Women... those Machiavellian beings.

It is Sunday about 5:00pm, and I am peacefully playing on my computer (after working all day in the yard) when she comes up and asks if I wanted to go to play with Kevin in the Playground close to our house.

More than fast I leave the computer and we prepare to leave.
On the way out the door (I was already settling Kevin in his car buster) she announces that she has to go to CVS to return some things and print some pictures.
Now, these are digital pictures, and my wife is picky. It takes forever for her to send those pictures to print
I argue and so she just says "drop me at CVS and go with him to play".

Now I am pissed.
My son is 1 year old. He will not be entertained in the playground for a whole hour.
That's besides the fact that the CVS is about 2 miles away from the playground, and that meant I would have to drop her, go with Kevin to play and then drive back to get her (and wait until she was ready), as I could not go back home and wait until she was ready (because she forgot her cell).
I ask why she didn't simply go to CVS alone and I could have stayed with Kevin at home, and she did not reply.

Now we are at the CVS's entrance, and she says she will not develop the pictures. She would just return the stuff and come back so we could go and play with Kevin (as it was the original idea she sold me at home).

We go and play with Kevin. On the way back she starts complaining that that day was the last day the pictures were on special, and she wanted to have them to take with us to Brazil and yada-yada-yada.
So I endup taking her to the blasted CVS.
While she does that, I take a tired Kevin with me and we go shopping for my nephew's game (he wanted a PS2 game, so I went to the mall to see if I could find it).
One hour later I get back to CVS. She is not yet done. It takes her 30 more minutes.
Now, Kevin is past his dinner time, and it very cranky.
She complains I hurry her up.

Now I am very annoyed. She invited me for a 30 minutes play with her and my son (aka Family time).
But she never told me her plan was to have ME take him alone while she does something else, and then I have to baby-sit Kevin for 1:30 more hours while she is playing the developer.

Why the fuck couldn't her leave me and my son out of her plans at home?
We would have been happy. We would have played, and would probably have eaten dinner and be on our way to his bath by the time she arrived.

I tell you something. There'll be no more kids. Just because I could not take another pregnancy from my wife.

They have no second thoughts abut us, and we always have to think about the baby they are carrying and how we cannot fight with them because it is not good for the baby.

Next time, she goes alone.

War is over

Hopefully the war is over. And hopefully for a long time. Although I am skeptical.
Hezbollah already said they won't disarm. We still don't know the fate of the 2 kidnapped soldiers.
Still, I have hope. If the international force does what it is supposed to do, no more rockets will hit Israel and no more attacks will come from the Lebanon and it will probably mean a better life for both Lebanon and Israel.

Let us rebuild, and try to give peace a chance.

I just want to add something to this blog that a friend of mine sent me in an e-mail exchange that happened between us.
It all started during the war, when she sent me an e-mail asking me to sign a petition to force Israel and the US to stop the war (as apparently only they were against the cease fire).
So I sent her an e-mail asking her if she ever stopped to think why Israel would be against the cease fire issue by the UN.
I asked her if the thought beyond that point of stopping the war. What would be implemented so Hezbollah would not attack Israel again? What would prevent them to send rockets into Israel? What would stop them from killing/kidnapping Israeli soldiers?
In order to stop the war, the world should help Israel to eliminate the terrorist’s cell in the Middle East. They should not accept that a government (be it Hammas or the Lebanese government) who have armed cells that can do whatever they want, and cynically these governors say "well, they are our armed wing, but not tied to the government"...
It does not make sense.
It is easy to blame Israel for using force (or even excessive force) against the terrorists that kidnapped their soldiers. But we all know that asking them back will do nothing.

Israel wants Peace. Always did. But they will never cave into the terrorist’s pressure and demands. Because if Israel ever gives in, there will be no way to stop these scum that surrounds it and to prevent them from kidnapping their citizens (soldiers or civilians)

And most of all, the world should open their eyes and see why so many civilians died in Lebanon. It is only because Hezbollah sent rockets to Israel from sites where they were surrounded by civilians and children, only for, when Israel retaliated, they could use the civilians as shield, or blame Israel for killing innocents.

As my last comment, I gave her a phrase that holds true as much as it held for 30 years when Golda Meir said it:" We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace when they would love their children more than they hate us."


And it seems that she saw the light. For soon, she sent me another e-mail that was in a Brazilian magazine:

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"Are any fair War?
Yes, but not this one. Which war was just? Maybe when the Arab armies joined forces to eliminate Israel in the middle of "Yom Kippur" (the most sacred Jewish religious day, when he prays to God for forgiveness while fasting all day)? Or when they attacked the Jewish state days after the survivors of the Holocaust received the legitimate state with the avail of the UN?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Because the front-page pictures were not of the first Israeli dead or injured from this conflict. After all, it was Hezbollah who started the attacks, as the same magazine admits it.

