connection on their side. Soo, it's really slow and I can't really do anything more than 'surf the web'. Which is really such a dumb phrase if you think about it, surfing is done on water; furthermore, spiders don't surf on webs, they crawl... so, technically that's what it should be. Although that's pathetic too... how about 'click-on-random-website-in-search-of-something-interesting-in-hopes-that-you-don't-hit-a-porn-site.' Or do hit one. Depending on your preference. Anyways, I tried to think of what people do on the internet who don't play games. So, first I went to get my daily horoscope (I'm certain this is done alot) even though I think horoscopes are the epitome of crap. But regardless, here's mine for today: (Capricorn) - Turn off your cell phone, beeper, or anything else that might distract you from paying attention to one particular person. Every now and then, even your diligent sign gets to take an evening off. Oook. Since my cell phone's already turned off - to save batteries - I'm wondering who I'm supposed to be paying attention to. I think I finally came to the original conclusion of 'horoscopes are pieces of crap intended to waste your time'. Yes. That's it. I win. |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 13,August,2004 | Not. First day of school, I stayed up until 11 PM doing homework (mainly Pre-Cal), although that could have been partially credited to the fact that I went to fencing from 5-8. Second day, though, I stayed up roughly the same time - doing again, Pre-Cal and Statistics. Guess I shouldn't have been surprised that I got a crapload to do this weekend as well. The usual enthusiasm that normally comes during the first week of school was basically non-existent for me. After going to Taiwan and Japan over the summer, going back to school to see my fellow classmates - most of them having grown dumber over the summer (which I didn't think was possible) - really didn't seem to hit the spot. And besides the massive homework attacks, nothing eventful has occurred as of yet. Unless you count Ms. I. Johnson's grammar assessment that raped me today: 'What is a complement and list and describe the different kinds' Uhh... 10? To top off my wonderful week, my internet's become really slow for some strange reason. Swell. |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 10,August,2004 | I finally got around to uploading the pictures from my digitial camera to my computer. Most of the ones I'm about to post here are from a trip to a waterpark somewhere in the southern/middle portion of Taiwan, which was the only time I left Taipei during the summer (except of course, to go to Japan). The two people with me are the college students that pretty much took me around and kept me company since I can't read the language and probably would have gotten myself killed had I tried to wander around on my own, plus it would have been extremely boring without company around my age. (You'd think I was still in school with that South Aiken shirt and the bookbag). urlLink http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/Spets1/PICT0477.jpg urlLink http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/Spets1/PICT0504.jpg This was after a very wet ride (not a sexual innuendo -_-) urlLink http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/Spets1/PICT0467.jpg |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 09,August,2004 | This is pretty interesting urlLink http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm Get a chance to hear some interesting things when particular parts of songs are played in reverse. I especially enjoy the Britney Spears one ^^ |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 08,August,2004 | School starts Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 8:00 AM EST. And I will be there because I am forced to attend school by our wonderful South Carolinian government (which on a local level consists of several old, old men who are on the brink of death yet rendered with the responsibility of managing our everyday lives - democracy owns us.) So anyways. Today, I prepared for my first day of school by purchasing some very crucial items from Staples such as binders, folders, and paper. Then, I have the fortune of bumping into my Spanish teacher while in one of the aisles, and you know, the usual conversation about going back to school begins and ends and we both say good-bye and part ways to hunt down various school supplies. Well, guess who I bump into while in the check-out line? Nothing like seeing the same person twice within a 10 minute time frame. Having already squandered the usual polite conversation, we're stuck feeling really awkward and looking around trying to ignore each other's presence while the old guy ahead (probably a member of the city council) has trouble with one of his purchases. Finally, though, as if someone felt pity for me, we're all spared further embarassment when a new check-out line opens. Moral of the story: Old people suck. |
4,177,637 | male | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 08,August,2004 | I'm bored. So I made this. To cure my boredom. Which is a good thing. |
3,930,078 | female | 23 | indUnk | Cancer | 19,July,2004 | You've hit an all time low and start losing sight of things that really matters to you. You can't think straight, it's like letting your irrational heart rule over your head. You screwed up big time. To begin with, You don't even know why you're allowing yourself to be like this. You've been treating someone unfairly. Someone who means a lot to you. Instead of making him understand you and what you're going through, you drive him off the wall with the way you treat him. You start doing things that makes it hard for the person to figure out what your problem is and you end up being more complicated than ever. You're used to constant communication almost everyday yet there comes a point when you don't speak to each other, like you're both trying to avoid each other. You feel as if he's trying to avoid you yet you're anxiously waiting for him to make the first move and talk to you, while you're trying your best to stop yourself from saying even a simple 'hello.' But unfortunately, you might have angered him to the point that he doesn't want to have anything to do with you. And the thought just makes you feel like crying. You regret the way you treated him. For being unfair, for being temperamental, for not thinking, for being stupid. You're sorry. So sorry yet you can't find the words or the guts to make the first move and tell him so. You're hurting in the real sense of the word itself. It's like self-inflicted pain because come to think of it, you started this. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You try to come up with different ways on how to make it up to that person but it doesn't seem to be enough. |
3,930,078 | female | 23 | indUnk | Cancer | 15,July,2004 | Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds Dreaming aloud Things just won't do without you, matter of fact Ohh ohh ohhhhh, I'm on your back I'm on your back, Ohh ohh ohhhhh, I'm on your back... If you'd accept surrender, I'll give up some more Weren't you adored? I cannot be without you, matter of fact Ohh ohh ohhhhh, I'm on your back... If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you... Another heart is cracked in two I'm on your back... I cannot be without you, matter of fact Ohh ohh ohhhhh, I'm on your back I'm on your back Ohh ohh ohhhhh, I'm on your back... If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you... If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you... If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you... ***To that very special person who means everything to me...you know I'm always on your back... |
