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- today my parents have been married for 30 years...way to go mom and dad!

- soccer news: i'm going to the MLS all-star game on thursday up in denver at the beautiful new Dicks Sporting Goods Stadium...it's supposed to be a pretty incredible facility. also, David Beckham was introduced by the LA Galaxy this week. i wanted to point something out...on thursday the NYSE finished up over 200 points, the highest one day increase in several years..."experts" said this had to do with a spike in retail sails...hmmm....maybe i'm just reading too much into it, but that was also the day that Beckham arrived in LA and had his new jersey revealed.

- story time...

the other day at the manna house i could tell that my friend james was feeling lonely. he was sort of following me around all morning, and then finally he asked me if i wanted to play frisbee with him that afternoon. i like to toss the disk around a little bit and, again, it seemed james just wanted to hang out with someone so naturally i said, “sure.”

later that afternoon we met up at the park and discovered that neither one us had a frisbee. we decided to go on a quest downtown to find a disk (by the way, if you are ever in durango and you need a frisbee for your dog there are a number of establishments that you could acquire one at on main street in the old town section).

we were not successful (since the only disks we could find we for dogs to catch) so i said, “hey james let’s go to the Steaming Bean and get a smoothie.” james, for whom everyday is National Talk Like A Pirate Day, said, “Arrggh.”
we sat down at the counter and i ordered a smoothie (peach delight..highly recommended). the following conversation then took place:

james: “so what is this place?”
steve: “it’s a coffee shop.”
james: “but what’s this thing you just ordered?”
steve: “a smoothie.”
james: “arrggh...that’s like with ice cream, yeah?”
steve: “no...it’s fruit and juice.”
james: “but no coffee.”
steve: “no, it’s a smoothie.”
james: “arrgghh...but this a coffee shop.”
steve: “yes.”
james: “then why didn’t we go to an ice cream shop.”
steve: “because you can get good smoothie’s here.”
james: “even though it’s a coffee shop?”
steve: “yes.”
james: “arrgggh...that don’t make no sense.”
steve: “would you like a smoothie?”
james: “no...i’ll just get a cup of coffee.”

it was kind of funny to try to explain to james what kind of place i had taken him to...that you could order coffee and smoothies. the lightness of the moment though was short lived. you would think that it would be way faster to pour a simple cup of black coffee than to make a smoothie but in fact it took the worker longer to get james his cup of coffee than it did to make my drink. i wasn’t sure how to handle this, and james didn’t seem to mind (maybe he’s just used to it), but it seemed ridiculous to me.

that incident aside i had a great time that afternoon hanging out with my pirate friend, james.