for all those who are not on my facebook page, I'd like to share this with you, the incredibly happy couple:

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Tina never kissed a boy
through all her high school years
She preferred auto shop
got greasy and learned to strip gears
And she played the bass drum
in the marching band
Now her last day of high school
is close at hand

She has a yearning for travel
and a thirst for knowledge
But she doesn’t have the grades
or the money for college
When you don’t have many options
you can surely use a mentor
Tina found hers
at the local recruitment center

He told her she could make
Mechanic 1st Class
If she made it through basic
and worked her ass
So Tina enlisted, got her orders
and bunked down in the army training barracks
She made fast friends
among the whites, blacks, asians and hispanics

Give them a gun
teach...

I'm looking at an apartment today. It's about 20m from work, in the middle of thick tree patches, farmland, and the Chesapeake Bay. It's cheap to boot. The town is technically an island, at the confluence of the York and Poquoson rivers.

To get there, you go over a huge drawbridge, then you're on the ground for about a half mile, then another huge bridge takes you to the middle peninsula.

It sounds swanky and tropical, but it's really a factory town. Everybody who works in this town works at the chip mill. However, just like rural eastern North Carolina, there are McMansions popping up here and there. It's prime sailing territory.

After rooming with a couple people this month, I'm looking for the sweet release of solitude. John Cowper Powys was right. As was Sartre. L'enfer, c'est les autres.

J G Ballard

so im going away for a few days. im not sure if ill be TFP accessible, so i may not be around for a few days.. relief for some maybe.. but if i dont come back by sunday then come looking for me.

im going to istanbul for a few days with she-lish. im a little concerned since there was a terorist bombing that killed 16 there yesterday. i wasnt this concerened when i went to yemen for goodness sake!

anyways, i plan to enjoy myself and have a relaxing few days. im back in dubai early sunday morning.

ill try and log on when i can..but we'll see when we get there.

will miss tfp!