Genetics make life interesting

Still in the process of harvesting vegetables from the garden. I pulled up the last tomato plant yesterday. There were about 14 mid-sized green tomatoes on it. Of course, I brought those inside to chill in the basement and ripen slowly. The egg plants are still looking decent. Not huge, but decent enough to marinate and grill or make a few other types of dishes. It cracks me up to see how sometimes there is an oddly formed one. I had to snap a pic of this latest natural creation.
It appears that triplets were to be the end result, but never really separated. Oh well, when this freak of nature loses the battle with my kitchen knife, my taste buds will thank the egg plant gods.

Adios Verano! I don't want to see you go.....

So, I am going into work later today and I was outside checking out some things around the crib and I had intentions on mulching my grass, but it's too wet and there are not much things worse than trying to cut wet grass because then you see the rotten fruits of your labor the next day (or when it dries) when half of the grass is just sticking up because of being wet and unable to be cut. Not good. Anyway, I was cleaning up the garden in preparation for the fall. I only have two eggplant plants left and one tomato plant (pics in the future in a different post). I have been harvesting tomatoes from the other plants the past two weeks. We have three plastic bags in our basement with green and ripening tomatoes that we have been eating (to a point) and giving the rest away. The three plants left in the garden are still producing, but it's basically what's left on them for the next few days and I will pull them up and rake the dirt and mulch it up so that it can sit for the next few months. We have a few more home projects to get done before the snow flakes start falling....

The sky is raining babies!!!!

In the past few weeks, I have had a cousin of mine add to the family with his first child (XX chromosomes) and two very good friends of mine have one child each (XX and XY, respectively). I love kids.....other people's kids, for now. We'll see what happens in the near future, but we really like sleep and spontaneous plans make life grand as well. The idea of having an impressionable mind seems like quite a challenge; A good challenge for sure. So far, the aforementioned individuals have had nothing but positive things to say about the new additions. My brother-inlaw has an XX on the way. We cannot wait for her to be born! Adding to the gene pool is something that some people do not take seriously. Hence, the millions of moronic adults taking up space on this planet. Notice, I said adults. Kids are a product of their environment. It's the adults that jade them and start the cycle over again for them to pollute this world. Is there really a nature vs. nurture debate? To some extent, but what a person may intrinsically possess (temperament, resilience, etc.) is really enhanced by the environment they are born into. Long live the kiddies!

Any thoughts?

Did you people skip a week of shopping?!!

Sheesh....we decided to stop by two grocery stores this evening before coming home after eating dinner at the in-laws. It was like THIS was Labor Day weekend! I don't know where all these people came from...MI is quite far from the Gulf Coast, therefore, even though we have seen several news stores of displaced people coming here, it's not like I live in Houston or anything like that. Also, it's not as though I saw most of the basic goods already purchased and gone from the shelves...There were just many more cars in the parking lots and some of the items we were looking for were gone. Needless to say, I was annoyed. The one thing that REALLY pissed me off was the fact that we were going pretty light (express lane style) shopping. In and out. No need to lolly-gag or dilly-dally....Anyway, this friggin wannabe cholo clown with this milky chica with an Olajuwon throw-back on had like 32 items that apparantly they failed to see the sign above them and all of our heads that read "Self Check-Out, 1-12items." Plus, the idiot could not understand why the automated scanner (with a built in camera) kept giving an error message because he kept trying to put the contents he just bagged into his cart without paying yet..."Idiot, that's why the space next to the scanner is 2'X 2' and NOT meant to support more than 12small sized items"...His groupie kept making him look stupid...Anyway, we just stood there thinking of a 1000 other places we would rather be rather than watching this drama play out. There were four of these self check-out stations and we finally got up and got out of that joint...Man, we hit the other store and it was sardines up in there! We needed lemons, raspberries/blackberries, oats, margarine and some brownie mix...the lemons they had were junk, the brownie mix aisle looked like it was ransacked; no more left :( of course, the healthy oats were fully stocked; what a shocker.....A truck comes in tonight...I'll hit that store tomorrow and grab the missed items....A Rican and his lemons are almost important as a Rican and his eggs (pun definitely intended....ha).

Katrina ad link to the Red Cross

Check out the top right corner of this page....
I can deal with having this on the blog for a while. If you want to add it to your site, just let me know and I can give you the javascript.


It links straight to the Red Cross with no click tracking and no landing page in between.

Who knows, maybe even the moronic spammers I get hit with will donate some of the cash they accumulate from annoying us with ads...

Mind of Mencia

If you have never heard of Carlos Mencia, you should try to hear about him. His show is on Comedy Central. In 2001-02, Mencia was a part of The Three Amigos that traveled with Pablo Francisco and Freddy Soto (two other guys who are pretty funny also) concert tour.

In the absence of CHAPPELLE'S SHOW, I have a void in my entertainment viewing that Mind of Mencia is doing a good job of substituting for. The number of Latino truths this guy speaks of is just hilarious. Of course, that might only be valid if you are Latino or really know about Latin people. He can be pretty controversial because he touches upon a wide range of subjects in real life, but it's absolutely hilarious.

I am sure he has some stand-up specials, although I have not seen him doing standup.

Check this clip out of a skit about his Sean Juan clothing line...Classic! LOL!