Day 355: Reading Nickels

 

December 21st, 2011Upon waking up at 10am this morning, nothing was done for roughly 7 hours, as I spent my day at home merely watching episodes of How I Met Your Mother, reading Atlas Shrugged, and talking to my sister. When the clock struck 5pm, I woke up from a terrible nap, with my sister dragging me and Nam to go pick up Tracy and her friend at her house and us proceeding for the ultimate destination of Volcano Tea. Annie complained she didn’t get a stamp on her stamp card because of the “free upgrade” deal they had on Wednesday. I have to agree with management on this issue: Free Upgrade = No Stamp. Ron Paul 2012.

We went back home to eat dinner before eventually heading out again (Just Nam, Annie, and I this time). We first proceeded to Barnes and Nobles, battling a congested parking lot. One guy broke the rules of social order when he claimed a parking spot Nam clearly signaled for. There is no justice in this world. We went inside Barnes and Nobles where I read the Sparknotes of Atlas Shrugged (*merely for clarification purposes), and some self-help books. We went to Nickel Nickel afterwards where I snapped my picture of the day (above), but didn’t win enough to warrant any good prizes. What we eventually got were bubble-blowers, things that move on walls, an ugly donkey, and an annoying nose maker. We went to Taco Bell where the management failed to provide Nam his food in an orderly fashion. He protested at the counter which resulting in them saying “Oops, we forgot”, which resulted in Nam saying “Oh, that’s okay. Thank you!”. FAIL BLOG (literally). Him eating made me want some too, so I ordered a chicken soft taco (listed for a dollar). The management seemingly failed again by ripping me off charging $1.69. UGH SAD. We went home afterwards where I ended the night submitting my application for Cal State University, Fullerton & watching How I met Your Mother.

On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American. Islamic terrorists were accused of planting the bomb on the plane while it was at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Authorities suspected the attack was in retaliation for either the 1986 U.S. air strikes against Libya, in which leader Muammar al-Qaddafi’s young daughter was killed along with dozens of other people, or a 1988 incident, in which the U.S. mistakenly shot down an Iran Air commercial flight over the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people. SAD…

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