5.15.2008

Exhibit 9.14

I've been working at my current job for exactly two years as of today. Sadly, I barely even remember starting. Let's take a look back at those heady days of 2006 and remember what was going on:

Movies
Mission Impossible III beat out Poseidon at the box office, a disappointing showing that most of us still haven't gotten over. I can't remember if Tom Cruise was officially crazy yet. I think this was maybe when it was starting as he's been crazy for at least a year plus his baby needed 9 months to gestate inside the spaceship.

By the way, that last joke is totally going on my demo reel for The Best Week Ever. That's a show, right?

Current Events
Some headlines:

• Bush To Call For National Guard to Patrol U.S.-Mexico Border
• Report: Global Warning Could Kill 184 Million in Africa
• Bush Administration Asks Judge To Throw Out AT&T Spy Suit
• Verizon Sued For Sharing Phone Records with NSA
• New EU Law Allows U.S. Gov’t To Access Europeans’ Phone Records
• U.S. Helicopter Shot Down in Iraq; 2 Dead
• Iraq Bombings Kill 47
• Report: U.S. Deployed Mentally Ill Soldiers to Iraq
• U.S. Blocks Access for Red Cross to Secret Prisons

In other words, nothing we needed to worry about.

Music
That Raconteurs album came out! You know, the one that was okay but only okay because you wanted it to be good because you really liked the people in the band but then when you heard it you thought this is why the Damn Yankees didn't work and man I wonder what Tommy Shaw is up to. You know, that one.

Sports
This one is a doozy. And not because it's interesting.

On this date in 2006 the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 in Denver. Of course we all remember that, but what we may not remember is that both the winning and losing pitchers are now Kansas City Royals. Brett Tomko and Ramon Ramirez are both cogs in what has been a very good Kansas City pitching staff this season.

How they were able to shake off the lingering resentment of one early season game in May 2006 to come together on a team in a completely different league, we'll never know.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Report: Global Warning Could Kill 184 Million in Africa.

Damn warnings are so deadly. If only we could warn people of the warning.