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 09 .28 .01 Well it's been quite a busy summer with a lot going on yet it seems like I did nothing at all and it definitely went by too quick. Much has happened but I'm not touching the attacks on the US in this post. I figure that since this is a reminder of past events for myself as well as an online journal for people to read (whoever that may be) that I should probably write about things that happened in the past few weeks. I've been very slack as of late. My great Aunt Doll (Mabel) died of cancer a few weeks back. She was 95 and, though I didn't know her well, I did know she was a very active woman for her age and I remember her as being very happy and friendly every time I saw her, which was not very often unfortunately. On a lighter note, a bunch of people were home this summer visiting. Nathan's uncle Charles was home from Vancouver and stayed with us for a while, and Richard, Charles' brother living in Toronto, was also home at the same time. They were here quite often and we ate a lot of Greco pizza (which I regretted), and we spent a few nights at Dale's place, Nathan's other uncle, with Charles, Richard, and Tom (yet another uncle) recording and videotaping some of Richard's songs. Greg was back for a short time from Vancouver with his girlfriend, Jenn. I got to see them a few times, mostly because Greg did the sound engineering for the sessions at Dale's, which was good because I hadn't seen them since I was in BC. Then they drove back home across country which is something I don't think I'd enjoy. Andy was home for a little while too and I was able to see him for a couple of hours on the day just before he took his flight home. He was the second home from Calgary, I think, because Giselle was home a month or so before he was and I only got to see her very briefly while she was on the island. Now that brings us to Cory, who's home right now but heads back to BC on Saturday. I'm hoping to get "The Booth" at Michael's tomorrow and get a big-ass pizza and garlic fingers for a bunch of people before he leaves. But of all the visits this summer, the most important was Erin's. I just wish I could afford (and had the vacation time) to go visit her and vice versa. Ah well. So there's the wrap up as the month draws to a close. I'll just sign off for the night by saying that IslandTel, the company hosting this page, sucks. Plain and simple. 09 .22 .01 It's been almost a month since my last update and a lot of shit has happened in that time. None of it is in any comparison to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. I must have seen both planes crash into the Twin Towers a hundred times, 80 of those times in a period of 4 hours. CNN replayed the same footage of the tragedy over and over again. I think it was a little too much so I discovered that other news channels, oddly enough most Canadian, were showing other happenings and focusing more on the human side of things moreso than the actual explosions, massive collapses, and death. It's the most horrible and shocking thing I have ever seen, and probably one of the most disgusting and inhuman events to have happened during my short time. It still doesn't seem real on a certain level and it's been almost two weeks since the attacks. Watching the crashes was amazing but stunning, seeing masses of people fleeing from immense clouds of debris was unreal, and witnessing people plummeting to their deaths from 100 stories had to have been the most terrible and disturbing thing I could have ever seen. Now there is going to be a massive military campaign launched against world terrorism, the Taliban government, etc. by the US government and it looks like they're going to have a lot of help. I wonder how far Canada will go into this with the US? I certainly don't want to be drafted and it's probably going to happen in the States for sure. The whole thing is completely fucked up. Bin Laden is a dead man. And there's going to be a lot more deaths from this—military and civilians alike. There will more than likely be more terrorist attacks on US soil, there will be a lot of bombing (hopefully not in North America), and if ground troups are used then it's going to be a long and bloody struggle. Oh, and don't forget the threat of nuclear arms and chemical warfare in all of this. Passenger jets flying into skyscrapers, killing 6000+ people, will be the least of their fears in light of the weapons of war that will hopefully not come into use. I'm glad I'm not an American. But does it really matter in a situation like this? -->> Sterilized for your protection. |
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