Just before I start with the post I was going to write, just a quick mention of a news story I have seen on the front page of the BBC all of about a minute and a half ago. "Bush defends US spying programme" - this is the one where three out of the four big telco companies over there have given the Feds access to all call history, and where, allegedly, tens of millions of Americans have the numbers they have called to in some giant database. My initial reaction when I saw the headline on the front page was 'you f-', and I stopped myself at that F, as I was reacting out loud...
Read the story through the link if you wish, I don't want this entry to get into a whole anti-Bush screed :)
I'm always out of the loop with family gossip - which is partially my own fault, because I'm often away in my own little world, even when family members are around. But this one is hot off the press - my brother and his girlfriend are not, repeat not, going to get back together again. They tried for about two months or so, since she got back from her timeout back home (NZ), but nope, there's not enough respect from my brother in the equation to kick start anything again. It is just leaving the girl more angry than anything, each time they, or rather she by the sounds of it, tries to reconcile.
Sounds like the brother has gotten into the wrong group of friends - again, like he did several years ago. When I was in the UK, and only getting these family crisis reports second hand. Well, I'm getting them second hand again, and I'm living in the same city as everyone - this was apparently mentioned to my parents when the initial split happened, about three or four months ago now. And the question is, how far has my brother fallen in with these bad influences...
Since the ex got back from New Zealand, the brother has only had his daughter, my niece, over for one night - my parents have had her about five or six, maybe seven times, and with the brother, I'm not even sure whether he had the kid overnight, to be honest. Total lack of interest it sounds like, and he is not popular in the immediate family at the moment. I know it is bad to speak err, badly of family members, but seriously, he is a dickhead when it comes to this issue.
Whether he is a dickhead regards other issues, it's not for me to say...
I got complimented on my dress sense at work on Thursday - and specifically what I was wearing that day. Got a 10/10 from KSM, and a looking dapper from LBU, and a good combination from KDE. Who also said that I have a good dress sense, and always look good - and on Wednesday CMC said what was I all dressed up for. Umm, it is just me with a normal shirt and tie combo, if I was going for an interview, I would buy a new suit. V says that even my around the house gear is too good to wear 'around the house'.
It's nice to be complimented, and to be noticed. The question is, when did I become a metrosexual without me noticing LOL. For instance, I still love listening to Metallica, along with the best of the black shirt and jeans brigade. I've gotten a couple of colognes the last few months, but don't really feel I will become all classy in that regards until I get aftershave - yeah yeah, I'm a soothe the pain with water guy still...
Hmm. It is interesting where google searches can lead you. Another headline on the BBC website today is how the Croat soccer champions, Dinamo Zagreb, are donating their end of season match money to the Croat suspects at the Hague war crimes tribunal. One google search of 'may 1990 serb croat football riot', as mentioned in the BBC article, and up comes this Observer piece from 2004, about the Red Star Belgrade ultra hooligans. Scary stuff, and Serbia is headed to the World Cup next month...
They are having a memorial for the 25th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, and have brought a statue of the Virgin of Fatima, whom John Paul believed saved him - let alone all the medical care from the doctors, of course - over to Rome to preside over the memorial. Forgive me for being cynical, but I thought the Pope was merely God's messenger on the planet, for the Catholic population at least, but with John Paul II, is it just me or is there a serious cult of personality going on?
More later :)
Pauly
Read the story through the link if you wish, I don't want this entry to get into a whole anti-Bush screed :)
I'm always out of the loop with family gossip - which is partially my own fault, because I'm often away in my own little world, even when family members are around. But this one is hot off the press - my brother and his girlfriend are not, repeat not, going to get back together again. They tried for about two months or so, since she got back from her timeout back home (NZ), but nope, there's not enough respect from my brother in the equation to kick start anything again. It is just leaving the girl more angry than anything, each time they, or rather she by the sounds of it, tries to reconcile.
Sounds like the brother has gotten into the wrong group of friends - again, like he did several years ago. When I was in the UK, and only getting these family crisis reports second hand. Well, I'm getting them second hand again, and I'm living in the same city as everyone - this was apparently mentioned to my parents when the initial split happened, about three or four months ago now. And the question is, how far has my brother fallen in with these bad influences...
Since the ex got back from New Zealand, the brother has only had his daughter, my niece, over for one night - my parents have had her about five or six, maybe seven times, and with the brother, I'm not even sure whether he had the kid overnight, to be honest. Total lack of interest it sounds like, and he is not popular in the immediate family at the moment. I know it is bad to speak err, badly of family members, but seriously, he is a dickhead when it comes to this issue.
Whether he is a dickhead regards other issues, it's not for me to say...
I got complimented on my dress sense at work on Thursday - and specifically what I was wearing that day. Got a 10/10 from KSM, and a looking dapper from LBU, and a good combination from KDE. Who also said that I have a good dress sense, and always look good - and on Wednesday CMC said what was I all dressed up for. Umm, it is just me with a normal shirt and tie combo, if I was going for an interview, I would buy a new suit. V says that even my around the house gear is too good to wear 'around the house'.
It's nice to be complimented, and to be noticed. The question is, when did I become a metrosexual without me noticing LOL. For instance, I still love listening to Metallica, along with the best of the black shirt and jeans brigade. I've gotten a couple of colognes the last few months, but don't really feel I will become all classy in that regards until I get aftershave - yeah yeah, I'm a soothe the pain with water guy still...
Hmm. It is interesting where google searches can lead you. Another headline on the BBC website today is how the Croat soccer champions, Dinamo Zagreb, are donating their end of season match money to the Croat suspects at the Hague war crimes tribunal. One google search of 'may 1990 serb croat football riot', as mentioned in the BBC article, and up comes this Observer piece from 2004, about the Red Star Belgrade ultra hooligans. Scary stuff, and Serbia is headed to the World Cup next month...
They are having a memorial for the 25th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, and have brought a statue of the Virgin of Fatima, whom John Paul believed saved him - let alone all the medical care from the doctors, of course - over to Rome to preside over the memorial. Forgive me for being cynical, but I thought the Pope was merely God's messenger on the planet, for the Catholic population at least, but with John Paul II, is it just me or is there a serious cult of personality going on?
More later :)
Pauly
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