Wow, update much?

I've decided that I am going to update my web log, or blog, at least once a week with something meaningful from me (this means posts that only include a quote(s) do not count).

I wonder how long this will last :-)

My lesson in ping-pong...Chinese style.

So today I was schooled in ping-pong by the Chinese guys that sit next to me a work.

And when I say "schooled," I mean I was worked over like a little girl trying to play basketball on a court in the streets of Philly...it was ugly.

To be sure, I knew said ass kicking was coming because (a) they had their own paddles (in their own case/bag like a tennis racket) and (b) one of the guys asked me if I was really going to play in my flip-flops!

Also, I tried playing with one of their offered personal paddles, but it was oddly too padded and I was hitting balls awkwardly. I had to switch to one of the "shitty paddles" that Google had with the table - though I felt it was a nice normal paddle and much more like what I was used to playing with.


I might take a video tomorrow so you guys can see what I am talking about...think Forest Gump...twas not much fun to try and play (or defend myself!) against them, but it was fun to watch.

I don't think ping-pong is taken as seriously here as there, but I most definitely ended the event by challenging them all to a game of beer-pong at their earliest convenience :-)

Hey...I just said something and I'm gonna quote myself....haha, toot! toot!

"Religion is like one big joke that most people never get..." Me, 06/04/10

Mark Twain's Predictions...

After a 100 year delayed request by the author, Mark Twain's autobiography comes out this year :-)

With that information, I figured I'd share a prediction he had:

"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." Mark Twain (1909)


His prediction was accurate – Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

I don't want this to just become me posting Quotes....but...

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited to long to make..." - unknown

I know I have been quote crazy, but I liked this...



And I promise to finish the TWO posts I have started to write...soon.

Random Quote of the day...

The importance of context:

“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”

- James Madison

A point to ponder...

Just a quick word...

Yep, It is LATE. I can not sleep.

But, I just realized...


WORLD CUP 2010 is exactly 1 month away...SCORE!