October is a busy month with my family for birthdays – a cake-tastic month! Happy birthday to my mom’s mom, brother, pops and the lady (aka my mom).
The bro!!
The mom!!
The mom’s mom!!! (With the bro and a cousin)
The pops!! (with me)
Scatter-Shot
A few things from this weekend.
1) Yesterday a work buddy and I went to the SMU v Rice game at Rice. Rice is like the Houston version of SMU, but Rice didn’t strike me as being as snobby as SMU (though I am admittedly biased against SMU in this case).
SMU won, which was the best part of the game.
BUT. A close second was Rice’s band.
During halftime the Rice band took the field. They had a group of maybe 8 guys in shorts and shirts off to one side. Then I noticed they were tossing a Frisbee. Oh and apparently a fake/prop/empty keg was being dragged around by one guy … Hey, those shirts are all polo and the collars are popped …
That’s when I realized that those Rice students were doing their best impression of SMU students. This cracked me up pretty good. One of the Rice students also had a fake muscle-man outfit on with no shirt on over it.
The band played some songs then stripped off their band uniforms to reveal that underneath all of them were wearing ‘SMU outfits.’
Awesome show.
2) This book I’m reading for class keeps referencing Dilbert. I started to think I should go buy one of those Dilbert books because I’d probably enjoy it more now …
That’s when my brain stopped and I was sad for myself.
3) I’m wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks t-shirt today. I like this shirt. For a while – during the most heated of the news stories on Arizona and immigration laws – I didn’t wear the t-shirt. This is because Arizona became associated with some bad things. Protesters would even show up to Diamondbacks games when they traveled out of state to play.
I want to make it clear that I am pro Arizona Diamondbacks. Anti racism. When I want to support racism I’ll get a t-shirt that says, “let’s go racists – race it up!” Or whatever it is the KKK wears underneath their white robes.
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Well, that’s enough crazy for today. Time to make some pancakes for myself.
I’m back in school, and doing lots of fairly boring reading, so your standards get a bit lowered for what’s ‘amusing’ in the readings. Here is one quote that I enjoyed though:
“Effective executives know, of course, that there are fools around and that there are mischief-makers. But they do not assume that the man who disagrees with what they themselves see as clear and obvious is, therefore, either a fool or a knave.”
Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Decision
It’s a smart, good thing to say, but even more importantly – this guy said ‘mischief-makers’ and ‘knave!’ KNAVE!
To counter this boring (but oddly funny) quote I have a lovely little one.
“There are many bad things about the human race. But there are many good things too. And one of the best is this – dreams, great dreams, die hard …”
The Silent Gondoliers, Williman Goldman (the dude who wrote The Princess Bride – one of my top 5 favorites)
Have a good weekend everybody!
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