Svante's adventure makes me think he is more libertarian than
Republican. He should write more often
Ken - the only doubt is if I should write because I am more libertarian than
anything else what makes libertarian then?
V ictory
I s not easy
T o achieve
E ven if you have
K as an obsolete letter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Am I a republican?
> Cuyler Page wrote:
>
> > Ah, the geo-centric view of the world appears once again. If the Big
> > Apple is asleep, all the world must be asleep.
> >
> > cp in power-rich bc
> >
> > *, now that Bullamanka seems to be up again.*
> >
> Not exactly geo-centric as BP is hosted on a server at St. Johns
> University in Queens, NY and may or may not very well have been down.
> Svante's adventure makes me think he is more libertarian than
> Republican. He should write more often.
>
> All day on Thursday everything kept breaking on me. My boots have a
> hole in the heel, the left boot that I have hardly worn at all is
> suddenly disintegrating, my watch works, but broke so that I will never
> ever be able to change the time, and my cell phone has a button that
> want AWOL so that I cannot change any of the programmed numbers. I've
> been fighting with computers for two weeks now trying with desperation
> not to lose or inadvertently erase vital information. At some point on
> Wednesday mid-day I realized that I had already put in 40 hours since
> Monday morning. Today, as I write this, I just got back from working on
> the fireplace in Hartford with an 18 hour day. I'm fried -- though the
> ferry across the sound was particularly pleasant tonight. So, on
> Thursday just before the electric shut off I was getting a bit peeved
> and thinking unfortunate thoughts. First thing the electric went off I
> figured we had not seen the bill and not paid it. I then asked my
> neighbor if his electric was on, and it was not. I went from one to two.
> I then got in the car and drove off to McArthur Airport, the one on the
> island that shuts down for fog, where I was supposed to pick up Kathy at
> 5:20, coming in from Baltimore. Oh, I almost forgot, Rudy at the Center
> of the Universe had earlier in the day brought up the subject of renting
> a VERY large fan for the Edison project... and THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE
> NATURAL CAUSE OF THE BLACKOUT... anyways, I'm driving to the airport,
> having left behind all flight information on Kathy's arrival, the
> traffic lights are down and I turn on the radion and soon realize that
> my thinking about my own problems has turned into the problem of
> millions of people. I went immediatly from personal muddle to happiness.
> I bought a bag of hydrated lime this week and the guy I bought it from
> told me to keep smiling, everyone will wonder what I am up to. So, then
> again, Kathy did not show up at the airport at the scheduled time. Mass
> confusion. Nobody to talk to, nobody knew diddly. I drove back home, the
> excursion without traffic lights on the day that I had vowed to "take it
> easy", once again, and fed the dogs, grabbed a pillow, got the flight
> information and returned to the airport. Still no Kathy. The confusion
> of bodies, interesting to watch people during an event, was cleared out.
> The local fire department had up light poles off their trucks and were
> running wires around. The person from Southwest I asked about the flight
> at first told me there was no such flight. I was preparing to leave once
> again, and the speakers announced two flights coming in from Baltimore.
> I went out to the car and fell asleep. I woke up, went back into the
> airport and wandered around and found Kathy sitting in the dark. I think
> it was 10 PM by the time we got home. I went out in the yard to sleep,
> where it was cooler than inside, but it was too noisy and the skeeters
> made me nervous for West Nile. Oh, the innocence of youth when skeeters
> simply meant hellacious welts. So I went into the bedroom and sweated.
> At 11:30 PM the overhead light went on... selected for brilliance, and I
> shot up out of bed. At 4 AM I got up and went to work. There were areas
> where the electric was off, and areas where it was on. I also, as with
> Svante, was looking for an operating gas station, which I found with no
> particular problem. The day at work was excellent. Nothing important
> broke. The stone went where I told it to go. I almost did not make it on
> the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry this evening as there were a lot of
> people wanting to use it. I just slipped on the tail end. When the ferry
> entered the harbor at Port Jefferson, after crossing the LI sound, there
> began a display of fireworks. It was just so kool to cross the harbor
> and see the fireworks as if they were special for us. Just before the
> ferry docked was the finale. I got home and sat down and not five
> minutes later David showed up from NJ.
>
> ][<en
>
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> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
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