Chillaxin'

You know what's nice? Days off. Days off are nice. I like taking this days off to go to the beach with my family, you know before the summer starts wrapping up, and to just chill. Be a normal person, run errands, take a nap maybe, watch a movie. Eat. Drink at noon. Awesome stuff like that. Being on the grind that shit gets lost. I think now I'll go to Costco and buy a big box of something. Then maybe come home take a long shower, shave my nuts and eat a chicken parm hero. Then watch a movie and take a nap. Sounds good.

Networking then

You know what I was thinking on the way in. As I was watching tourists take video of Ground Zero with their camera phones I was wondering what images what have looked like had that technology been around during that day. Sept 11, 2001 was 9 years ago almost. There weren't any cell phones or smart phones with cameras on them then. And if there were not too many people had them. Also there was no Twitter or Foursquare or Facebook. Imagine how different that day would have been with all that social networking around?

I probably would have recorded what I saw, or maybe my walk across the Brooklyn Bridge en route home. Maybe it's a good thing those "amenities" were not quite born yet. Just a thought.

Mango Salsa

Hopsicle.

The simplest invention must be the toothpick. I can see it now. Couple of Indians sitting around a fire just finished eating a buffalo heart trying to figure out how to remove the remnants from their teeth. The smart one sees a stick and decided to start whittling it down to size and voila! The toothpick was born.

Would you rather be mauled by a bear or eaten by a lion?

Another silly question to ponder, if you can have something named after you what would that be? A street, a park, a sanwhich? I would choose a beer. Hey, pick up an El Pad 12 pack before you come over. That would be cool.

White wine is only useful to me as cooking liquid.

I wonder how long it would take for one person to eat at every single NYC restaurant? Also if a company would fund it, I'd like to do it. Could you imagine how cool that would be? This idea sounds like the guy who was picked to live on that remote Australian island for free and write about it for a travel site. Parameters would be simple. One guy, picked to eat one meal at every NYC restaurant once a day. Preferably dinner and then write a review about it, post it to a site and so on. This site could make money selling advertisements. I mean off the wall spots too, not just Zagat joints. I like the idea.

Why do you think Germans make the best knives? Or Swiss make the best watches? Don't you feel like anything they can do we can do better? Or are the materials THAT much better?

That's all I got today.

I made a cock. With a cock. Amazing.

Hey, is that your umbilical cord there or are you just excited to see me!

Looking at the legs from underneath the baby on this picture. There is no doubt.

8-19-54

Happy Birthday pops!

56. LT's number......

Miss ya.

Luxury Mattresses

Hey El Pad readers, I got a treat for you. If you live in the Northeast area and are in need of a luxury mattress check out this link : Saatva.

This company is like Zappos.com but instead of shoes they sell luxury mattresses. No storefront, one warehouse, manufactured themselves and sold exclusively online. This is no scam. Google the company yourself. I'm telling you this because I have a small part-time position there and can profit if any mattresses get sold using the above link. Nothing more important than a nice sleep and a heavy dump. And since I can't help you with taking a heavy dump I can help you get a nice sleep. Keep it in mind when in the market for a new mattress.

No Mosque

Do I think a Mosque should be built near and or around Ground Zero?

No. But let me just say this. One of the reasons why this country is so great is because it allows people to follow, believe and worship any god they want. And this debate has nothing to do what religion but everything to do with 9/11. If Jews flew planes into those buildings I'd have no problem with a Mosque being built. I would however, oppose a Synagouge. Get the drift? One more point, Muslims think they are slick but any little research into the culture would reveal that they build Mosque's on sites of triumph, conquests and victories. I can't help but think they will relish in the moment, almost daily, that they can worship the prophet a few blocks away from where their brothers murdered a few thousand people. It makes me sick. And don't look now but the president who claims he is not Muslim depsite studying Muslim and having a Muslim father thinks it's a good idea, because "Our committment to religious freedoms must be unshakable". Fair enough Barack Hussein Obama. I then suggest they also build a Mosque right outside the Pentagon. Happy Ramadan Obama!

Remember me?

Is there etiquette involved in approaching someone you remember from your past in person? I saw this chick I used to hang out with in Junior High School, (we had a not sex relationship just knew her moslty from hanging out with her brothers but she was in all my classes growing up), this morning on the train and honestly I didn't even want to talk to her I just wanted to know if she was who I thought she was. But didn't know how to go about asking. Women these days find it weird for random guys to talk to them. They'd much rather you "friend" them on facebook and talk via text for days on end.

Anyway is there a proper way to say hey, remember me? From my persepctive my appearence from then to now has changed. I'm barely recognizable. I've put out like 60 pounds of muscle and or fat (real skinny scrawny kid in JHS) and had glasses (not anymore). So recognizing me is not easy. I remember every kid I went to JHS with. And this isn't the first time this has happened although it is the first time someone I thought I knew sat next to me on the train. So hello Theresa Palermo. Sorry I don't have facebook.

No Smoking

I don't know why anyone still smokes these days but if I was a smoker and saw this commercial I'd stop immediately. That shit is nasty.

Stimulate my nuts

Everyday I read shit like this that makes me shake my head. Our government is a mess and with the president's approval rate at an all-time low (41%) I hope it lasts until November of 2012 so his ass gets voted out. I'm afraid his superior orator skills and dashing smile will dupe voters once again. At least this time we'll have actual proof (like above) of the things that went bad because I'm sure the Democratic cadidate will have all the things that went right. In his mind anyway. Politics is not something I've ever wanted to follow but unfortunately you don't have a choice if you care about making money and supporting a growing family.