Last night we had some fantastic tacos at our friends house. Which sort of reminds me of this. Anyway, they were really, really good and I think they were surely the best tacos I have had this year. As a stinky cono-sewer of tacos, I can say that this is a prestigious award that few have been able to garner with the simple garnishes that a taco is made from. Kudos on the tacos, Rachel (and Jim). Happy birthday Henry, for whom we celebrated by eating the tacos.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Happy Fifth of May
We used to get excited about Cinco de Mayo as kids because at school it meant that we could talk about the liberation of the Mexican people from Tyra Banks. Wait, no, the tyranny of the Spanish government. Not, really. The fifth of May was like any other day in May to us. As kids we didn’t care about what color our classmates’ skin was, we didn’t care about their immigration status it was much more important to have good playground game skills. I had a classmate named Jorge who disappeared one day. He just stopped coming to school. We didn’t know why. Some of us speculated that he’d moved. Some speculated aliens, and others just shrugged and moved on. Now, given all of the political hoopla about immigration, I wonder if his family was deported. I lived in California, and they have a lot of illegal immigrants.
But [not] seriously I actually look backwards to the fifth of May, mostly because any previous fifth of May I was younger than I am now, and I’m reaching thirty in a year and a half and getting into another decade of my life scares the crap out of me. Well, not literally or I’d be going through office chairs like kleenex on any episode of Mauri Povich wherein the girl finds out that it was the fifth guy she slept with who is the father of her child. It’s such a relief to find out which guy is the father. Speaking of which, being the father to my daughters becomes increasingly rough because they’re cute, but they’re rapidly torpedo-ing into girls and not babies, and from girlhood they will escalate into teenagers, and from there they might get married, make me a grandpa and then I will be officially older compared to a year and a half from thirty.
I have to stop now lest I start crying and my tears cause my wireless keyboard to electrocute me. Which wouln’t be all bad, if I died from keyboard electrocution Jess could probably sue Microsoft and be rich for decades.
Teleconference Snark Shark
I am listening in on a teleconference and watching a Powder Point [SIC] presentation.
As I hear dumb things from the sales person I’m going to share them, but instead of being negative, I’m going to try to turn things into a positive twist.
Salesman: “Looks how easy it is to submit issues.”
When I tell Jessica to submit, it causes issues. However, I like how software can be made to submit.
I just saw a PowerPoint slide with a fake person named Joe. Joe needs to shave, but beyond that I’m sure that his underlings are happy to be working for a guy ten years their junior. Happiness is a core point in all of the power point pictures. Happy to use the software, happy to have bugs reported. Happy.
Wow, this presentation is over and it was short on dumb statements. Though apparently most of the staff at the headquarters quietly left the meeting since they didn’t have any interest in what was being said 😛
Poll Skewer
Yesterday I had a man with a clipboard gingerly ask me if I would be willing to take a survey. He identified himself as being with a group for equality something or other. The survey was about how people felt about homosexuality. Except they didn’t really want to know how I felt, they wanted yes or no answers. They asked loaded questions that begged other questions they didn’t ask and they in the end handed out a 2 page pamphlet about discrimination.
I answered some of the questions one way and others another, not because I was trying to skew the poll, but because I knew that they were trying to polarize folks with the questions and I wasn’t going to buy into their game. About half way through the, “Survey [that] won’t take less than a minute of [my] time,” the guy dropped the F-bomb. So, since he felt free to be working and talking to the public and swearing I felt free to tell him that I had taught a Sunday School class on what the Bible says about homosexuality. He then quickly finished the survey and took off 🙂 Why do they want skewed numbers for a serious poll… unless this isn’t a serious poll.
Colorado Springs & One Year
This weekend we went to Colorado Springs and had a great time. I’ve uploaded pictures to Flickr.com. Of course there aren’t any of the girls… yet. But they’re coming. We ate at P.F. Chang’s again. Too. Much. Food. But it was tasty and I’ll do it again when I have fasted for 2 days before.
Then on Sunday afternoon I installed some sod on our front lawn to replace some crab grass that had unfortunately been allowed to grow there by the previous owner and last year I couldn’t handle that and all of the indoor tweakings at our house. Speaking of which, today is one year of paying on a mortgage for this house 🙂