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Spring has sprung. The air is cool and damp, very in-hospitable to bike riding but perfect for hanging around the apartment. below are some photos of our little villa...note the pink and white checkerboard tiles in the kitchen selected by Eric(Edy)Ponce our Honduran Super...they made me ill at first but now they are kind of growing on me...I have started to enjoy the way they clash with the vinyl floor tiles and the way the kitchen tiles clash with the hall tiles...there is a haphazardness to it all. This apartment has actually come a long way in the last two years...well not a very long way but at least the mice and roaches are under control and the walls aren't oozing as much.

Nothing link-worthy is coming to mind today...I read that the world Bank has a new president or ceo or jefe or what have you. I like the way DavidByrne put it...that the World Bank is a misnomer, kinda like the World Series...last night someone asked me a) where is the philosophy section and B) do I think that woman should have the feeding tube removed...or put back?

My gut reaction was to say let the woman die...she's a vegetable...why prolong misery? Why spend so much effort and expense prolonging one life when there are so many people in need of the most basic health care?

He said, "Why does everyone want her to die?" and went on to explain that she was not a vegetable and the husband may well have caused the brain damage in the first place and wanted to make sure she couldn't testify. That there were doctors that said they could improve her condition. I guess that's plausible...Now that I think about it, the picture on the news showed her conscious, blinking...messed up but aware...but the voice over said something like, "her husband says she is a vegetable and there is no reason to keep on keeping her alive."

The old guy made some good points. Still just one life, but it makes a difference if she's conscious and if its a loving husband saying that or if its someone that hates her and tried to kill her and has a life insurance claim to collect. We left it at "we'll see what happens."

hmmm...still nothing to link to...ooh the rain just turned to snow...hmm...is there a site that promotes free clean drinking water and universal health care?