2013 and Going Strong

June of 2013. The world didn't end on December 21, 2012, we didn't fall into the ocean, no tremendous hole swallowed us up, no incredible blizzards ala Day After Tomorrow. The only thing we have to worry about is a little closer to home - jobs, debt problems, encroaching security problems on the Net, and, yes, North Korea. Being in Japan, North Korea is just across the Japan Sea, which makes it too close actually, although NK's bark is probably worse than its bite. The most recent news from the strange country is that they have nuclear weapons on one hand, and they want to "talk" with the US...and Obama ain't havin that one. You get rid of those weapons, and THEN we'll talk, is the general consensus. I really don't know what North Korea is thinking...we (and by we I mean the rest of the normal world) can squash it in a few minutes, right? Do they have a death wish or something? Doesn't everyone agree? Anyway, we'll see what happens. And you know what the ancient Chinese curse is, right? "May you live in interesting times." We certainly do. I just hope they don't decide to lob a radical nuclear bomb over the Japan sea right onto my dinner plate...