3,930,078 | female | 23 | indUnk | Cancer | 14,July,2004 | Five months ago I met someone online. And between him and me is a special friendship. He's the kind of person you can talk to about anything. As in anything. That's how I felt when I got to know him. We've had endless convos from no-nonsense things to the things that really matter. I've talked to him about my past, my present, and what I want to have and be in the near future. He knows me quite well enough to know when I'm down and something's bothering me. He knows so much about the up's and down's of my recent 'failed' relationship. Well, even from the start, he was always there to listen to me whenever I needed someone to talk to. He's always there to encourage me and make me see the bright side of things. Even when my most recent 'failed' relationship was about to crumble, this special person (yeah, he's special alright...very special!) was there for me all the time, unlike my ex. Isn't that ironic? I mean the person who's not within arms reach is the one who turned out to be there for me all the time. Unlike the person I should be expecting to be there for me was the one who's somewhat 'unavailable.' I know I shouldn't compare the two of them but how can I not make a comparison when I can see the big difference between them? At some point, I asked myself what he really means to me. I know there'll be a lot of raised eyebrows and cynic comments when the idea of falling in love with someone thru the net or online relationships or long-distance affairs becomes a topic at hand. I for one, think it was silly but things are changing for me. I find myself falling for someone online and not just that. It's someone who's out of the country. Someone you can't just be with whenever you feel like it. *sighs* The strange thing is, I feel as if I wouldn't mind the distance. I wouldn't mind the separation. As long as the person makes me feel he's always there for me makes me somewhat contented. I gave 'us' a chance. I mean, my relationship w/ my ex. I was constantly disappointed in him but because part of me still loved him, I was hoping at the back of my mind that things will change. I hoped things will run smoothly for us. But it never happened. He failed me and I failed too. I failed to make it work for the two of us. Eventually, I realized that someone else was making me happy. This person has done a great deal for me. The little things he do. The way he cares, the way he's concerned about me just makes me melt. I'm only human and I can't resist such things. Now I find myself in love with this person. No hesitations, no second thoughts. I know I feel so deeply for him. I thought that if I finally made a choice to either be happy or stay in a relationship wherein not all things are reciprocated, everything will be okay. But as it turns out, this person has some unresolved issues of his own. Issues that he's still hung up on. That I feel like if I could just take away all the hurt from his past, I'd gladly do so in a heartbeat. But the thing is, he just won't allow me to do that yet. He just doesn't know how much I care for him, how much I wanted to to take care of him, how much I love him. He never fails to make me feel that he's always there for me or make me feel special. It's an unspoken understanding between us. Like a relationship with no labelling or whatsoever. Sometimes, it makes me anxious to get to the bottom of this. But I know it's not easy coz there are certain things in life that's hard to let go of. And in his case, there's something he can't just easily let go. And that hurts. I'm still working on coming to terms with that. It's hard especially when you get to spend hours talking to him. For me, those are special moments that I really value. Even if it's just 15 minutes of my break, each conversation is important to me regardless if we really had something to talk about or we're just goofing around. It's one of the things I look forward to each day. To talk to him in every possible way. To let him know that I'm always here for him and that I care. More than what he thinks. Guess I'm going crazy don't yah think? He! He! He! And because of this, I'm losing focus in everything but not in a bad way. Can't do anything but think of this person, talk about this person, blah blah blah. It's like a line from one of my fave songs, 'I'm falling even more in love with you, letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here until you make me move, I'm hanging by a moment here with you...' Yeah, it's like I'm in limbo. Steady, unmoving but somewhat reeling from the moment. Just waiting for things to fall into place. Waiting and waiting and waiting. Will it ever fall into the right place? I told myself I needed a break probably from everything and everyone and decided to stay away for some time. I didn't go online for 2 days just to tone down my addiction to chat or addiction to one person so to speak. It's like substance abuse. Like when you start taking a bite of chocolate, you just can't stop eating it till the last bite. And it was one hell of a challenge but I guess I'm weak when he's concerned. I ended up missing him more. I even tried not to look at my celfone but dang, my fingers were itching to make a call and text. Ha! Ha! In short, I failed. I only made it for 2 days and fell off the wagon so to speak. So, here I am again and I just wonder.....wonder.....and wonder..... |
3,930,078 | female | 23 | indUnk | Cancer | 12,July,2004 | It's easy to lose yourself to someone's eyes. When you know that someone is worth everything to you, when all the things you love is represented by that one special person. Then you realize you're starting to drown into a deep abyss of unexplained emotions. Mixed with joy and pain, laughter and surprises. Each and everyone of us is in search of something special, something great, something larger than life. As we begin our journey, there are people who become part of our lives for they have shared something special w/ us. It could be a short-lived romance, an intimate affair, a secret pact, a lifetime friendship, or it could be something else. And as we move on to our destined path, we often stumble and make unwise decisions and always, there's someone who reaches out to offer love, comfort and security. And then we find meaning in life more than just the word itself. We learn to find beauty and contentment in little things like quiet walks, intimate conversations, a movie & dinner for two, late-night phone calls and other mushy stuff. As we experience these moments, we give in to the giddy rush of love. It's when we feel like there's always a reason to smile, the feeling of butterflies in our stomachs. Then we realize we're losing ourselves to that someone and that the person we are sharing these moments w/ is everything to us. But in the course of every relationship, there's always a time when we love too much and forget about ourselves. Forget that we also have a life of our own and that there's more than just being with that person. We spend way too much time loving and caring for that person that sometimes, we don't realize that the other person also needs some breathing space. We might not know it but there comes a point when they feel suffocated and pressured that it drives them off the wall. Sooner or later, the other person wants to have some breathing space, some time alone for themselves because they can't quite handle the overwhelming rush of our love for them. Then we start to have doubts, lose trust and question almost everything which leads to arguments like exchanging of heated words and sometimes physical violence until finally, one has to give up and drift away. As a result, we breakdown, lash out, blame other people for what happened. We even lose sight of what's real and what's not but what we don't realize is that we brought this down to ourselves. We're responsible for what went wrong and this realization comes to us a little too late. Too late to make adjustments, too late to compromise, too late to take back what we have lost. Soon enough, we have to face the fact that