A Red Bull Named Ronaldo

Hard to believe? Will Ronaldo really be playing in NY sometime after the World Cup? Pele did it for the Cosmos... To understand why this would be a big deal (in case you are not the biggest soccer fan), go here.

Certified Cajun

Random news tidbit.

The Louisiana House of Representatives just passed House Bill 1117 two days ago. This bill establishes "Cajun" as a "certification mark" owned by the state of Louisiana that can be used only on food products that at least have been finished in the state.

Interesting that this was an issue for the house...

Also in the article is information on House Bill 1034, which authorizes in-state crawfish producers to vote on imposing a one-cent-per-pound fee on crawfish tails that are brought into the state and then use the proceeds to promote Louisiana crawfish. Dialogue surrounding the bill is said to have included the exchange below. How can you not be impressed with this debate?

Question: "What if I catch crawfish and sell them on the side of the road?"
Answer: "Then you're a thief."

Blast From the Past

What the heck is Tony Meola doing on the US National team roster for the upcoming game against Jamaica?!?!? Whose next, Alexis Lalas?

Yankee Doodle

I ate at a restaurant called the Nassau Inn, Yankee Doodle Tap Room (in Princeton) this evening. During the dinner, my co-workers and I had a fun exchange with the content of some photographs on the wall of the inn. The photographs are of famous Princeton grads. We knew that there was one particular famous person on the wall and we each got to guess which of the 20-30 photos was the photo of this particular person. None of us got it right. You can play the game in reverse. Whose picture is this? If you go to the restaurant's website, you can find out. This is otherwise known as cheating.

BTW: The dinner, while rather pricey, kinda sucked. The inn is on the national historic register and houses a 13 foot mural by Rockwell of, you guessed it, Yankee Doodle.

Airport Fatigue

Spending all day on an airplane and in airports has a unique way of tiring you out. It must come from a variety of sources. Each source is unique in its own way, but falls into several common aiport fatigue causing themes.

• Fear of Death: Experienced at take-off and landing in various degrees. Emotion is heightened when you learn you are landing into 30 mile per hour wind gusts. Emotion is further heightened by strange high pitched whistling noise in the window you are sitting next to.
• Death Wishes: Experienced when people picking up their ski's from the luggage rack swing them around at least three times, causing your to duck and dive, drop and roll across the wet baggage claim floor.
• I Wish I Was Dead: Experienced when you are stuck on a tarmac for 1 hour. Further compounded when you spend this hour next to a man who is snoring abnormally loud. Added to when luggage is lost in the mid-west. Completed when luggage fails to show up by midnight and you realize you may be going into work in wet baggage claim floor clothes that have the slight scent of urine and sweat because of the near death, window whistling, wind shear landing you experienced earlier the day before.

Going Fast Gets You There Late

So I was speeding on the way to my U-15 team's game this weekend and got a ticket. 82 in a 70. This, of course, made me late for the start of the game. It is hard to believe that this is not the worse story I can tell you from driving this past weekend. That other story may have to wait.

I am headed out of town for work this week - it will be interesting to see how this affects my posts: frequency, content, etc. As it is past midnight, I need to get to bed and/or pack. With that, I will leave you with a question. If you have time to research this, or if you just think you know the answer, I would be glad to hear your thoughts.

Are these yellow speed signs recommendations? Are they legally enforceable?

Kicking off a Long Weekend

Freshly caught fried bass, onion rings, and Riesling for dinner. Sweet wine and fried food. The only thing better was the company - good start to a long weekend. We are headed to Alexandria (soccer), Houston (wedding), and back again (more soccer) all in one day. That is 10.5 hours in the Civic. Better pack some good CDs.