Viva La Mexican Food!

Last night, my dinner had a lot of Jalapenos in it. This morning, my ass gave a new meaning to that Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire".
Speaking of Johnny Cash, I know that some of his old songs are becoming popular with the younger generation ever since that move "Walk The Line" came out last year. If you are one of those people, try listening to the song "The Wanderer" by U2. The song was written by Bono and features Cash as the main singer and is the last track on the U2 album Zooropa. That song (at least in my opinion) is one of the best Johnny Cash and U2 songs ever.

 

Quote Of The Day

"Nine women cannot have a baby in one month"

Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man Month

 

Go Team!

Bobbee & I decided to join a local Co-ed soccer league. We played our first 90 minute scrimmage last night. Our new wheelchairs should arrive in 4 - 6 business days.

 

And the downward trend continues...

Remember my blog entry about my horrible travel luck? Well, it's not getting any better. Last weekend, when I was flying to Raleigh/Durham, my plane was about to take off from Tucson airport, we were going full speed on the runway, the plane had its nose up in the air when suddenly, the pilot grounds the nose and slams on the brake. I have no idea how far were we from the end of the runway but I can't imagine that we had a lot of room to spare. While our plane was still trying to come to a stop, I saw the airport fire-trucks rush towards our plane with their strobe lights on. For a while I got excited, I thought I might finally get to use one of those slides but it was not to be :( After a little while, the captain announced that there was something wrong with the airplane brakes so they decided to abort the take off. Well, I am not a pilot, nor do I have any kind of flight training, but it does seem kinda crazy to slam on the brakes at full speed because there was something wrong with your brakes. Either ways, we had to sit on the tarmac for about 2 hours while they tried to figure out what was wrong with the plane. Eventually they gave up and transferred us onto another airplane and sent us on our way. But because of the delay, I missed my connecting flight and I had to spend the night at a crappy hotel in Dallas.
It's bad enough that the pilots scared all the passengers by aborting the take off and made a lot of people miss their connecting flights, but they didn't even let us use the slides! Now that's just inhumane!

 

Thought Of The Day

Are there any books that were not a New York Times Best Seller?

Thank You, Come Again

Yesterday, I was at an Indian Grocery store and after I had paid for the items, the guy behind the counter instead of saying the customary "Thank You, Come Again", he blurted "Thank You for shopping here". I mean, what an embarassment to all the Indian store owners! I am thinking of calling the Indian embassy, they should strip him of his nationality.

 

They're Not Real & They're Spectacular

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It's not as if women¹ need any more reason to get implants, God knows most of them can definitely use 'em.

One thing I find funny is how so many women are against breast augmentation. I mean, they get fake nails, fake eye lashes, fake hair color and wear lipsticks that were tested on cute little monkeys but they think that getting a boob job is an abomination to the human race!!!

¹ By "women", I mean single human females between the age of 21 - 29 who are in good physical shape.

 

The Simple Pakistani Life

One of the side effects of allowing women to use the TV remote control (apart from hours of torture watching Lifetime channel) is that every once in a while you come across things most of us with XY chromosomes would never consider watching. This past Sunday, Bobbee was watching The Simple Life (you know, that "reality" show with Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie) on E! Channel and in one of the episodes, Paris and Nicki pretended to be "traditional Pakistani wives". Here is a description of the episode from iTunes:

"Paris and Nicole experience culture shock when they take over for a traditional Pakistani mom. With the patient help of their "husband" and Americanized 15-year-old "son," the girls manage to dress, speak and dance like conservative Pakistani housewives. But it all goes downhill fast after the girls try grocery shopping and cooking. And when Paris and Nicole show the boys how they like to party, their host mother is not pleased. At all."

The episode was hilarious and I must admit, the only time I've seen Paris Hilton looking half decent was in the Black shalwaar kurta she was wearing in the episode.

Here is a clip:



You can watch more clips on youtube or download the entire episode on iTunes, here is the iTunes link:


 

The Curse of "Pakistani Origin"

The past few days, I have been hearing that all the alleged plotters trying to blow up the US bound airplanes were British citizens of "Pakistani origin". Some reports even mention that they are second or third generation British citizens of "Pakistani Origin". I am not into conspiracy theories, but I have noticed that in the news, origins are only mentioned if you are of Middle Eastern descent. I live in Arizona where most of the crimes are committed by Hispanics but not once I have read a news report like "Jose Gonzalez who is a second generation American of Mexican origin was charged with two counts of homicide and three counts of fornicating with a goat". So my question is, how many generations of my offspring will it take for them to be finally accepted as Americans or will they have to live with the stigma of having "Pakistani Origins" forever. In most fairy tales, curses last for 7 generations, I fear that reality may be far worse.

 

My Freakin' Luck

1. I was planning on flying to Pakistan in December of 2001 for my brothers wedding, then 9/11 happened and my airline cancelled all their flights to Pakistan.

2. I went to Toronto in August of 2005 for my cousin's wedding. The day before I was scheduled to come back home, there was a plane crash in Toronto, cancelling my flight and delaying all other flights

3. For my trip to Omaha for my wedding, they couldn't fit our luggage on board because they overfilled the airplane with luggage for a minor league baseball team. They took our contact info so they can deliver the luggage to the place we were staying at, but they lost the info and after a few hours on the phone with them, we had to drive back to the airport late at night to pick up our luggage.

4. I have to fly to Raleigh, NC today and they just raised the alert level to Orange and are not allowing any liquids or gels in carry-on luggage. So, if you see me tomorrow and my breath stinks like old socks, you know who to blame.

 

Raleigh / Durham, NC

I may be in the Raleigh / Durham area this weekend on Business. Anybody knows anybody there who I can hang out with and what not?

 

Interview Question

A lot of times, when companies are interviewing you and if the interview went well, one of the very last questions they ask is whether you have any other offers on the table or not. I never know how to answer this question. If I say I don't have any other offers, I may sound like a loser who nobody else wants to hire and therefore if they do decide to hire me, they don't really have to offer a competitive salary. On the other hand, if I do answer that yeah, I do have other offers, they might think that I may be more interested in the other offer or maybe I will ask for a higher salary since I am apparently in demand. Any suggestions how I should handle these questions?

 

Tucson Softball Leagues

Ok, Bobbee and I have been trying to join a softball league in town for a while now. It's hard enough to find an opening in an existing team, finding a team that has room for both of us is nearly impossible. So, we figured, what the fudge, we will just form our own team and then kick their asses. You know in the movies, when the dorks / nerds / losers don't get to play with the jocks / hunks / Prom king material boys, what do they always do? Exactly, they form their own team, find 1 superstar, and somehow get to the tournament final where in the last few seconds of the game, the loserest of the loser helps them win the game. Yeah, that team is gonna be us! We already have our superstar, Bobbee, she played softball all her life and for her college, even has a coaching endorsement and we have our ultimate dork, me, who bought his first softball Mitt last weekend. Now all we need are 13 players to fill in the gap. I am actually pretty decent at it. All that golf practice somehow made me a pretty decent pitcher, go figure!
So if you, or anyone you know lives in Tucson, is not comatose, and has the least bit of interest in joining a softball league, lemme know. We are not gonna be too competative, We mainly wanna do this for fun, hang out, make new friends, and hit a few softballs while buzzed. If interested, email me at towelieGotHigh@gmail.com or just reply to this post and leave your contact info.