Random thoughts

It's amazing how quickly things can become cluttered.  I spent about an hour today re-organizing and straightening my kitchen cabinets; didn't I just do that recently?

I also spent about an hour transferring contacts from my old cell phone into my new one.  My thumbs hurt!

And other than that, it's been a pretty boring day, and I can't think of anything to write about here.

Oh, Jae, I did do something just for me today.  I made a pan of homemade macaroni and cheese, and then ate a lot of it all by myself.  Guess I was needing some comfort food.  Now that kind of reminds me of a story. 

There was this man that used to work with Thomas, who, as soon as he got to the job, started trying to get something racial started there.  He was a black man who really had a problem with Thomas being married to a white woman and being able to get along with most people at work, no matter what their race.  Thomas hung around whoever he felt comfortable with, and that included whites, blacks, Mexicans,  Bosnians and Vietnamese.  Thomas just gets along with everyone, unless they don't want to be got along with, and this guy didnt' like it.  He even remonstrated with Thomas once, telling him that he shouldn't be talking to "those guys". 

Well, this guy was determined that he was going to start something.  One day during break when he and Thomas were the only black guys in the room, he started going on and on about "soul food", really loud, to Thomas.  I don't know why he picked that particular subject to try to show a connection between him and Thomas and to shut out the other guys, but that is what he was trying to do.  Thomas knew this, of course, so, being the kind of guy he is, and having this wonderful talent for adroitly putting people in their place, he asked the guy, "So tell me, just what do you consider by 'soul food'?"  The guy listed fried chicken, black-eyed peas, collard greens, corn bread, macaroni and cheese, and so on.  Thomas looked at the guy for a minute, then said, thoughtfully, "Huh!  I guess my mother-in-law has been cooking 'soul food' all her life, and didn't even know it!"  The guy shut up.