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  • 20100228-New Year

    While eating dinner last night, we watched `The Southwest Airlines Chinese New Festival & Parade` on the television on KTVU Fox 2 or KTSF Channel 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Then while I washed dishes the three of us were trying to greet each other `Happy New Years` in Chinese. But because humor overcame us, we made up a few closely sounded ones. Here is my version:

    `Gung Ho! Bok Choy!

  • 20100228-Chilled Out

    It’s late in the morning and I came across a recently YouTube.com video:

    The President Speaks on Chile Earthquake by whitehouse on February 27, 2010

    Since it was late, I viewed the video with the aid of the subtitles, luckily, and kept the volume to the speakers low so as not to awaken the sleeping one next door to my computer room upstairs. Here are the subtitles to his speech that day:

    The President: Good morning everybody.

    Earlier today, a devastating earthquake stuck the nation of Chile, affecting millions of people. This catastrophic event was followed by multiple aftershocks, and has prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.

    Earlier today, I was briefed by my national security team on the steps that we’re taking to protect our own people, and to stand with our own Chilean friends.

    Early indications are that hundreds of lives have been lost in Chile, and the damage is severe.

    On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the Chilean people.

    The United States stands ready to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts, and we have resources that are positioned to deploy should the Chilean government ask for our help.

    Chile is a close friend and partner of the United States, and I’ve reached out to President Bachelet to let her know that we will be there for her should the Chilean people need assistance, and our hearts go out to the families who may have lost loved ones.

    We’re also preparing for a tsunami that could reach American shores later today, particularly in Hawaii, American Samoa and Guam.

    A tsunami warning is in place, and people have been alerted to evacuate coastal areas.

    I urge citizens to listen closely to the instructions of local officials, who will have the full support of the federal government as they prepare for a potential tsunami, and recover from any damage that may be caused.

    I also urge our citizens along the West Coast to be prepared as well, as there may be dangerous waves and currents throughout the day.

    Again, the most important thing that you can do is to carefully heed the instructions of your state and local officials.

    Once again, we have been reminded of the awful devastation that can come at a moment’s notice. We can’t control nature, but we can and must be prepared for disaster when it strikes.

    In the hours ahead, we’ll continue to take every step possible to prepare our shores and protect our citizens.

    And we will stand with the people of Chile as they recover from this terrible tragedy.

    Thank you very much, everybody.

    I’ve highlighted more clues in bold. It may mean something but I’m not sure exactly what.

  • 20100227-More Spooks

    During that evening’s mass, two obese people were sitting in front of us. Of course, I’d recognize noone from that time and felt they were plants. So I set all sorts of jumbled thoughts to them about `Hamburger Heaven`, `Porky Peace`, `Thugish Turds` and all sorts of nonsense.

    Then the girl started crying immediately prior to the `peace be with you`. She’d wipe away her tears with the left forearm section of her gray-colored long sleeve, sweat jacket; while her husband held her right hand. He was wearing a red jacket with inner yellow trimmings.

    A brief story surrounds a mysterious death of her brother-in-law, who left three young children. The oldest is six years old. I felt no sympathy but rather pissed at the fact I was sitting almost directly behind MORE NUTTERS!

    While Ben, “Minh” and Indy were talking with my bio-units, the usher reported how nutty the other participants of that place behave. He has to be VERY tough with these old folks of child-like souls, who do not understand the proper rules of conducting mass.

    The Vietnamese are especially stupid. The Mexicans are nasty. Both nationality are verbally abusive. I hear no confrontation from our fellow Chinese parishioners. But in their nutty minds, these persons believe they are helping not only the parish but themselves and their salvations into heaven by serving the `Lord`.

    I’d laugh. Pourquoi moi, mon Dieu! Meh!

  • 20100212-More Spooks

    In an attempt to drift off into an fitful rest for that Friday night, my mind was noisy with ambient sounds and imaginary voices. A small voice, a male one and perhaps familiar, repeated over and over in the distant background of an alternate reality:

    `Why did you do it, Flynn?! Flynn, why did you do it?! Why?!`

    If I only could say `I’m sorry` before I died, I would have said `I love you` instead.

  • 20100228-Clear Night

    The night skies are crystal clear and I see some brightness from the moon, too. The color of deep indigo have been seen during cloudless, twilight skies from early mornings and early evening. The stars are shining.

  • 20100227-Divine Gift

    `Learn to forgive and forget. From now on we need to understand.`

    ~Maw (02/27/2010 after getting off the phone at 14:52pm with Aida)

    `It’s not her fault, really. It’s her mental condition.`

    ~Old soul (long ago regarding L0L!nda’s personal problems with us)

    All we could do is send our loving prayers and thoughts of peace to the lost souls who cross our paths. That is our lesson.

  • 20100227-Sending Love

    From around noontime to until 15:00pm today, the sun was hiding behind fluffy, puffy clouds of gray. Now the sun has come out to blind my eyes through the upstairs windows! The skies are partially cloudy with usual fluffy, puffy ones and clear blue skies! I had just taken my shower, too.

