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Aug. 9th, 2008
OK, seeing this very soon.
Aug. 9th, 2008 12:45 pmMore wine snobbery! And Alan Rickman!
Based on a true story of Love, Victory, and Fermentation.
Probably won't go tonight, but a matinée tomorrow at Santana Row would be nice.
BTW, how do you make the image a link?
Based on a true story of Love, Victory, and Fermentation.
Probably won't go tonight, but a matinée tomorrow at Santana Row would be nice.
BTW, how do you make the image a link?
I've actually gotten stuff done today.
Aug. 9th, 2008 12:54 pmWent over to my mom's this morning to see my Aunt Molly and to wash Darby (Mom's place has a parking spot just for washing cars, whereas we don't even have an exterior spigot that works.) As I was starting to spray down my truck, I got a text from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kshandra at the hair place. The ladies there were wondering why we didn't come in together. Since I was getting rather shaggy, I wandered over and got mowed. Got home, and took care of the dishes.
We do need to hit both Safeway and Costco, but that can wait until tomorrow. I think I'll do a couple of loads of laundry (how can two people generate so much laundry?) and watch some West Wing DVDs.
No, I'm really not interested in the Olympics this time around.
kshandra at the hair place. The ladies there were wondering why we didn't come in together. Since I was getting rather shaggy, I wandered over and got mowed. Got home, and took care of the dishes.We do need to hit both Safeway and Costco, but that can wait until tomorrow. I think I'll do a couple of loads of laundry (how can two people generate so much laundry?) and watch some West Wing DVDs.
No, I'm really not interested in the Olympics this time around.
Two very interesting books.
Aug. 9th, 2008 01:13 pmI read What Happened and Generation Kill back to back.
What Happened is Scott McClellan's insider look at the Bush White House, specifically the selling of the war in Iraq and the outing of Valerie Plame. Very interesting read, especially because McClellan makes it clear that he is still a conservative, but the process of government has become corrupted by the idea of the permanent campaign. Under Karl Rove the White House never stopped running for office. Everything was addressed in terms of selling points, rather than how good it was for the country. McClellan points out that Bush was not the first President to do this, but hopefully, he will be the last.
Generation Kill was written by Evan Wright, a Rolling Stone reporter embedded with the USMC's 1st Recon Battalion. This book pulls no punches, show both the skill and heroism of the Recon Marines alongside the sheer idiocy and failures you get in any military organization. Extremely well-written, and very hard to put down. As a former professional pop-up target, I was interested to see just how different, yet so similar, this generation of killers was. One thing did make me laugh.. the Marines call hastily dug sleeping trenches "Ranger graves." One guess what us Doggies called ours.
Currently, I'm reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. I've read this before, but it's been ages (possibly pre-cancer) so the book is new to me again.
Amusingly, one of my new standards for books is "must fit in the upper pocket of my backpack" so I can take it to work.
What Happened is Scott McClellan's insider look at the Bush White House, specifically the selling of the war in Iraq and the outing of Valerie Plame. Very interesting read, especially because McClellan makes it clear that he is still a conservative, but the process of government has become corrupted by the idea of the permanent campaign. Under Karl Rove the White House never stopped running for office. Everything was addressed in terms of selling points, rather than how good it was for the country. McClellan points out that Bush was not the first President to do this, but hopefully, he will be the last.
Generation Kill was written by Evan Wright, a Rolling Stone reporter embedded with the USMC's 1st Recon Battalion. This book pulls no punches, show both the skill and heroism of the Recon Marines alongside the sheer idiocy and failures you get in any military organization. Extremely well-written, and very hard to put down. As a former professional pop-up target, I was interested to see just how different, yet so similar, this generation of killers was. One thing did make me laugh.. the Marines call hastily dug sleeping trenches "Ranger graves." One guess what us Doggies called ours.
Currently, I'm reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. I've read this before, but it's been ages (possibly pre-cancer) so the book is new to me again.
Amusingly, one of my new standards for books is "must fit in the upper pocket of my backpack" so I can take it to work.
BEAT LA!!!!
Aug. 9th, 2008 09:35 pmGame tied in the 10th! Giants on 2nd and 3rd with no outs!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
edit: Bases loaded, nobody out!!!
edit: Aaron Rowand hits a one-out single, Game Over!!!!
Woooo!!!!!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
edit: Bases loaded, nobody out!!!
edit: Aaron Rowand hits a one-out single, Game Over!!!!
Woooo!!!!!
