The last day of 2008 was okay. Ran up to Manahawkin in a driving wind and a little snow to get Pat's prescription filled. Took the small crock pot back, as I don't think it's necessary after all. Got new cartilages for the printer, but now am not sure if they fit. Marissa, the p.t., was supposed to come at 3:00, but called to say the parkway was jammed and could she come on Friday? Yeah, sure, why not?
High point of the day was a web call from Tokyo. It was great to see P. and N., who were about to go to her mother's for New Year's (it was 2009 there).
Wider: My dismal performance re the geography quiz I mentioned yesterday shamed me so much, I used a printed map as a guide, and filled in the countries. I want to print it out and study it to finally know where we're spreading such death and destruction.
Speaking of D and D, Chris Hedges, in Truthdig.Com has this to say about our complacent acceptance and support of the slaughter in Gaza:
"Our self-righteous celebration of ourselves and our supposed virtue is as false as that of Israel. We have become monsters, militarized bullies, heartless and savage. We are a party to human slaughter, a flagrant war crime, and do nothing. We forget that the innocents who suffer and die in Gaza are a reflection of ourselves, of how we might have been should fate and time and geography have made the circumstances of our birth different."
But who hears and who cares?