5/23/08

Rrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiing. Rrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiing. Rrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiing. “Hello, Blogspot. This is Mahadevanshareeshnapoolajadewan. How may I be of assistance today?” “Yeah, this is Tim. I'm just going to phone another one in today. Hope you don’t mind.” “Not at all. We’re here for you.” “Great! If the rest of the world would just realize that we’d all be happier. I know I would. Goodbye.” Click. I was going to tell the following story yesterday but decided the single sentence was better somehow. I got a call from my friend Rob yesterday afternoon. It was slightly disturbing. He and his wife Emily have four tickets to a box at the horse races on Saturday. Emily is bringing a friend and Rob wanted to know if I could come along. He made sure to emphasize that Christina is Emily’s date a couple times. I know Christina from my Pig and Whistle Pub days. Perhaps that should be “daze” instead. Anyhoo, she used to date another friend of mine who shall remain… Pat. I'm not sure if Emily is trying to fix us up or not. It is weird that I get this call out of the blue like that. I am planning to go so we’ll see what happens. I could invoke the “Bro-Code” about not dating a friend’s ex, except for the fact that I've already broken that one with Randy’s ex, the “J” Word. She’s my “J” Word, not his. If I'd known she would turn into a “J” Word, I probably wouldn’t have called her. Oh relax, they’d been broken up for quite a while and it was Danny’s fault that I crawled through her window that night. I didn’t seek her out nor did I break them up. Wait, I'm not on trial here. Get off my back. So, Saturday might get interesting. I assume John and I will go to the shop in the morning. I'll cut out noonish to get ready to go to the track and then, well, I'll go to the track. Mom has been invited to John’s and Samantha’s son’s birthday party at Mexican Inn Saturday night. I will probably have Rob drop me off there on our way back, if we stay that long at the track. Of course that is assuming I was invited to the birthday party. Samantha did only invite mom when she called. On another note, it looks like I'll be going with John to Houston for a movie shoot featuring his 510 in June. We’ll tow it with Fifi just to be on the safe side. I've arranged for a dude to cover for me on Friday the thirteenth so I can go. I'm not sure if I'm going to take Monday the sixteenth off as well. I probably will now that I think about it. We’ll see. Well, would you look at that, I guess I didn’t phone it in after all. That was a fairly standard rant after all. I was going to say “good” then I thought “decent” would be better, I settled for “standard.” Ok, so that is all I've got for today. Woo hoo! Long weekend! Talk to y'all Tuesday.