Weekend Update...Sort Of

Really, unless you're a student, government employee, or someone lucky enough

to still 9 to 5 it up, Dolly Parton style, few of us have a Saturday-Sunday weekend. That said, I can't fathom why I feel obsessed with being so pedantic about posting

weekend updates before Friday. My own "weekend", as I now think the word deserves

quotations, falls on Thursday and Friday, which is actually a Muslim weekend, and almost a

Hebrew one. So Mazoltoff! to all my Jewish readers, and Molotov! to all the Islamo fascists out

there.

I went to a local Irish Eatery, where I had chicken curry smothered on french fries, which

to me, is like slathering Bechamel sauce on cheesecake. Now, I hear in that part

of the world, curry and chips is all the rage, especially in England, where it is not the culinary

abomination that it sounds like. Anyway, the curry was passable, but the mushed concoction

made it feel like East Indian Leprechauns where jumping up and down on my stomach.

Anyway, my weekend, was beset with a slight malaise, topped with a sprinkling of

melancholy, but it went better than this poor schmuck in Thailand who has become

yet another victim of an increasing number of Bizarre elephant tramplings. The poor chap

is quite dead, but happily, the elephant was subdued with bananas. I guess he got so

hungry, he thought smashing someones skull might prove to be a clever way to incorporate
more fruit into his diet. (note that the header for the story reads; "Angry Elephant Stomps

man to Death". Maybe if he had shined up on his happy, he would have had more bananas

to begin with.)

My Girlfriend is still in the big city, and I am anxiously waiting her return in several weeks.

Hopefully she won't come back wearing Prada and lamenting about you just can't get

any decent theatre in the Maritimes. I'm teasing. She's going to be the same girl

I love when she gets back, as she was when she left.

Cordially

Joe