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I actually woke up early this morning. Of course, I went straight to my computer to continue playing BG2. It's a bad habit.
girl dragged me out to go shopping for a gift for one of her friends. We bladed down to Woodside to go and check out the books in the bookstore. To our surprise, and her despair, we found that the book store had disappeared! Crap. Luckily, there was some sort of book clearance sale being held in another part of the mall and we perused their warez. Uhh, I mean wares. Sorry, Freudian slip.
Unfortunately, the selection was a little slim, and I couldn't find anything that interested me. I was going to grab one of the maps that was on sale, but then I saw what was available: Saskatoon, Calgary, Medicine Hat. Right country, wrong province.
We had lunch there before heading home. While eating in the Vietnamese restaurant (which was clearly catering to Chinese folk) I suddenly remembered that entry Jax put up about not tipping at Chinese restaurants. This lead me to the problem when helping people with a corrupt government.
If there is some sort of famine, or humanitarian crisis in a country who's government is found to be using most of the international aid for it's own needs (be it for the army or to sell for money, etc.). It uses this aid to maintain control over the population and gives only a fraction of the aid to the people who need it. Do you:
I'd hate to be thrust into that type of situation. You can feed the hand that strangles them, or let them starve.
On the way back, girl shouted at me,
"Flag's at half mast!"
Eh? I checked to make sure that my fly was not undone. It wasn't.
"No! The flag's at half mast!"
Oh! She was being literal about it! We had just passed a school who's flag was at half mast (I hadn't noticed myself). Pierre Trudeau died a couple of days ago. If you were a Canadian, you would've heard about it by now. He was Prime Minister of Canada for a good fraction of my life (which ain't saying much since I'm still kinda young), but for some odd reason, he was one of the most popular persons in Canada in recent history. (Which is a feat considering that he was a politician.)
Quite a charismatic leader he was.
HKL came by to return my copy of Freespace 2 and pick up his copy of Final Fantasy VIII. I might try to sell some of my games at some point in time..
I don't know why I'm agreeing to this, but girl's going to take me out to some Latin dancing thing.. I dunno.. *looks down at both left feet*
In ant case, the weather's nice, which means I probably will spend the rest of the day indoors..
Monday, October 02, 2000 at 18:06:44 (UTC)
"Some odd reason," he says. Feh. It's because Trudeau was without a doubt, by far the coolest Prime Minister this country has ever seen (and will see for quite some time, given current prospects). Not only that, he, like, did stuff. What a guy. *sniff*
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