Pete's Log: fffffff ... I mean grrrrrr....
Entry #1213, (Life in General)(posted when I was 23 years old.)
I can't believe how strong the cravings were tonight. But they seem to have subsided for now. Why is this happening to me?
Maybe I'm just showing my ignorance again ... but to me it just seems that calling other countries evil is poor diplomacy. Then again, perhaps it really is part of Bush's greater plan to encourage anti-America riots in Muslim nations. Perhaps it will all make sense someday. Perhaps we should follow the example in Saudi Arabia and establish a Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Evil. Seriously, though: wtf? International politics is not like D&D! The real question, I feel, is if this 'axis of evil' is chaotic evil or lawful evil.
I bought a dart board. Branden and I made good use of it last Saturday.
Anne was in town last weekend. Sunday evening I had dinner with her at Star of India. The waiter disapproved of my first two choices and ended up telling me what I was going to eat. It was funny. And what he made me get ended up being quite good. After dinner, we went to hear the Collegium Musicum (a.k.a. Andy and Cari and some other people) sing at the Basilica. It was pretty.
Last week I helped Rebecca install some stuff on the mac they have in her office, so as a reward, she made me dinner Wednesday night. She made pasta shells stuffed with tofu. It was really good. I will have to experiment with that idea sometime.
I then went to the State to see Lester perform. I ended up hanging out by myself, but Lester played a good set, so it was fun.
Mamie and I had our fourth viewing of Lord of the Rings. Yay. It was a bizarre experience, the audience was so annoying it was comical. Two people fell asleep and snored. One guy's cell phone rang and he answered it and talked for a couple minutes! A couple got into an argument and left. A bunch of people were talking. It was surreal.
Happy birthday to Andy!
George W. Bush also recently announced his goal to decrease domestic drug abuse by 10% over the next two years. I dislike the man enough that I want to consider taking up drugs, just to counteract his goal. I am increasingly upset about the drug commercials they played during the superbowl. The claim of these commercials was that by using illegal drugs, you may be funding terrorists. Granted, this is true, but first of all, I think the government should have to include a mention of how much money it has given to various terrorist groups over the years before accusing the public of funding terrorists. Second, if they really wanted to cut off drug profits to terrorists, all they need to do is legalize drugs, and suddenly the terrorists will no longer be able to subsidize themselves by selling drugs. Finally, I am disgusted that politicians are using a tragic event to further their own causes. Yuck.
The worst thing is that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, these politicians represent me. Grrrr.
At the State I paid $2 for a glass of ice with a dash of sprite. Not very fair, since much larger glasses of beer were only $1. But anyway, this got me thinking about yet another one of the little cultural things I've never become accustomed to after moving to the US. This whole ice thing. I mean, if the drink isn't cold, then it makes sense to add ice, because it'll make the drink cold. But if the drink is already cold, what's the point of ice? But a little bit of ice doesn't bother me. It's when they fill the glass with ice and then add whatever liquid will fit in the cracks. Grrrrrrrr. I mean .... yeah, I really did mean grrrrrrrrr.