Facts Of Varying Uselessness
Jul. 19th, 2010 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotLast year It Was Revealed In The Press--And On My LJ that a large number of cargo ships were anchored, idle, in the Singapore Straits. Out of curiosity tonight, I looked for them on Google Earth...still there, strung between Singapore Harbor and Sungai Rengit and likely elsewhere in the area. Didn't bother to count them but there seemed to be a few score of them. Dunno how recent the aerial pictures are, but the fact that they are still sitting there means we're still a long way from recovering the global economy.
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General Admission to the upcoming Jefferson County Fair is $12. Except for the night of Tuesday, August 3rd, when it is only $10.
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My buddy Paul "salvaged" signage from the now-closed Jefferson City Blockbuster Video location today. Now Kermit The Frog from the Children's Department is at a place of honor above his jukebox. Dunno what he's going to do with the other pieces he got.
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Rather Manor now has air conditioning. Dad got a window unit for the living room over the weekend. We aren't using it a lot, tho'.
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I removed someone from my Friends on Facebook because they said something really stupid and politically divisive, and I didn't feel like they were worth me reading their other posts. I expect I'll be doing things like that a lot this year.
The Primary in Tennessee is in a week and the attack ads are flooding the TV. I won't be voting because all the races being decided are for THAT OTHER PARTY. I hate living in a one-party state.
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I never realized how much I missed the Sumo coverage on NHK's News (from Japan, of course!). The PBS World station airs NHK at 5PM weekdays, and this week the Nagoya Basho is getting really interesting.
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General Admission to the upcoming Jefferson County Fair is $12. Except for the night of Tuesday, August 3rd, when it is only $10.
* * *
My buddy Paul "salvaged" signage from the now-closed Jefferson City Blockbuster Video location today. Now Kermit The Frog from the Children's Department is at a place of honor above his jukebox. Dunno what he's going to do with the other pieces he got.
* * *
Rather Manor now has air conditioning. Dad got a window unit for the living room over the weekend. We aren't using it a lot, tho'.
* * *
I removed someone from my Friends on Facebook because they said something really stupid and politically divisive, and I didn't feel like they were worth me reading their other posts. I expect I'll be doing things like that a lot this year.
The Primary in Tennessee is in a week and the attack ads are flooding the TV. I won't be voting because all the races being decided are for THAT OTHER PARTY. I hate living in a one-party state.
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I never realized how much I missed the Sumo coverage on NHK's News (from Japan, of course!). The PBS World station airs NHK at 5PM weekdays, and this week the Nagoya Basho is getting really interesting.
