It is Easter Sunday 2018 @ 5:23 PM.
Yesterday I did the kids and adults karate classes and made it through just fine. Hyphen (sp?) gave me a nice back kick to the gut and although it didn’t knock the wind out of me like Yoshi’s a few weeks ago it did knock me back. I made it through the classes just fine even though I had taken a couple of weeks off.
My buddy Brandon sent me a text asking to play darts so as long as we could do it early I was happy to oblige. We went to the Longboard Bar and it was nice to see they are redoing the room with the darts. You can now see through to the main bar and they have two great paintings of Use Your Illusion I and II on the wall plus Metallica Ride the Lightning. The addition of these paintings now makes this my official favorite bar in Pacifica.
I swept Brandon 4 – 0 in the darts: two of the games were Cricket and two 501. It is nice to see I’m still able to check out at the end of the game: that is where you have to hit the outer circle of half the points you have left to win. If you end up hitting any other number you either bust or need to ensure the points are even and try again on the half of that number. After a while Peter and Kazuki joined us and we went over to Go Sushi for dinner. It has been a very long time since I had dinner only with friends. I then came back early because I really was pooped but before I went to bed I had to hide all the eggs and put the Easter baskets out for the kids to find in the morning.
My son woke up early and was very excited to find the eggs and baskets but had to wait for his brother to wake up before he could go on the hunt. We then played outside for a bit then down to Rockaway for some Pokémon Go then back for tacos for lunch. I then took another long nap because karate had really worn me out the day before.
As for Easter I remember the holiday fondly from my youth. However, unlike my youth I find the rituals of the religious to be very strange. I simply don’t understand how in this age, with all of our education, so many people can still subscribe to an ancient religion that makes no sense.
In other news I had to laugh at the Russian responses to the #Metoo movement in America:
Dmitry Peskov says “they earned hundreds of millions of dollars, and after 10 years they say that Weinstein is bad,” according to Russia’s Sputnik news service. He says “none of them went to the police, did not say ‘Weinstein raped me.’.. No! (they) wanted to earn $10 million.”
“What’s the name of a woman who slept with a man for $10 million?” he added. “Maybe, I’m speaking crudely, she’s called a prostitute.”
A few months ago they said that the #Metoo movement couldn’t happen in Russia because flirting is how babies are made.
As for me personally I think everyone (who deserves it) should be treated with respect. We’re all trying to make the best we can of this life and all have very different experiences. So while many women do have a very valid point I think that it might be going too far. This was pointed out in a Dilbert cartoon where everyone had to wear “Anti-harassment” suits where everything you say when speaking with the opposite sex will first be transmitted to Human Resources to check for harassment, scrubbed then sent to the person you’re speaking with.
It seems to me that adults are acting like children and it is sad that we cannot even talk to each other without harassment and have to resort to this all blowing up like something you’d see in elementary school with the teachers having to get involved.
Along these same lines I was reading Reddit and there was a clip of a camera man who focused in on the cleavage of some actress who was wearing a very low cut dress. Of course the purpose of this low cut dress is to call attention to the cleavage but if you do she’ll tell you her “eyes are up here.” So show them off but you’re in trouble if you look. It made me wonder how an advanced society would see the idiocy of our society now. The women wear very uncomfortable high heels which were originally designed to be able to steady oneself whilst shooting arrows from a horse. Along with these silly shoes they also show off their cleavage but demand nobody look or feel harassed. So while I’m all for showing everyone respect it is hard to get on board when many situations are absolutely ridiculous. Many women crave the attention which is apparent from their outfits but should they get it they cry foul.
I guess this is why I partly agree with the Russians on this point.
Anyway, that is enough for today, I better get back to the family.
