winterbadger | Aug. 25th, 2004

Aug. 25th, 2004

thanks to

sujata for this link

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8388

...the larger story here is clear: John Kerry volunteered for the Navy, volunteered to go to Vietnam, and then, when he was sitting around Cam Ranh Bay bored with nothing to do, requested the most dangerous duty a Naval officer could be given. He saved a man's life. He risked his own every time he went up into the Mekong Delta. He did more than his country asked. In fact he didn't even wait for his country to ask.

George W. Bush spent those same years in a state of dissolution at Yale, and would go on, as we know, to plot how to get out of going to Southeast Asia. On that subject, here's a choice quote. "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment," Bush told the Dallas Morning News in 1990. "Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

Current Mood: angry

Stolen from

vatoengland

http://www.dearauntnettie.com/gallery/index.htm

and

http://www.dearauntnettie.com/museum/index.htm

*cackle*

So,

john_arundel and

bidger came over for our usual Tuesday night get-together. We had chatted for a while, Aaron had fiddled with some of his models that needed assembly, and Peter was showing off the new minimalist paint job on his Tau, when the lights went out. No wind, no storm, just a sudden cessation of electricity.

Luckliy, I've been stocking up on candles, though admittedly it wasn't these two jokers I was planning on burning them with :-) Ibrought a whole lot in and positioned them around the table, and we continued to chat. I called into the power company's automated hotline, and they said they knew there was an outage in our area and expected to have it repaired by 10.30 (it was about 8.30 at that point).

So we sat around and chatted some more, Aaron totally convulsed Peter with some scenes from a movie that I think just went over my head somehow. They seemed mildly amusing, but the two of these galoots were incapable with laughter for several minutes, and everytime either of them got a faraway look in his eyes the rest of the evening or muttered "I taste ice cream" both of them turned beet red and fell on the floor giggling. *sigh* I'm so clueless...

Well, painting was going to be difficult by candlelight, so we pulled out a pile of games and eventually settled on Overthrone. None of us had ever played it before, so it took a little while to learn, but now we all know how to play, and it's pretty fun. It also takes form 3-6 players, so any time other people would like to play it...

Eventually when we'd got to the end of Aaron's jujubes and my cashews and almonds, when they had quaffed the last GUinness, and we had duelled the last noble/attacked the last province/bribed the last courtier, we totted up the points and Peter ended up winning. :-)

Next week: back to painting and more episodes of Firefly!

(And, yes, the lights did eventualy come back on, more or less when Dominion said they would. Still no word on why they went out, but I know that if you start asking Dominion too many questions, a squad of jemhadar arrive and destroy your house--with you inside--so I'm staying mum....)