Ladies - I'm Talking to You

I have a complaint.

Why is it, that most women leave the toilet seat up after they are finished in the bathroom? There are two lids, you know - the round one that you sit on, and the lid with no hole. A bathroom looks a lot classier when you don't have to look at an open toilet. Ladies, I'm surprised and a little bit shocked that you haven't noticed this.

Or is it that you are just too busy criticizing men for leaving one lid up that you don't realize yourself that the other lid should be closed as well.

Now I'm aware that many women have this same complaint against men, but I happen to be a man that always closes both lids when I'm finished, therefore giving me the right to complain. So there.

Leave It To A Song

I've been to many weddings in my fifty-two years. Including my own. I've seen couples flourish and others fail.

One can dissect the secret to a successful marriage all they want, but I think the answer lies in the lyrics of an old "Asleep at the Wheel" song. They go like this.

You've got to dance with who brung you
Swing with who swung you
Life ain't no forty-yard dash.
Be in it for the long run
In the long run you'll have more fun
If you dance with who brung you to the bash.

I think those lyrics say it all.

Thank You, Baseball

Finally, a steriod free baseball season. And what a difference it made. The sport was actually fun again. For the past several years, I had pretty much given up on baseball. I followed it some, but not like I used too. For me it had become a game a overpaid cheaters. Steroid use was obvious by the un-natural blown-up bodies of many of the players, which took the thrill of the game away from me.

The 2009 season was different. It was players like Aaron Hill, Ben Zobrist, Troy Tulowitzki, Carl Crawford, Jason Werth and Pablo Sandoval just to name a few that brought fire back to the game. And this past season if you followed the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Blue Jays, Angels, Rangers, Phillies, Marlins, Braves, Cardinals, Dodgers, Rockies or Giants you saw Baseball in all its exciting glory.

I would like to think that the days of cheating in Baseball are over, but I'm sure there's another drug lurking around the corner. If that's the case, hopefully it will be taken care of immediately, unlike the shameful way steriod use was handled. Live and learn, I guess.

My hat goes off to the New York Yankees and their World Series win. People love to hate them, but they were clearly the best team in baseball this past season. And speaking as a fan of the sport, they were very impressive to watch. I'm looking forward to next season and all of the surprises that it will bring.

Welcome back, Baseball. It's good to have you "clean" again.

The Truthful Friend

My first decade - ages one to ten, I was pretty clueless to the real world around me.

My second decade - ages eleven to twenty, I thought I knew everything, but in hindsight, I was more clueless than I was in my first decade.

My third decade - ages twenty-one to thirty, I thought I had it all together, until that nasty hindsight showed up again and made me realize that I didn't really know what I was doing at all.

My fourth decade - ages thirty-one to forty, I became more responsible, but once again was shown the truth by my old friend hindsight.

My fifth decade - ages forty-one to fifty, I did better, but hindsight proved once again that I was not perfect.

And now in my sixth decade, at age fifty plus, I feel that I have learned from all of my mistakes. Of course, I'll have to wait another ten years to find out if I'm right.