[Martha] Brant [of Newsweek] thinks we can get peace by ceasing to fight. I think that if we don’t take the war to our enemies, at a time and place of our choosing which is to our advantage, they’ll bring the war to us, at a time and place most to our disadvantage.
Author: Gordon
Aaaargh
I was going to write something pleasant about the quality of the light looking out over Burnaby yesterday afternoon, but after two and a half hours sitting in traffic I’m not inclined to.
Anybody who stalls a semi on a major bridge should be forced to run across the bridge seven times in their underpants.
In other news, I made it to the gym this morning. Woohoo, 2 for 2!
50 Ways…
I have quit my Taekwondo class. My schedule in the evenings was such that I only got to one or two practices a week, so I’m losing condition and getting injured. And the last straw was when one of the teenagers complained that I pushed, shoved or otherwise abused him.
So today was the first day of my new fitness regimen. Made it to the rec center at 6:30, but my hopes for blissful solitude were not to be; by 6:35 all the cardio machines were in use, and there were at least a dozen people working out. Grr.
It’s always embarrassing starting out again, working at such a leisurely pace, while everyone beside you is racing madly away.
Friday Five
About time I jumped on the bandwagon, I guess:
1. Name five things in your refrigerator.
This one’s difficult, as I don’t keep much food around. Dill pickles, Gatorade, salami, rye bread, gruyere.
2. Name five things in your freezer.
Even harder — I had to get up and check: ice cubes, a couple frozen dinners, a frozen pizza, Breyer’s traditional vanilla ice cream, extra lean ground beef, some salmon filets.
3. Name five things under your kitchen sink.
Trash bags, paper towels, phone books, a bottle of parrafin, a touch-up paint pen for my car.
4. Name five things around your computer.
A mug with snowmen on it, a spider plant in the last stages of dying from thirst, a stack of tech books, VFR aviation charts for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, a world atlas.
5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet.
A comprehensive camping first-aid kit, extra band-aids, contact solution, nail clippers, Effexor XR.