Last updated 6-28-2022
This is the strangest life I've ever known...
Saw the Soft Parade, a Doors cover band, Friday night with Jon and some friends. They were pretty good, but the sound system (and the sound guy) needed some work... I needed to get out Friday, I was rather annoyed at the marked lack of appreciation for me on Systems Administrator Appreciation Day. Not that I'd expected flowers or gifts or anything... heh-heh. But not so much as a paper or a cyber card. :::sigh::: While I enjoy what I do for a living, it's one of those jobs no one ever really thinks about or considers very important. Until the sysadmin is gone and everything goes down. Oh, well. Jon and I played "Star Wars Starfighter" on his brandy-new PlayStation 2 for over seven hours Saturday night/Sunday morning! lol One of those addicting games... This weekend seems to have left me so tired that I left the apartment this morning without my chain ring. I may sometimes leave for work in such a rush that I forget my shades, or the power adapter for the iBook, or even occasionally my phone, but I never forget my ring! Heh-heh...
It's bad enough that Dubya looks like an idiot to the American people, but does he have to look like an isolationist to the rest of the world? I cannot understand why he's so intent on keeping the U.S. out of the loop on so many important issues. It's time America started acting like a member of the world community, and not the owner of the toys, who sulks and skulks away when everyone else wants to share on equal terms. Putting the interests of the American people (though I fear it's the corporations he's more concerned with) over the interests of humanity at large is small-minded, petty, and pathetic.
Let's hope the Macedonians (and the ethnic Albanians) have learned from their neighbors and will pull back from the brink. Look at how many people died in Slobo's wars! And Bosnia (where Muslims were recently attacked while trying to commemorate the massacre at Srebrenica, and were then billed by Serb police for providing security during the second, safer ceremony!) and Croatia (where the government risked collapse just because it cooperated with the UN war crimes tribunal) are hardly stable nations now. Macedonia still has a chance to avoid its own civil war, which would almost certainly lead to the partition that the government wishes to prevent. Both sides must compromise. Few things, very few things, are worth war.
I don't even know what to say about Israel and the Palestinian Authority anymore. Officials on both sides should know better. Unless they grit their teeth and make the painful compromises necessary for a final deal, the intifadeh could very well last for years, with innocents on both sides being injured and killed, and all because Sharon and Arafat are strong enough to fight a war, but perhaps not quite strong enough to bring about peace.
Not sure how I feel about Beijing getting the Olympics in 2004. But if there's even a slight chance that exposing China to the rest of the world so dramatically can help effect some positive change, then why not? Everything else we've done to scold them for their actions has been shrugged off; denying them the Games would only have been an insult, anyway. Now, to get some kind of Falun Gong event into the Olympics... Heh-heh-heh...
The more I hear about Office XP and the forthcoming Windows XP, the happier I am that I use Macs at home. ;) Sounds like a lot of people are going to be spending a lot of time on the phone with Microsoft... Of course, I hear Linux is very nice. Heh-heh. I recently installed MacOS 9.1 on Paulene, my souped-up Power Macintosh 6100 (a 240-mHz G3 processor has neatly taken the place of her original 60-mHz PowerPC 601), and it seems to be running quite nicely. Now, to bump Dana the iBook up to MacOS X! And then to quickly download and install the updates to it... lol
Lucy Lawless is going to be on "The X-Files?" Hmmm... Well, it should be interesting, to say the least. As my friend Barbara suggested, maybe the storyline will have Lawless' character pick a catfight with Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully during the investigation of a hot oil wrestling club. lol Guess we'll see when the season starts! Bye now... - A
Last updated 6-28-2022
