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vicarzANY ADVICE / INFO ABOUT WONKY LAPTOP TOUCHPADS NOT WORKING FOR NO APPARENT REASON WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
So I'm in the Gaylord Opry Hotel. The place is huge, with 3 separate enclosed um...terrariums? It's kind of nice, I have palm trees outside my window. The thing is, I'm just not in an area that I find culturally compatible with me. The place is filled with hokey xmas decorations, with far less token blacks than I'm used to, and far more angels. Old people are wandering all over the place, taking pictures of the decorations. I can see wandering about looking at all the strange fountains, fish, fauna, and flowers - but taking pictures of decorations? Have they never been to a shopping mall? This is apparently the prime place to stay if you are going to the Opry, which it seems is a famous country music landmark. Yee-hah.
Speaking of being in the bible belt, I spent hours last night talking to an upper 40 something very christian woman last night. I think she's a methodist, whatever that means, but her congregation has openly lesbian couples. She is very lesbian friendly (but straight and married) as she works for the forest service. It seems a lot of crunchy dykes are in USDA's forest service - cool! I think I made her more gay-friendly when I satisfied her private curiosity about how lesbians are more likely to have kids (I assured her that a vast majority probably use fertility centers rather than have man-sex for the kids part!) She's a total dear, hates Bush for being a moral disaster, and is really open about what other people do. She's...got morals that she practices, rather than a weapon that she slings about. I either wish there were more people like her, or that I met more people like her. Religion could be a good thing for individuals and the country. I forget that there are decent religious people amidst the masses or morons I see splayed across the airwaves. Real xtians don't show off. Of course, in a perfect world people wouldn't believe in things that couldn't be measured in labs...and would just be moral because well...it was moral...
Also in a perfect world: http://daddydesign.com/Barney.html
So I'm in the Gaylord Opry Hotel. The place is huge, with 3 separate enclosed um...terrariums? It's kind of nice, I have palm trees outside my window. The thing is, I'm just not in an area that I find culturally compatible with me. The place is filled with hokey xmas decorations, with far less token blacks than I'm used to, and far more angels. Old people are wandering all over the place, taking pictures of the decorations. I can see wandering about looking at all the strange fountains, fish, fauna, and flowers - but taking pictures of decorations? Have they never been to a shopping mall? This is apparently the prime place to stay if you are going to the Opry, which it seems is a famous country music landmark. Yee-hah.
Speaking of being in the bible belt, I spent hours last night talking to an upper 40 something very christian woman last night. I think she's a methodist, whatever that means, but her congregation has openly lesbian couples. She is very lesbian friendly (but straight and married) as she works for the forest service. It seems a lot of crunchy dykes are in USDA's forest service - cool! I think I made her more gay-friendly when I satisfied her private curiosity about how lesbians are more likely to have kids (I assured her that a vast majority probably use fertility centers rather than have man-sex for the kids part!) She's a total dear, hates Bush for being a moral disaster, and is really open about what other people do. She's...got morals that she practices, rather than a weapon that she slings about. I either wish there were more people like her, or that I met more people like her. Religion could be a good thing for individuals and the country. I forget that there are decent religious people amidst the masses or morons I see splayed across the airwaves. Real xtians don't show off. Of course, in a perfect world people wouldn't believe in things that couldn't be measured in labs...and would just be moral because well...it was moral...
Also in a perfect world: http://daddydesign.com/Barney.html