    From around 13:00pm to 14:52pm, Aida had called Maw. She told Maw stories and asked for her advice. L0L!nda has three diagnosis that is hard to treat:

    • Jilted. Aida had reported that L0L!nda had a boyfriend she left in the Philippines and married Billy here in America. It seems that the woman had severe guilt trip over leaving a loved one behind.
    • Postpartum. Her two children are somewhere around 20 years old and 17 years old, who stays in her room while the Juan stays home as an unemployed illegal immigrant. Yuch.
    • Tourettes disease. Well, that would explain why L0L!nda had screamed at out her window as she drove by the one afternoon. Could this be comparable to a `drive-by shooting` but only from the mouth?

    Anyway, the plan of both L0L!nda’s sisters, Luz and Aida, is to make sure both Mel!nda and her mother move into an apartment. Prior to the family paying off Juan to leave their family alone, Maw advised Aida to make sure L0L!nda gets something in writing, such as a divorce and a will; because Juan will most definitely go after the devalued real property next door to us.

    Of course, hopefully the divorced nutter and her two children move on with their new lives in the Philippines because the law enforcement and psychiatric care here in America are not very supported to families with compounded problems.

    For the past few days now, I was actually sending my clearing thoughts of love and support to L0L!nda’s head area; so that she could the light that Juan is not serving her best interest and merely wants a VISA as a citizen here in America and that we are not laughing at her as per Aida reporting what her sister had imaged us doing behind her back.

  • 20100227-Beautiful Day

    Today is beautiful! There are lots of fluffy, puffy clouds of white everywhere! The skies are crispy blue and the sun is shining! The air is cool enough to open the windows upstairs without freezing. The plants and trees look renewed and greener, too. The blossoms on fruit trees signal springtime is almost near, again.

  • 20100227-Tweaking Again

    Out of sheer friggin’ boredom, I’ve been trying themes here at WordPress.com. As a result, I’m back to the Misty theme by Sadish.

    By testing the drop-down menus with the iNove theme, I made a logical decision to include only four top-level (or parent) pages, which appears in both the top navigation bar and the main menu widget of the side bar.

    These pages are sort in alphabetically order and appear as follows:

    • Archives.
    • Links.
    • Pages (sitemap).
    • Post (latest).

    Since WordPress.com allows for two `Default templates`, such as `Archives` and `Links`, it makes sense to set two of these pages as parent pages.

    The other two pages are static for `pages` and hierarchical for `posts`.

    The `front matter` page of the `web book` has been split again to include duplicate pages of `contents` and `copyright`.

    The `blogger` page of old posts from a deleted account has been set as a child of  the `archives` page.

    With the `Misty` theme, there is no need to have a `RSS links` widget and a `search` bar widget, too.

    Notice, too, my newest widget showing a `Masonic Compass and Square` with my initials F.B. and the double digit 33. The title to this widget is `Wide unclasp` from a stained glass window located inside the `Grand Ball Room` of the Winchester Mystery House (in San Jose, CA).

    I don’t know what this means but these `same thoughts` came through my simple mind as appropriate for the intel community and pals (a.k.a. TPTB).

  • 20100226-I’m Broke

    While waiting fifteen minutes in the doctor’s office at around 14:30pm on that rainy Friday afternoon, I read the following U.S. News (March 2010) article on pages 28 to 29:

    A New Era Begins for Credit Cards
    By Rob Silverblatt | Posted: February 19, 2010

    ~But then the bills started piling up. “It was just too conven­ient,” says Riggle, who last year joined the crowd of Americans who have been driven into bankruptcy by credit card debt.

    ~But as a result of the recession, these fragile illusions of wealth have come crashing down.

    ~[…] credit card issuers used the time window between the bill’s passage last year [Congress’s Credit CARD Act of 2009] and its start date on Monday to preemptively raise rates, add fees, and cut back on rewards.

    ~It’s this feeling of trepidation that will prevent consumers like Jim Courtright, an advertising specialist from Chicago, from returning to credit cards. Until he declared bankruptcy last year, Courtright was, in many ways, the ideal credit card user. But after taking the strong line of credit he had built up over a lifetime of on-time payments and staking it to a business venture, he eventually got in over his head.

    ~So where does this combination of reluctance and disillusionment leave the economy? On one hand, the backlash against credit cards has coincided with a surge in the use of debit cards.

    This is what happens in a country driven by capitalism. People get hurt by their own doing and sometimes by the misdeeds of greedy, fat cats. People try to survive for personal and business expenses. My line of credit is related to a failed business, of course.

  • 20100226-Ripping Off

    Well, Canada, the socialist-like health care country, has cheated twice:

    • Rochette got bronze.
    • Ohno got disqualified.

    The former didn’t do as well as Nagasu, who should have been ranked as third place and not as fourth.

    The latter clearly didn’t do anything, except Hamelin, who should have been the one disqualified for almost blading Ohno and bumping off the South Korean.

  • 20100226-Inverted Imperfection

    After watching a YouTube.com about satanic symbols and masonic connections mixed in with astrology and the stars, I don’t understand the difference between an upright and an inverted image of a star.

    A standing person could be viewed as an upright perfection. A fool standing on his head could be viewed as an inverted imperfection. Either way it all looks the same, five points.