Its good to be home! Even if the weather is bad and the amount of things on my “to do list” just went up exponentially since it is now pretty certain I am moving. Even the dulcet tones of the cute little broadcaster on TV Tokyo were joyous to my
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Back on the good side of the international date line. Trip back was not too bad, the flight from LAX on Singapore Air was not so full and the food was pretty good and drink service plentiful. Next time US airlines want to know why they are having problems-they should
Continue readingThat’s it! I’m pulling the damn plug on the TV!
The S.O. has been watching the HGTV channel for at least an hour and a half. With the concentration that an alcoholic pours into a pitcher of martinis or margaritas. Wide eyed and awestruck is a bad way to go through the evening………………..
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As in lets go home! After taking the S.O. out for what I thought would be a nice farewell dinner to shopping mall USA, I got treated to a tirade on American food. The restaurant-a nice Italian grill with some very cold and tasty micro-brews did serve some very large
Continue readingPoor Obama
I guess I’m a snob and elitist myself. Because I find myself agreeing with Obama about Pennsylvanians-or the people living here in shopping mall USA. Then again I take the time to read and understand things in context. So if that makes you anti-small town America-guilty as charged. Sometimes, whenever
Continue readingThis is about right……
Created by OnePlusYou Somethings are just worth cussing about! H/T to OPFOR!
Continue readingLou Dobbs likes it.
You have to have been in any large city in Japan to really appreciate this:
Continue readingI always wondered that myself!
Indiana makes a good point: The irony here is that the world, our jobs, the grind to “get ahead” does a perfect job of squashing our dreams and crushing our egos without you, our supposed lovers and friends doing the same… Sounds like he’s been eavesdropping on my conversations with
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Of coming to Shopping Mall USA. I can OD on these: And have! (9 Krsytals wolfed down in two days! YMMMMMM.) I can also get my fill of these: There’s plenty of these: And, sadly, more than there should be of these: And not enough of these: Every
Continue readingParadise Lost……. or, the surge is succeeding.
Not that surge. The one that is slowly ripping apart the beautiful life I spent 8 years perfecting. Like it’s counterpart in Iraq, it is just as frustrating though. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse;
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