we're the victims of our own choices. We have to understand the pain of losing someone and how hard it is to get up on both feet and bounce back. We always have to learn our lesson the hard way. More often, it takes a lot of heartache and buckets of tears before we realize that life goes on but still, we continue to love inspite of the pain, tears, and heartbreak. Maybe it's the cliche that heartbreak causes pain, pain makes us stronger, tears make us braver, and the painful experience itself, makes us wiser. It takes time to heal. The pain of losing someone we love always leaves a mark on us. Like an ugly scar that only time can somehow heal as we move on with our life. As we begin to heal and re-invent ourselves, we start another journey. A journey of self-improvement to re-discover ourselves and take pleasure in the things we deprived ourselves before when we we're busy making someone else the center of our universe. But of course, we soon try to look for someone who could offer the love and affection we need. Someone who would take the time to sit down and talk about simple things like what you want for breakfast, what movie you want to see, or what brand of cologne you prefer. Someone with a good sense of humor, whom you can laugh with. Someone who thinks you look great even if you just crawled out of bed with your hair all messed up and your eyes puffy from sleep. The one person who would take your hand when you need someone to hold on to, the one person to kiss you and hug you tight and say ' It's gonna be alright ' when the odds are up against you, the one person who would be the last call of the day, the one person at the other end of the line who'll say ' Goodnight ' and ' I Love You Too .' We might have loved the wrong person and cried for the wrong person but we shouldn't regret that because we learned so much from that experience. Instead, we should remember this one true thing: In this life, there's a very special person who's meant for us. Someone who represents all the things we want in life. It may take some time or even forever before we cross paths with that person but we just have to believe & have faith that the possibility of an honest-to-goodness relationship is just within reach. I guess we just have to look and see for ourselves. Who knows? that person may be the one who could handle the love we can offer, with no hesitations, no questions asked. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 23,July,2004 | urlLink All Eyes On You! urlLink |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 23,July,2004 | It's Friday and I knew it was when I started all this, but that means its also dinner and movie night with the wife. I'm not quite sure what we plan on going to see but the bar down the street from me, 'Barrengers' is where we usually go. Barrengers make some really good steaks and my personal favorite Tenderloins...MmMmM!! Cant Wait to Eat! I'll pour the BudLight! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 23,July,2004 | Well, I Think everything went off okay lastweek with the finishing of Black Expo week. There didnt seem to be too many problems or too may arrests for that matter. I did however get a chance to see a few performers during the week. Della Reese came thru the airport and she didnt look to well. She arrived in a wheelchair with her limo driver asking me if it was alright if he could pick her up under the awning lower level curbside United. I ofcourse granted his request and cleared traffic enough for his stretch to pick Miss Reese up. The next day was pretty cool. I got a chance to lay eyes on the one and only Mr. LL Cool J. I grew up listening to some of his music so I was thrilled to see that he's an alright guy and that fame didnt get too much to his head. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 23,July,2004 | Well This Thing actually appears to be working..It is A Little Slow However on the updating, but I'm not complaining...I'm only guessing that my provider is in turmoil over all the changes that I have done to get this working..Oh Well They'll get over it! urlLink TPGBanner1.jpg |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 23,July,2004 | Well, After much thought and consideration, I decided to try it all over again and deleted everything to start anew. Hopefully this time it is set up right..but who knows |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 24,July,2004 | urlLink Working Away In The Dungeon urlLink |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 24,July,2004 | Saturday Morning approx: 11 o'clock and I just finished watching the time trials for the Tour de France.. I'm just amazed by Armstrong and the pace he has kept throughtout the 19 stages of this race. They say today that he has just confirmed his 6th win of the Tour today. Go USPS! and Most importantly Go TEAM U.S.A. !!! Sorry, I ran off about the race in the above paragraph. My real intentions here today was to talk about the movie that me and the wife went to see lastnight. I would definately recommend this movie to people who love futuristic movies. I thought it was a good movie all in all, and maybe perhaps a little scary to think about what the future may hold. Lets face it. People are getting lazier and lazier and I dont think that robots are way off. Right now we as a race are relying on computers for more and more these days. In Auto plants where man used to line up for assembly they now have machines building these autos and thats not new..from my understanding these machines have been guilding cars for atleast the last 15 or so years..The problem is that..They (the machines) dont need breaks..so they build and build and the cars roll off the line better? I dont know about that. I do know however that I enjoyed the movie and that maybe those observations about assembly lines should be left with those men who work on them. Go See The Movie. Decide for yourself! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 25,July,2004 | Being a Public Safety Officer at Indianapolis International isn't easy. There are times when I just want to say to people 'Whats Wrong With You?' Today at the good ol airport I had an issue with a small group of people that concerned two cars and about 10 people. They had half their luggage and the other half was slow to the baggage carousel. They figured they could sit on the curb with their cars while waiting for the rest of their luggage. Well, That isn't going to happen at Indy. You see we have a policy there. In order to stop on a yellow curb to pick up your people and their luggage, the party must be waiting outside with all of their luggage ready to load (active loading only) and if for some reason they don't have all of their luggage, unfortunately the driver has to take a lap around the airport until that party can comply with the policy. Suffice it to say, They weren't having any of that. I was told 'how dare I tell them how to load their vehicle!' I went on to further explain the meaning behind ACTIVE LOADING ONLY (which in short means luggage going in, no waiting) I called for an L.E.O and explained to him what was going on and the woman rolled up her window..When I started to write the ticket and the other officer approached the window, she took off..The officer told control that he was 10-8 and walked back inside. I approached the officer and asked why he didn't do anything in his power and was basically brushed off, later to be reprimanded by the on duty LT. I was not thrilled to say the least and I have half the mind to email the indy-star and other local papers and news stations about the laxidasical attitudes towards security at Indy... I'll keep you all informed what happens next with these issues but I got an idea that Public Safety at the airport will soon be gone...Who cares about 9-11 right? It's amazing to me how fast this country forgets about whats really important..Do they forget or is it that they dont want to be bothered??? |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 27,July,2004 | Well, I've been sitting here and messing with this blog to try and make sure everything is working fine and if it isnt one thing then its another. I had hoped to be able to publish something everyday but while installing Halo Comment I some how messed up the whole commenting process within blogger. I'm New to this thing and confused...After messing with it for some time I finally got Halo installed but now you can comment in two places...I'm lost.. Is there anyone out there following this mess that can help out or have suggestions? |
