In the park, on opposite ends, are statues of a long passed conflict. A long staring contest, with all the distractions in the world. The seasons change, children play, adolescents smoke and drink, students sit and study, and everyone visits when they grow old, thinking themselves old friends with the long baked and frozen stone. Since their creation, the statues consider only trees their companions -- they won't invest their thoughts in you, oh flesh. Conflict, the last guard, those who refuse to hear that the war is not only ended, it is forgotten. Both of them contain a doubt, that man is my brother, if only I could give up this responsibility, could escape their eyes, and .. could learn to trust.. if only... perhaps next century...

I recently have noticed that a lot of 3d-modeled people tend to have a swedish look to them.. I'm not sure why -- maybe it's easier to have facial variation along certain directions that Swedes are particularly distinguished from each other in, and the features that we tend to see as interracial are things where their models would need to be redone..

A fashion I absolutely loathe, and wish it would just disappear: Tank tops with one strap missing.. I'm not a big fan of tank tops in general, but the one strap missing ones, that try to look like a toga or something... hate hate hate.

"You never really got to know me" "I never really wanted to"

AAA called me today.. they wanted me to renew, so apparently I did have AAA coverage, and could've gotten towed to Fnord when my car broke down without calling a tow truck. Nice. Anyhow, I told them I'm still researching alternatives that arn't so pro-SUV-lobbying.. well, at least, I tried. I was half asleep, and I'm not sure I made sense. Thank you, AAA, for interrupting the sleep that I was catching up on. Speaking of which, I actually need to do this. Thanks, Jeff, for pointing out that there are alternatives... as always, if it's a reasonable alternative, then this Earth First guy is going with a company that's more sympathetic to the planet :)

I've added a few new things to my Amazon Wishlist. I noticed they have a drop box for "Your Favorite People", and my default is "You". Yay. I'm my favourite person. In an ideal world, that wouldn't be the case, but I'm trying not to grumble about that anymore :)

Some bozo is using their tribe.net messageboard thing to sell avon. It just seems wrong.. like a math professor at CMU having an abacus on their desk, except without the quaint charm possible darin..

The wind is blowing rather noisily outside.. it's kind of charming. It's loud enough that I can hear it blowing against the wall...

Today in PUSH, there was a cool presentation, an overview of the Mormon faith. We're going to meet up with some evangelists sometime in the next 2 weeks (not sure about the exact time), and it's good to get a refresher (well, actually, to learn a lot of new stuff -- that particular faith isn't something I knew that much about).

I have at least two, maybe three, things to mail out.. actually, maybe 4. Two of them are gifts, one unexpected, third is a netflix movie that I've been meaning to mail back for quite some time, and fourth is .. hmm.. there was a fourth.

I'd like to start reading or otherwise have some nice entertainment -- there's been too little of that, and now that I feel reasonably caught up on sleep, it might be nice.. but maybe I should go back to bed and make absolutely certain that I get out of sleep debt. It's a miserable thing to have, and these last few weeks, oy!