this just posted from the 13th

multiple thoughts for the day. As you can tell, it has been some time since I posted. I swore this would be updated daily but, guess what, I simply dont have enough time or energy to do this daily. I dont want event recaps nor do I want meaningless "filler" entries. Although this may be one of them. Dont expect daily updates, but semi-often can be anticipated.

I also want to point out that, merely days after I post a blog about the efficience of British law and ability to curtail crime, they cut the legs out from under a huge terrorist plot. Man theyre good. And me too, for calling it. Way to go UK, becuase God knows if that was in the US, the ACLU would be up in arms that they were caught. Its also nice to see that even stupid Americans understand why liquids arent allowed on planes anymore. I still cant understand the theory of someone who has no interest in being searched and/or forced to discard suspicious materials. I know I have complained from time to time, but in reality, who chooses privacy over safety?

Anyways, onto a less grim note. I was in NY this weekend, mainly in the Hamptons with a pit-stop for a Mets game on THursday. Awesome time, even if the regulars didnt play (no LoDuca, no Castro, no Billy Wagner, no Floyd, no Milledge, no Beltran, etc.) Moving forward, the game was good and fun but Shea needs to be destroyed. The stadium is such a dump, second only maybe to RFK in Washington. The woman behind me, though, was completely out of her mind. She was a real-life caricature of chefs mom on South Park. i swear to you every batter shed go "cmon RAY-ez, you my bayyyybeh! you my baybeh! get a hit rayez." ... it didnt matter who was up, specifically valentin, wright, delgado, and endy chavez, it was still rayez, her baybeh. It was absurd. Finally, someone alerted her after about the 10th player in a row who she thought to be reyes and she stopped... until reyes actually got up. Beyond that, she was cheering for piazza for the entire game despite him having the day off. She would cheer when difelice (the mets catcher that day) would come up, then pause as if she realized that it wasnt piazza, then continue cheering for piazza or reyes. Then, upon ordering ice cream from a vendor and discovering the $5.50 price tag, she refused payment, declaring that she was a senior citizen of 74 years old and should get a discount. All this in the Chef's-Mom-Relaying-the-lock-ness-monster-story-voice. Out of control.

But on the final note of the above thought, the senior citizen thing, i still think that senior discounts are the most retarded thing ever created. why do old people get a discount? if anything, everyone else (particularly young people) should get the largest discount since they have not been able to save for a lifetime for this expense. Retired persons have an entire career of savings as well as a pension. What does a poor college kid have? $80,000 in loans and a summer job. Who really deserves the discount?