and what about Giulio?

Are you saying that I should be marrying Tom?

Yeah, congrats AM & T!!! Why don't to give us the password to check the site?


The following has (almost) nothing to do with marriage:



Since 1980 the U.S. prison and jail population has quadrupled in size to more than 2 million.
In the process, prisons have embedded themselves into the nation's economic and social fabric. A powerful lobby has grown up around the prison system that will fight hard to protect the status quo. Major companies such as Wackenhut Corrections Corp. and Corrections Corp. of America employ sophisticated lobbyists to protect and expand their market share. The law enforcement technology industry, which produces high-tech items such as the latest stab-proof vests, helmets, stun guns, shields, batons and chemical agents, does more than a billion dollars a year in business.

Alan Elsner, washingtonpost.com

Congrats to AMR and Tom! That's really great. I'd love to check out the site, but I don't have a password. Stephanie and I set our date for July 23rd, a Friday evening. If I get any passwords or websites, I'll let y'all know.

Still watching too much TV. But watching again Full Metal Jacket is always worth it.

Drill Instructor: How tall are you private?
Cowboy: Sir! Five foot nine, sir!
Drill Instructor: Five foot nine? I didn't know they stacked shit that high! You tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh?
Cowboy: Sir! No Sir!
Drill Instructor: Bullshit. It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated!

Wind chill right now is obscene. So on Friday I am off for a 4 day weekend in Tampa, FLA. Where my friend Chris said that it is getting a little chilly. 70's in the day and 50's at night. I think I can deal with that.

Oh, and what are you all doing on the 5th of June?

Sex always ends up in kids, diseases or... relationships.

from the movie 'The Opposite of Sex'

Lately I'm watching too much TV....

They were clothed. You dirty minded people you.

As of this post it is Sunny at 7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Also for those of us along the Mass Turnpike there is a Winter Weather Advisory:

.. WIND CHILL WARNING TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...

AREAS OF NEW ENGLAND ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE WILL EXPERIENCE INCREASING NORTHWEST WINDS TONIGHT... WITH SPEEDS REACHING 20 TO 25 MPH. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH TEMPERATURES OF 5 TO 10 BELOW ZERO TO CREATE DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES OF 25 TO 30 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

THESE WINDS CHILL VALUES WILL MAKE IT DANGEROUS TO BE OUTSIDE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS. EXPOSED SKIN MAY FREEZE IN AS LITTLE AS 10 MINUTES. IF YOU MUST GO OUTDOORS... COVER ANY EXPOSED SKIN. WEAR A HAT... MITTENS OR GLOVES... AND SEVERAL LAYERS OF LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING....

30 Degrees below.

That is -18 degrees Celsius for you Europeans.
From Weather.com

Finally a bit of spices in this weblog!!!! And in 53 Brentwood too.
Hey Mike, what about putting a picture of Kate here? So we know how she look like, at least.
Or at least. a picture of her date...
anyway, I heard on the news that in Boston in really freezing! I won't complain about the daily rain I'm getting here...

Wait - when you say you "walked in on" Kate and a date, they weren't.......there wasn't........what was going on?

Definitions:

Blog: Short for weblog, an online journal of links and personal commentary.

Blogger: (1) A person who writes on a weblog and (2) a Software application that is used to publish blogs.

So, "This blogger is getting strange", means that Maiko is getting strange, which is normal.

Oh and I walked in on Kate and a date tonight.

I threw the lifebuoy mightily. It fell in the water right in front of him. With his last energies he stretched forward and took hold of it.

"Hold on tight, I'll pull you in. Don't let go. Pull with your eyes while I pull with my hands. In a few seconds you'll be aboard and we'll be together. Wait a second. Together? We'll be together? Have I gone mad?"

I woke up to what I was doing. I yanked on the rope.

"Let go of that lifebuoy, Richard Parker! Let go, I said. I don't want you here, do you understand? Go somewhere else. Leave me alone. Get lost. Drown! Drown!"

He was kicking vigorously with his legs. I grabbed an oar. I thrust it at him meaning to push him away. I missed and lost hold of the oar.

I grabbed another oar. I dropped it in an oarlock and pulled as hard as I could, meaning to move the lifeboat away. All I accomplished was to turn the lifeboat a little, bringing one end closer to Richard Parker.

I would hit him on the head! I lifted the oar in the air.

He was too fast. He reached up and pulled himself aboard.

"Oh my God!"

Ravi was right. Truly I was to be the next goat. I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat. Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet on the tarpaulin, eyes blazing as they met mine, ears laid tight to his head, all weapons drawn. His head was the size and colour of the lifebuoy, with teeth.

I turned around. Stepped over the zebra and threw myself overboard.

From Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, an excellent sea adventure about Pi Patel, a sixteen year old boy, and Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger, with a wounded Zebra, and a spotted hyena, on a lifeboat adrift in the Pacific.

Also read this, just something that was stuck in my head.

Happy New Year.