The Last Whiskey Bar

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm taking eighteen right now. that's been an adventure. Speaking of school, I am going to be SO glad when I'm done with this essay. Carlos Fonseca is not my favorite revolutionary and I am deathly tired of Nicaragua right now.

/back to the grindstone

I'm taking 18 next quarter for some insane reason. I really do not know why I'm doing this to myself.

Good lord. I've done 18 units with a job before, but never a job plus responsibilities like yours.


It would be super nice if details in the books I've been reading matched up. I mean, really basic details, like where the dictator went when he went into exile.

I'm only doing it because four of the classes I'm taking, combined, are only like two challenging classes. This is probably the last term I take four classes, though.

[Cain]

I'm taking eighteen right now. that's been an adventure. Speaking of school, I am going to be SO glad when I'm done with this essay. Carlos Fonseca is not my favorite revolutionary and I am deathly tired of Nicaragua right now.

/back to the grindstone

Also, allegedly, a KGB agent.

If you can believe Mitrokhin, at least.  I know a lot of the American intelligence/academic community do not...but MI6 apparently felt he had enough goods to exfiltrate his family from Russia, after the end of the Cold War.

[Juana]

Curious. I'll have to investigate that.

[Cain]

It's entirely possible the archive is a British-aided invention, designed to smear the Labour Party for its socialist views and previous hostility to the intelligence services.  It does name quite a few Labour members as Soviet agents, and it was the British Conservative Party's leadership who allowed for Mitrokhin's exfiltration.

But then you get into the whole question of what is disinformation and what is real information designed to make you swallow the dinsinformation.

[Juana]

Which archive?

[Cain]

The Mitrokhin archive.

The story is, supposedly, that a KGB agent by the name of Vasiliy Mitrokhin dun fucked up, and was exiled to a desk in the KGB First Directorate for his troubles.  The archives, specifically.

Shocked by the outrages that the KGB had perpetuated on the Russian peoples, he took to secretly transcribing the archive.  For decades he scribbled away and, when the Iron Curtain fell, he made overtures to the Americans and then the British for asylum and to publish his book, so Russians could be aware of how mistreated they had been by the Sword and Shield of the Party.

Only, there are a few problems with that story.  Such as his apparent free-roaming of the archives, having so much spare time to transcribe (not even photocopy) the files in question, waiting until after the end of the Cold War to alert foreign intelligence agencies, the lack of interest shown in him by the FSB and so on.

[Juana]

Aaah. Okay. Yeah, that sounds, hmm, fishy.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I need to get my sleep schedule back on track. This is crazy.

[EK WAFFLR]

Seems like I get my contract at work extended by 6 months. If this means I will get better paid, I'm going to sit the shit out of my office chair.
If not, I'll just sit in it normally,  while I actually get some work done.

[Cain]

Bwahahaha.

There is a petition on BSN to get me banned.  Why?  Suggesting the Firebase Rio special hazard be Duran Duran singing "Rio" at random moments.  Apparently I am giving the devs terrible ideas.

NO MORE TERRIBLE THAN NERFING THE ACOLYTE, CRYBABIES.

[Juana]

What. That's really fucking stupid reason to petition for a banning.

Seems like I get my contract at work extended by 6 months. If this means I will get better paid, I'm going to sit the shit out of my office chair.
If not, I'll just sit in it normally,  while I actually get some work done.

Fingers crossed for you!


Awake for twenty four hours as of about a minute ago. It's gonna be a long, long day. I am such a dumbass.

[Cain]

BSN is a stupid place on a daily occasion.  And besides, the mods won't ban me for that, so they can whine all they want.

[Lenin McCarthy]

On the bus yesterday there was an East African who drank liquor, smoked, rambled incoherently about The Rolling Stones, called the police claiming that three men had just threatened him with a knife, and then just walked away from the bus stop before the cop car that was supposed to meet him there had come. Local buses are fun.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

On the bus yesterday there was an East African who drank liquor, smoked, rambled incoherently about The Rolling Stones, called the police claiming that three men had just threatened him with a knife, and then just walked away from the bus stop before the cop car that was supposed to meet him there had come. Local buses are fun.

Sounds like our bus system.  We even have East Africans, and loads of them...But they aren't ever a problem, at least not so they'd stand out.  No, the problem seems to be across the board, ethnicity-wise.

Also, *I* have been known to drink heavily and ramble incoherently about the Rolling Stones.  On this very board, I'll have you know.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Is there really any other way to talk about the Rolling Stones?