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net access

I finally have Internet access! So now I can update my journal! Probably lost all four or five of my regular readers in the past three weeks. Oh well, c’est la vie.

Anyway, not much new here to talk about. The biggest thing in my life is lack of things in my life. I am sitting on a chair I stole from my parents house—one of my three pieces of furniture; bed, chair and coffee table. I have finished painting my apartment—the bed room is fine, a few mistakes but those are my fault. The living room on the other hand is making me mad. I painted it red and not only is the red a brighter color then I thought it was but I can see all the roller lines and brush strokes, everywhere that the paint overlaps there is a darker spot—the color it is supposed to be! Problem is I put two coats on everything and have used all of my two gallons of paint! The other problem is when I pulled up the painters tape it took some spots of paint with it, so there are white marks here and there around the trim. And where it did not pull up the tape it looks like crap anyway because the paint somehow got under the tape so the trim does not form a nice clean line with the wall. All in all I feel like my paint job is significantly sub-par. Oh well. Nothing to do about it now—don’t have the money or desire to repaint it or paint another coat on it.

Anyway, bunch of stuff happened over the past few weeks that I would have posted journal entries on but not having net access at home prevented that and I’m just to lazy to try to post them now—not to mention I am having a Geritol moment thinking about it. But, I’m back on line—more post to come!

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ranting

reach out and touch someone.

Communicate with the world—I have a phone! So now I can call people and speak with them. Make plans. Etc. After this week I should also have Internet service. Maybe then I will update the site more often. Been busy the past few weeks. Been lazy too. Still have not managed to finish painting my apartment. My excuses was that it has 12′ ceilings and I did not have a ladder, but I have one now. I just don’t want to do it tonight. Maybe I wait till tomorrow…

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ranting

president bush is a fucking genius

The woman on TV said so! She said, “I think this shows the genius of President Bush,” in reference to the UN passing the Iraq resolution. I don’t think I agree with this. Call me doubtful, call me stupid, hell call me a Democrat but I just don’t think President Bush is a genius. Commander and Chief he may be, President of the US he may be—but it does not change the fact that he is the illegitimate offspring of a monkey and a duck!

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not voting

Because I am/have been/will be residing in a DC where I am not eligible to vote because I just moved in. I could vote in Virginia, they would never know that I have already moved. But I think to vote even though the outcome will not directly affect me is not in the “spirit” of the system. Sure I could go and vote just to keep the party I don’t like from winning, but then I would be playing party politics—something I despise (don’t we all?) So I will not be voting this year. First time since I turned 18, I even voted while I was in England!

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books

Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann, Translated By John E. Woods

On Amazon.com

Magic Mountain is hard to read—dense and slow moving, but that is part of the plot, distortion of time. Mann follows Hans Castrop, “one of life’s problem children” during his stay at a sanitarium in the Swiss Alps in the years preceding World War I. The characters who inhabit the sanitarium and the valley around it are just that, complete characters displaying every possible aspect of all the varied cultures of Europe in the early 1900’s. A good book, but it must have lost something in the translation because at times it just did not hold my attention.