Rochester / Rottenchester
AJ sent this to me recently..

You know you're from Rochester, NY * when...

1. The only thing at the annual Lilac Festival in May is snow.
2. The worst four letter word you could say is "FUJI".
3. You can't swim at Charlotte Beach.
4. Toronto is about 70 miles away but it takes 4 hours to get there.
5. The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.
6. There's an 800 number to report potholes in the road.
7. You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.
8. Your babies first spoken word is "Wegmans"**.
9. You ask lifetime residents where the George Eastman House is and they don't know.
10. In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year they build a new sports stadium without a roof.
11. It can be 70 degrees one day and 22 the next and no one takes notice.
12. Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.
13. Your low fat diet is never low enough to exclude an Abbott's frozen custard.
14. You order a white hot and pop and the counterman knows what you're talking about.
15. You can travel from Greece to Egypt in about 30 minutes by car.
16. A D&C is a newspaper, not a medical procedure.
17. There are not hamburgers, only ground steak.
18. You can go to any mall on a Saturday and see at least 5 people you either work with, went to high school with or dated at some point.
19. A musical comes to town 10 years after it debuts on Broadway and the entire town goes nuts! (ie. Miss Saigon)
20. You awaken from a deep sleep, look at a clock and are not sure if it's 6 a.m. or 6 p.m.
21. When 18 plus inches of snow falls overnight you don't even consider NOT going to work.
22. You are perplexed when friends come to town and want to see the sights.
23. A flag pole strung with white lights seems like an acceptable alternative to a downtown Christmas tree.
24. In winter, if the temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun is out, everyone walks around wearing sun glasses and no jackets.
25. There are places at the poles that get more sunlight during the winter than we do.
26. Wegmans is somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.
27. You know who Vinnie and Angelo are.
28. You thiink that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.
29. Halloween and Easter are snowed out with great regularity.
30. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.
31. "Waking up to the Wease" doesn't mean you have a respiratory infection.
32. The thought of eating a garbage plate makes your mouth water.
33. You offer to take your out of town guests to the Susan B.Anthony house and they ask, "who's she"?
- posted by Amit @ 5:24 PM
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This one's for Lefty......
'Phil not winning the Masters was a tradition unlike any other. It was something you could count on. Like death, taxes or Donald Trump's hair. Now, Mickelson is wearing green like he's Kermit the Frog, and it's startling.'
The above is an excerpt from ESPN.com's coverage of one of the truly amazing moments in golf history. I bow down and salute Phil Mickelson, who finally won his first major in Augusta, GA yesterday. He finally has his very own green jacket and God knows he bloody well deserves it.

Just like Phil, The "Rowdies", my indoor soccer team, claimed the title *AGAIN* this season. We comfortably won in the semis and although we had a jittery start to the final, we came back from a goal down to win 7-3 at the end of play. We were rewarded with a Rochester Sports Garden T-shirt with a *brand new* design [Such are the life changing benefits of playing in the suburban soccer league in Upstate NY] :) The weekly Thursday "Guys night out” followed to culminate another successful soccer season.

Another story that is playing on my mind is that of David Beckham's life. I'm having my doubts about his "family man persona". With more women opening up about alleged affairs with the troubled Real Madrid star, I can't wait to see how Victoria and David Beckham will tackle the situation they find themselves in. I guess Manchester United and Fergie will have a laugh or two on this one. Manchester United let David move to Real Madrid last summer citing the unnecessary attention Beckham's private life got to the club as one of the reasons for his sale to Real Madrid. All this attention could not have come at a worse time for Beckham, whose club Real just had a horrible week in which they failed to move on in the Champions League and also lost to Osasuna at home 3-0. That said, time will tell if Beckham really is a gallactico ?

I had a good weekend. I finally sent in my NYS state return thus completing the only real thing I need to get off my 2004 to-do list.I was in Syracuse on Saturday night and stopped by at a party hosted by Arjan Bajaj. Syracuse always makes me nostalgic, and this party even more so cos of the Puneites I met. All in all Surdy boy Arjan defintely throws a cool party.

Happy Birthday to Archit Lal (architlal@hotmail.com). The dog is 26 today and NOT 27 like the rest of the cool folks in our friends circle :)
- posted by Amit @ 2:07 PM
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