I am back in Houston and will be back to the office this morning. Tiggs was wondering if I got into the MS150. Yes I did. Being the fusspot that I can be, I was sure that I got registered in the first two hours, even from England. Since I was having trouble logging in, I even called my wife and she registered me from the home computer while I gave her instructions over the phone. And it paid off, since I would have been shut out.
In the "there is always someone worse off division", a 23 year old Englishman went to a clinic in Switzerland for an assisted suicide. This man was a promising rugby player who became paralyzed from the shoulders down in 2007 from a scrum collapse. It appears he was in pain and agony since. His parents accompanied him to Switzerland. I have no comment on the morality of such. It is just a reminder for me to count your blessings. The story is here.
English schoolboy education must be deteriorating. I overheard a young man of about 13 leaving Kensington Gardens ask the following question of his mother. "What does ER stand for?" And before you respond "Emergency Room", think that he was leaving a royal garden in London. I know that the ER found in London in many public places stands for Elizabetha Regina, which is Latin for Queen Elizabeth. What is the country coming to when young men do not know the initials of their queen?
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Joe- the line for voting was about 10 minutes long. However, I went at 2:30pm and to the City Administration Building at 1001 Preston downtown. The cop working the door said it was the first time it had cleared out all day. The line was wrapped around the building from 6am to around 2pm.
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