Wild Friday in the World

This has been an exciting day on the planet--not a happy day for a lot of people involved in various events--but jampacked with action. All morning the news was about the war or military action taken by the Russians and Georgians, who are fighting over South Ossettia. At least a thousand people may have been killed so far. And then there was a bus crash in Texas that killed a lot of Vietnamese people when a tire blew on the bus. And in the middle of the afternoon John Edwards confessed that he had a brief affair with a woman staffer a couple of years ago, so suddenly the pundits had to interpret the Meaning of It All. And I took an early evening nap, which meant that I slept through the giant todo of the opening ceremony at the Peking Olympics(I am still using the old name of the city--a relic from the era when I listened to Radio Peking). My opinion of Chinese Communism is not very high, so I slept through the show. The Iowa State Fair is going on now, and I should get across town to it tomorrow or Sunday. I want to see this year's Big Boar and Big Bull and Big Pumpkin. In two days a hundred thousand people have gotten in to the fairgrounds, so the place will be packed this weekend. And I am in a bad mood for no specific reason--it just showed up and I have chips on my shoulder about things that happened years ago and that I can do nothing about now. And last night I got into an arguement with some sarcastic SOB in the comment room of a website I frequent. Poor Me. Oh yes; oil prices are plummeting the last couple of days, so maybe cheap or cheaper gas will appear at the pumps. And somewhat cooler weather is moving into our section of the US. The elevators broke down this afternoon in the Empire State Building, stranding mobs of people in the vators or at the top of the building for about 2 hours. One crazy Friday all over the world in one place or the other. This is going to be all for right now. You take care and I will return. Di di mau!