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Friday, September 12, 2008

Olga - The Kind of Woman a Man Secretly Wishes His Wife Was Like

I am a 30-something, well-educated, reasonably successful man. Type A pretty good hubby and father to boot. Even though I have got been happily married to my college sweetie for nearly 10 years, I can't halt thought about a opportunity brush I had with Olga.

Today is the 4th Wednesday. The 4th Wednesday is the twenty-four hours I acquire my hair cut at the salon. Yes, I am a cat and I acquire my hair cut at a salon. Ernie, the proprietor of the salon, is our local "hair stylist to the stars". Ernie's a "dye" man. Celebrities come up from all over to have got Ernie "return" their hair to its "original" color. I travel to Ernie because when he was first starting out he had eventide hours that accommodated my work schedule. I have got stayed with him more than out of wont than anything else.

This narrative isn't about Ernie. In fact, I only advert Ernie because the "ultra hip aura" of his new salon looks so strangely juxtaposed against my first meeting with Olga.

Right after leaving the salon (this Wednesday just so happened to be the 3 twelvemonth day of remembrance at the new and improved location), I decided to halt for a speedy bite to eat on the manner back to the office. I ended up in the drive-thru line at a fast nutrient joint. Not the best of fair, but convenient for the thrust back to the office.

While waiting to put my order I noticed a adult female standing in the drive-thru lane. At first, I was miffed. I intend "what the Hell is this lady doing? Are she an idiot? The drive-thru lane is for cars." Her name was Olga. I establish this out as soon as I rounded the edifice towards "window 1".

Nothing to worry about here ladies. Olga was not physically beautiful in any way. Not the manner you seek to be. She hadn't been "young" and "firm" for many old age - if ever at all. Yet, truth be told, I can't retrieve the last clip a adult female so thoroughly captivated me in the manner that Olga did.

Actually, when I pulled around to the side window to pay I nearly hit Olga with my car. She had been leaning on a little shopping cart and almost didn't acquire out of the manner in time. Almost. When she turned to confront me I could just state she had had a difficult life. I don't cognize how old she was but she looked about 75, nearly twice my age. She was slovenly dressed. She was wearing an old, soiled army tank top and no bra. This was apparent because both of her breasts were exposed for all the world. Her shirt hung loosely from her thin framework betraying the secret that her clothing had not been washed in weeks.

The immature miss at "window 1" yelled to Olga. "Olga, base over to the side and go forth the autos alone." Olga dutifully moved to the rear of my car. Olga was not person used to fighting back. I stared at Olga. I was unafraid that she would mind.....as I said, she was not person used to fighting back.

I clumsily opened my billfold to pay for my repast and asked the immature miss if I could purchase Olga a lunch. "Naw" she said. "That's just Olga. She have a home. She's just not correct in the head." She swirled her finger in a round movement to stress her point.

Fate? Luck? Who knows. When I opened my bag I realized that I had been given the incorrect food. Gallic french fries instead of the onion rings I had ordered. I knocked on "window 2", and told a different miss about the mistake. Instead of exchanging onion rings for Gallic french french fries she simply gave me the onion rings and told me to "keep the fries".

I was still watching Olga in the rear-view mirror....if lone to guarantee I had enough clip to revolve up the window should she come up too close. Actually, "gawking" is probably a more than liable description. As I pulled away I felt strangely unsettled. Instead of turning right towards the street, Iodine turned left and headed back around the building.

Here was this woman, so thin I could see her ribs... so thin that her open breasts didn't even titillate me.... And now I have got this other order of Gallic fries.

Even though it was the center of a busy luncheon hr there was a little "lull" and the drive-thru was empty. By this clip Olga had worked her manner to the corner of the restaurant. She just sort of stood there.

My head struggled with this for much longer than I'd wish to acknowledge here. An other order of french french fries (free fries no less!) almost compelled me to attain out to this old lady. Yet a traditional, Midwestern, conservative background somehow reserved me. Iodine wanted to be compassionate but I also secretly felt like a "nut" for approaching this lady. Would she believe I am some sort of pervert? Would I pique her by offering her food...some eldritch deduction that she couldn't take attention of herself? Maybe I was crazy. After all, respective others had seen her and they didn't experience compelled to intervene. I wondered if I should be more than like them.

That's a chilling thought...was I already too much like them?

Our hero awakens.

In improver to the onion rings, I had purchased two hamburgers. I took one of the beefburgers and added it to the other order of french fries and drove over to where Olga was standing. I rolled the window down and simply said "I've been given other nutrient that I won't eat. Would you like it?" She smiled and timidly said "yes". Nothing more... no "thank you"... no "bless you"... just a quiet "yes". I mumbled something to the consequence of "God bless you" and drove off.

No good feat travels unpunished. It soon dawned on me that it was nearly 80 grades out and I had just given this homeless person adult female (yeah, like I am really going to believe the miss at "window 1"!) a sandwich and order of salty french fries - but nil to drink.

Hmm? I drove around the corner to a apothecary's shop and bought a big bottle of cold water. I returned to the parking lot. Olga was gone.

