Thursday is the New Friday

At least it is when you take the actual day of Friday off from work.

After working a large volume of overtime, cursing yourself every step of the way for it, and finally feeling like you might have a meltdown if you have to answer one more question, you become very thankful for that vacation day that looms so tantalizingly on the horizion.

At least, I know I do.

This is especially true b/c tomorrow is the golf outing for the guys involved with the wedding I'm in on Saturday, followed by the rehearsal dinner, followed by drinking I'm sure. And let's face it, I like to drink.

Memo to Mother Nature on this whole golfing thing tomorrow: Enjoy the raining off and on ALL DAY thing today while you can. If you think you are bringing this shit while I'm trying to golf, drink beer, and enjoy my day off, forget it. I will LOSE IT, and not just in a small way. I mean, full fledged, 3-year-old-pounding-my-fists-on-the-ground-stomping-my-feet-super-spectacular-temper-tantrum.

Okay, probably not that bad, but man, will I be PISSED.

One other thought for today: I know I haven't said anything about this, which I'm sure amazes you, especially since we all know I like video games, (b/c I'm 16-you guys want to go to Dairy Queen? Awesome) but this whole Grand Theft Auto thing that has been in the news is pretty damn entertaining.

The Video Games Ratings Board or whatever raised the rating on the game to "Adults Only", which is like saying it might be porn. I'm okay with the rating, and with them making it clear that the game isn't for kids. Here's what puzzles me: Why are the politicians that are in such an uproar about it making it a national story? Are they aware of how adolescent minds work? They're pretty simple. If you tell them they shouldn't, they want to. If you tell them they can't, they will. Especially with something like this. Because it's taboo, the kids will be on it like a fat kid on a cupcake. Additionally, and I say this all the damn time, WHY aren't any of the parents monitoring what their kids are doing? Maybe it's just me, but if my mother said "You aren't getting that game" Guess what? I sure as hell wasn't getting it. And if I found a way to get it? It would have wound up in the trash compactor. While I watched. And shivered. And recoiled in horror at the sound of my 50$ of video-game-goodness being crunched up with the cereal boxes and milk cartons and the like. But that was my house, where you could always question, but never disobey.

Sorry, small tangent there, back to my original point:

Sadly, again, we live in a society where everyone wants to blame everyone else for their problems, and taking responsibility is the exception rather than the rule. It doesn't help that your average politician's main goal is to get more face time in the media than the guy he's running against in the next election. Which makes sense, b/c the true goal of being an elected official is to make sure that you set yourself up to be elected again, which is why you deal with issues like this as opposed to things that really make a difference on a day to day basis.


Also, I just got an email and peeked at CNN.com and saw about the second round of terrorist bombings in London. And I just got sick to my stomach looking at it. They're calling the explosions "incidents", but I think it's safe to say that's terrorist related. Really, I know that these people hate us and we're awful, shallow people, but seriously, F you. Big time. F You and your lame ass pipe bombs, and your box cutters, and your patchy facial hair, and your beating, raping, and general degradation of your OWN women. Really, F yourselves right in the A. Assholes.