20 Jun 2007 10:02 PM:
"Where was this piece originally published?
Sharon"
Hello Sharon,
Sorry, I was thinking in Spanish and trying to write in English and thus I was literally translating things that perhaps had no sense for most of you guys and gals.
Here we go again,
This piece that you liked, I got it from the forum of a "virtual air combat squadron", what it means?... well... some people goes to bars.... bingos, casinos, etc.... I get my exhilaration from pretending to be a fighter pilot in a very advanced air combat simulator that simulates de f-16 fighter plane. Since we can fly "one against the other" in a virtual environment the simulator produces, it becomes a "community thing" so there are thousand "pilots" all over he world grouped in communities that we so called "pilots" call Squadrons.... which is the normal way to associate "combat pilots"...
We can "see" each other and so we do a lot of team work while we try to dominate that so complicated thing as a combat airplane, the simm we "fly" is reputed to be a mirror image than what you need to know to fly the real thing.... so we become some sort of "nuts".... the bloody manual is 700 pages long.... and that is just the begining there are dozens of tutorials.... sometimes at two o´clock in the morning, my wife looks at me, with a worried face as I have the right hand on the "plane stick", my left hand on the accelertor and shouting orders to "break left" to my flying buddies on my microphone..... a bit hard for a guy in his 40ties.....
She completelly hates when I aknowledge some "order" from her with a laconic "roger that" ( understood and agreed on the "aviatoresse" language).
That´s what I call a "virtual life".... a "paralell life" in which a few hours a week I "fly" away from bloddy real life.... thats what I really would have wanted to do.
When I said "the procession goes inside" that was a "transliteration" almost.... in Spanish, we feel that suffering is a "procession" .. you know, that Spanish custom of carrying the saints and Jesus Christh on the "semana santa", when Jesus was tortured and went through the way to the Calvary Mount...
A Spaniard or a person used to think in Spanish would say "the procession goes inside" when trying to say that he is carrying a burden that can not share....neither show.
The rest I think it was understandable.... sorry but I have this stupid custom of always speaking using metaphores, perhaps it is s sign of lack of creativity and with the mixture of languages...
Cheers Sharon,
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!
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