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You know you are a Tucsonan when...

1) Y'all is considered grammatically correct.

2) You've had an argument with your friend over whether Ford or Chevy makes the better car.

3) You know Fry's is a Super Market but you don't know Fry's is also the name of a computer store and you find this very strange and confusing.

4) You know who Jim Click is.

5) The seasons are different: 2 weeks of Summer, 50 weeks of Hell.

6) You greet people by saying "Yo." and they reply "Sup."

7) You have cactus growing wild in your yard.

8) You have bought a cactus and have it in your kitchen or living room.

9) You have been to a day game at Tucson Electric Park in the middle of July and don't mind sitting in the sun.

10) You are unaware that Arizona has a state song.
http://www.50states.com/songs/arizona.htm

11) All your stories somehow revolve around excess consumption of alcohol and firearms.

12) You have attended a concert that sucked so bad you blew it off and spent the rest of the day at the Desert Museum.

13) You are driving down the freeway in a 75mph zone going 90mph and get passed.

14) You bundle up when the tempature is 78 degrees (Fahrenheit) outside ( 25.5 Celsius.)

15) You have both casual and formal blue jeans.

16) You don't know what is in the water you drink out of the fountain and you don't care.

17) You pronounce Arizona as "Zona."

18) You prononce "Inke" as in "Fred Inke Golf course" correctly as "Ink". Yes, the 'e' is silent.

19) Food sold in a Mexican-style restraunt is the same stuff you and your neighbors cook.

20) You have seen it hail in August and it was warm out.

21) You realize all the IT guys that know what they are doing wear cowboy boots, blue jeans, a button down shirt and a cowboy hat.

22) You can't find Mexico or Canada on a map.

23) You pledge allegiance to nobody.

24) Your weekends are spent getting stoned.

25) You have at least three sheads on your property.

26) You have played games and have used cactus as boundry markers.

27) The only time you ever see the metric system in on the freeway. (We have a lot of trucks comming across from Mexico.)

28) The Boarder Partol knocks on the door and asks if the illegal aliens waiting to be picked up can have some water from your hose.
http://slashdot.org/~MrNybbles/journal/91383

29) All your local tourist attractions are related to holes in the ground.

30) The most popular place for conception to occour at your highschool is in the restrooms.

31) You are a liberal who hates Bush and would rather vote for Satan but don't care enough to register to vote.

32) You learned the hard way to not pet the furry looking cactus.

So in the news today is the attempted kidnapping of David Letterman's children, another school shooting, A man still being held hostage by Arab terrorists, and IBM wants to fight spam by sending it back to the server that sent it thus doubling the load of all servers in-between. (So-callied Liberals would also claim that the election of Bush is another sign, however if John Kerry was elected the so-called conservatives would be saying something similar and that the terrorists would have won.)

Yes, these are surely signs of the end times. But you know what, signs of the end times have been around since before recorded times. "Life is suffering,. . ." is an idea that religions have been built around. Buddha sat around for 40 days to come up with that tid-bit of knowlege.

"In every life a little rain must fall." "When it rains, it pours." "Life is unfair." "Shit happens." "Why Me?" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Life is a box of chocolates. . ."

Bad things happen. They always have and always will. Those are the parts of life we must work through and survive.

Buddha was partly right; there is suffering in life but life is not suffering. We must accept the things we can not change and do what we can with the rest. The only people without worries in their life are those who are too out of their minds to be aware of their environment be it denial or whatever.

Reguardless of whatever you do with your life, enjoy it. We have free will so if you want to be happy then you have everything that you need except maybe a plan.

Also, don't tell people the world is going to end. Not only has it been done but you have as little chance of being right as all those who have come before you and you will be just as annoying.

Summary:
1) Bad things happen. Good things usually take effort to overcome the bad.

2) If you can't do anything about it, don't dwell on it. It's not productive.

3) Work with what you can with what you have. Miracles are usually earned, not given.

4) Don't dwell on the bad stuff, it's not the end of the world. If you have survived your ordeal intact then brush yourself off and do something with your life.

5) The world will end when it is good and ready so shut up about it. If the past is any indicator of the future then the world will begin again. Life is cyclical. (Actual results may vary.)

For many today is the beginning of March Maddness, for others it will be St. Patrick's Day, and for me it will be Thursday.
Happy Thursday, regardless of whatever it means to you.

Replaced the kitchen sink. Reguardless of what the directions say step one is always remove your wallet from your back pocket. God smiled apon me as I was able to replace the cold water shutoff valve and the faucet without any leaks on the first try. Not bad for my second plumbing job.
-- 2005-02-09 --

Helped my fater replace a car speaker, head light and tail light.
-- 2005-02-10 --

Saint Valentine's Day is comming up. Maybe I should do something normal for my girlfriend. This would probably work out the best since Game Daze was out of Cthulhu plushes so I can't mod a Valentine's Cthulhu. Maybe some chocolate and anime.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln Feb. 12, 1809. Actually we celebrate it on whatever day President's Day ends up being to create a three-day weekend. Oh well.
-- 2005-02-12 --

Today I indirectly received an e-mail from my best friend from highschool. Unfortunately I had lost touch with her after she had moved and something like seven years later she has contacted me out of the blue. This was a much needed event.

Note: e-mail via proxy is slow when people do not check their e-mail.

2005-02-05