Memories and lists.

About 10 – 12 years ago I was on an airplane going someplace. The book I had with me was bad so I started playing mind “games.” In this case it was trying to remember every hotel/motel that I had ever stayed in. After awhile I took out my trusty portable and made a spreadsheet.

I have kept it up pretty well up to date and this morning I opened it up to add the trip to Pensacola. Now you may think it silly, and I couldn't’t argue with you, but I find scanning the hotels and cities, some with brief notes, great for bringing back memories. As I looked, I noted that there were 707 discrete line entries. Not number of “stays.” Not number of “nights.” Discrete line entries. Given that I had a tendency to stay at the same hotel time and again, and that many were multiple night stays…. Well, I think it is easy for me to say that I spent at least five years of my life in a hotel or motel.

That, and $7.50 will get me a glass of wine at most hotel bars…..as long as I don’t go too “up scale.”

But, the list is great for bringing back memories. And most are good.

Like checking into the Westbury in Brussels with no shirts, socks or underwear. They had been kept by the laundry/cleaner in Moscow because the block water heater had failed and the authorities said: Visa expires. You go. We'll send your clothes.

To my pleasure I discovered true service as various establishments visited my room to sell me the items I needed. I had never had a custom made shirt before, but I had six snow white ones and two blues that fit perfectly in less than 48 hours... They, and the underwear, were made of cotton fabric so tough that they lasted for years.

The stuff they had kept in Moscow? I got all of it in about three months. All washed and spotlessly clean and neatly folded. Including the suit.

Heads I win, Tails I win.

Over at TalkLeft there is a posting on how, at one of the gatherings of the Demos, a coin toss was used to deterimine the winner.

And these are the people who want to run the country??

Link to TalkLeft

I think these are the same guys

I hired to take out a sink and tub/shower and replace same.

And the results were about the same.

After breaking a cold water pipe one tried to hold his finger in it while the other was yelling "Where's the cutoff!"

Thanks to my bud Mike L!!

Yep. They will be out there explaining

that we just don't understand.

Over the next few days, as more details emerge about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said, we will see Islamic spokesmen on TV (Ibrahim Hooper is probably sitting for make-up as you read this) explaining that honor killing is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam, and of course above all the one thing we must avoid doing in the aftermath of these murders is entertain for even a moment the possibility that Islamic attitudes and atmospherics had anything to do with the deaths of these girls

Link

My thanks to my old bud "Yankee" for the story.

They ask me how I know Shari Law is here

something deep inside simply replied... facts gets in your eyes. (My apologies to the Platters.)

In the wake of the honor killing of Aqsa Parvez, the murders in Dallas of teenagers Amina and Sarah Said have the blogosphere buzzing. Their Egyptian Muslim fugitive father is wanted for capital murder. Bryan’s been tracking here and here. Atlas Shrugs has extensive coverage. Caleb Easterwood points out a chilling detail:

Link to story

Guess the religion

Police arrested two Moroccan-Dutch citizens and a Sudanese national over what intelligence officials said was a plot to commit "a violent action," Expatica said Thursday.

uhhhhhh Baptist???

Pat Robertson employeees??

Gotta watch those Christians you know.


Link To UPI story.

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