I returned to the business office but still couldn't agitate Olga's memory. She was certainly sad....maybe the saddest individual I had ever seen. What must her life have got been like to stop up like this? What had happened to her? Was she brought into this human race under the pretense of a parental love so full of hope and promise...only to have got her parents decease when she was a little girl? Was she born "slwo"? Did she just simply acquire knocked down one too many times? I don't know. I really don't.

For a long while I thought it was her sad state of personal business that kept Olga combustion in my mind. But it's not that. It was never that. It was her simple saving grace in allowing me to assist her. She simply said "yes". She had allowed me, for one legal brief moment, to sit in on a achromatic horse. She was a real-life damsel in distress.

Not so odd, I guess. I have got two little girls at place and they both return after my wife. They're so independent. They convert the human race that they can make anything - everything - on their own. Actually, that depicts most women I know. I can't even retrieve the last clip I met a adult female that was unafraid adequate to acknowledge she could utilize a small help. And no, fixing the lavatory and taking out the rubbish don't count.

For a little minute I felt needed in a manner that I haven't felt needed in a long time. By most of Society's criteria Olga doesn't charge per unit highly. By most traditional measurements she barely measure ups as a woman. She's not beautiful. Not glamourous or sexy. Not independent. But she made me experience more than like a "man" than just about any other adult female I have got ever met.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

"Moonshine and the Devil" - ((In, Memories of Old Josh)( Episode #43, Series Four, Part Two of Two))

(1871) Old Josh drank his share of moonshine, but was no rummy according to him, and right after that firelock state of affairs he wanted to turn out it, substance of fact, he preached against it, believe it or not, one day, at the local church, he said this that Lord'S Day morning:

"Da Satan he, takes district attorney fighting out of district attorney man, by feedin' him district attorney moonshine. It district attorney fast one he plays ya know, he cognizes if you is, or is if you is not district attorney adult male to acquire intoxicated ever da. District Attorney devil, he even utilizes me, states I buzzword base her because I done intoxicated too much moonlight in me da, but district attorney Satan is not me boss, so I states ya, male children and misses not to imbibe district attorney moonshine, I is an ole timer, I tin imbibe caz I is used to it, but you is not."

It was a day, Silas and Jordon was proud of their old pa, and they showed it when they got home, they hid the moonshine, and Josh went brainsick all nighttime long, until he said the adjacent day, "Please sons, state me wey you done set my jug?"

Well, Silas and Jordon felt bad for their pa, and went to the closest, where that there old firelock was hiding, and pulled the jug out for Josh, and he was as happy as the rat in a hole with a ten-pound block of cheese.

Notes: Written at home, in Lima, Peru, the morning time of 2-24-2008; the writer is a recovering alcoholic, have not drank for 24-years, and makes not advance imbibing in anyway, but recognizes there are those folks that can drink, perhaps sociably, but often it is not that manner (because everybody desires to state that), and hopes people will look at their drinking, if you cannot halt imbibing for a year, you got a problem, so the writer believes. Also he is a good shooter, have respective guns, and was in the Army for a decade. Shooting is a avocation for him, and so he wrote the study "Flintlock" again hoping folks take a expression at how they utilize their guns, and to be careful, as well as with their drinking. He believes in the 2nd Amendment, the right to transport arms, totally.

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

A Guide To Online Poker

The meteorologic rise in popularity of online stove poker drama might be heavily attributed to the convenience of playing from the comfortableness of home, but in fact there are a figure of other advantages to choosing online play. In improver to the complete absence of a frock code, online participants have got entree to a wider assortment of game drama and the ability to fall in a tabular array at just about any clip they like. The continually growing figure of online constitutions offering stove stove poker suite 24/7, all inclusive game choice and a wider scope of bet options to suit every budget.

Since online poker suite deficiency the same extortionate operating costs as their land based counterparts, the consequence is lowered betting lower limits and littler profligate fees for the participant so that the scope of bet is enormously widened to include all types of bettors. Coupled with the huge amount of games readily available at all times, online participants have got no problem determination the right game, at the right bet bounds at all times. All sorts of tourney play, including the popular Sit and Go tournaments, are constantly available with all bet and sizes. Multiple-tabling is another characteristic that lets the participant to sit down in on respective games at once. Players are to acquire in many more than custody in the same amount of clip by moving from silver test to screen. Keeping focusing on each game is key, however, as this option can go a liability if you don't.

Ease and Handiness aside, the benefits of online stove poker spread out to embrace the game drama itself. Players are able to sharpen their accomplishments in pattern mode, or by using a free promotional balance supplied by many online stove poker sites. This is an especially attractive characteristic for those who are new to the game, but even seasoned professionals necessitate to drill or diagnostic test out schemes sometime. With this option, all participants stand up to derive invaluable cognition and experience, while risking small or no existent money wagers.