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4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 28,July,2004 | GOD BLESS AMERICA! READ THROUGH TO UNDER THE PICTURE. This is a beautiful photo of a giant flag in Arizona. The photo is authentic and un-retouched. The picture was taken on regular Kodak 35 mm film. The person who took the picture couldn't believe the image created by the sun's rays. Nice of them to share with the world! For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and delete this. For the rest of us.....pass this on. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* And This is Me, Passing it on! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 28,July,2004 | Okay Enough about senseless shit! ie. blog setups and the like. I originally made this blog to talk about what was going on in Indy and haven't been able to do that because of problems with the little BS. Actually I really started this blog to see what it would look like for a friend that has another agenda and it turned into these ramblings. So Here I am again facing another blank posting.. Once I get all the noise out of my head I'll be able to sit here and write what I'm really thinking. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 28,July,2004 | Okay, heres the deal. I've changed this thing so many times already. Added links in the right column bar which is now on the bottom for some stupid reason..Even tryed to take the template to FrontPage and change things there, but when I publish everything gets fucked up for some stupid reason...I'm still lost...And I HATE being stuck in this Spot! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 28,July,2004 | 1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired. 2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway). 3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 4. A backward poet writes inverse. 5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. 6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off. 7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. 8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed. 9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. 10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor. 11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered. 13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it. 15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under. 16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. 17. Every calendar's days are numbered. 18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine. 19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. 20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed. 21. A plateau is a high form of flattery. 22. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium-at-large. 23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. 24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. 25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine. 26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye. 27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis. 28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. 29. Acupuncture is a jab well done. 30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 29,July,2004 | We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English: 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number. 19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? 22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt. Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example...If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree! Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This Was Sent To Me Via Email From My Sister-inlaw Who is a Teacher |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 29,July,2004 | urlLink Deja Vu? urlLink |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 29,July,2004 | The planes at the airport aren't the only thing flying about these days. Yep, you guessed it. Rumors. I'm getting tired of what everyone is saying about the Public Safety Program coming to a close shortly, but the more I hear the more I seem to believe that there may be some truths to these tales. They've been doing a lot of remodeling lately, security wise at Indianapolis International. They've installed truck-traps and new permanent type shacks that with government funding is costing over 500k per. But here's the kicker....Just recently I spoke with one of the contractors and he said that they are designing them now where they can be unmanned. UNMANNED! WTF!!! What was the sense of putting the Shitter-The AC and The Heaters in each one of those shacks. Also the vehicles that were bought for us to get out to some of these shacks that lay on the tug roads next to the taxi-ways and runways, will be taken away soon..The Ford Expedition is going to one of our K-9 units and the Escape is going to either the Fire Dept. or Another one of the K-9's.. either way all the tell tale signs are there...I think we're doomed. It'll be unemployment city soon for me if these rumors are right. I cant see how they cant be right. This guy that is Vice President of Customer Service, just recently came to Indy from Britain and right away he started talking about the PSO's being more customer friendly and that we the pso's were going to be part of 'Customer Service' even talk of new uniforms, not those ratty old navy blue bdu's ..we were going to move up in the world and wear khaki pants with some sort of shirt...whether it be a polo type or a sleeved shirt, not sure yet..but that's under scrutiny. Can you imagine having to climb up into a truck to search the inside wearing khaki pants?!?! The next thing we know the Director of Public Safety gets up and hands in his resignation (no big loss there, the guy was a loser) Anyway, it's been 3 weeks since this new head honcho shows up and he hasn't even made an attempt to get to know any of us. Today was actually the first day he came to roll call and introduced himself to us and that's only because the other day we had a UPS delivery man come to the airport and on his way inside the building his heart decided to give out..Who was the first uniformed officer on the scene???? A PSO! (public safety officer) The police showed up a few moments later with an AED (automatic electronic defibulator) The first two officers to start CPR were pso's recalling their training. Unfortunately though, even after everyone showed up, medics,police etc. the gentleman still expired. It was not a good day to say the least, however in some selfish reasoning..it was a good day for the pso's. So this guys introduction was a ploy for the Chief of Police to hand out certificates of recognition to those officers that responded to that situation. Our condolences do go out to the mans' family. My point is, The Public Safety Officers aren't only the customers first point of contact but also the first impression...I know there are some officers that could use some classes on kindness, but the airport also needs to take into consideration that we were hired also as security and were trained accordingly. But it appears that Security has relaxed way too much at Indy International, and not by our doing. I've been with Public Safety now for a little over 2 years and LOVED my job until just recently..Now with all the restrictions they have placed on us..and thats another blog...believe me.... I just dont enjoy my job anymore. I'm definately experiencing the Security Blues. Until Next Time..We'll be seeing you and remember if your party isn't on the curb ready to load just park the car and go inside and get them, because all we're going to do is have you paged back to your vehicle. Boy, I miss the days when Indy's Finest Showed up with the flashing yellows and it costed you over a hundred bucks and a release form to get your car out of impound for an Unattended Vehicle. