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The Orange colored country names are one's I've actually been to. The others are on-the-list as of now.
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So dear reader-person, you poor, demented, lost internet soul, absolutely bored to death searched the Internet with some search term from this list or someone else's (of course) and actually FOUND my ever-loving blog...in one of those countries above. Ah...Mazing! There's something for everyone I guess. A few useful tidbits and an eye-glazing display of boring content so ill-written as to provide joyous laughter to Britney Spears for instance. Now Barack O. will never read it, he's online searching for Other subjects...things I don't cover like "AIG Executive Compensation Packages", "The Economy of The United States", "Poppy Growing in Afghanistan", "How Money is Printed", The Federal Reserve System" and, of course..."Basketball Scores" his favorite pastime. Not that Presidents, and especially HIM, have any PASTIME at all, especially NOW, especially Here in these not-so-United States. Everything is The bloody economy, tanked as it is, it's like having a daily train wreck in your front yard when you go out to pick up the morning paper. Morning papers might be going away here too...the Hearst paper in Seattle is now and ON-LINE edition ONLY! Yes, no printing presses, no ink, no paper boys (and girls), no paper racks that don't give you a paper when you insert the coins. How many coins does it take today to buy a paper I wonder, I haven't done that activity in over twenty years myself. Huh.
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I remember a certain paper machine outside of 180 New Montgomery in SF a long, long time ago. I was a CE, a Customer Engineer, for IBM and worked at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph (known from now on as PT&T) that I bought the morning paper from. It was normally a balky machine anyway so I was used to dropping a quarter into the slot and jerking the door to open it and it refusing on the first, second, sometimes even the third try before finally flailing itself open.
It did this every day, day in and day out. Balky, unreliable but always there, never replaced, paint peeling, dented, window broken...you've got the scene. This went on for months, then a year. I even put messages on the bloody thing, "Not The Box!", "Faulty", "Broken", "!#$#@#!" and it remained. Unfixed. Then one day as I arrived on my BSA 441 Victor motorcycle and parked it in a nearby alleyway, there before me was a brand spanking NEW mailbox, bright yellow paint, no dents, a window you could actually read the Headlines through and 2 slots for coins, the paper had gone up (in price)! I reached grumbling into my pocket for two quarters and dropped them in the slot and pulled on the door. No go! Once again, replaced the coins, dropped them in the slot and pulled...nope! Not opening for me...ok, I slammed in the coins, grabbed the door and pulled and pulled and then I picked up the whole damned machine and slammed it into the sidewalk, grabbed a single paper amid the mess and walked calmly into PT&T a satisfied customer.