Friday, 31 August 2007, 17:13:59 EDT
Twenty-eight years completed. Maybe it's because I've never left school, but I haven't felt "older" until recently. I suddenly find myself an adult with real responsibilities. Sure, I've been paying rent and such for several years, but now I have to keep up with a business while working on my degree. My brother does all of the hard work, but I'm making sure our bills get paid on time without us running out of money. I have stacks of paper on dinner trays all around my desks. It's a mountain of work that is constantly calling out to me. And the piles are just going to get higher, I have to do my classwork first; and that's no light task.
Year twenty-eight hasn't been fun. It's been one thing after another, everything from vandalism to loosing my father. Of course, all of my other "troubles" this year pale in comparison to that one event. It's been hard to deal with, but I think I'm coming around. That, or I've just managed to bury it while I finish school. I have no idea.
So I'm hoping year twenty-nine is a better year. I really can't fathom it being wo ... (view rest)
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 18:34:36 EDT
Well, I've used up twenty-seven of them now. Not very much happened on this, my twenty-seventh birthday. The most significant thing, at least at the time of this writing, is that Iran refused to stop enriching uranium. Today was the day the United Nations had mandated they stop or sanctions may be placed on the country. I really don't know what to think of this situation. I agree that a sovereign nation should be allowed to develop technology that it feels is necessary for advancement into the modern world. But, I also agree that a country that would possibly sell nuclear weapons to terrorists should not be allowed to develop the technology necessary to do so. By all accounts, Iran was supplying Hezbollah with weapons and other military items in the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. That doesn't exactly help Iran's case for developing nuclear technology. It will be interestin ... (view rest)