Aida

Mike and I went to see the musical Aida at the Fullerton Civic Auditorium. The music and lyrics are written by Elton John and Tim Rice. The music was good, the singing and acting were professional, the sets, while not elaborate, were creative for a small stage. It was very enjoyable.

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Whose loss

My mother never learned to drive. She was scared of the traffic. She was a passenger in a car accident that rather traumatized her from driving. But she had a driver’s license.

Here’s how she get her license without ever learning to drive. My dad went into the testing area with her and completed the…

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Get Smart

The shoe phone…the cone of silence…”Would you believe…”…”Sorry about that, Chief.”…”I told you not to tell me that.”

If you are a Get Smart fan, those phrases elicit laughter at the thought of Maxwell Smart, agent 86. It was one of my favorite shows when I was young. In recent years, I introduced Smart to…

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USC celebrates 125 years this weekend. It is also the School of Engineering’s 1100100 year (100 in binary).

We went for their free breakfast at the Engineering school, and tour some exhibits and demonstrations.

It’s a good thing USC is not a huge school. I am tired from all the walking already.

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“There’s always a temptation, in the middle of a long struggle, to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world, and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder. This would be a pleasant world, but it’s not the world we live in. The enemy is never tired, never sated, never content with yesterday’s brutality. This enemy considers every retreat of the civilized world as an invitation to greater violence. In Iraq, there is no peace without victory. We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.”

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This gives some insight into the current process in choosing and voting for a judicial nominee by President Bush.

A head-on fight as Bauer suggested would have surely defined our Senators, which would be a good thing for the American people to know. Of course with our California senators, it’s no secret how they would vote. (BTW, I did not vote for them)

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