First, news for those who don't care about the Super Bowl.
My road trip this past weekend was sadly cancelled. Work overruled well-laid plans, and I found myself once more fighting the good fight against a giant named Bureaucracy. I don't know if I can deal with all this for another 11 days. Each 24 hour cycle that goes by is worse than the one before. I just try to mute out all the banal shit I get thrown at me as everyone with a rank higher than mine scrambles to ensure inspection readiness.
Deep breath.
Miyamoto Musashi said:
"In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak."
I am trying my best to keep my spirit settled.
In other news...
Well, the Super Bowl came and went.
Sadly, the Panther lost. Generally, I'm a Giants fan (family's from NY), but for as long as I've lived in the States, I've called Charleston, SC, home (when I'm not galivanting across the globe)... so, Carolina was who I was rooting for. All in all, it was one of the better ones I've gotten to watch. I'd still hate to be John Kasay on the trip home, though.
Unfortunately, we here in Korea missed out on the neat commercials. No advertising on the Armed Forces Network, you know. Just endless infommercials about safety, avoiding drugs and gambling, etc. Gotta love social programs aimed at the lowest common denominator of human beings, disseminated through every available means of electronic media.
So, believe me when I say that, however jittery you all were waiting for a break or timeout to end, you cannot imagine just how much I was aching to throw something at the TV. As Seanbaby once conveyed through the animated mouth of Super Friend Flash, my hatred for those in charge of AFN programming burnt so much I could feel it in my balls...
They showed the halftime show, though...and I wish they hadn't. Sorry, but Janet Jackson looked way too tired and off que on the lip-synching. I could tell Kid Rock was really singing though--there would be no point in him faking a track that bad.
Of course I then had to go back to work for the rest of the day. What fun!
Perhaps it's time to purchase some tickets for the Olympics. Who knows when I'll next have a chance to see the Games in Ελλας?
Ελευθερον το Ευψυχον...
My road trip this past weekend was sadly cancelled. Work overruled well-laid plans, and I found myself once more fighting the good fight against a giant named Bureaucracy. I don't know if I can deal with all this for another 11 days. Each 24 hour cycle that goes by is worse than the one before. I just try to mute out all the banal shit I get thrown at me as everyone with a rank higher than mine scrambles to ensure inspection readiness.
Deep breath.
Miyamoto Musashi said:
"In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak."
I am trying my best to keep my spirit settled.
In other news...
Well, the Super Bowl came and went.
Sadly, the Panther lost. Generally, I'm a Giants fan (family's from NY), but for as long as I've lived in the States, I've called Charleston, SC, home (when I'm not galivanting across the globe)... so, Carolina was who I was rooting for. All in all, it was one of the better ones I've gotten to watch. I'd still hate to be John Kasay on the trip home, though.
Unfortunately, we here in Korea missed out on the neat commercials. No advertising on the Armed Forces Network, you know. Just endless infommercials about safety, avoiding drugs and gambling, etc. Gotta love social programs aimed at the lowest common denominator of human beings, disseminated through every available means of electronic media.
So, believe me when I say that, however jittery you all were waiting for a break or timeout to end, you cannot imagine just how much I was aching to throw something at the TV. As Seanbaby once conveyed through the animated mouth of Super Friend Flash, my hatred for those in charge of AFN programming burnt so much I could feel it in my balls...
They showed the halftime show, though...and I wish they hadn't. Sorry, but Janet Jackson looked way too tired and off que on the lip-synching. I could tell Kid Rock was really singing though--there would be no point in him faking a track that bad.
Of course I then had to go back to work for the rest of the day. What fun!
Perhaps it's time to purchase some tickets for the Olympics. Who knows when I'll next have a chance to see the Games in Ελλας?
Ελευθερον το Ευψυχον...
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I heard they're gonna outlaw lapdancing the stripclubs near US military bases in Korea. I can't imagine that being good for morale.
At any rate, not much in the way of news for me. Work continues to be insane, but they recently gave me a 20" flat panel monitor for all the time I put in over the "holidays" covering for other people. Of course, it sorta makes me feel like an abused wife who was just handed flowers...
...but these ARE really nice flowers, and it WAS so thoughtful, and... heh
-r