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Because the great majority of the pictures are from Lebanese Civilians wounded, and only two are about the Israelis: One of a soldier in a tank and another of the orthodox Jews praying. And how about their wounded/dead?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Because it says this is a dirty war. But are terrorists blowing up malls or pizza restaurants "clean"?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why start the text "the suffering and destruction caused by the Israeli offensive"... So aren't Israelis suffering with their dead and injured ones? Haifa's economy has stopped, their kids are in bunkers and not in schools and they have thousands traumatized by the war...

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why they put the "Jews" as the "others"? Because there's comparatively fewer Jews in the world? Well, this issue is about Israel (the Jewish state) and the Hezbollah.

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why question the civilian deaths if they are being used as shield by the terrorists, as this own magazine admits and the international law condemns. How many Israeli civilians already died in terror acts along the past years by the Hezbollah?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why not state in bold letters that Israel asked, alert, and foretold the Lebanese people to leave the area they will attack at least 24 hours before the attack?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why only Israel laments and begs forgiveness for the deaths of Arab children, when the same children are taught in schools to hate Israel and to die (become martyrs) if necessary, just so the Jewish state is swept out of the map?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, but not this one. Why not point out that Hezbollah impose to Lebanon a disrespect to the resolution 1.559 from the security council of the UN in which impose the placement of the Lebanese army in the south of their country and along the border?

Are there any fair magazine?
Yes, this very magazine, in which we subscribe for so long, when they admit that the diversity of interests in the middle east, added to the false and ever more appealing emotive arguments, made up a false reality in which it places Israel always as the villain, when in reality, the dead innocents are victims of their own extremists peers which the objective is never to be "in favor" of anyone, but always "against" the existence of the Israeli state. For the simple fact that they exist."

Text from Marcelo Friedman to "Veja" Magazine.
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Thank you Marcelo, for expressing yourself so well, that I see al my points into your arguments, and I agree with it in all aspects.

Now, I hope anyone who reads it forgive me for the long (but worthy) text.
I just hope I have never to touch on any war subject again...

...and in the 14th day there were peace!!!

Finally my house is empty.

After going to NY to my sister-in-law house to say goodbye to my Mother-in-law (as she was leaving to Brazil), my 2 nieces came back home with us, as they were on vacation and did not have anywhere else to go.
So, with unexpected visitors (ages 9 and 13), we headed home.
I must say it was a learning experience.
I should say that the learning part is that the next time they ask, we should just say no.
But who am I kidding? They would probably come anyway.

Ages 9 and 13 are surely hard ages. These girls never shut up. Talk all the time. About NOTHING at all. Just for the sake of talking.
They are at an age that they want to stay up until late, and we are not baby sitters. They then the next day they sleep until late and when they woke up, they drove my wife crazy with questions and making a mess.

They didn’t want to eat anything. Terrible!!! They only like Junk food.

In summa, these are ages for the parents to bear. No one else has the patience. Nor should anyone else be subjected to such torture.

But it was interesting. And all in all not all that bad.
It gave us a different perspective on how children behave, think and hopefully prepared us to deal with our son/daughter when they approach their age.

They left yesterday... and there was silence in the house...so nice!!! We had Peace!!

I hope I can sleep for a week, then pick up all the shows that were being DVR'd since they arrived (my TV room is also the visitor's room, so I could not watch any of my shows).
In such hours, I am glad a Buddy of mine left my company. I would not bear such guilt of not seeing the shows for that long under his inquisitive IM's to discuss the shows...
I know. I am a slacker. But would you go into 2 teen's room to watch a show you know it is being DVR'd? yeah. I thought so.

Give Mel Gibson a break!

So he got very drunk and said some BS about Jews.
So what?

"I will not see his movies anymore!!!"
"We demand an apology!!!"
"Here is a councel for you..."
"the apology is not good enough"

Come on! Give me a fucking break!!
First of all, as a Jew, I have no problem with what he thinks or not about me.
Second, as a person, I know everyone explodes sometimes and say things they would regret, and mostly say things you would not say if you were sober. And I am positive that absolutely 100% of the people who are making noise now, said bad things about others in time of anger. They were simply not caught or not as famous as him to be newsworth.

If I was his friend, I might get hurt for the comment. As he would be judging me for my religious beliefs rather than me for what I am.
And besides, this should NEVER discredit him as the great actor and director he is.

I don't know much about him (besides watching his movies), but from what I hear, he is a very devoted person, a good father/husband and a person who always try to help others.
So that is enough for me.

If anything, my wish is that he gets better, that he succeeds in winning his fight against alcoholism.
I hope he learns from this. But not that he cannot say certain things.
He's a grown man and knows right from wrong.
But things like the fact that apparently is the only person who noted to thank the policeman who stopped him, as he prevented him to have a car accident and hurt himself or others with much worse consequences.

Now give him a break, will you? One incident does not make him a bad person and does not take away his accomplishments as a person or as an actor!
Judging him as a bad person only for this is worse than his judgement of the jews while drunk. But at least he was drunk. What is your excuse???