Today’s e-mail. A nice story about two friends:

Dear World:

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of liberty, democracy and prosperity, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4th, 2008.

Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are nowoperating correctly, and as of January 20th 2009 are fully functional.   We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look forward to the results of this resumption of full service and hope to improve in years to come.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2008 year in review by Uncle Jay! For the past several years I’ve struggled to find an unbiased, reliable, honest news source and unfortunately been unsuccessful up until now. Where have you been Uncle Jay? Go to his website and sign up to receive his weekly news explanation broadcast. You’ll know longer be confused on all the crap that goes on in this world…..

I just downloaded and set up the Wordpress application for my iPhone and currently testing it now by writing this post.

I’m attaching a picture that I took from the window of the men’s bathroom at a US Coast Guard base in Seattle, WA. I could be mistaken, but I believe the ship is the ice breaker, Healy?

I wonder how this post will turn out….

Most people find this clip funny. I find it frightening because imagine the character Peter being Bush, or worse, Dick Cheney saying the exact same thing. Dialogue from an actual Bush Administration foreign policy meeting! Okay, maybe not, but you know it’s pretty damn close……

Absolutely hilarious! I don’t know about you, but I think John McCain in this video looks scary. I would say Obama wins….

I was cleaning up my Delicious links and came across the Where the Hell is Matt website.

This video should be the official video of the United Nations, and that dance should also be the official world dance! In fact, his dance should be the official world greeting that every politician, good or evil, should have to greet each other with during good and bad times. Maybe that will cut down on some wars due to stupid stuff…

Keishi.Biz is finally up and running, sort of….It’s live but I haven’t linked it to any of my social networking sites, advertise it through any search engines and via the old fashion way. I still have to install some additional wordpress plugins, tweak some settings, clean up some old posts/pages, and finish it off with some testing and troubleshooting. If all goes well we should be good to go sometime this week….

I’m actually testing one of the plugins right now, by entering this post using Gmail through my smartphone. Hopefully it works….sending it off now….

Earlier today I got a phone call from my brother letting me know that he just spotted a 2009 Nissan Skyline GTR. Finally, it’s here in the States! HOWEVER, now that it’s here, the passion seemed to have disappeared. When I got that call, the excitement was short-lived. Before, it was a car that people knew about but couldn’t get their hands on, unless they imported it themselves or through a broker. Now, it’s just an awesome car, that anyone who’s willing to pay or can afford $70,000, can own. I’ve ridden and drove some of GTR’s since the ’70’s and got to tell people outside Japan how great the car was, and now it’s available to anyone……I’m no longer special…..see for yourself…..

As suddenly as my passion for the Skyline GTR faded, it shot right back up again as I spotted a classic, I believe, first generation Nissan Skyline GTR, directly imported from Japan. It was awesome! I was totally blown away to see it in great shape, racing up the hill! It was a message from the Skyline GTR gods slapping me across the face and telling me to get over it and continue to love the car!

First Generation Nissan Skyline GTR