10 yrs ago 32 million americans watched network evening news. now, it's 24 mill. i am surprised it is still that many. i would have said like 18mill.

today i learned that some of our troops in afghanistan are farmer-soldiers. they are national guardsmen who are training the afghans to grow crops to feed their families + to sell. apparently the afghans were not doing simple things like pruning the apple trees to encourage more & bigger apples to grow. i really admire these farmer-soldiers because firstly, they are doing that "teach a man to fish" thing which i think that is really great, but also i would think it would be very difficult to teach a knitted blanket to grow anything at all.

still working on moving the files from the old pc to the new pc and getting a bit peeved b/c you'd think that microsoft would make the different versions of windows work together, but no-o-o-o-o. i will have to make the entire other computer the administrator or something. i have to try a few things and see what works. and, really, i don't want to try a few things. i really would like it to just work. i need like a computer-tech-soldier to come teach my knitted blanket self how to make these computers talk to each other.

tomorrow i & the 6 other people in my department are going to have a happy holiday lunch at panera. firstly, i like panera so fine, whatever, but point #2 - i do not particularly wish to spend over an hour socialeating with these people. what i wish to be doing with that time is running. why don't we all go socialexercising? oh, right, some people cannot keep up - some people cannot run as far as i can. well, guess what, i cannot keep up with the sheer amount of food that some people throw down their gullets, but do i complain? hell no! because i am a trooper. even if i can't keep up, that doesn't stop me from participating. that is just the sort of solid, reliable team player i am -- i want everyone to be happy & have a good time. what i am saying is that i would not throw a wet blanket on it.

[see what i did there? do ya? do ya?]