Daily Archive: October 16, 2003

Thank God It’s Almost Friday 🙂 Anders and the kids made homemade pizzas for dinner, just as I was heading out the door for social circle at Sigurborg’s. I wanted to stay so badly…but, commitments… 🙁 argh Anyway, it was a nice evening, even though I was the only other member of the AWC there. Sigurborg had invited 3 of her neighbors (1 didn’t show) and another woman from Iceland who is planning on joining. We spoke Swedish the entire time, and each one of them at some point complimented me on my Swedish. I’m really beginning to wonder when...

President George Bush has been complaining about “the filter” of national media, which garbles his feel-good all’s-well-in-Iraq message by reporting on the car bombings, the killed-in-action Americans, the fleeing foreign aid workers, the internal White House investigations and recriminations, etc. So this week, he and others in his Administration will be going around “the filter” to give interviews with local newspapers and small television stations. The idea is that journalists not used to dealing with Presidents and Cabinet secretaries will be more easily awed and deferential. In other words: We’ve reached the point in our Iraq adventure where the President...

(That’s how Anders refers to my LJ 🙂 Anders just sent me this, which engenders an immediate WTF response: Open a Word document and type = rand (200,99) Press Enter Be careful not to click on PRINT.