braroup

so yeah. it's sunday. time for my traditional post. Pepe came up today. we went to find me a mahmoud ahmedinejad tan suit. i found one i think i'll get. has anyone disovered why the value village smells like vomit but the goodwill smells just fine? if you know let me in on it. Alison, i'm looking in your direction. so anyway. plop. next week is another RPIW... i'm not a team lead. so i'm going to have a less stressful time. however tomorrow we're gonna go over the training for the day and i'll have to get there a little early. next thing: i just had a thought. when a culture borrows a word into their lexicon how do they decide when to give it a new sound based on a meaning or to bring the same sound from the originating language into their own and assign that new meading. for instance: in Japanese they have words that come from other languages which sound like the word sounds in another language, perhaps in Japan that's just for the ease of foreigners. in Chinese there are times when they use the meaning to make the new word for instance dianying is a movie/motion picture, the words literally translate to "electric shadows" but with names of things and a few others they might take the sounds or approximations and make them mean what the word woul mean in another language.. like jia na da for Canada. hmm.. maybe it's just that.. names. plant names... people names.. well.. maybe other languages.. Chinese is a very old language, and they like to put those pieces together like with movies.. anyway. i'll just go to sleep now.

another post

here's some lighter fare. i just got done laughing so hard it made my head hurt... still hurts. anyway.. as many know, Cat and I are great connoisseurs of poop humor. we were talking wiht SHannon about a david sedaris story called "big boy" which is quite short and entirely about him finding a large compacted mass of feces in a toilet at a party. the story is awesome. then that lead us into a story about poop on brown towels that we all first heard on this american life back a few years ago.. anyway. i just about lost consciousness from too much laughing.. i feel better now, but my head has some pressure left over. anyway. good times.. courtesy of poop.

a real word... cram

ok. so it's only thursday night but i'm posting again. why not? i had an interesting conversation tonight... on the telephone.. after taking a nap - which was nice. So Shannon and i talked about many things.. one of which was the ridiculous political atmosphere in this country.. and how numb so many people are because they're too busy with their own lives and jobs and possessions to be educated about important things... and then politicos are able to get them riled up about things that make no sense at all. or get them too afraid of the bogeyman of the day to make a rational decision. thereby holding us all captive in our ignorance. a country like jefferson envisioned would never fall for any of the wars since WWII.. they're all marketed to us on an entirely false premise. no one is interested in keeping communism at bay... CHINA. it's not about communism but how many wars (cold or otherwise) did we say was about keeping the reds at bay? none of that ever mattered. there was always another reason. however wars are marketed to people with simple and slick arguments that stick in their heads and can be made into slogans and signs. you need something that doesn't invite further questions... if our country ever takes military action against iran you'll see. i don't see how we could, unless we did alone, which sounds unwise anyway. i just worry that one of these days the people who we aren't bombarding with propaganda will put the pieces together and try our government for war crimes. someday we won't have the clout to stop somethign like that and i bet it will be unpleasant. well.. maybe it's just the growing pains of a young or old country.. i guess we're an old country.. i think there have been some revolutions that restart the clock.. but wow.. you can't keep acting like the spoiled kid on the playground much longer.. one day someone will realize that they have enough other kids to play the game they want to play and they don't need your stuck-up ass to play... then where will you be? talking to yourself about how you used to be the captain of the team... good times.. ok. well. i dont' know what to do about it. but if we ever get tried for torture in the international community that will be the oficial end of our time at the top. then for at least a generation no one will listen to us. or anyone associated with us.... meh. morals just aren't some peoples' strong suites.. like rove and gonzales and bush. and especially cheney. not an ounce of morality in that man. there's my jab at a public official. i'll be done until i'm riled up again.

wropbled

hmm. it's getting late i suppose. and i want to go to sleep. but i also haven't been posting. so i should post. i think i don't post when i'm busy. ok, so the idea for h-ween this year is that i be mahmoud ahmadinejad... you know, the president of iran. there are other ideas.. but i really like the mahmoud one.. i also would enjoy saying "ahmadinejad" over and over. . .. anyway. i think it's time for me to sleep. goodnight.

whew

today we went to Chris and Sarah's wedding. holy crap was it awesome! last night we went after work to the rehearsal dinner and stuff. the wedding was at the home of Chris's mom Lynn and her husband Stan. it's on like a hundred acres on the shores of the south part of whidbey island. the the wedding itself overlooked the sound, the passage between southern mukilteo and cultus bay i guess.. i can't tell .. anyway. it was beautiful.. the threatening rain came to fruition during the early morning today but was gone bythe time anything needed to happen. friday night after the rehearsal the boys all went down to the zipline thing.. that we all rode in the dark after having a bit to drink.. probably not the safest thing to do... but we all turned out alright. we went out and played in the trees on some ropes and the night gets more hazy from there.. four more hours of bonding with the siblings in law. then today was good. really good. but alot of walking for me. my feets is tired. and we saw some fireworks on the ferry home from the island. totally a great weekend..

it's not sunday

holiday weekends are irritating to me in one particular way. i have a back to work routine for sunday night. tonight is monday but i have to do that routine today. i feel like i pretty much wasted my long weekend doing nothing. i could have like cleaned up something, i guess i did some yard work today, but jeez.. i could have done alot more. whatever. i'll make up for it sometime.. but not next weekend. next weekend is CA's weddin'. that'll be good times. for everyone. ok.. goodnight.