This evening and tomorrow

[beowabbit]

Lovely dinner with zzbottom tonight at East Coast Grill. I’d never eaten there before; the food was really good. It was great to get a chance to catch up with zzbottom!

Tomorrow I get to get up way too early to let the plumber in to fix the furnace. I’m taking the day off work for that and to get the house ready for docorion and myself ready for Arisia, both of which I am tremendously looking forward to. So time to sleep now. Wow! A post by me that didn’t go on for pages and pages!

Oh, I didn’t hear much about the inauguration, but I did hear something about how Bush said the trains were going to run on time. Kinda hard to believe, but I guess history will be the judge.

Comments

[beowabbit]

(Actually, my understanding is that “but at least the trains run on time” was sarcastic — under Fascism, the trains never ran on time.)

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Could be. My understanding of the phrase was that the fascists substituted economic security for political freedom. Why worry about such trivia as liberty when the economy is doing so well? At least in Germany, the Nazis did make a lot of economic progress at first (of course, this was after the debacle of the Weimar Republic and its hyperinflation). I really don't know what the Italian experience was.