The contents of the USA Today are really about the USA Yesterday. --Colbert
I received a phone call early Thursday evening from a guy I met about a week ago while Mary and I were out on the town. There was a birthday party being thrown at a bar, and would I like to come? It turns out Mary was invited to this party as well, so we went. We're becoming quite the partiers. Well, said guy did not show up, and after being there for about a half hour and not receiving a text back, I knew he wasn't coming. So, Mary and I had fun. I checked out the good-looking, well-dressed black guy at the other end of the bar. Sadly he seemed to have a girlfriend. Some guy we didn't know bought us roses and then sat at the bar by himself for about an hour. Towards the end of the night we started talking, and he was quite interesting. We had a blast, but eventually we had to go home. So I'm home, happily sleeping, and my phone rings....at 2 in the morning! Said guy who did not show up called to apologize and say that he had showed up....at 2 in the morning. He was in the bar trying to hear me and I was half awake trying to talk. At one point I said, "Look, just go back in the bar where you want to be, and I'll go back to sleep." I think he got confused and just hung up.
Anyway, men take note. 1. If you call me and ask me to go out, I do expect you to show up. If you don't show up, I won't be pissed about it (unless it was really a date, which it wasn't) but don't expect me to be enthused about it. 2. If for some reason you're not going to show up, it is polite to call and let me know. You'll probably get another chance that way. 3. Don't call me at 2 in the morning. You have to be damn important to be calling me at 2 in the morning. I was always taught not to call someone past 9:00 unless you knew them well and it was important. Apologizing for not showing up 5 hours earlier doesn't qualify.
Yesterday was my last day at my job in Mayfield. So exciting. My manager, one of the VPs, and the COO were out there yesterday. I asked if they were visiting. I was hoping they'd say yes, and then I'd have an excuse not to work. Sadly, no. Ah well. I'm so psyched that I get to go back and do real work. Hopefully I get to stay there for at least one week.
I'm going to Wilmington College of Ohio tonight to go to my brother's soccer banquet. It's an exciting time. I get to see a bunch of athletic, well-dressed young men. Then I remember they're 22 and a little young for me. But then I check out the coaches and it's nice. :-) Oh, and I'm happy to see my brother, too! I'm taking my laptop with me. Not because I don't think I can survive for a night without it, but because I want to see if it runs any faster on a different network. Don't worry, I'll let you know.
So, I'm kinda up in the air with all these presidential candidates. I've never been for the war in Iraq. I was quite pissed off when we invaded. You don't invade sovereign countries unless they've clearly done something wrong. IE, bombing you, etc. Now I know you'll tell me that they clearly attacked us on 9/11, but the Iraqis did not attack us. And, invading a country just because they have Weapons of Mass Destruction isn't a good enough reason. Invading a country because a president is a dictator, is inhumane, etc. isn't a good enough reason. Regardless, we invaded. And now we've gotten ourselves into a hell of a mess. Morally, I don't think that we can just up and exit. The problem (as I heard on a great piece on NPR the other day) is that we expected the Iraqis to be grateful. Clearly they're not. I sure as hell wouldn't be. The British messed it up years ago (thanks, Colbert) when they redrew Iraq after WWI. But, whatever. Maybe we need to divide up the country like we did Czechoslovakia. Who knows. Thank goodness I'm not in charge of that mess. I pity the next poor sop that gets into office that has to deal with it. What a clusterfuck.
Anyway, men take note. 1. If you call me and ask me to go out, I do expect you to show up. If you don't show up, I won't be pissed about it (unless it was really a date, which it wasn't) but don't expect me to be enthused about it. 2. If for some reason you're not going to show up, it is polite to call and let me know. You'll probably get another chance that way. 3. Don't call me at 2 in the morning. You have to be damn important to be calling me at 2 in the morning. I was always taught not to call someone past 9:00 unless you knew them well and it was important. Apologizing for not showing up 5 hours earlier doesn't qualify.
Yesterday was my last day at my job in Mayfield. So exciting. My manager, one of the VPs, and the COO were out there yesterday. I asked if they were visiting. I was hoping they'd say yes, and then I'd have an excuse not to work. Sadly, no. Ah well. I'm so psyched that I get to go back and do real work. Hopefully I get to stay there for at least one week.
I'm going to Wilmington College of Ohio tonight to go to my brother's soccer banquet. It's an exciting time. I get to see a bunch of athletic, well-dressed young men. Then I remember they're 22 and a little young for me. But then I check out the coaches and it's nice. :-) Oh, and I'm happy to see my brother, too! I'm taking my laptop with me. Not because I don't think I can survive for a night without it, but because I want to see if it runs any faster on a different network. Don't worry, I'll let you know.
So, I'm kinda up in the air with all these presidential candidates. I've never been for the war in Iraq. I was quite pissed off when we invaded. You don't invade sovereign countries unless they've clearly done something wrong. IE, bombing you, etc. Now I know you'll tell me that they clearly attacked us on 9/11, but the Iraqis did not attack us. And, invading a country just because they have Weapons of Mass Destruction isn't a good enough reason. Invading a country because a president is a dictator, is inhumane, etc. isn't a good enough reason. Regardless, we invaded. And now we've gotten ourselves into a hell of a mess. Morally, I don't think that we can just up and exit. The problem (as I heard on a great piece on NPR the other day) is that we expected the Iraqis to be grateful. Clearly they're not. I sure as hell wouldn't be. The British messed it up years ago (thanks, Colbert) when they redrew Iraq after WWI. But, whatever. Maybe we need to divide up the country like we did Czechoslovakia. Who knows. Thank goodness I'm not in charge of that mess. I pity the next poor sop that gets into office that has to deal with it. What a clusterfuck.