Today is my wife’s birthday. I won’t say how old she is, but she is two years older than me, and I’m 32. Hee hee hee.
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Mexican Invasion Article
Found this today….interesting
Edit 3/19/2014: Just in case the link fails at some point, here’s the text:
MR. PRESIDENT, I’M HEADED TO MEXICO
David M. Bresnahan
April 1, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Dear President Bush:
I’m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I’m going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.
I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here.
So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won’t make any effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don’t enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the economy.
I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.
However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.
Thank you so much for your kind help.
Sincerely,
David M. Bresnahan © 2006 David M. Bresnahan – All Rights Reserved
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Happy Birthday Me!
Well, it was 32 years ago RIGHT NOW that I was brought into the light, kicking and screaming. And here I am, 32 years later, in a hospital. Yep, that’s right boys and girls, (sing!) I’m a workin’ on my birrthday!
I work Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night, so I will come out of my overnight working induced fog around Tuesday morning, just in time for me to come back to work Tuesday night. I just signed up to work “The Weekend Package” here at the hospital, which means that starting the second week of June, I will be working every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I may pick up another day (either Sunday or Wednesday, for continuity), every other week or so, but with the extra money I will make for agreeing to work every weekend, I won’t have to work extra.
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Birthday Party and Softball #2
My son turned 9 years old this week, and we gave him his first birthday party. I mean, we’ve had parties for him before, but they were always family affairs (or with our close family friends). This is the first time that we let him invite just his friends to the party. Actually, he invited his entire 3rd grade class (12 kids). Nine kids came to the party. My wife was up til 11pm the night before calling parents who didn’t bother to RSVP. Don’t people know what that means anymore? Respondez-vous sil-vous-plait, or “You respond, please”. It means, you need to let the inviter know if you ARE or ARE NOT coming to the event. I think that most people nowadays think it means “call if you are coming”.
We had the party at a local hangout/fun place called Ben and Ari’s. The kids played mini-golf for about an hour, and then we had to squeeze pizza, cake, and presents into a half hour before parents started showing up for their kids. At the end of this whole process, we wanted to collapse! Phew!
But it was finally over, the kids went home, and so did we. Actually, everybody else went home to collapse, I went to the church for my second softball game. We lost again, but we did better. They only beat us by 13 points this time (it was 17-4). We had fun, though. I was the catcher the entire game. I was the catcher the first game about half the time (we had too many players, so I had to share the position). This game, I was the catcher the entire game. When I say entire, I mean entire. The other team didn’t have a catcher, so I caught for them too. Only time I didn’t catch was when I was on deck or at bat.
Problem is, I think I pulled a quad muscle the first game sprinting around the bases (I hadn’t sprinted in a long time). It hadn’t fully healed, and so this game, I had to gimp my way to first base, so I only made it to first once, and the next guy up got out, ending the inning. I will say that I was batting better. At least I’m enjoying it, right?
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