Yeah, I just don't know what to do about this. My parents are not going to China: they're old and scared. Won't happen. And the rest of us are scheduling the rest of our year: hard to do that and keep an unknown week open to fly to Beijing.
And my brother, bless him, doesn't seem to see how difficult it is for the rest of us. I mean, don't we need visas to go to China? Gah, that hadn't even occurred to me...
We'll all go, if possible. It just doesn't seem to sink in that it might take more than a couple of weeks notice to scare up visas, airfare, and vacation time. We don't all have UN passports, dude.
Plus the wedding's been called off/postponed so many times that I'm kind of losing my enthusiasm, you know?
Free at last! It's almost 6 hours later than intended, but I did get the impossible-to-fit project overview pages laid out and sent off to editorial on the date scheduled.
Now I just have to find a way to magically pull extra days out of nowhere, as one editor wants me to make sure production keeps on schedule despite necessary files not being released until a week after deadline. If I had a time machine that would allow me to make up 4 extra lost days when I'm scheduled to turn work in 3 days after said blown deadline, I would be using it to do something far more lucrative than my current job.
We'll all go, if possible. It just doesn't seem to sink in that it might take more than a couple of weeks notice to scare up visas, airfare, and vacation time. We don't all have UN passports, dude.
Plus the wedding's been called off/postponed so many times that I'm kind of losing my enthusiasm, you know?
My god, you are in exactly the same situation, aren't you? The wedding was supposed to be last year, but last year was Year of the Widow, so they couldn't get married.
But my god, visas! And vacations! Bleah. There are, frankly, many places I'd go before China. Which makes me parochial, but I admit I prefer a place where I can read the street signs.
Wow. Y'all went to bed early.
I didn't train again today. At least, that's what the instructor said--he never saw me, not at all. Best news? The other instructor said I looked good, that he'd pass me on what he saw me do. It's only maybe 1/4 to 1/5 of the syllabus, but that's a hugely good thing to know--I haven't trained on this stuff since the concussion three months ago. And January was always too soon for the test.
Wow. Y'all went to bed early.
Not me.
Yay on the good krav stuff.
I have an 8am meeting with my boss tomorrow. I really need to no longer be awake. To that end, I bid thee farewell.
Oh, and stop working bon.
Yay for the positive not training.
I just finished watching Bones. I can't figure out if that was a gutsy topic or not (in the figurative sense). I was glad I taped though because I had to stop and laugh my ass off at
Zach's attempt at peacemaking
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Spur of the moment weddings in Russia or China sound a bit stressful. Not quite like the weddings planned in exact detail a year or so in advance. Boggles really.
It appears things have become more complex.
The radical Islamic group Hamas claimed victory Thursday in voting for the first Palestinian parliament in a decade, saying it won a clear majority of seats and had the right to form the next government.
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and YaY ita for the excellent invisible Krav!
This is a pretty cool headline:
Monkey Police Provide Social Stability
Of the 21 species of macaque monkeys, pigtailed macaques live in societies that fall somewhere between the despotic and egalitarian extremes. A dominant male and female run the show but conflict among other monkeys is common, if rarely extreme. Most such conflicts end with a third party intervening, usually in favor of one or the other opponent. But sometimes the most powerful monkeys literally stand between the two combatants and, occasionally without even threatening them, impartially resolve the conflict. It is this occasional policing that allows pigtailed macaque society to be more diverse instead of breaking down into warring cliques, according to new research.