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 30,July,2004 | The Manchurian Candidate. What can I say about this movie? I think in some aspects it may have hit a little too close to home. Another NJXF is what I would call it to a friend of mine. He would understand my meaning. Conspiracy buffs are going to eat this movie alive.. It's a modern day Jacobs Ladder with a futuristic twist that still has 'big brother' with the upperhand. I'm not going to give away the movie but you may want to check back here from time to time to see what I have added to this post. This IS going to be edited just as soon as I let it soak it in. I'll sit on it for a few more hours before I write what I want, but I thought the initial feelings might help for when I edit..We'll see..Check back! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 30,July,2004 | It's another Friday and for me that means SUNDAY. My Mondays are Saturdays and with this week comes the Brickyard 400...WooHoo Whipeeeee..Can you feel the sarcasm dripping from each letter that I type here. As I said before in another one of my daily ramblings about Fridays.. It's date night with the wife and that means we'll be going for dinner and a movie. what's good out there to see; and if you say Farenheight 911 , I'm gonna shoot you! I wouldn't put a cent in the fat fuckers pocket. MM , can go to hell for all I care, spreading that propaganda bullshit to all the dipshits who welcome a political (democratic) genocide. Ahhhh, But The Bourne Supremacy is still playing isn't it? I may have to cheat and while the wife is at work rent the Bourne Identity to get the storyline back fresh in my nugget. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 31,July,2004 | When I moved to Indianapolis, I decided that I would join the National Guard and become an MP. I really enjoyed my time there but if I could change one thing about the Guard (atleast at Stout Field- 38th MP CO.) I would make sure that everyone knew the job! We would train all the time and everyone , I MEAN everyone would be proficient with their weapon. However thats not the case with The Guard. (again, atleast where I drilled) I dont understand the sitting around and not doing anything. How many times must we inventory the conex? It's not like anyone took anything out of there... Anyway, a few things happened that made me think about my situation with the 38th. I started thinking about my roots with the armed forces. I started my military career when I was seventeen in a delayed entry program with the Navy. I did four years and even spent time in the Gulf during Desert Storm. My original plan was to serve and then retire from the Navy after 20, but it didnt happen that way. Being from the East Coast originally (New Jersey) and being stationed out in Long Beach California was tuff. I wanted to be home for the holidays or atleast talk to a family member on the phone when it was possible. The four years on the West Coast really took a toll on me. I went to my PN and asked him if there was a way I could switch with someone from west to east and he looked into it, but with no bites on the swap, I took the 3 months early out program that the government was offering in those days. I really REGRET that decision everyday of my life. I'm 33 years old now and realized had I stayed in, I'd only have 4 more years until my retirement. I would be atleast an E-6 or E-7 right now. But before I moved to Indy... I was out of my service contractual obligation for about 10+ years. I came into the National Guard as an SPC4 and advancement isnt easy when the schooling I had for the Navy didnt count for anything in The Guard. Instead of waiting around forever to make SGT, I decided to go back to the Navy. Granted I joined the Naval Reserve this time, and I was not happy to say the least to hear that my SM rate (SignalMan) is no longer. They've crossed over and became QM's now. (QuarterMasters) So, I decided to try another job. I'm coming back as a SeaBee BU (Builder) I was sworn back into the Navy the other day and feel better now...Much Better Now! I still have 2 years to make up my mind but I have been thinking about going back active for awhile. I dont think my civilian job (Public Safety Officer) at the airport is going to be around that much longer, and so the clock ticks on my decision. This is the Ship I served on when I was active all those years ago. The good old 'Mighty J' FFG-33 USS JARRETT |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 02,August,2004 | As you can tell, I only just started this journal a few weeks back. I never knew what a blog was until a friend of mine gave me the url of another friends blog ' urlLink Daily Dose of Dave ' I Really like what I saw there and thought about adding a blog to urlLink Tommy's PlayGround although is doesnt show up until the PLAYGROUND2. The more I thought about this concept the more I thought it could work, but did I really have enough in me to share with everyone on a daily basis? That questions still haunts my mind. It's more or less still in an experiment to me. Theres still a few things I need to make this right. I need the knowledge on CSS and the need to change this 'all ready made template' with a template of my own..so in the upcoming weeks, there should be little subtle changes to this blog and soon enough I'll call it my own. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 04,August,2004 | Made in Mexico' or canada Check some of your Heinz products. 'Sen. John Kerry keeps talking about U.S corporations leaving this country and setting up shop in foreign countries, taking thousands of jobs with them. He is right, because that has happened. However, he is trying to blame it on George W. Bush. As far as I know, Bush has not moved one factory out of this country because he is not the owner of a single factory. That cannot be said about Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry. According to the Wall Street Journal,the Kerry's own 32 factories in Europe and 18 in Asia and the Pacific. In addition, their company, the Heinz Company, leases four factories in Europe and four in Asia Also, they own 27 factories in North America, some of which are in Mexico and the Caribbean. 80% of Heinz products are made overseas. I wonder how many hundreds of American workers lost their jobs when these plants relocated in foreign countries. I also wonder if the workers in Mexico and Asia are paid the same wages and benefits as workers in the United States. Of course they're not However, Kerry demands that other companies that relocate should pay the same benefits they did in the U.S. Why does he not demand this of the Heinz Company, since he is married to the owner? If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign factories and bring all those jobs back to America? Of course they won't. They're making millions off that cheap labor. