Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Water Fountain Survey
July 27, 2004

Here is another one of the strange things I’ve found in the garage – placards for a waterfountain survey.

I wish I could remember what the heck these were for. I do recall only vague sensations regarding these little signs. I remember that they were attached to several water fountains at school, though whether it was in junior high or senior high, I can’t say. I also remember being someone annoyed by them. Whether this was because they would not stay affixed to the fountains, or because I wasn’t looked upon favorably for having affixed them, or because it was some school project I was forced into, I can’t say.

Burger King Again
July 26, 2004

I think I spend too much time in this place, and here I am tapping out a blog entry on my phone. Apparently, one of the worst things you can do (at least if you want food sans special sauce) is ank for french fries at the drive-thru speaker, then pull forward and ask for onion rings.

The workers here amuse me. The older lady who runs the drive-thru window was here in the dining room cleaning, while taking orders in her headset. You can hear the people in the car via a loud PA speaker in the kitchen. People are weird when placing orders at a microphone.

Garage Cleaning
July 26, 2004

I won’t say that I did any actual work. That was all done by Mom and Berta. But I did go through many, many boxes of saved junk to make sure there wasn’t anything in them I wanted to keep.

Ack! Minivans
July 23, 2004

With the impending doom of child number two, we’re going to need a bigger car if we ever want to travel with company. And so, the inevitable minivan search begins.

Prisoner Abuse
July 21, 2004

I half-heard something startling on the radio the other day. At first I thought they were talking about the Abu Ghraib incident. But I think it was more than that. Other prisons, more incidents. They talked about women and children forced to see their husbands and fathers humiliated in prison, or being imprisoned themselves. The news guy on the radio was talking about potential hearings and proceedings concerning the actions of soldiers stationed at these prisons.

I was struck with the odd realization that this isn’t just the media making a big to do about nothing. There is something bigger going on here. This behavior among the soldiers was too widespread for it to be random acts of evil. Groups of people in different locations don’t just start doing things like this spontaneously. Someone was telling them to do this stuff.