Three Corners– Nostalgia

Posted on January 31, 2009

nos?tal?gia

[no–stal–juh, –jee–uh, nuh-]

–noun

1. a wist­ful desire to return in thought or in fact to a for­mer time in one’s life, to one’s home or home­land, or to one’s fam­ily and friends; a sen­ti­men­tal yearn­ing for the hap­pi­ness of a for­mer place or time: a nos­tal­gia for his col­lege days.
2. some­thing that elic­its or dis­plays nostalgia.

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I had a lot of fun with the theme this month.  As usual I had tons of ideas but never got around to tak­ing them.  The COLD weather kept me inside most of the time.  GO quick check out Corey and Jenty’s sites– I’m sure they found some fan­tas­tic pho­tos that spoke to them of nostalgia.





A question

Posted on January 29, 2009

Last week I watched the inau­gu­ra­tion of the 44th pres­i­dent while sit­ting alone in my liv­ing room.  I watched as peo­ple looked up with hope, expec­ta­tion and joy.  I then spent the next week lis­ten­ing to report after report on how bad the global econ­omy is.  I read arti­cles on the econ­omy, one of them claimin it will be as bad as 1946– in the UK that is BAAAAAAD!

On Monday/Tuesday I watched Pres­i­dent Obama walk­ing the halls and shak­ing hands and try­ing to get Repub­li­cans on board with his eco­nomic stim­u­lus pack­age.  Yes­ter­day I watched the vote count as Repub­li­can after Repub­li­can voted against it.  Now I’m not liv­ing in the US so I’m not com­pletely knowl­edge­able about what the pack­age is call­ing for but it did make so sad that no one sin­gle Repub­li­can voted for it. With the econ­omy implod­ing it’s still pol­i­tics as usual.

I’ve also lis­tened to peo­ple say they don’t want social­ized med­i­cine.  On this issue I feel I am in a unique posi­tion as I am cur­rently liv­ing in a coun­try that has social­ized med­i­cine.  I am a BIG fan of the National Health Ser­vice, NHS.

I sup­pose my ques­tion is, what exactly do you not like about social­ized  med­i­cine?  What do you like about pri­vate health care.  Do you know that the UK has BOTH?

The other day I watched a panorama pro­gram where they showed peo­ple lin­ing up to be seen by a char­ity that was orig­i­nally set up to pro­vide health care to 3rd world coun­tries.  They now spend 60% of their time in the US.  I found myself get­ting angry.  How is it that the rich­est nation in the world allows some of it’s cit­i­zens to go with­out such a basic fun­da­men­tal human right.

I really am curi­ous to hear what every­one has to say.  I’ll put away my pinko-commie soap box now.





Like it’s 1999

Posted on January 28, 2009

How Much things cost in 1999

Yearly Infla­tion Rate USA 2.19%
Year End Close Dow Jones Indus­trial Aver­age 11,497
Inter­est Rates Year End Fed­eral Reserve 8.50%
Aver­age Cost of new house $131,750.00
Aver­age Income per year $40,810.00
Aver­age Monthly Rent $645.00
Cost of a gal­lon of Gas $1.22
Aver­age cost of new car $21,050.00
US Postage Stamp 33 cents
1 LB of Bacon $2.59
Ground Cof­fee per IB $3.41
Loaf of Bread $1.49
Dozen Eggs 89 cents

I’m sooo rock­ing the last mil­len­nium here peo­ple.  I’m (are you ready for it?) using dial-up!  OH MAH GAWD it totally sucks.  Slow con­nec­tions and dropped con­nec­tion being my main gripe.  Slow load­ing pages when­ever I go to a new site– luck­ily for me I’m a crea­ture of habit and that hasn’t hap­pened too often.  I’m wait­ing for my new wire­less broad­band modem (my last one bit the dust) to arrive from BT.  Until then I’ll be here, rock­ing to blink-182 and watch­ing Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer.

We are both sooo happy that Dada is back from his trip.





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