Tsvangirai Withdraws

   Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the presidential runoff election in Zimbabwe. )=


   He was widely believed to have won the initial election (possibly even with an actual majority) but incumbant Mugabe's government announced he had not and there would be a runoff.


   Extensive violence against his supporters was cited by Tsvangirai as his reason for withdrawing from the race.

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22 of 30 - Ideas From Flagstaff

   Again, this is the weekend and in particular Sunday night, when entries posted receive very negligible numbers of comments. So to waste on this day I find myself scraping my brain for the blog idea thats most barely a blog idea.

   So its been about a week now since I got back from Flagstaff. I'm finally starting to be able to eat again but I'm still down to one meal a day. As of only Friday though eating was usually followed by crippling indigestion.

   Anyway, many of the best ideas come from talking to friends. So I'm just gonna kluge together some brillaint / silly ideas Kerri and I came up with in Flagstaff.


Ideas from Flagstaff
1. Things to Do In a Lava Tube - Firstly of all we were on our walk through the lava tube, which you'll recall was a two mile hike through an underground tunnel (neat!). There were actually a lot of other people in there, particularly people with small children (they didn't go all the way to the end though). We decided it would be fun to bring a bunch of candles to somewhere near the deepest part of the tunnel and make a pentagram on the ground and surround it with lit candles and leave it there. Maybe even smear some fake blood in the centre or make it out of such. That would be sure to give some hapless tourists from Phoenix the heebie jeebies. ;)
   Also we got to talking about Indiana Jones while we were down there and decided it would be awesome to take my laptop down there and a bunch of friends and watch Indiana Jones while deep in the tunnel (My laptop has 3+ hours of battery life).
2. Indiana Jones - And speaking of Indiana Jones, we got to talking about what if there was an Indiana Jones-like movie in the future in which some Indiana Jones type character 300 years in the future is off hunting some "ancient relic" from the primeval 21st Century. Like, you know those indians in the new Indiana Jones that apparently have absolutely nothing better to do but wait in the shadows of lost ancient temples on the off chance someone discovers them? This time the temple will be protected by "primative" people who look like Secret Service agents. And just like how in Indiana Jones the primative weapons are easily defeated by modern technology, the archeologist from the future will laugh off the simplistic M16s of the guardians because he had the foresight to pick up a cheap forcefield and target before venturing forth.
3. Undies - (A) For some reaon the topic of black widows and such eating their mates kept coming up. I decided someone should make girls undies that are black with a red hourglass on the bum, like a black widow. That would be saucy.
   (B) And then her pants ripped while we were out having coffee and I decided they should make undies that look exactly like jeans so that if one's jeans rip its not so obvious.
   (C) And next in that same conversation Kerri declared they should make undies that say "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT PERVERT?!" on them. Lol.

   So yeah.


Pic of the Day / Year Ago Today

Washington DC!
   Drove through Virginia and passed like 36 cops (or more? there were TONS). Spent a few hours visiting the monuments. Caught up with our friends acquantances and arch-nemeses at the UC-DC Campus and went out drinking with them that evening. See also, live account of it!


Meanwhile in the Real World
   My friends Aaron, Mark, Jeff and Aaron's brother Daniel bought water guns and made a whole bunch of waterballoons and had an epic waterfight today. It was great.