A Small, yet Shining Example...

Of why I love my friends. 

Balls! This is Why I Shouldn't Let My Mind Wander.

Sometimes Katie and I have chats while at work.  Here's some of what we discussed today...    me: i want to golfing

  like grown up golfing

  no, i don't know how to golf off the putt-putt course

  but

  i want to yell "BALLS" instead of "FORE"

  fore doesn't make any sense

  people will be on the lookout if you yell balls

  jus sayin

 Katie: hahaha

awesome

  we should do it

  but only if we really dress up (in tams--Scottish hats)

 me: i was thinking about that last night

  and then i realize that this is why i shouldn't let my mind wander too much

  done and done

  i'll have to ask my brother if i can borrow his clubs lol

"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. (From about.com or something...)

  I think balls would be just as, if not more, effective

 Katie: i would duck out of the way of balls

also, isn't it usually that fore is ahead and when people yell fore it is for the people ahead of them so they would look behind them?

  so shouldn't they yell Aft?

 me: hmmm

 Katie: balls is better

  by far

 me: maybe "aft" doesn't carry well over a distance?

 Katie: maybe

  i love how gold is the lazy and out of shape person's sport

 me: i know!

 Katie: more outdoorsy than bowling, but in bowling you don't get a cart

 me: you don't even have to walk if you don't feel like it

 Katie: or people to carry your stuff around for you

  i know!

 it's brilliant!

 me: bowling balls are kinda heavy though

  and you have to to that whippy thing with your leg

  you could pull something

  thank you, Scotland I think they'd yell "Bollocks" in Scotland, though

Seriously, though.  It's for *safety*.  Who's not gonna look around when you yell "BALLS!!".

My Moment of Genius (Probably for the Year)

I've coined a new phrase.  It's going to be epic and take over the "As they say..." category.  One day it will be in the "You know that old saying..." category.  But I just made it up today, so it's still a baby phrase.  Not an old man phrase.  I'm really not making sense, even to myself.  That can't be good.

Okay, here's the set up.  I'm sitting in my office working(ish) and newannoyingbossman comes in to tell me that Pres (the president of our company) just spoke to him and we're going to work on getting the structural foundation of the website (which I work on for job #1) working 100% before I learn flash (Adobe Flash, which I don't know. Yet.)  "We're going to hold off on all the bells and whistles" says NABM.  Then I say (this is my moment of genius...can you feel the tension?)

Wait for it...

"It doesn't make sense to build the bicycle without the wheels".

Bells and whistles...bicycle...get it?

Feel free to use this phrase whenever appropriate.  You're welcome

Coconuts, Babies, and Economics.

 Coco is one of biffles (biffles=BFFLs=soul sista*).  That's not her actual name...I just shortened her nickname.  I'm lazy like that.  Anywhatsit, this is text message conversation we had earlier today.  I'm probably not ready for kids yet.

*I've never said "soul sista" before in my life

Coco:  E had her baby today!  (E is one of Coco's old roommates.  She just got married and then had to have babies right away.)

Me:  Ooo good for her!

Me: i want one...i need to get married lol.

Coco:  Lol u serious?! Please come to wic with me one day  (wic is short for women, infants, and children...it's for lower-income families to get help with pediatrics and whatnot)

Me:  i'm gonna have a good baby.

Me:  boyfriend before baby...gotta do that shit in order.

Coco:  Haha hell yea

Coco:  Don't you want to have 3 baby daddys?

Me:  that might make it easier to pay for stuff...

Coco:  It def does

Me:  it's not slutty.  it's economical*.   

*The Mormons got it backward--one wife, multiple husbands would have worked much better.  Maybe polygamy wouldn't have been outlawed.