What Is Going On?

Is it just me or am I getting negative vibes from pretty much everyone I know?   I’m usually really crapty at reading signals from people though so I dunno.

For instance… a friend I’ve been hanging out with more recently is either subconsciously giving out negative vibes or my vibe-antenna seems to be malfunctioning.   That’s   stressing me out to no end.   A better phrase is ‘it’s confusing me’.

I think highly of that person indeed, so I hope the situation sorts itself out soon.   I’m only too aware of how susceptible I am to the actions of people in my life, and I wish I could change that.   For now it’s not going to change though.

It feels weird to have a social life now, small as it is.   Kenora especially is a bad town for someone like me – I don’t drink alcohol and that’s all most people do, aside from smoking drugs.

I was considering taking a road trip west to visit some buddies, and now I’m not so sure.   I’m just not up for going on vacation for the first time in six years, and having trouble for me or anyone else around me.

I damned hate being back on a downer!

One positive note – I finally received in the post the first four series/seasons of Judge John Deed that I ordered from Amazon.co.uk.   Took about two weeks for the order to even be shipped, but once it was… it was about ten days to get to me.   I’m quite psyched.   Fucked up thing is that the DVD’s are Region 1, so I have to use DVDFab Platinum to burn them before I can watch them.   Kinda good in a way coz these aren’t readily available if one gets scratched or broken.

Austria remembers Nazi annexation

A joint session of parliament has been held in Austria to mark its annexation by Nazi Germany 70 years ago.

On 12 March 1938, German troops marched into Austria and Hitler declared “Anschluss”, or political union.

Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer told the sitting that “no compensation can ever diminish the wrong that the Nazis did to our Jewish fellow citizens”.

Later, 80,000 candles will be lit outside parliament, where Austrians cheered Hitler’s arrival 70 years ago.

The candles represent the number of Austrian Jews and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.

The organisers have dubbed the ceremony “The Night of Silence” in contrast with the enthusiasm of the welcome given to the German takeover.

Mr Gusenbauer also announced that the government would build a Simon Wiesenthal Centre in honour of the Nazi hunter who died in 2005.

He told parliament that no pay-off could undo what had been done.

“I can only humbly beg survivors and their relatives to accept this gesture for what it is: a trifling acknowledgement of the injustice that was done to you,” he said.

On Tuesday, Vienna’s Jewish community formally re-opened the Hakoah sports club complex which had been confiscated by the Nazis in 1938.

The previous day, Mr Gusenbauer opened an exhibition showing how Jewish staff of the State Opera were purged under Nazi rule.

The anniversary of the Anschluss has revived debate among Austrians about whether they were victims or supporters of the Third Reich.

Otto von Habsburg, 95, the son of Austria’s last emperor, told a commemorative meeting that no state in Europe had “a greater right than Austria to call itself a victim”.

But the president of the lower house of parliament, Barbara Prammer, told Wednesday’s session that Austrians were complicit in Nazi crimes.

She said any suggestion that they had been forced to commit atrocities was a “fiction of history”.