Only you and I can read this, CJ.

My brother calls me last night, and we talk until the wee hours of the morning. He's broken up with his girlfriend, for good this time. Apparently she's gotten a job at an escort service (the kind of escort that has sex with it's clients) and not tell him. (She told him she got a telemarketing job, then that it was phone sex. He started getting suspicious when she was dolling up to go to a telephone job.) Finally, she calls him on the phone, at 9am (she was due home at 5am, and he was up worried about her.) She tells him what she's doing, *over the phone*. He says that he forgives her, but says that he won't be intimate with her until she gets tested, and that he can't be with her if she continues to be a prostitute. She says "But the money's so good!"....He says (and I agree) that money isn't the issue at all here, it's safety, and good sense not to work that kind of job, and that there are a lot of perfectly good not-so-life threatening and socially acceptable jobs out there. She doesn't want to hear it, so Derek tells her that if she's making so much money, she can find a new place to stay. It turns out she already has found one, and is having a friend drop off the key to their apartment last night. All of this over the phone.

My poor brother was numb for most of the day... he called me at 11pm, and reiterated the whole story to me, and was in a reasonably good mood considering, when we got off the phone a while later... we were joking, and I think he realizes that he is just getting out of a bad situation with her. He is debating calling her father and tell him what's going on, so that maybe he can get her out of the business, but isn't sure if butting in is the right thing to do. I don't know either, but I feel that getting her some help, regardless of how embarrassing it is for all involved is probably the best thing they can do.

He's too nice a guy for this to happen to. Far from perfect, but we all are human.

anyhow that's the crux of it...I'll tell you more later when I see you.

I hope your cold is fading fast, and that you got to sleep quickly last night, after we spoke.

*good thoughts*

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exhort \ig-ZORT\, transitive verb:
To incite by words or advice; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

intransitive verb:
To make urgent appeal; to give warning or advice.

Exhort derives from Latin exhortari, "to encourage strongly," from ex-, intensive prefix + hortari, "to incite, to encourage."

estivate \ES-tuh-vayt\ verb, also aestivate

To pass the summer in a dormant state.

From Latin aestivatus, past participle of aestivare, to reside during the summer.

(Like a summer version of hibernate.)

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GrifterMike: Is that you, Scott?
BigLug23: yeah
GrifterMike: We blew it. They killed Deakins.
BigLug23: read about the suicide?
GrifterMike: I knew Professor Deakins pretty well. Suicide my ass.
BigLug23: why did they kill him? He wanted nothing to do with this.
GrifterMike: That photo you gave me had a packet sniffer attached to it.
BigLug23: They tracked him that way?
GrifterMike: Just listen. They traced the photo back to Deakins. Then they killed him.
BigLug23: Who's next?
GrifterMike: This is getting completely out of hand.
GrifterMike: I don't know what to do anymore.
BigLug23: what about shinehed?
GrifterMike: I hope Shintaro gets back soon so we can just get the hell out of here.
BigLug23: Have you heard from him?
GrifterMike: We should have been more cautious.
GrifterMike: I'm sorry.
BigLug23: Is everyone else ok?
GrifterMike: Auto Response: I am currently away from my computer.

timeline, most recent to newest.

Kendra sounds frantic and scared. Someone is trying to break into the room where she and Mike are hiding. There is a scream, a loud crash and unfamiliar voices, then someone hangs up the phone.

spoilers ahead.
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I'm bad.

I have 4 packages to send out.

They've been sitting by my front door "so I won't forget them" since Friday night, to take to the post office last saturdayt morning.

Tonight, when I see them, I'm putting them *IN FRONT* of the door, in order to ship them off. to them that's expecting mail, it should get to you by the weekend.

Ack. On to good stuff.

I talked to my brother last night, and hopefully we'll be getting together this Sunday to go to the pier, listen to some music, see a few friends. Listen to a band that I'd like to do a website for. We'll see.

My morning fog obscures all memory of last night's dreams. I lay in bed this morning, waking slowly, thinking of being with my sweetie in a park, watching the folks go by, seeing children playing. There was horseback riding and a lot of people there, even though they were spread out quite a bit...Its times like that when I wonder what we'll be like five years from now... a decade, even 30 years. Her with a head of silver, me with a horseshoe of grey, grown old together...maybe children of ours having children of thier own. What'll the world look like when my age has doubled? The same, but only with more crap music and cool technology? (Sort of how I view the shift from the 80's to now...) I like to think we'll still have books, peace and freedom. I think we're overdue for a global confilct... I hope we never have another, but is that a realistic hope? I'm getting too old to serve, but will my kids one day have to kill people that threaten our way of living?

I just want to grow old with the woman I love. :) A reasonable request, I think.

news, evil, and not so much.

--- HOME ALONE?

The United States appears to be going it alone on more issues these days. Many in Congress were surprised when the world went ahead and adopted the Kyoto Accord in Bonn while the U.S. looked on. According to Senator Joe Lieberman: "Bonn surprised people. The feeling was that, if the United States took its football and left the field, the game couldn't go forward. But the rest of the nations of the world found their own football, and they completed the game. They left the United States on the sidelines."
{OK, so are we talking about American football or what the rest of the world calls football?}
http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-072501dioxide.story

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A refusal to support a worldwide plan to enforce a ban on germ warfare is the latest issue in which the U.S. has split with many other nations.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/604811.asp

--- THE DEVI MADE HER DO IT

The incredible life of India's "Bandit Queen", which saw her evolve from outlaw to politician {the opposite of the general U.S. evolution} comes to a violent end as she is shot down by masked gunmen.
http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/07/25/india.devi/

--- A MOUNTAIN DUE

In the last twenty years, young children in the U.S. have seen the amount of homework required of them triple. {It's unclear whether that stat includes a penmanship exercise still sitting
in my desk drawer}.
http://cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.ednews/07/25/homework.increase.ap/

--- ANY PREDICTIONS?

Missouri has filed lawsuits against the psychic Miss Cleo (if you have ever watched television, you know her) charging her with consumer fraud. According to the state's attorney general: "Miss Cleo should have seen this coming. It doesn't take a crystal ball to realize that ripping off consumers isn't without consequences."
http://boston/dailynews/206/nation/Missouri_s_attorney_general_ac:.shtml

and...

On his way to Beijing, Colin Powell expresses optimism about the release of the U.S. scholars convicted of spying in China.
http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-072501scholars.story

Teen birth rate falls to a record low in the U.S.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/07/25/teen.births.ap/

Condit will talk to FBI.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/24/missing.intern/

Patients' bill of rights heads back to the waiting room.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49450-2001Jul25.html

Nato gets parties to re-establish cease-fire in Macedonia.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010725/wl/balkans_macedonia_dc_183.html

Will AOL's $100 million investment in Amazon lead to an eventual merger?
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010724/aponline202130_000.htm

Opec cuts oil output. Consumers shouldn't see much difference.
http://nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-World-Oil-OPEC.html

Researchers believe they have solved the mystery of what killed the Iceman more than 5,300 years ago.
{So far, no warrants have been issued in the case.}
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010725/sc/iceman_mystery.html

The bedbugs, more often than ever, are biting.
http://travel.boston.com/world/072501_fl_bedbugs.html

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http://myplay.winamp.com/mp/playlist/now_playing.jsp?plid=429374&start=1

there's what's on my mp3 broadcast cache right now.

listen in, if you like.

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