5:34 in the morning on Saturday. I didn't feel well last night, even was a little bit of short of breathe, so didn't write my diary. Now, I am doing it before going to gym to workout, oh, I didn't workout last night either.
Before going to work yesterday morning, I drove to property management office to drop a check for monthly due of my rental townhouse, then drove onto I-5 to go to office. Road was very crowded and it was raining. However, after passing certain point on I-5 South, rain stopped.
It became perfect weather later the day, sunny with a little bit cloud and temperature is not high, probably was around 75 Fahrenheit [(75-32)*5/9= 24 Celsius]. I learned many golf enthusiasts going to Chamber Bay to watch US Open, it's good for them.
It's a busy day for many of us today, I had three meetings and several urgent requests to fulfill. Almost at the end of day, a guy asked me in the restroom if I was going to watch World Cup, I was overwhelmingly excited to concur because it was the most exciting soccer tournament in this weekend despite it was women's matches, which might be less combative then men's. Later, I realized that his initial point probably was US Open but he knew I was a super soccer guy and wasn't interested in golf, so he changed his words, it's why he paused for a second before delivering the term of "World Cup". Yes, he must watch the US Open and I heard many people would go to the golf course in University Place near Tacoma to witness this significant event.
Coming back home, I did watch US Open on Fox from time to time. I recall when I was a kid, I hadn't known anything about ice hockey until a Level-C Ice Hockey World Championship was held in Beijing in 1981 and I went to Capital Gymnasium Beijing to watch the most of games. Chinese National Team lost to Austria in the final but still was promoted to Level B after the tournament. I became an ice hokey fan afterwards. However, because I don't play Ice Hockey, eventually it was dropped out of my list for sports. If I keep following US Open this weekend, I may become interested in golf for a while. However, I will mainly watch Women's World Cup today.
Before coming home after work, I stopped by Bank of America financial center across the street of Thrasher's Corner to pick up the foreign currencies I ordered for our trip. I was familiar with Swedish Krona pretty well in early 90s but wasn't able to recognize it now. Even I used Euro in France and Germany four years ago but wasn't able to recall how it looks like very well. I couldn't tell Denmark and Norwegian Kroner at all, maybe only used once or twice in my whole life. Next month, I probably would have to recognize them by reading the name of issuing institutions on the bills. Anyway, I will try to use credit cards as much as possible, though the transaction fees would be higher but it would be more convenient. However, after paying for air and hotel in advance online, I don't see much money to be spent.
Having been with Bank of America and its predecessor in Seattle - Seafirst for almost 20 years, I hadn't had a banker until yesterday. Because I needed to have my bank account upgraded in person, Ryan helped me do it and we had a very pleasant conversation. When he walked me out of his office, he asked me to contact him whenever I needed because he was my banker. This reminded me a commercial on TV recently: "He is my banker".
I happened to read my son's comments and debates with his friends on Facebook, which popped in my account. They were debating about Racism of which was driven by killings in Charleston. My thought is that Racism will be totally removed one day, maybe in 500 years, when the entire human beings are fully integrated. By then, human will have the similar color of skins and compositions of blood, the term of "race" or "ethnicity" will be eliminated. The color of skins of the people may be darker if they live close to Equator but may be lighter if close to Polar Circles, but they won't have significant genetic differences. This will happen when the entire global economy becomes fully balanced and social status won't exist anymore.
So, to raise poor's living standards to match rich's is the most efficient way to eliminate the racism. Anyway, this topic reminded me a song in 80s - We are the World.
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