Archive for February, 2008



Origin of Fired Up 42 Comments

So this girls calls me up and told me she went to a rally featuring our own Sen Obama. Consequently I asked her if she was fired up, and to my amazement she didn’t know the proper reply. Fired up! Ready to go! Fired up! Ready to go! For those of you that don’t know [...]

No Plastic in Africa 59 Comments

About six months ago I read on USA today that San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags. It’s ok with me since I prefer paper anyway. Although the cashiers do not like it when I request paper instead of plastic because it gives them extra work. Paper is more convenient because it carries more stuff in [...]

Woo Me! 49 Comments

A gallon of gas was only a dollar fifty, and the light indicating that my car needed some has been lit for a couple of days and I had avoided driving it. Tuesday was the day I promised to drive my girlfriend at the time to the airport. I planned to use the four dollars [...]

The Last Straw 56 Comments

By no measure, I am no literary guru, but idioms resonate within me. As the Arab proverb indicates that the last straw that broke the camel’s back. So everything has a breaking point; that instance where you realize that something is completely wrong; the point of no return; the boiling point. Films and books use [...]