I open my front door when I get up, usually at 5:00, so the cool air can come in and my cat can go out. At 6:00 I was getting ready to leave and this guy came up the stairs and in my door saying "Where's Wendy?". I kept telling him there was no Wendy as I went out the door and down the stairs (I'm not stupid). He threw some things around and then came out and headed out to the parking lot. All the time he was saying that he knew Wendy was there and he would find her. Scared the shit out of me.

He had no shirt on, just some shorts, and was big, chunky big, and very black. I don't even know if I could pick him out as it all happened so fast. I didn't call the police because what could I tell them, though I did call the apartment office to let them know that an idiot was wandering around. As I think back, I don't know that he really saw me either, he was too intent on finding Wendy. Really strange.

I finished two books. The first was "UFO's, JFK, and Elvis" by Richard Belzer. Basically Beltzer feels that the CIA is behind all of these. Well, Elvis is up for grabs. I don't think the CIA knows what they are doing, how can they control an entire nation, an entire world? It was a very funny book, a good presentation, and I did learn some things, or rather got a new view on some things.

I don't think that Oswald did it all by his lonesome but neither do I think it was a massive conspiracy. I have a problem with most conspiracy theories because they are based on a lot of people keeping their mouths shut. That's fine if everyone involved belongs to some very tight, closed organization to which they are very committed. However most conspiracies have to involve dozens, if not hundreds, of people who are not members of said organization and do not have the motivation or the self discipline to keep their mouths shut.

Sure the CIA would like to control everyone and everything, but they can't even control their own agents or the quality or veracity of the info submitted by their agents. Sure big business would like to control us, but the problem is that they also want to control each other and their common ground is constantly shattered by their competitivness.

Now the UFO conspiracy is much more tenuous, in my opinion. There are UFOs (unidentified flying objects) but I doubt that they are from alien planets. I think that it is quite possible that there is life on other planets but I find it hard to believe that we've been getting UFO reports for most of this century, hundreds and thousands of reports, and yet not one has landed in a major city that has cameras on the ready?

Are the little green (or gray) men/women/neuter/other camera shy? If you had flown across millions of light years of space wouldn't you want a little recognition, or at least a world leader or two as hostage? They can build ships that will take them across space but are afraid of our military? For a good, funny novel on UFOs try Christopher Buckley's "Little Green Men".

I also finished "And then there were None" by Agatha Christie, but that's only one of many times I've read it. I probably read all of Christie's books while growing up as my mother enjoyed them all. My father seemed to think they were all a waste of time. Agatha Christie is one of the authors that I can read again and again. She was so good at bringing out the British society of her time that is better than all the history books.