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NaJoPoMo, Nov 21: Suite Madame Blue
Posted Nov 21, 2011
(Styx)
Once long ago, a word from your lips and the world turned around.
But somehow you've changed, you're so far away
I long for the past and dream of the days with you, Madame Blue
Disclaimer: This is not about US bashing of bashing of anyone for that matter. Just thoughts of how different things seem sometimes from what they used to be...
On the way to w**k today, I was thinking about the various items of disturbing news from the US over the last months. The debacle of the national budget, where it seemed that for some, the state of the country seemed secondary to party politics. The reactions to the Occupy Wall Street. And yesterday, the madness at UC Davis.
And mainly, I felt sad. Sad that the country that has given hope of freedom - and actual freedom - to so many over generations seem to have been stuck in a quagmire of ... I don't know what it is. But brown and gray and sticky and dreary, it is.
And I felt even sadder when I tried to think about where today's beacon of hope, humanity and freedom is. Yes, there are individuals who figths and shines and should be honoured. But a leading nation?
Maybe it's just that the fog was enveloping Denmark and everything seemed a bit dark and gloomy: http://wp.me/p1ttD-5I
Red white, and blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore.
Red, white, and blue, the future is all but past.
So lift up your heart, and make a new start
And lead us away from here
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NaJoPoMo, Nov 20: Tired Man
Posted Nov 20, 2011
(Blue Junction)
Actually, more like tired family -
N came home yesterday afternoon from the scouting troops having had a "live in" in the scout house from Wednesday to Saturday. Judging on his appearance and slow-like-syrup moving around (even given that he's a 15 yer old boy), they got to bed quite late on Friday night. Mind you, there's absolutely no alcohol involved - but lack of sleep can also be rather hard.
C went to a very good friend's 18-years b'day dinner yesterday and after that, the plan was to hit the town. They apparently succeeded - she came home at 5 this morning.
Mrs SG V & I had friends over for dinner. The classical Danish way - meeting at 4-ish in the afternoon, having & cake and a lot of chat. Then dinner. Lots of talk - we must have solved the world's problems several times over
Dinner was leg of lamb, very slowly roasted at low temperature. 10 hours at 110C in fact - which means that I had the lamp in the oven before breakfast. A little weird to have garlicy smells in the kitchen for breakfast... And a decent Ribeira del Duoro to go with the lamp and a wee bit of leftover port for the dessert.
All in all nice, but we're a little subdued today.
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NaJoPoMo, Nov 19: Driven
Posted Nov 19, 2011
(might there be a song - don't know off the top of my head)
C drove me out to do the Saturday shopping today
Of course she's not an experienced driver - but I must say she's pretty good
Points to me for being a good passenger and not relentlessly saying "watch there", etc endlessly. Points to her for allowing me in the car on her first drive in it!
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NaJoPoMo, Nov 18: Drive (or: On growing up and growing older)
Posted Nov 18, 2011
(The Cars)
This morning, another milestone in the long timeline of life ticked in by SMS - which is a flabbergasting development in itself for someone who was a kid when telephones were tied to the wall and had dials: DRIVING LICENSE!
This was the happy shouting of C (daughter for newer readers) on passing her driving test.
I've said before that I don't have any issues or troubled moments over the numbers ticking over on my birthdays - what's 28 and some months (a quite unmanageable number) between friends anyway?
But these milestones - signing your first child up for school, doing the same for the last, seeing your oldest voting in the national elections for the first time... And now, a driving license.
Dear Bob, then I realise that time has flown by (referring also to yesterday's ramblings on the speed of time).
At least I had the comforting thought that I could send back to her: Congratulations. By the way, the car's not at home; it's up here in my workplace's parking lot
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NaJoPoMo, Nov 17: Time Warp
Posted Nov 17, 2011
(Rocky Horror Picture Show)
With a bit of a mind flip
You're there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
It's not quite like that - but Bob, is time hard to keep a rein on these days. Whooshing by in a speed where Douglas Adams' famously loved deadlines wouldn't even notice but for the wind blast.
Basically, it seems like it Monday and FridaĆ½ all the time. "Ahh, lovely, it's Friday and the weekend begins..." Blam! Monday hits you.
"OK, hello Monday, time to begin a new fun week..." Errr, hello Friday. What happened to the days in between?
Has someone done to the clocks and calendars what the IT techs are busy doing to the innards of computers - making them go faster all the time? Or are the hamsters just on steriods??
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