Unrelated and possibly uninteresting short paragraphs about today

This morning I was stretching out my messed-up back (T3-4 right side narrowing) and shoulder and unexpectedly stretched it properly and successfully. The relief was so intense I nearly passed out. Thanks, God. It’s about 50% better now. Spent some time thinking about the metaphor of relief being its own shock today, because it was quite a ride. Almost made me nauseous.

Good conversations today with vegemitelover, klikitak, and others.

Our tile guy is a nice fellow but a flake. He disappears for hours at a time and always has some involved, church-related reason for this that indicates that he is a good person who helps others. I think that’s true, but also that he covers up a lot of general flakiness with that excuse.

Can anyone remember the name of the Mexican restaurant in Office Space? I know the other two were Tcotchkie’s and Flingers, but I can’t remember the name of the Mexican one.

I don’t think I’m going to lend out my Leatherman to people who do home surgery on themselves at outdoor cafes. It’s kind of gross.

Hey joyfulagitator, how was the “Sound of Music” sing-along? Did you get to projectile-vomit?

I came within an inch of spontaneously driving to Las Vegas today. Good/bad thing I’m broke.

NEVAR FOGRET

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Weehawken 7/11.

That section at the market

Funny meals
Tribe hummus snackers
PB Slices
Pizza cracker snackers
Lunchables
Loco nachos
Fun fuel peanut butter pileups
Mega cracker combo
Cracker stackers
Cowpals nutritious cheese snacks

Newspeak makes me ill

The disinformation campaign about Iraq is being referred to as an “intelligence failure”. This is obviously false; it was a deliberate campaign of lies that defrauded the American people and the British government into accepting an unnecessary war.

The deliberate destruction of incriminating documents is now called a “document retention policy”.

People wishing to protest the conduct of our government are corralled into small, distant “free speech zones”.

The everyday talk of business people everywhere is now Newspeak too. What we call “buzzwords” like “reorg” or “loss prevention” are just that. Business speak, eduspeak, newspeak, doublethink. We’re our own big brother.