So, there's this guy at softball who is sometimes the butt of my jokes. Understand, when I say 'sometimes', I mean always. He's just a really nebbish guy (but a great guy, and I also point this out often), and making jokes about the caricature of who he is is just plain fun. He has most always been okay with and even participated in it, but it does bother him occasionally, and at those points I back off. He is a friend, after all. I've been absent from softball for a few weeks with an injury that will keep me out for most of the summer and as this is basically a league of old women, there's always lots of gossip. Apparently, some of the newer guys in the league don't realize that i'm just having good humored fun with this guy, and it got back to him so now he's taking it seriously. He wants people to know that I don't really dislike him. And I don't. The guy is quirky and a complete pessimistic mess, but he's genuinely kind. So I am going to do the only thing I can do. I just custom made and ordered a tee shirt with his face on it that reads "MY FAVORITE -GUY'S NAME" (in the style of 'my favorite martian') and I am going to wear it to softball. This is going to be either awesome or hilariously scarring, and I can't wait to find out which...

McDonald's executives were left with egg (McMuffin) on their face this week, when over 5,000 Happy Meals were distributed with colored condoms instead of a plastic toy from the movie The Last Airbender.

The condoms were intended for the Provincetown, Mass. school system, which recently established a policy making them available for students of all ages; they were delivered to McDonald's distribution center in Barnstable, Mass. in error.


Quote from the article:
"They were so bright and colorful, they were mistaken for Happy Meal toys," explained McDonald's vice president of public relations Robin Anderson. "Unfortunately most of the workers there don't read English, and they thought 'Ribbed Latex' was a character from The Last Airbender."

"Who ever heard of The Last Airbender anyway?" added Jose Estevez, president of McDonald's Distribution Union 8801, in defense of his fellow workers.

The mistake led to an incident in a Brewster, Mass., McDonald's, where more than a dozen 8-year-olds attending a birthday party all opened their condoms at once, and immediately blew them into balloons and started batting them around the restaurant.

Shrieks of horror ensued from several other patrons, and one elderly woman fainted when a condom balloon landed in her Filet O' Fish.
McDonald's Apologizes For Condoms In Happy Meals

"She'd apparently never seen one that size before," explained Brewster Police Chief Bradley Heffernan, who noted that there were some similar concerns when Congress instituted its "Cash For Condoms" program.

The McDonald's incident also caused problems in Provincetown, where the schools accidentally received the restaurant's shipments of Last Airbender toys, and several were released to students who went into their school's nurse's office seeking condoms.

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http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201006011

English class went like this:
Teacher: Hello, how are you?
Proba: Fine, thank you. And you?
Teacher: Fine.

Is that really a standard or usual conversation? I don't really remember a lot of people asking that.

It's too hot for cooking and I don't feel hungry at all. Dinner tonight is herbal tea with rice protein, electrolytes, and a lot of water. I already consumed 3/4 gallon of water today.

Only two songs with lyrics in the whole game, both poignant and appropriate.

Tomorrow starts my insane work week of a bazillion plus hours.

The dad and his fiancee are getting married this weekend. Therefore, we are packing up tomorrow and heading up to Nantucket bright and early (no, seriously...EARLY. Leaving by 6am...sigh) Thurs. morning until Sunday night.

There goes my weekend off.

I'm not sure if this "vacation" is ending today or tomorrow. The Canadian visitors will still be in New York until Friday, but my sister is going to leave early. That will make it easier for me to also escape. She had told me earlier that she would be participating in tomorrow's activities, but it seems now that she will be departing some time tomorrow.

I need proper sleep and food, and I have to get back to working on the website that is due in mid-August.

Also this: