Nick Postagulous
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Guess What I'll Be Doing Today
I'll be pressure washing again. I need to post the picture that I sent to Alison and TC of me pressure washing up here. I might remember to do that when I finally get home tonight. Alison will be getting more stuff out of the second garage at her mom's house. I drove past the site that her mom's new house will be built on, still no change, except that someone picked up that Dr. Pepper can that was sitting in it.
Sleeve - Long Sleeve
One of the cultural differences we'll encounter when in mainland China is the tendency for all babies to be pretty much covered up when out in the sun. I checked on Nina's stash of clothes that may or may not fit her. There are plenty of long sleeve items, but most are those freaky footy things.
We will obey local custom when we're there. Unlike, it seems, many of the others who go there to get their daughters. The horror story du jour was one that Alison told me she read about. Upon first getting their child, while the orphanage caregiver was still there along with their translator, they stripped the child down to her diaper and gave her a quick spongebath, while everyone else was also getting their child in the child getting ceremony. The tactless new parents though that the Chinese had shocked looks because they did not have children showing that much skin in public (though if that was the case, explain split pants). But no, culturally insensitive dweeb parents, it was because you cleaned a kid that they had been taking care of for a year. You showed them that you thought they were ignorant and didn't take good care of her.
Trojan Horse
I had almost decided that I wasn't going to see Troy, but then in an article at USAToday where they asked all the wrong questions to historians about the possible accuracy of the movie Troy (which is questionable at best since it's based on a 3000 yr old work of fiction based on an event that happened 200 years prior to it's writing, and way way sensationalized) made me want to see it. What changed my mind? The image of the horse. Wow, they did a good job. It was mucho grande and very stylized. Besides, I just saw Black Hawk Down, which also has Eric Bana and Legolas, and if I watch Ang Lee's The Huk while I'm in Nashyville (for some stupid WEF conference, and I'm taking my PS2) then I'll finish my Eric Bana triad...or is it triumvrae...tri-something. Three things.
