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Once upon a time, I worked for a large Boston teaching hospital which was bought by an HCO south of them. Ok... it was Providence.. but that's still south.

Then I worked for a smallish internet type company that was bought by Conglomo.com based in Georgia. For those of you geographically challenged, GA is south of MA.

Next (currently) I worked for an even smaller company that merged with, was aquired by, whatever, a slighty bigger company in south Florida.

Anyone else see a pattern?

Anyway, we had the opportunity to go to SFLA for the company Christmas party. They had record rainfall the 3 days we were there.. it was fabulous. Still at first glance we didn't think it was the worst place in the world. Then we talked to the people that lived there. School systems = CRAPPY, house prices = Boston prices, heat = HOT. The capper was going out to dinner. GOOD LORD. Sol, Morty, Edna, Bambi (yes, Bambi) et. al. (party of 8 next to us). I couldn't live there. And just to set the wife off, our departing flight was late (strike 1) because the plane was late arriving from NY. Strike 2 was the 55 wheelchairs needed to get these people off the plane. And strike 3 was a woman with her yippy little dog that she let pee on the carpet in the airport. Nice.. real nice. I'm better than you, I'm entitled to do whatever the hell I want. It was super. If go once a year for the Christmas party.. that will probably be enough.

Company names left out on purpose!

Answers

Kind of taken from LBF who answered questions from BFAM, they made me think a little, thought I'd answer them too. So here goes:

1. If you had to join a military service (at your current age and stage in life) which service would you choose and why?
The Marines. Go big or don't go at all.

2. Faced with the thoughts of a country like North Korea or Iran having the capability to strike the US with a Nuclear weapon, and the need for a third front (one of those two places) would you support a draft?
Being the parent of 2 boys, this is a little tough, but I'll say yes. And even go a step further and say that it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to require all the young men and women to do 2 years worth of service to their country.

3. Do Aliens really exist or are all those people in New Mexico just crack jobs?
Crack jobs. I have to think that if Aliens did exist, they wouldn't fly light years to just stop by. And why just New Mexico? Don't they have the internet? There are much better places in this country to visit if you've been traveling for a long time.

4. JFK conspiracy or again just a lone crack job?
Lone crack job with exceptional luck. This thing about this one boys and girls. If we were able to pull this off, aren't there other presidents in our history that this would have "benefited" as well?

5. You have one bullet and amnesty to assassinate one world leader who would it be?
Can I have the Lee Harvey Oswald magic bullet and get the 2 for 1 Special? Kim Jong Il, Hu Jintao, China, and since your being generous Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, mostly so we don't have to see Carter in Darfur on ER again.

6. If you had the chance to visit any world leader for one day where would you go and what would you want to discuss.
This is a tough one. You didn't say living or dead.. so I'll go with Ronald Reagan, and I'll mostly just listen, because I think he's probably got some really good stories.

What They Said:

LBF says Yep.. on 12/27/2006
Those were some pretty tuff questions for sure.

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