Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Today is National Pancake Day!!!!

Well, according to IHOP it is... I'm not sure how reliable that source is... but who's gonna dispute it??? not I! I successfully paid my car insurance, added minutes to my phone, and did two loads of laundry in addition to eating a huge pile of chocolate chip pancakes. All in all, i call that a good day.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

ShoePolishWonderful: Origins

Have you ever wondered why racehorses have such odd names?  Well I have.  I just looked up some horses that are racing today and found these names: Big Brownie, Common Currency, Token Sacrifice, Sheza Heartbreaker, Why Then, J J's Lucky Train, Bai Bai Dubai, Patent Pending Tom, Gerard Loves Beer, Ecru Egret.  They give these horses these weird names and then tend to call them by completely different nicknames.  Bai Bai Dubai's trainers for example probably call him Wally.

Well anyway I'm getting off-topic, so I had been thinking about this and decided that if i ever own a horse (and still someday hope to - just to appease my inner nine-year-old) I would officially name him/her ShoePolishWonderful and call him/her something else.  Like Algernon.  Therein lies the secret of the name.

Perhaps someday I'll have something valid or meaning full to blog about. But I doubt it.