Triskadekaphobia?

Run!  Get cover!  The sky is falling! It’s FRIDAY THE 13th!!!

Many people are afraid of the number 13, as it supposedly brings them bad luck.  Sure, there’s that whole movie franchise.  Others, on the other hand, embrace it, as to stick it to the bad karma.  Me? I’m somewhere in the middle.

Now while I have borderline OCD when it comes to the superstitious rituals I did during the Yankees World Series run, I also know that what hat I wear, what mug I drink my coffee from, what color underwear I choose has absolutely no bearing on the outcome of a game, especially since I’m not the one on the field.  But correlations get made especially when over 60% of the time I’m getting favorable results, and while it can be fun, I know it’s completely ridiculous.

So is the fear of the number 13.  Actually, I had no choice but to drop the whole thing, or I’d never be able to leave the house.  When I first moved to Delaware, the apartment complex’s mailing address was actually on US 13, a road I take every day.  I work on the 13th floor, even though this building has two half-floors in between, so I’m really 15 floors above the street, but I’m still pressing a button next to the number 13.  Again, I’m not about to move or quit my job over this.  I can’t be bothered to have a fear of the number 13.

But when I was a kid, on the first soccer team I played for, I wore 13.  We finished in last place.  We were winless.  So maybe there’s truth in all of this?  What was A-Rod thinking picking 13?  Well, two years later, I was on a first place team, and it took A-Rod a few more years to get his World Series ring.

But I’ve been home sick today.  And the doctor’s diagnosis?  Bronchitis.  Probably would have been a cold if I went yesterday.

Blog Psychic Episode Two

How long do we have to wait until Kanye West admits his interruption of Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance was 100% and completely staged? 

And why do people make a big deal over this, as if we didn’t know this whole thing was staged in the first place? 

And how am I so sure it was staged?  Simple.  If I bum-rushed the stage, security would have tossed me out onto 6th Avenue quicker than the D train running underneath it.  You’re telling me that because Kanye was a celebrity security would just let him slide?  What if it was some creep like Woody Allen?  They’d put him on the next bus to Bellevue. 

Game, set, match.

Rack me!

As quick and current as a news magazine…

Summer came and went.  Time flies when you’re having fun.  Or doing nothing.  I’ve had a lot of ideas to write about, and they’re all bouncing around in my head.  Time to put fingers to keyboard.  In the mean time, let me leave you with this little tidbit.

What ever happened to seeded watermelons?  I’ve found them for sale exactly once this year.  They’ve all been replaced by those new fancy “seedless” ones.  I’ll use quotes here, because they’re not like navel oranges or limes, which truly have no seeds, but are rather filled with those white seeds.  Like cucumbers, you can swallow them.   But my big gripe with the seedless watermelons is that they’re completely devoid of any flavor.  They don’t have that real sweet flavor of a really ripe good old-fashioned watermelon.  Yes, I can chunk them up, and throw them into a fruit salad, or give it to the baby without fear of choking or cracked teeth, but what’s being sacrificed in convenience is flavor. 

Now where can I get me one of these???

From wikipedia

Am I sounding like a conspiracy theorist?

Did anybody think that perhaps President Obama made those comments about the People’s Republic of Cambridge police force from some run-in he had with them back when he was at Harvard Law?

Could be anywhere in the state…

So I was looking something up on google maps, and found this place.

http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&q=dicktown,+nj&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=SIYSSo6xO9HJtgeJ0M2aBA&ll=39.756527,-74.981089&spn=0.008264,0.019226&z=16&iwloc=A

Isn’t that a redundancy?

How did the powers that be ever allow this to happen???

Why do we have different shoes for left and right feet, but socks are the same for either foot?

How far we’ve come…

How is it that we’ve made all kinds of advances on the internet, in both form and function, yet nobody has yet come up with a real fucntioning directory of people’s e-mail addresses?  I can look up somebody’s phone number (with relative success), but not their e-mail address.

Blog Psychic

How soon until they name the Wilmington, DE Amtrak station after Joe Biden?

Source: preservationnation.com / Credit: Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects

Update 3/16/2009: Saturday’s Wilmington News Journal reported $21 million of stimulus money is being spent on further Wilmington Amtrak station renovations and repairs.  (http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903140350)  No word yet if there’s room in the budget for new signage. 

I joke because there is prescedent for naming train stations after living people…Frank Lautenberg’s name adorns NJ Transit’s Secaucus Junction station.  And they named the Ted Williams Tunnel after Teddy Ballgame, but the jury is still out if he was alive at the ceremony or not.

Fixed Income???

Why do old people say they’re on a “fixed income”?  I’m a salaried employee.  I don’t get overtime.  I don’t get commission.  I even get paid on days I don’t come in.  I know that every two weeks, the direct deposit will be same X dollars and Y cents.  By definition, that’s a FIXED INCOME!!!  So the next time time some old bag says they’re on a fixed income, call them out on it, will ya?