Friday Night

Wow, my first Friday night at home for umm at least a month. Was keeping under the radar today, in the sense that I didn't want to go out, so didn't suggest it - if someone had suggested going out, well my arm wouldn't have been the hardest to twist, but no one did. So now the self doubt starts again - lol did I stuff up badly last Friday, am I popular blah blah the usual LOL.



Have been reading a blog on and off about life in a call centre in the UK - quite good writing in fact - was considering last night starting describing what is going on at work and the characters etc, but then thought maybe not LOL - I don't think I could make it interesting myself... would be too many mentions of the favoured daughters shall we say - LOL no there wouldn't be drool.



Oh, on Arafat's death, heard on the news last night one of the Palestinian leadership, Saaeb Erekat (spelling?) said something along the lines of that the Palestinians could vote for Mother Theresa, Gandhi or Mandela as President and Sharon would still say they were terrorists - think that is very true in fact. The Israelis want a leadership that is very lap dog bleah.



Good Maureen Dowd New York Times article here today - about how Kerry was going to let terrorists with nukes into the country, and suddenly after he is defeated in the Prez campaign (no, I am NOT going to dwell on it LOL), the alert levels go down - because the buildings have better security apparently - sure sure LOL.



Not nice, but kind of necessary, a documentary about Last Letters Home by troops that have died in Iraq. Fallujah continues to get pummelled, while Mosul, Ramadi, Baghdad, Samarra get hit from the other side as well. How can it be normal that a city the size of Sydney or Los Angeles is so chaotic - Baghdad I'm talking here. By the way, here's the HBO link to that NYT sponsored doco... oh, it was done to coincide with Veteran's Day...



And here are the letters themselves.



Geez, didn't want to make this entry that maudlin - I know I am home on a Friday, but geez louise LOL. Good article about Fallujah here, courtesy of the LA Times, and another article about the wider Iraqi situation, but let's pick up the mood and pace LOL from here on in :)



Astronomy Photo of the Day, or APOD, is about the best I can do at the moment, sorry peeps. But they are having a series of really nice auroras at the moment :)



Oh gods, dipping again, but the Peterson case - the jury has taken two weeks to deliberate thus far, surely they read the National Enquirer when he was hung drawn and quartered. Hmmph, how did they do the jury selection, have you been living on Mars lately tick yes LOL. He was on the run to Mexico with a radically different hairstyle, he had said to the girl he was having an affair with that he was a widow, grrr, just brings back OJ memories really LOL.



Have switched over to Firefox, well switched over is too harsh a phrase, trying out may be more the word - I like the set out and everything, but a few of the sites I like seem to be more attuned to IE, and some content doesn't come up properly. I am sure that there will be three versions of sites soonish though - IE, Mac and FF :) and can always go back to IE for the one or two uses I have for it LOL.



More soonish peeps, almost tea time here, mmm Red Rooster :)

Pauly