Archive for November, 2005
The Girls are as Cold as the Weather
Posted by: | CommentsThe saga of the world traveler son Seth continues with another adventure from Thanksgiving. You may recall that my youngest son left for Barcelona Spain a couple of months ago to “find the perfect woman”. You can find the write-up ‘Seth Goes to Spain‘. Why Barcelona I had asked, silly me. Seth told me at that time that it was all about the Latina women, their fiery temperaments and unbounded energy. Interesting I mused. So Seth sublet out his apartment in New York and gave notice at his job to travel and see the sights in Europe. Very cool except its wintertime and its cold outside.
So for the curious and the brave follow along with Seth and me on this adventure. The latest installment came in the mail today from Seth.
Hi Dad!
What´s the haps, how was your Thanksgiving? Mike Taylor is in town and staying with me in my apartment, so we spent Thanksgiving together. We tried to go out and have dinner last thursday, we found this cool restaurant that is really cheap, good food and nice atmosphere but we never made it. We started out at happy hour at my favorite bar called Sugar near Plaza Rieal, that is the plaza where my hostel was when I first arrived. Anyway, we were having a couple of drinks when this other American I had met showed up so we hung out a little longer with him until he left to meet his girlfriend. Then friends of mine from the bar I worked at arrived with a small crew so we decided to stay for yet another drink. We ended up leaving with them to go to another bar and stayed until the bar closed. So our Thanksgiving dinner ended up being a hamburger at 3 o’clock in the morning, oh well.
This place is wonderful but I am itching to get back to the States. Lately I have been feeling really home sick for NY, which surprised me because I didn’t think I would miss it that much, but it just goes to show that you don’t fully appreciate something until it’s not there. But when I return I’m only going to stay a few days in NY to sort some things and then I’m off to South Beach. I can’t wait for some sunny weather, the wind has really turned cold here and my tan is almost completely gone. The woman here are about as cold as the weather, they don’t seem to like Americans all that much, another reason I miss home, ¨oh I wish they all could be like California girls¨.
I miss you Dad and I think of you often. I’ll write again soon.
Dos besos-senior seth
Sounds awfully familiar I think. Somewhere in the distant past there was a Thanksgiving like that here in the not so romantic setting of Los Angeles. LA sounds so wonderful when you are sitting half way around the world but on a bar stool late Thanksgiving evening it is not such a great place. I could imaging that Barcelona could be the same.
Actually it is such a great treat for me to hear from Seth. After I get done writing this I will dash him off a letter of congratulations for making the Thanksgiving Hall of Fame.
New Average Man Server
Posted by: | CommentsOK, OK, OK I know that the web site at The Average Man is not pretty right now and all of the old stuff is not up and running but at least it is a start, right?
I will be upgrading the site back to its old high standards. For all of you that have wondered what happened to the ‘old man’ and his web site I can tell you that Ruben of rsquarednet and I have been agonizing over the server woes that we have had and needed a change. Yippeeeeeee…….we are now at a great web host ix web host and all is well with the world once again.
It may be a few days before I am able to set up the Data Base and get everything back on line but hang in there and just watch the magic. New things are coming so stay tuned.
Thank God that the other web sites are still running well. I will be moving this web site to its new home so that I can manage them all together on one server. This will be taking place in the near future. Hopefully there will not be any notice here on the web site when the move takes place.
davidgodden.com Move
Posted by: | CommentsIf you have checked the web site home of davidgodden.com in the last 4 days or so you will have noticed that the site has been down. Ruben of rsqueared.net and I have been contemplating moving to a new server anyway so this is just the icing on the cake.
The new web site will look pretty much the same but have much better performance at the new host IX Web hosting. Be patient and the new web site will be better than ever.
Fun in Monterey
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We’re Hav’n Fun Now…..it looks like it anyway. Monterey was beautiful and the weather just perfect. Who could ask for more you ask. We all ask for more. But I am happy and it is great to be alive so enjoy the day with me. Remember that where ever you are there are beautiful days ahead and bright skies somewhere down the road.
Clinical studies and practice is very difficult right now and the pressure, stress and pain of it is almost enough to make a grown man break down and …….cry…..no way baby……scream! When the moon is just right screaming is just the thing to chase off the werewolves. So howl baby and scream, what ever it takes when the moon is shining just so. Scream loudly with all of your might to survive and get past those damb werewolves. Thats the tip for the day.
Brain Cramp
Posted by: | CommentsEvery once and a while I have a brain cramp when the weather is just so so. When I do, after scratching my head, I think of our leaders and some of the foibles that we have all heard and I feel better almost immediately. I hope that you feel good too after reading some of these Brain Cramps. Thank you Gina Wald for the good laugh and for passing these along to me. I added the last one.
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,”
–Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
–Mariah Carey
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life,”
–Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.
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“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,”
–Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,”
–Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
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“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I’m just the one to do it,”
–A congressional candidate in Texas.
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“Half this game is ninety percent mental.”
–Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
–Al Gore, Vice President
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“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
–Dan Quayle
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“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
–Lee Iacocca
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“The word “genius” isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” -
–Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback &sports analyst.
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“Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.”
–Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
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“Mission Accomplished”
President George Bush
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Yes, I saved the best for last. Unfortunately it is no joke. How can this country ever recover from his bungling?
Patric O'Brian
Radical Brewing
