further randomness

Bar Staff: Jamie the Chinese guy and I establish that I could probably get around China by writing down what I want, since we played, "what's this Kanji?" while I was downing my after-hours pint.

Other: Holy Fuck. Aurora. Wow. I have never seen aurora in my life, and now I'm staring at the lines in the sky and being utterly amazed not just at seeing them, but at the fact I can see them even in the presence of a whole assload of light pollution. Woah.

political sniping, lack of

I note that the number of troops killed between the official "end of hostilities" and now has exceed the number killed during official hostilities. I note that George Bush is denying that the White House had anything to do with the "Mission Accomplished" banner. I note that George Tenet appears to be being set up to take the blame for the miswar, if blame is being allocated. But really, it's just getting far too surreal for me to even try and keep up with the random political commentary I've been throwing here. Besides, we've got our own political circuses going on here: the deposing of Ian Duncan Smith has just pretty much guaranteed that Labour will get another term in the UK - if that was ever in doubt; the IRA are busy making bigger fools of themselves than the DUP normally do over politics in Northern Ireland; and Bertie Ahern - our PRIME MINISTER - has suggested that publicans "stick to what they know" and serve beer instead of complaining about the impending smoking ban. In those exact words.

"yay"

Whee. another reason for me not to visit the US.

eek!

My car may be recalled!