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 05,August,2004 | Has Anyone Seen This Site?? urlLink http://www.georgebush.ca/index.php I emailed the idiots and put my 2cents in about why a Canadian (of all people) should have an opinion about America! His Response to my email: Since as you said we are all entitled to an opinion.For the sake of the world Lose Bush Lose!How can you say Leave America to America when America runs around the world 'doing good' they have not been asked to do? You can't have it both ways Tommy. You currently do. But most people wish you didn't.Thanks for the note,Warren Me: Well Warren, Think about it this way if it werent for America, A lot of countries would be slaves..When were asked to do something and believe me it's quite frequently ..We do..And just think about this...Ever wonder why nobody messes with Canada..Yep..Cause The Eagle guards your borders too |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 05,August,2004 | Has anyone figured out why blogging has become so addicting? For the life of me, I cant figure it out. And when I'm not typing something into these postings or playing with the code for this site, I'm reading someone else's blog and commenting there...WTF !?!?!? |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 05,August,2004 | I know this is going to sound crazy but I'm sitting around here and playing with this blog and feeling creative, that a really stupid but yet simplistic idea came to my mind. Which brings me to my question. Has Anyone Tryed to carve out out lettering in their lawns before? I'm sitting here rolling at the idea and wonder if I can with a simple regular push mower. The Shit you think up on a day off when you're bored huh? But if I try it...I'll post a picture with the results...LOLOL!!! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 07,August,2004 | It's Saturday and I'm not looking foward to going in to work. It's amazing at the type of fans that are drawn to these racing events here in Indianapolis. The air at the airport is so thick you can almost cut it with a butter knive. And I believe all this hype had started in, sometime last week. Last Wednesday was a normal day at the airport with the traffic being heavy at times, but after some idiot tryed to run me over because I issued him a citation for parking, it all went downhill from there..You can just feel the hype growing in the air and building up for this event. Oooo Fun, I can hardly wait until tomorrow when this race is over and all the weird ones have gone back under their rock. (Now, dont get me wrong..I'm not saying EVERYBODY that likes NASCAR is that weird...Just those individuals I'm dealing with at the airport are!) |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 08,August,2004 | Not really sure what to expect today, Just hoping that it doesnt get too out of control there.(airport) So far, I know that I have the Upper Level detail today which means plenty of traffic..People leaving Indy I'll write more later and say what happened to today..Wish me Luck! His name is Tribute because he was born right after September 11th of 2001 and Tribute say's 'VOTE FOR BUSH-CHENEY 2004!' |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 09,August,2004 | urlLink |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 09,August,2004 | Well it's monday morning and my head is spinning. I'm not quite sure I'm awake enough to be sitting here and typing. I have a few things around the house to get accomplished today before I have to get ready for work and I'll tell you this...I'm feeling pretty lazy too. I'm so glad the race is over. Traffic should be at its normal capacity today. All the race fans have left the building and most of them are on their way back to Southern Indiana or Kentucky. Sorry I didnt mean to profile there, just thought I might get a laugh at that one. Nascar fans are something else..I have to admit it. |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 10,August,2004 | I'm Not exactly sure why this comment hasn't showed up anywhere..Atleast that I can find, and I've gone thru my archives looking for it. But Today urlLink The Low Down received this post, so in good faith I'm gonna make this a regular post and not a comment...To The Author of this comment..Please Next Time Leave your name! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~* As the H.J. Heinz Company reports in its most recent proxy statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Heinz Kerry is not on the company's board of directors, nor is she listed among the principal shareholders (those who control 5% or more of the outstanding shares). The charitable foundations she controls once held much more Heinz stock but sold off most of it nearly a decade ago to diversify their investments. The Heinz company said in a recent public statement that she currently controls less than 4% of the company's stock. The largest shareholder is actually a California investment company that owns roughly three times as much as the Heinz charitable foundations.About all that is true in this e-mail is that the Heinz company has a number of factories overseas.Its most recent annual report, also publicly available at the SEC's website, lists 32 factories owned in Europe (and three more leased), and 18 in Asia and the Pacific (plus four more leased). Heinz also reported selling just over $3 billion in products in Europe and more than $1 billion more in Asia and the Pacific -- accounting for roughly half the company's global sales.The company issued a statement back in March, when this e-mail first began circulating, saying that 60% of its sales are outside the US (including those in Mexico and Canada as well as Europe and Asia) and that it locates plants in other countries 'to accommodate those customers by providing facilities closer to those markets' and 'to pack the freshest ingredients, tailor its recipes to local tastes and deliver the final products in a timely and efficient manner.'The company also distanced itself from the Kerry campaign and Heinz Kerry:H.J. Heinz Co: In light of some misleading speculation, the H. J. Heinz Company would like to make clear that neither Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry, Senator John Kerry nor any member of their family is involved in the management or board of the H. J. Heinz Company. . . . They have no involvement in the Heinz® Ketchup business or any of the company’s other brands or products.The Heinz company also said it is 'nonpartisan.' Worth noting, however, is that the company's Political Action Committee has given nearly all its donations to Republican candidates, including $5,000 to the Bush campaign and nothing to Kerry's as of the most recent reports available. That's additional evidence, as if any was needed, that the company isn't 'owned' by Kerry's wife.SourcesHeinz Endowments, 'The Heinz Endowments Grants to Tides Center / Tides Foundation,' news release, undated.Howard Heinz Endowment, IRS Form 990PF, fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.Vira I Heinz Endowment, a Pennsylvania Non Profit Corp, IRS Form 990PF, fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.Gretchen Randall and Tom Randall, 'The Tides Foundation: Liberal Crossroads of Money and Ideas,' Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, Washington DC, December 2003.Tom Randall, 'The Heinz Endowments have teamed with a secretive left-wing group ,' Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , 14 Dec. 14, 2003. (Also here ).Dennis B. Roddy, 'Right zooms in on Heinz grants; Heinz Kerry's foundation work provide grist for foes,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , 7 march 2003.H.J. Heinz Company, 'SCHEDULE 14A, Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,' 2 July 2004.H.J. Heinz Company, 'FORM 10-K: ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended April 28, 2004' 17 June 2004.H.J. Heinz Company, 'H.J. Heinz Company Confirms Its Widely Held Public Ownership And Non-Partisan Status,' news release, 22 March 2004. --Posted by Anonymous to urlLink The Low Down at 8/10/2004 10:15:55 AM |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 10,August,2004 | When I am Old... I shall wear Turquoise and soft gray sweatshirts... and a bandana over my silver hair... and I shall spend my Social Security Checks on Sweet Wine and My Dogs... and sit in my house on my well-worn chair, and listen to my dog's breathing. I will sneak out in the middle of a warm Summer night and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow... and when people come to call, I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs... and talk of them and about them... The Ones so Beloved of the Past and the Ones so Beloved of Today.... I still will work hard cleaning after them and mopping and feeding them and whispering their names in a soft, loving way. I will wear their gleaming sweat on my throat like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all... and my family... who have not yet found the peace in being free to have dogs as your Best Friends.... These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall... and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to greet you as if you are a God. With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you will stay and hug their big, strong necks... and kiss their dear sweet heads... and whisper to them of your love and the beautiful pleasure of their very special company.... I look in the Mirror... and see I am getting old.... this is the kind of woman I am... and have always been. Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me, accept me for who I am, my dogs appreciate my presence in their lives... when I am old this will be important to me... you will understand when you are old.... and if you have dogs to love too. 'Author Unknown' ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* My Wife Sent me this via email and said that She now see's her future |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 15,August,2004 | It's been a long weekend and when I catch my breath I'll post whats been up with this past weekend...We had a couple of dogshows that required we rent a room for a few nights in a motel. Although I'm down on the books at work as it being vacation..I feel like I need a vacation from my vacation..DogShows have a way of really draining you..So when I get up to speed and have a few pots of coffee in me and I'm feeling a bit caffeinated I will write more! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 17,August,2004 | The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets trimmed in black thread and snaps up the front. It was faded from years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of clothes Mom intended to give away. 'You're not taking that old thing, are you?' Mom said when she saw me packing the yellow shirt. 'I wore that when I was pregnant with your brother in 1954!' 'It's just the thing to wear over my clothes during art class, Mom. Thanks!' I slipped it into my suitcase before she could object. The yellow shirt became a part of my college wardrobe. I loved it. After graduation, I wore the shirt the day I moved into my new apartment and on Saturday mornings when I cleaned. The next year, I married. When I became pregnant, I wore the yellow shirt during big-belly days. I missed Mom and the rest of my family, since we were in Colorado and they were in Illinois. But that shirt helped. I smiled, remembering that Mother had worn it when she was pregnant, 15 years earlier. That Christmas, mindful of the warm feelings the shirt had given me, I patched one elbow, wrapped it in holiday paper and sent it to Mom. When Mom wrote to thank me for her 'real' gifts, she said the yellow shirt was lovely. She never mentioned it again. The next year, my husband, daughter and I stopped at Mom and Dad's to pick up some furniture. Days later, when we uncrated the kitchen table, I noticed something yellow taped to its bottom. The shirt! And so the pattern was set. On our next visit home, I secretly placed the shirt under Mom and Dad's mattress. I don't know how long it took for her to find it, but almost two years passed before I discovered it under the base of our living-room floor lamp. The yellow shirt was just what I needed now while refinishing furniture. The walnut stains added character. In 1975 my husband and I divorced. With my three children, I prepared to move back to Illinois. As I packed, a deep depression overtook me. I wondered if I could make it on my own. I wondered if I would find a job. I paged through the Bible, looking for comfort. In Ephesians, I read, 'So use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, and when it is all over, you will be standing up.' I tried to picture myself wearing God's armor, but all I saw was the stained yellow shirt. Slowly, it dawned on me. Wasn't my mother's love a piece of God's armor? My courage was renewed. Unpacking in our new home, I knew I had to get the shirt back to Mother. The next time I visited her, I tucked it in her bottom dresser drawer. Meanwhile, I found a good job at a radio station. A year later I discovered the yellow shirt hidden in a rag bag in my cleaning closet. Something new had been added. Embroidered in bright green across the breast pocket were the words 'I BELONG TO PAT.' Not to be outdone, I got out my own embroidery materials and added an apostrophe and seven more letters. Now the shirt proudly proclaimed, 'I BELONG TO PAT'S MOTHER.' But I didn't stop there. I zig-zagged all the frayed seams, then had a friend mail the shirt in a fancy box to Mom from Arlington, VA. We enclosed an official looking letter from 'The Institute for the Destitute,' announcing that she was the recipient of an award for good deeds. I would have given anything to see Mom's face when she opened the box. But, of course, she never mentioned it. Two years later, in 1978, I remarried. The day of our wedding, Harold and I put our car in a friend's garage to avoid practical jokers. After the wedding, while my husband drove us to our honeymoon suite, I reached for a pillow in the car to rest my head. It felt lumpy. I unzipped the case and found, wrapped in wedding paper, the yellow shirt. Inside a pocket was a note: 'Read John 14:27-29. I love you both, Mother.' That night I paged through the Bible in a hotel room and found the verses: 'I am leaving you with a gift: peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid. Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, for now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am. I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do, you will believe in me.' The shirt was Mother's final gift. She had known for three months that she had terminal Lou Gehrig's disease. Mother died the following year at age 57. I was tempted to send the yellow shirt with her to her grave. But I'm glad I didn't, because it is a vivid reminder of the love-filled game she and I played for 16 years. Besides, my older daughter is in college now, majoring in art. And every art student needs a baggy yellow shirt with big pockets. You have 6 minutes.... There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious. You will receive good luck within four days of relaying this message. Do not keep this message. It must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired. ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as Important as any other. THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it. FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye. SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married. SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight. EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much. NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely. TEN.. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling. ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly. THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?' FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze. SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions. EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone. Now, here's the FUN part! Send this to at least 5 people and your life will improve. 1-4 people: Your life will improve slightly. 5-9 people: Your life will improve to your liking. 