Happy Rosh Hashanah (yesterday)!  I'm not Jewish, but heck!  If someone's going to give us a day off, I'm going to be thankful about it.  G had the day off from school, so I thought we could do some fun family activity.  My first two choices were to go fruit picking (apples, pears, peaches and raspberries are all in season) or to the zoo (D seems to like animals).  After going for years, it turns out that both G and Mrs. Fly hate fruit picking and the zoo.  WTF?!?

I felt like I was Chevy Chase from the Vacation movies - dragging his family on these "awesome" family bonding activities, when I'm really the only one who think it'll be awesome.  As the saying goes, a leader without followers is just a guy out for a walk.  I was standing in the family room and I felt like I was talking to someone else's wife and kid.  Who are you people?!?

So we salvaged the day by going to one of my favorite restaurants and doing some shopping.  The day turned it into one of the best days of the year for a little kid - the day a kid gets to redeem all the Toys R Us gift cards he got for his birthday.  Lately he's been obsessed with Bakugan, so he just got a whole lot more of them.  He already owns like 50 of those things, but being the evil empire that they are, they keep coming out with new stuff.  Mrs. Fly hates them, but how are you going to say "no" to your kid on their birthday?  Altho if the woman's going to say "no" to fruit and cuddly animals, who the hell knows what's going on up there?

JK.  Still <3 Mrs. Fly.  :-)

[edit: Mrs. Fly says she likes fruit picking - just not the other day.  The zoo still sucks for her tho.]

JOKE

To commemorate the New Year...  a Jewish joke:

A widowed Jewish lady was sunbathing on a beach in Florida.  She looked up and noticed that a handsome man her age had walked up, placed his blanket on the sand next to hers and began reading a book.

Smiling, she attempted to strike up a conversation with him. "Hello, sir, how are you today?"
"Fine, thank you," he responded and turned back to his book.

"I love the beach. Do you come here often?" she asked.
"First time since my wife passed away 2 years ago," he replied and turned back to his book.

"I'm sorry to hear that. My husband passed away 3 years ago and it is very lonely" she countered. "Do you live around here?" she asked.
"Yes, I live down the beach," he answered and again resumed reading.

Trying to find a topic of common interest, she persisted, "Do you like pussy cats?"

With that, the man dropped his book, jumped off his blanket and on to hers, tore off her swimsuit and gave her the most passionate ride of her life!

When the cloud of sand began to settle, she gasped and asked the man, "How did you know that was what I wanted?"
The man replied, "How did you know my name was Katz?"