Persians with attitudes.

My apologies...

I can't really expect people to read this thing if I never put anything new up.

It's been a wierd week. Mainly because of a change of residence that took place... Sarah and I have been house sitting for her uncle Jim and his fiance Judi this past week. They have 4 cats, and we watch after the cats while Jim & Judi go on vacation. My favorite of the felines is a persian named "Pinksters" (Pictured here in the sink)... who despite the manly name, is a girl. She's like a trillion years old, and has quite an attitude with the other cats, but I find "attitude" an admirable trait in cats.

Speaking of persians, I work with two guys a bit younger than me at Starbucks who, I just found this out this week, are persian. I had assumed they were greek, and from what they tell me, there's alot of similarities... at least in the "Old world" attitudes that both cultures have. I was talking to Mike, the younger of the two, who are cousins, and he said that the movie "My big fat greek wedding" was an accurate picture of his family... except that it would be big, fat and persian... much like Pinksters.

Anyway, upon finding out that Matt and Mike are both persian, I thanked Mike for Chess, as I am a fan of the game... and he in turn thanked me for television, as he is a large fan of the tube. We both went away happy, equally proud of our incredibly stereotypical acheivements. Needless to say that my best friend Ryan declared that he was not aware that Persia still existed. I mentioned that I thought it did, but it has evaded our news by evading President Bush's awareness of it's existence. Otherwise, he would've bombed it by now, and we'd know it existed. (Which incidently, is why presidents bomb countries... our schools just aren't doing a great job of teaching geography, and unless we obliterate some little no-name country, most American's will continue on their daily lives unaware of it's existence. We're doing them a favor when you think about it. Their 15 minutes of fame come packaged with the patriot missles we're dropping.) Anyway... Matt & Mike's families are from Iran. As Persia does not exist as Persia anymore. Apparently, not since they had an empire. The loss of which complicated things...

Well, I tire of this blathering... so I will retire.

I will return.
Jim