Very much in one piece, and I completely beat jetlag since I got home right around midnight. I'm crazy busy with various little chores, but here are some things that I've been thinking are cool in the last few hours:-There's going to be a sequel to Sin, the baddest-ass FPS ever made, and it's going to be released in episodes on Steam, using the Source engine. I'm very happy.
-BMW's full maintenance program means for free, they come bring me a loan car while they take my car and do all the one-year maintenance stuff. Love it. Sadly, what's not cool at all is the horrendous London attacks that went down yesterday. My original travel plans would have had me there yesterday. I think it's just as tragic as 9/11 but even more disconcerting that world-class terrorism is getting more and more discreet. I never really believed the whole line that "9/11 changed the way the whole world has to do things," but after Madrid and now London I think it really is starting to say something. In a certain sense, I kind of wish I had been there, to be a sort of ambassador of American consolation. It certainly would have beat coming home to find Sandra Day O'Connor giving Bush a judicial nomination, finding that G8 accomplished about as much as the trailer park next to my neighborhood does on a Sunday, and finding that we here still love our bold Republican leadership. My mom and I have gotten serious about it: if the Republicans are re-elected, she's going to Canada and I'll go overseas. Screw this place, Europe is the fitting place for a fella like myself.
-BMW's full maintenance program means for free, they come bring me a loan car while they take my car and do all the one-year maintenance stuff. Love it. Sadly, what's not cool at all is the horrendous London attacks that went down yesterday. My original travel plans would have had me there yesterday. I think it's just as tragic as 9/11 but even more disconcerting that world-class terrorism is getting more and more discreet. I never really believed the whole line that "9/11 changed the way the whole world has to do things," but after Madrid and now London I think it really is starting to say something. In a certain sense, I kind of wish I had been there, to be a sort of ambassador of American consolation. It certainly would have beat coming home to find Sandra Day O'Connor giving Bush a judicial nomination, finding that G8 accomplished about as much as the trailer park next to my neighborhood does on a Sunday, and finding that we here still love our bold Republican leadership. My mom and I have gotten serious about it: if the Republicans are re-elected, she's going to Canada and I'll go overseas. Screw this place, Europe is the fitting place for a fella like myself.