a toast

Here's a popular toast you may have heard:

Here’s to cheating, stealing, fighting, and drinking.
If you cheat, may you cheat death.
If you steal, may you steal a woman’s heart.
If you fight, may you fight for a brother.
And if you drink, may you drink with me


I just heard this one tonight:
May your crazy stay this side of legal, and may you return before we have time to miss you.

Not sure if that guy made it up.

this week

I've been off work all week. I've been making supper every night (until tonight, because the leftovers are piling up). Been doing some housecleaning. Not much else, I guess. I went in to work today, not to work, but it get a plant, so I could take care of at home for the next week and a half. Also to say goodbye to a guy who is retiring, and give him a little gift. Then I met a friend for beers tonight.

Remember my coworker, Bob, who died a few weeks ago? Bob was funny, in that he always needed reassurance that things were correct. He'd ask me a question, and I'd answer it, and he'd think for a moment, and ask again. I started answering him twice, before he could ask a second time.

Bob was rabidly "buy American." He'd would rather do without, than buy a foreign-made product. Even a necessary product, like a tool. And he wouldn't eat "foreign" food, even when in another country. The guys said that when they were at a restaurant in Italy, Bob asked for spaghetti and meatballs. They had no idea what that even was. He ended up ordering a burger. And on a job somewhere in California, the other guy suggested a Japanese steakhouse, but he wouldn't go. He was like, "dude, it's a steak house, but Bob refused.