In an online stove poker room, physical actions and emotions are not going to betray you as they might in a unrecorded game, and bullying is a considerably lesser factor. The anonymous drama is particularly advantageous to the novice, and can be very of import when playing with a with a card shark who have a sharply honed ability to read other players' tells (behavior). While there are elusive revealing actions in online stove poker that tin be picked up on, these are much more than easily controlled and circumvented. With a small effort, they can be learned and used instead against your opponent. Detailed short letters regarding your opponent's style and former drama can be kept stopping point at manus in a notebook - something you cannot make in a unrecorded game, and can be referenced and utilized at any time. Online participants also have got entree to their ain securely stored history, making it easy to analyze and continually better upon their game from past experience. Other tools at the online stove stove poker players´ disposal include easily accessible likelihood information and statistics, and the ability to utilize charts and calculating machines during game play.

Money matters, so it bears mentioning that online participants save money (and clip and effort) on what could be considered unneeded supernumeraries - like travel, hotel accommodations, etc., when they choose to drama the monolithic choice of online poker games from home. In addition, while playing online, it´s never necessary to tip the trader - whereas in a unrecorded game, it is customary, even expected, that you tip the trader when you win, in improver to the rake. If you pass much clip at all playing poker, this little amount can really add up.

There are a few disadvantages to playing online stove stove poker as well, but for many the advantages far outweigh them. Ease, Availability, Game play, and Money saved are consistent factors, but online drama can´t supply the bang of human confront to face action or the buxom waitress supplying complimentary drinks. Fortunately, online stove stove poker drama doesn't prevent unrecorded drama and many poker partisans are able to happen a balance that satisfies both their gambling penchants and amusement needs.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Film Review - The Reflecting Pool

Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, loyal American, independent mind or voter, or just person with bad memories of 9/11, you should do an attempt to see The Reflecting Pool, a new independent movie. It is not about 9/11. It is about the credibleness of the functionary authorities narrative about 9/11. Though a drama, it is based on meticulously researched facts about 9/11 as revealed in the fillip stuff on the DVD.

The narrative is about the hunt for truth and the unsettling deductions of discovering 9/11 truth that struggles with what have go the folklore about the historical event.

The secret plan follows the attempts of independent journalist Alex Prokop and Alice Paul Cooper, a research worker and father of a 9/11 victim, to piece together fact-fragments into a image that ultimately implicates the United States authorities in the attacks. The horror of this disclosure challengers the horror of the 9/11 events themselves, especially when we recognize that far more than people, especially American soldiers, have got died because of 9/11 in the warfares in Republic Of Iraq and Islamic State Of Afghanistan than on 9/11. Yet to fold our eyes to this truth do us co-conspirators in one of the world's most devilish and contemptible events.

And that is the quandary that viewing audience confront after they watch this distressing docudrama: What if this fictional narrative actually and accurately depicts how our authorities played a function in causing 9/11?

Writer/Director Jarek Kupsc plays Alex Prokop who analyzes a cryptic 9/11 videotape revealing new information on the attack. Chief Joseph Culp looks as Alice Paul Cooper, the adult male who sent the tape and whose girl died on 9/11. Though disbelieving of confederacy theories and awful that it will endanger his career, Prokop holds to take on the narrative with encouragement from his magazine editor and a former Gulf War correspondent, McGuire, played by Lisa Black.

The movie follows Prokop and Cooper, especially as they look into one of the great enigmas of 9/11: the incomprehensible collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7, not hit by any airplane. They bring out the illegal devastation of physical grounds from Land Zero, and detect information that the White Person House knew an onslaught was imminent. The squad passes two hebdomads in New House Of York and American Capital D.C., interviewing people and discovering damnatory information never mentioned in the 9/11 Committee Report. The Federal Bureau of Investigation goes involved, the magazine's corporate investors endanger to kill the full story, and Prokop is attacked by a lawsuit and the mass media in an attempt to discredit his story. Why?

Because the functionary version as presented in the 9/11 Committee Report purposely ignored or omitted critical grounds and testimonies to protect people in the Shrub administration. Prokop, plagued by the shades of his childhood in Soviet Union and trying to continue the independency of American journalism, fights to come up to clasps with this atrocious truth. The movie exemplifies that, as so often is the case, the truth makes not put you free; it binds your tummy and scruples into knots. It will remind you of All the President's Work Force and JFK, movies that also used play to prosecute political truths.

The DVD is available for lone $15 on http://reflectingpoolfilm.com/ and you will desire to loan it to friends and household or give as a gift, which is made especially attractive with even less terms for battalions of five or 10 DVDs. An drawn-out dawdler is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32b-e-xwuB8. Details about the movie and its histrions are at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015468/

Video lease mercantile establishments like Blockbuster, Film Industry Video, Netflix and Redbox should do this DVD available. Otherwise, it is additional grounds that position quo thought is subverting 9/11 truth to the hurt of American democracy. Populace libraries should also stock this of import educational film. Once you watch it you too will experience strongly about it reaching a broad audience.

Warning: No substance what you cognize or believe you cognize about 9/11, this film will rattle your brain, do you think, and perhaps maintain you up at night.

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Monday, September 1, 2008

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