Wednesday, October 04, 2006
I guess I should have mentioned...
I had promised a follow up about my assertion that certain inequities were on the rise in America, but first I need to acknowledge a factual error in my blog for September 25th. I had stated that Boston was trying to pass laws to take down a legally owned CITGO sign because of remarks made by Hugo Chávez's against President Bush. It turns out the city of Boston owns the sign and/or has it listed and protected as a historic landmark, so while I don't approve of the knee jerk reaction I see nothing wrong with de-listing it.
I started to write this post a few days ago, but to be honest it bogged down in trying to explain the starting point of the assertion I just mentioned, so we'll put that aside again for now and get on with more important news. Part of my poor blogging habits this last week has been due to playing with a new toy, a toy I hadn't told my wife I had bought yet and so couldn't blog about it. I bought a Nokia 770 internet tablet device. On the whole I'm happy with the purchase and will say more about it as time goes on. I intend to use it for making short blog posts when I'm away from my computer, something my Samsung camera phone was really never up to.
Anyway I told my wife last night I had bought it and somehow also ended up also confessing to an unmentioned business purchase I had made last year as well, after essentially promising I wouldn't spend more money on a side business project that had turned into a money pit. Nian was pretty understanding, as it wasn't about the money but the broken promise, but I still felt bad. It's strange how even 8,000 miles apart the littlest omission or untruth comes out anyway, even if its from months and months in the past. And it isn't because Nian grills me that I eventually have to come clean, I just eventually end up saying something stupid that I have to explain. The only solution seems to be not to keep secrets from my wife, no matter how small.
