Michael's last line in this entry saddened me. We lived so long under the threat of nuclear holocaust, and thirteen years ago, it seemed that that threat was gone, gone, gone... but it never left.
I don't really think that we're ready to go back to family fallout shelters, though... no, I think that we'd all just rather go together. All for one, one for all, right? Well, the prez has a hidey-hole, but you would expect that, heh. They all do, them higher-ups. But what, O what will they do without us paupers to do their will for them, heh? Yeah, they will be greatly inconvenienced if we're all incinerated, won't they? As a veteran myself, I don't really feel very honored today... nope, I feel mostly tired. I don't really know what it would take to make me feel honored being a veteran. Part of that general feeling is the fact that I really wasn't that good of a soldier. Yeah, there was a time when I was willing to die for my country, and I'm not really ashamed of that. But after I got out I gradually became anti-war, and I had the feeling that they way that I was while I was in the military was wrong. I was wrong about that, of course. I had myself convinced at one time that I could have gone to Canada, and sat out the war. But I couldn't've done that, even though I wish that I was the kind of guy who could stand for his principles so dramatically. And there was a time when I was in that I was convinced that if I got sent to 'Nam, I would desert and... go to Canada. But I couldn't have done that, either. Anyway, enough of that. The main thing about today is that all of the banks were closed and we didn't get mail delivered. Today was pretty disastrous at work, just as I suspected it would be. Things calmed down about 16:00 and I realized that I was supposed to leave at 15:00 since I didn't get lunch. I was driving the console most of the day, so my legs didn't get too worn out, and the machine worked all day. I never did hear if they got the #2 machine fixed, so I assume that they did. I'm busily ripping my CDs, I got the software this morning. It's a long, I've also gotta make some CDs for my trip, too... probably I'll need about nine CDs to get the proper variety for a two-day trip. It's too bad that I can't hook up a CD3 player to the stereo in the car, that way I could have a *lot* of variety. Today's picture is of me and Tyler in 1997 or so... I've always liked this one. So, to end this one on the same note that it started on... war is bad. Vote against it. Refuse to believe in it. Refuse to vote for people who believe in it. War, as always, is not the answer, it's the problem.
tedious process, and this is the second (and last) time for me. The technology has improved vastly over the last time that I did it, the MP3 files are damned close to CD quality now, without a corresponding jump in file size. It's like getting everything for nothing!