And Now, for a Few Random Thoughts

I’m in Detroit airport, getting ready to catch a flight to Providence.  I left home this morning to spend two weeks in wild and wacky New England.  Should be a good time.  The new job certainly has it’s perks, that’s for sure.  The longer I spend in this new job, the more I realize how good it truly is.

A few random thoughts:

People who design bathrooms with 4 urinals are idiots.  If you’re wondering why, all you need do is understand male bathroom etiquette.  4 urinals means a necessary waste of 2 urinals.  5 Urinals makes much more sense.  I’m just saying.

Airplane seats really need to be bigger. The lady next to me on the flight from Chicago to Detroit should’ve had to pay me rent for the space she borrowed.  My armrest wouldn’t even go down.  I’m sure it was uncomfortable for her as it was for me, but sweet God!  Again, I’m just saying.

If you live on the Gulf Coast, shoveling snow 4 or 5 times a year now doesn’t look so bad.  Yet more reasons to believe that the upper midwest has got a huge advantage over the rest of the lower 48.

Does anyone have an eggtimer to measure how much longer Jessica Simpson’s career will last?  She’s made her token bad movie.  I predict the Hilary Duff era is soon to follow.  I’m not sure how to feel about that, as a male.

I’m a fatalist.  I’m still convinced I’m going to die young.  At the rate I’m going, I’m likely to be the only 80 year old worried about dying young.

Is there any excuse for jewelers?  I know DeBeers has a monopoly on the rock market. I get it, I get it.  But that having been said, buying diamond jewelry has got to be the only purchase you can make where you spend a huge chunk of change and still walk off feeling like you’re a cheap piece?  There should be mandatory therapy sessions that go along with buying diamond jewelry.  (Again, no questions please.  You’ll know when there is something to know on this front.)

Chicken.  Try it.

Midway airport isn’t nearly the ghetto that it’s been made out to be.  If I was an equal distance from both O’Hare and Midway, and someone said, "Hey, it costs the same, where do you want to fly out of?" I’d likely take Chicago Midway.

I tried getting tickets to a Red Sox game while I am out east.  Figured it might be possible.  Then I looked at the schedule.  The last weekend of the season, who’s on the schedule?  You guessed it, The New York Yankees. In a completely unrelated story, anyone know a good sports bar in New England in, say, North Attlesboro, Massachusetts?

There may still be a chance I get to go to Foxboro to watch the Patriots play the Chargers on October 2.  But not a very good one. 

I have the feeling I’m going to spend the majority of the next 13 days with people that are at least twice my age.  I have no feelings about this.

The Green Bay Packers are going to be horrid this year.  Geoff Jenkins and Brett Favre are twins separated at birth.  These two facts are in no way related.

The Milwaukee Brewers have a legitimate chance to finish as a winning team this year.  The last time that happened, I was worried about wearing my new Starter jacket to Rec Night at the old middle school.  I had 2 friends, my brother, and a book.

I’m out of here.