Friday, October 30, 2009

The setting of summer and the rising of fall (Part 2)

I started my new job at the end of July. In late August was my first big kid vacation. Me and the lady friend loaded up the car and took one of the best.trips.ever.

Phase 1) We drove up to Connecticut to visit Elizabeth’s cousin (with child) and her husband (not preggers). It was a great time had by all. During our beautiful stay in CT we were introduced to one of the greatest inventions of alllllllllllll time (much greater than sliced bread, ‘cause honestly, someone just took a knife to a loaf). Summer Beer. This drink will put you on your ass.

Summer Beer:
5 beers
1 can of frozen lemonade concentrate (if you use pink lemonade it’s called “the pink panty dropper”)
Vodka
In a pitcher, mix the frozen lemonade and the beer. Fill the empty lemonade concentrate can with vodka and pour into the lemonade mix. Badda bing, badda boom.

Phase 2) We drove up to Boston. I have wanted to see Boston for the longest time. The weather was perfect, the sights were awesome, and the beer was delicious. If you’ve never gone to Boston to take a Sam Adams brewery tour you haven’t lived. Everything inside of me wanted to find Casey Affleck and tell him not to jerk off my little league glove. Either that or shoot Tom Brady.

If you ever wanna take a quick weekend trip, go to Boston. There’s more than enough to do in a weekend and I guarantee you will have a blasty blast.

Phase 3) Maine. I haven’t traveled in the U.S. as much as a lot of people, but I will say that Maine is the greatest state. It’s a whole different culture up there. It seems like everyone is on vacation all the time. No one is yelling, no one is in a rush, no one is honking their horn. By the way, I wish I could design a device to put in car horns for DC drivers. Anytime they use the horn more than one time consecutively their steering wheel immediately spray paints a clown mask on the driver. Congrats, now you look like a clown, jack-ass.

We camped in Bar Harbor for about 4 days in The Black Woods campground. We ate lobster, blueberry pie, drank summer beer, went kayaking along the harbor, went hiking, went to a small brewery, ate ice cream, made lots of fires, and went to the same coffee shop in town about 4 times. Go to Maine.

Sadly the vacation came to an end on the rainiest day of the week. We woke up Saturday morning and it was raining. Not too heavy, but it was definitely coming down. We packed up the car and made the 14 hour drive home. Six hours of that drive were in solid rain. I would gladly take that to relive the vacation, though.

Thanks for reading. Peace.

Friday, September 25, 2009

The personals never sounded so good

Craigslist is probably one of the most useful tools on the internet. I found my last two abodes on CL. Sure there’s been a murder or two but other than that you can make out like gang busters on there. Other than all of the useful sections, I think my favorite section is the personals section. Forget eHarmony and Match, CL is the way to go. So let’s go from blue links to purple ones as we peruse the CL world of love (or strictly platonic friendship).

Women Seeking Women

looking for the perfect female!! - 25 (wash d.c area)


no men !! no butches !! no couples !! no spammers !! no bs!! no assholes!! put the subjct PERFECT!! {I'AM} a 24yrs old DOM female seeking a FRIEND w/ BENEFITS or a REAL FRIENDSHIP. {I'AM} very laid back, OPEN MINDED & i have a big heart, & also caring loving. ohhhhh very very UNDERSTANDING, i consider myself to be very MATURE, but if piss me off i can be very IMMATURE if u push there. {I'AM } 420 FRIENDLY, I DRINK sometimes, party when i got somebody to chill wit. just looking for somebody to talk to on regular & cuddle wit or just {wateva u like} { I'AM} 5'4 & 195 LBS THICK KINDA SHORT if dnt like it keep movin . I CAN SEND YOU A PIC IF YOU DO THE SAME , PIC FOR A PIC FEMMS ONLY........................................... WAITING TO HEAR FROM LADIES

1) Why are you yelling? Is the perfect female deaf? You forgot to include “MUST BE hard of HEARING” in your description.
2) I’AM? What language is this from? There’s I’m and then there’s I am.
3) {wateva u like} Why is this in parenthesis? You had a solid flow with that sentence but all of a sudden you started to write the script for a play and you decided to add: just looking for somebody to talk to on regular & cuddle wit or just (aside, edge of stage, lights dim) wateva u like.