9-14 people: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks 15 and above: Your life will improve drastically and everything you ever dreamed of will begin to take shape. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* How Many People Do you Think This Counts For? And So I pass This On! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 18,August,2004 | Here is an extract of a message sent to me, thought you might find it interesting... There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January.. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January... thats just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq. When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following; FDR, led us into World War II. 450,000 lives were lost an average of 112,500 per year. Truman, finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost an average of 18,334 per year. John F. Kennedy, started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson, turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost an average of 5,800 per year. Clinton, went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has, liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but, It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick. It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!! Wait, there's more..........JOHN GLENN ON THE SENATE FLOOR. Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living. This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military. Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: 'How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?' Senator Glenn: 'I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day to a veteran's hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies -in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job! You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job? I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum; you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held REAL jobs. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life itself. Andtheir self-sacrifice is what made this country possible. I HAVE held a job, Howard! What about you? 'For those who don't remember - During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA. Now he is a Senator! If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran !! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 18,August,2004 | Two good ol' boys, Bubba and Junior get promoted from Privates to Sergeants. Not long after, they're out for a walk and Bubba says, 'Hey, Junior -there's the NCO Club. Let's you and me stop in and have us a drank. ''But we's privates,' protests Junior. 'NO, we's sergeants now,' says Bubba, pulling him inside 'Now, Junior, I'm gonna sit down and have me a drank. ''But, we's privates,' says Junior. 'You blind, boy!' says Bubba, pointing at his stripes. 'We's Sergeants now!' So they order their drinks and pretty soon a hooker comes up to Bubba. 'You're cute,' she says, 'and I'd like to take you someplace and make you feel good -- but I've got a bad case of gonorrhea. 'Bubba pulls his friend to the side and whispers, 'Junior, go look in the dictionary and see what that gonorrhea means. If it's good, give me the okay sign. 'Junior goes to look it up, comes back, and gives Bubba the big okay sign. Three weeks later Bubba is laid up in the infirmary with a terrible case ofgonorrhea. 'Junior,' he says, 'What you give me the okay for?! ''Well Bubba, in the dictionary, it says gonorrhea only affects the privates.'Then he pointed to his stripes and says, 'But we's Sergeants now! |
4,004,267 | male | 33 | LawEnforcement-Security | Taurus | 18,August,2004 | You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is, so they would know when they found one. (Good on ya mate!!!!) An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God. An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person the pursuit of happiness. An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country.! As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the least. The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists. So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American. 'Author unknown' *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Another Email I received That I thought I would Share |
3,205,298 | male | 39 | Internet | Aquarius | 30,May,2004 | Well here it is...Memorial Day. A heartfelt thank you and eternal gratitude for all those that have given thier lives in service to the United States. You will not be forgotten. |
3,205,298 | male | 39 | Internet | Aquarius | 14,May,2004 | As I expected, my frquency of posting is not what it should be. But, the weekend is upon us and I expect a myriad of things that I can rant about. ie. prisoner abuse, beheadings and that somewhere to the left of Mao buffoon....John 'Where's my spine?' Kerry. So boys and girls.....stay tuned for more. |
3,205,298 | male | 39 | Internet | Aquarius | 11,May,2004 | So they want to let hybrid cars use the carpool lanes...Big Fucking Deal!!! What a total waste of time, when our lawmakers have much more serious problems facing this state. The legislators pass it off as an environmental victory. What total bullshit...I sit in my car everyday on the 91 freeway. (For those of you from So. Cal., you know how it blows.) I look over and see how little use the carpool lanes actually get. From what I understand, carpools lanes at most only have 7% of the drivers using them yet the carpool lane is 20-25% of the available capacity of the freeway. So, 93% of the traffic is crammed into 75-80% of the available capacity while 7% of the traffic takes up 20-25% of capacity. How the fuck is this supposed to help clean air?? 93% of us are stuck in a traffic jam, getting 0 miles to the gallon and spewing more pollution into the air because we have to run our engines longer than we otherwise would. Before anyone sends me comments to complain that I'm some anti-environment bad guy, just let me say that when carpools lanes were first introduced, it seemed like a good idea. The thinking behind the lanes was, if we offer motorists an incentive to carpool then, traffic will be reduced by having fewer cars on the road due to carpooling. To be honest, it was an idea worth exploring. After 30 years and billions of dollars spent on it's infrastructure, and with no more use of the carpool lanes than at the beginning of the experiment, I think it's time to say that the lanes didn't work as expected. It's time to end the lanes. The upside is if they do, the state increases highway capacity by 20% for only the cost of the paint to re-stripe the lanes. Herein ends the rant. You may now go about your day. urlLink SACRAMENTO / More hybrid cars in carpool lanes? |
3,205,298 | male | 39 | Internet | Aquarius | 10,May,2004 | As I suspected, I'm not very diligent about updating or writing about anything interesting. Maybe as I get used to writing again, this will pick up and the quality will improve. So far, the only improvement is that I changed my page design. (What an exciting and colorful life I lead.) My lack of anything resembling a life, may account for the stunning lack of content. Maybe a bit of info about me is in order. First off, the name stevgex is from the company I work for. I do all of the hosting and DNS mapping for my company. We use Alliegence Internet as out line provider. Their name server is nsf.algx.net. Which we simply call algex. Whenever there is a mapping or hosting issue, my co-workers refer to it as a stevgex issue. At which point, I resolve the issue and then get back to whatever it was I was doing ( which is usually just looking busy.) Hence, the name Stevgex. Though my plan was to use this blog to rant about stuff that annoys me, so far no good rants have occured to me. But, I do feel one about carpool lanes building up. Well see... |
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