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June 02, 2004
No Rain!
A couple more days, and a couple more days of work. Not too much to say, other than cleaning up a couple crates of broken eggs (a couple days ago, and even though I was pushing it when everything tipped over, it was my boss's fault for stacking the cart poorly), and a few broken containers of cottage cheese (today, and that was my fault) are certainly not my idea of fun. Nor is cleaning out all the crap from underneath the bottom shelf in the dairy coolers, and getting my arms scraped up in the process. Yep, that's what I did for a few hours yesterday. How fun. I hate cleaning at work, but fortunately Scott doesn't have me do that very much. I greatly prefer just stocking shelves and whatnot. But I'm excited for tomorrow, because it'll be the last of seven consecutive 8+ hour days (apart from Saturday's 5 hour shortened shift), before I finally get a day off on Friday. Yay! But tomorrow'll be extremely busy, there's a huge one-day sale going on. Sigh.
Tonight I watched a couple of fascinating PBS documentaries on D-Day, which was 60 years ago on June 6, 1944, one of which focused in on the story of the 507th Paratroopers Infantry Division, which actually had some major key successes in the Allies invasion of Normandy, but whose role often gets lost or ignored. It was fascinating to hear about some of the not-so-famous battles in Normandy on D-Day and the days immediately following it. And speaking of WWII, comparisons can be drawn between it and the War on Terror. Mark Levin has a column for National Review Online that has many excerpts from articles in the New York Times, detailing the problems that the Allied forces were encountering while they were occupying Germany in the months after the end of the war. Hmmm, and the left has been in an absolute tizzy for months, running around claiming that the resistance we're encountering in Iraq right now is unlike anything we've ever seen in our history... Just another point that they're dead wrong on! I mean, of course postwar occupation isn't going to go totally smoothly. It sure didn't in Germany, but I think that even the left would have to agree that things turned out fairly well. And the "Grey Lady" certainly hasn't changed either, it's definitely the same newspaper. The stories the NYT is reporting these days from Iraq are eerily similar to the ones that they ran out of 1945 Germany. Fancy that.
And apparently the arrogant, pompous, caustic, rude loudmouth known as Michael Moore has found a distributor for his Bush-bashing, vitriolic, hate-filled propaganda film "Farenheit 9/11," in the the Weinstein brothers, the ultra-liberal media moguls from Miramax. Surprise surprise. Too bad Michael Moore is a liar. I mean, seriously, if you have to completely fake an interview with someone in order to try to dupe people into believing you or your case, your case must be pretty weak.
And I'm finally getting around to looking at new digital cameras online. So many good choices! But the one I'm leaning towards right now is the 4-megapixel Canon PowerShot G3. A bit expensive (for my current lack of funds), but from everything I've been reading it seems like a very good camera with lots of features, great image quality and long battery life. I hope to have a final decision made by sometime this weekend.
And at last! There wasn't a drop of rain today! I think today was only the second day in the last three weeks or so where we haven't had any rain. It felt great to have a fantastic day out finally, despite having to spend most of it inside Marketplace.
Posted by Jared at June 2, 2004 11:58 PM