This is probably what our friend looks like:
Women Seeking Men

God fearing - 45 (Baltimore)


God fearing, Born-again Christian, professional, with no children seeks Born-again Christian, professional, approx. my age, marriage minded. No Catholics. Serious inquiries only.

1) Whoa. This person in intense. God must be the bully down by the aquarium.
2) What if I haven’t been reborn as a Christian? What if I was just born once?
3) Catholics don’t fear God. They fear homosexuals.
4) To be with this woman I have to be a 40-50 year old Christian who died and was born again, not Catholic, and with marriage on my mind. I would have to be Jesus’ older brother, Jeff.



Jesus and Jeff promoting synergy.

Men Seeking Women

I am Sexy ,handsome, black wtf do i need a black woman for. - 29 (md )


Well i dont need a black woman, thats like kanye west in a Ford escort, or bill gates in a Geo metro, i got high standards, i can from a high class family, i have big
time goals, i need a woman by my side that can bring alot to the table too, independent woman. i am 6'2 225 pounds, i wear business suits and i like to party on the weekends and cut loose. i like Spanish women from spanish , high class families and countries no Mexican women, or women from central America no women from Dominican republican there black. no black brazilian women, no women with 3, -4 baby daddies is you have more than one child to the left to the left,


1) My friend, you made me laugh out loud. Well done.
2) Bill Gates, I’m happy for you and I’mma let you finish driving, but Kanye West drives a Ford Escort and that’s the best car of all time! OF ALL TIME!
3) Spanish women from Spanish? That’s like going to McDonalds and ordering a hamburger from hamburger. He is also not a fan of Republicans who are Dominican. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ONLY.
4) This guy ended his personal with poor math. Women with 3 – 4 baby daddies = -1 women with a baby daddy.


Thanks for reading. Peace.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The setting of summer and the rising of fall (Part 1)


Yesterday marked the first official day of my favorite season. Football, TV shows, and the days of spending way too much time making an awesome costume for Halloween are back. Soon we’ll start exchanging green (not money) for orange, yellow, and brown. Time to trade in your hipster t-shirts and summer dresses for sweaters. Thanksgiving’s delicious smells lurk around the corner with St. Nick’s jolly ass ho-ho-hoing just a few steps behind. Hold your main squeeze close or find a squeeze to warm up next to (or a few).

I want to take some time and reflect on summer, though. Pay it a little homage. Most, if not all, of us haven’t had a serious summer break in years. No one ever sang, “woooooorks out forrrr SUMMER.” There’s something that’s etched into all of us from kindergarten pushing us to do more in the summer. Personally, I had a great summer. It had some major ups and downs but overall, it was a summer I’ll never forget. So raise your glass of Oktoberfest and pour out a little for our friend Summer Ale.

Let’s take a step back and look at this past summer both personally and on a broad scale.
June 21st. First day of summer.

I had just been given notice of my layoff. You wanna know what checked out is? Try being given a layoff notice a month before your last day. “I can do this tomorrow.” Working at a non-profit, I knew the risk. I was just trying to save the world one immigrant at a time. In the end, an ESL non-profit by the name Hogar (home in Spanish) fired it’s only Hispanic, male employee. Yikes. Thankfully, I had some solid support. I can honestly say that without my girlfriend pushing me, I would’ve been sunk. Some words of confidence really go a long way. Within a few weeks a got a new job. I’m working for the man but the man is taking care of me. Obama is doing some good things in the Casa Blanca.

For all of those Obama haters I want you to take a moment and think about the surplus/deficit reduction that Clinton left us with. In the next eight years it was pissed away by this guy:

The U.S. gave Bush eight years to make a joke out of it. Obama has been in office for nine months and has already been called a failure. Cut the Prez some slack, or at least give him eight years before you chant ,“na na naaaa na, na na naaaa na, hey hey hey, goodbye,” like we all did while Bush flew away on his helicopter at Inauguration.

Thanks for reading. Peace.