22 April 97 
 
One of the days I didn't have to do a "date" before naming the file. 
 
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.... 
 
So now at my aged position of 23 years old, I have the perspective to  
realize...  well.... that I'm still short. 
 
I think I can handle that. 
 
The bad thing about sharing your birthday with earth day is that the news  
may have a sickening tendency.  Also, you get combined earth day/birthday  
presents.  And all of us who have birthdays on holidays know how hard that  
can be.   
 
Let's hear it for the Peruvians! wooo!  I've heard that one hostage and 
all the Tupac Amaru rebels are dead.  Why don't we see that kind of action  
in the U.S. any more?  Oh yeah, I forgot about Waco.  Except all the  
"hostages" and "terrorists" ended up dead.  Oh well.  In any case, I'll  
wait until tomorrow for a final body count.  If I had been a Tupac Amaru  
rebel, I would have taken the Caribbean asylum deal the moment I figured  
out they had been digging a tunnel.... that indicated that given enough  
time, the Peruvian army would be coming in one way or another.  It was  
obvious that they would never have any other demands met. 
 
But then, I don't need glasses for my hindsight. 
 
Anyway, thanks President Fujimori for that wonderful birthday present.   
It's about as good as the time Richard Nixon died on my birthday.