[belated] Happy B-day!

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

Happy B-day!  Hope you had a rad one.  I was out late last night and am
wicked tired.

It's starting to get cold.  Colder than last year when you were here.
Oh, well.  I think I'm more prepared than ever -- I'm determined to ride my
bike more this winter.

I helped my parents move last Friday.  They've got rid of a lot of stuff,
but they still have a lot left.  Sorta depressing.  I'd like to think we have
a lot less stuff, but I know we have a lot too.  Time to have a yard sale!
(Well, maybe next summer, anyway :-)  I'm working my way down, trying to
replace big things with smaller versions.  Ugh.

Did I tell you we finally got the leak in the roof fixed?  Yes!  It's quite
a relief.  Last week was a heavy rainstorm/thunderstorm and not a single
leak.  Before this, I would wake up in the middle of the night worrying about
where the next leak would appear.  I slept much better.

Went to the anti-anti-choice rally (i.e., protest of anti-choice parade)
last weekend.  I was invited to a peace rally, too, but I was too exhausted.
But, I'm sure I'll make it to a peace rally at some point.  The jingoism/
nationalism seems much worse this time than it was 10 years ago.  It's very
depressing and, with all the pumped up hormones and aggression and violence,
more scary than ever.  Good thing we don't have martial law 'cause we have
1984 instead -- turn in your neighbor, or, better yet, take the law into
your own hands!  And these anti-terrorism bills are fucking scary, especially
for civil liberties on the internet & computers.  How can G.W. have a 94%
approval rating?  Does this mean that only 6% are pacifists?  If so, that's
truly depressing.  I fear there will need to be a huge catastrophe, such as
a nuclear weapon explosion, for people to wake up and realize that violence
never solves a problem.

We need more bonobos and fewer chimpanzees.

Anyway, try to have a good one!