Ahh, ya gotta love Fridays, only one class… 🙂 This afternoon I hung out for Rowan for an hour or so, partly to sorta start up a one-on-one Bible study that we’re planning on having most Friday afternoons this semester, partly just to talk about stuff, it was cool. After that I wrote five more postcards, woohoo! I’m glad to be getting through those finally. Now I think I’ve sent out a total of 13 so far, not too shabby. I still have a few left to do, once I find out the addresses of a few people, but at least for the time being I can take a break. And you know what else is nice? It costs the same ($1) to mail a postcard from Australia, no matter what country it’s going to, be it China, Japan or the US. It sure makes things less confusing.
Once I got done with that I hopped on the bus down to Burwood to do some grocery shopping at Coles, and I also picked up some cheap gloves at K-Mart, which I’ll need for tomorrow’s trip up to Lake Mountain for some fun in the snow. I didn’t bring my gloves down here when I came, because I didn’t anticipate that I’d be around snow at all, and since it’s not that cold here in the winter. Since that I haven’t done a whole lot, about the only thing I’ve actually accomplished has been getting my Phillip Island photo album ready to upload. Now there are three waiting to go up, but by the time I actually get around to putting them online in hopefully a couple weeks there’ll probably be six or so to upload.
The media seems to be noticing the inconsistencies in John Kerry’s war stories. The UK Telegraph points out that when confronted with the controversy about Kerry’s “Christmas in Cambodia” claim, Kerry’s spokesmen revised his story, saying that he was in the Mekong Delta between Cambodia and Vietnam. Too bad the delta is entirely within Vietnam. Then when confronted with this, they changed the story yet again, saying that he was on the Mekong while it flowed along the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. Wrong again Mr Kerry! The Mekong flows from Cambodia to Vietnam, and at no point does the border run along the river. The man who wants to be commander of our armed forces can’t tell the truth about his own experiences in uniform, which spells trouble for his campaign, since Kerry himself made it the centerpiece. As the American Spectator has put it, he’s surrounded himself by a “bodyguard of lies.” And at last the rule of law has triumphed in the People’s Republic of California, at least for the time-being, as the state supreme court voided all the same-sex marriage certificates that were granted illegally by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom back in February and March. In international news, it’s tough being a newscaster in Turkmenistan, with an egomaniacal dictator running the country. The Age reports that a 20-year old Norwegian hacker has broken Apple’s monopoly on its wireless music streaming technology. Apparently Croatian teenagers love their foam a little too much, as the government has banned “foam parties.” Go figure. And in Odd Spot, there are several stories involving dogs, including one in Germany named Adolf that was trained to raise his paw in the Nazi salute on command!
Now it’s time for a little “Return of the King” action before I turn in for the night. Hopefully I can figure out how to knock the towers down on the Walls of Minas Tirith level.