Costa, Cavaco and Stopper

Hey there guys. It is now quite late, and I am very tired. Hopefully you are too. I ended up having a very easy going sort of day, with lots of music and joy. I like joy.

I ended up not getting the call from work I have been dreading, telling me I have to go in tomorrow morning.. I do not like washing dishes for weddings. You see at weddings, everyone is served food at the same time, and so all the dishes come back at the same time.

Indeed, I ended up going to my brother's graduation. It was fun and interesting. I got to sit next to my grandmother, and hear many of the people who spoke called shengat, or chuchuline.. Still, it was a nice affair and it concluded with ice cream and swings, as all good ones do.

No.. It is a very powerful word. It is so powerful that the Irish are not allowed to use it for fear that they will make use of it in reference to their drinking habits, and rule the world. No can mean yes or no, depending on how a question is asked, so yes can also mean no if it means no. No is a weird sounding word. It sounds sort of like snow and oh. If you add things to it, you can come up with lots of words... Words like Not, Nothing, Note, Notice, Notary and many others. If you say it to yourself over and over, it starts to sound different, and not quite right. There are many ways to say it. You can say "NO!!" "Nno" "Neeeew" "Nah" and "Naw." No has played a very strong developing role in the world. Cave men could have used it in reference to using newly discovered fire for cooking purposes... Perhaps some were vegetarians, and used it to refuse meat. Caesar could have used it to refuse imperial status. Napoleon would have perhaps found it helpful if he had used it more when making plans to invade Russia. Without no, we would have no religions. Christianity for example is based on the right to no. Atheism is based on a no to religion and Unitarianism is based on a no to no. Without no, we would have no yes. We would have only maybes.. In fact, we would be useless Irish road builders.