Brilliance

Wanna know why I think this can of pinto beans is so brilliant? It's because someone thought to design these cans with pull tabs at the top for easy opening!

Let's just say that a can opener was just 3ft away. Well, that means that it will take a second or two to get it and depending on whether it's an electrical or one of those manual can openers, you still have to go through that process just to open a can.

I'm sure you're calling me all kinds of lazy names right now, haha! It is my personal opinion... that when you take the thinking process out of something, it's good design!

Or maybe I just love pinto beans...  :)

Breakfast of champions

Being that I am 100% southern, there doesn't seem to be any other breakfast food out that can top this right here. This is one of them cajun filet biscuit with fries combo from Bojangles. A fresh cup of coffee with a massive amount of Hazelnut mixed to yummo perfection! I don't know what it is about that combination but hot dang it's good. Every once in a while I'll switch over and have a gulp of my diet pepsi. Just to wash all the bread crumbs down!

I must also add that this was one of those biscuits where the bread is so soft that it almost breaks in your hand! Hmmm Hmm delish!!!

The tree must go

Now that our storm water drainage issues are fixed, we decided the tree in the middle of our driveway must go. This acre of land that we live on really has some strange tree growth and very strange landscaping in the back.

There are plenty of things that I'd rather spend my money on but this tree was smack-dab in the middle of our most level parking spot. It's gotta go or else I'm sure I'll wind up hitting it.

This is the second time we've had tree cutters out and it's definitely not cheap. Unless you're out in the open and you can let it fall any direction.  Before I start going down a rabbit trail here let me ask you something. Have you ever witnessed a tall tree fall? And I mean the whole tree in one piece? If you haven't then you must. The force a tree has when it falls is pretty doggone amazing. You best be nowhere near impact... that's all I'm saying!

Drainage problem fixed - at least I hope

Sometime around the summer of 2009, when we were having all of those crazy thunderstorms, Shelly and I noticed a new creek running down our driveway. At first we didn't pay it much attention. After a few other heavy thunderstorms hit, we started paying a lot of attention to these rip rapids flowing all throughout our yard. It was pretty darn clear that the water was not flowing in the drain ditch like it should.

It really started pissing us off because the water was not even close to flowing in the drain ditch correctly. So long story short here... after we noticed the driveway rock being carried away and flowing water coming out our garage, the wife decided enough was enough. Something had to be done. 

She called the town of Indian Trail and told them our situation. Before you know it, one of the town engineers was out looking at out situation. The first thing he said was, "if it is coming off a public street, it's the town's problem, if it's anything else, it's your problem". After a quick walk behind my neighbors house, he saw that it was indeed the towns problem.

Whew! That was a weight lifted off our shoulders because this was not gonna be an easy fix. This was only phase one! If I remember correctly, the initial start date for our drainage problem to be fixed was around March of 2010. 

For the next 2 years, we watched our driveway get washed away by heavy thunderstorms because the stupid ditch wasn't fixed. We sent email after email following up to see what the hold-up was. At this point, our tempers were right on the edge with this mess. 

We really had to keep it in check because you'll never get anywhere if you start giving people an attitude. Finally, we were able to get a few different names of some people that might have a little more punch to get things going. I swear man... I was nearly about to blow my lid. When you get told over and over that something is gonna happen in a certain timeframe and then it never does... it sorta starts getting to ya a bit. Only because it was causing destruction to our property.

On top of that, we noticed the town working 24/7 on a new park just down the road. So tell me your opinion. What if storm water was going through your garage and throughout your property causing issues! Which would you think would be more important to fix first? A park close to town or your very own yard?

After a few phone calls with our new contacts, a new date was set up to fix our drainage situation. Low and behold, crews begin to show up and start working! After 2 weeks of work, the problem was all fixed up.

Good grief... I'm glad that's over. That was a long battle but thanks to my wife's persistent calling and her pit bull way of not giving up... it's all over now!

Allergies

Do you suffer from allergies? Good grief... I sure do. And bad! I absolutely despise this time of year just cause of the stupid pollen. At first I thought I was gonna make it through this year on the light side. Boy was I wrong.

I was sitting at my computer the other night and heard thunder. I thought, oh good... A nice thunderstorm should wash the rest of this pollen away. I think it washed that crap right down my throat. I now have a sore and scratchy throat with what seems like a ton of mucus all caked up in my gut! Sorry to be so gross about it but that's how I feel.

I've hacked and coughed and sneezed enough to last me a doggone lifetime. Throw in the fact that I can't seem to get an hour of sleep before I'm woke up from coughing or a hack and there you have it.

To make it simple. I feel like total YUCK!

Netflix Poop-a-thon

Hows that for a title!!!

This is surely not going to be a "gross post" but I decided to name it that cause it was the first thing that crossed my mind.

I'm still new to the smart phone world but I've learned enough that these little boogers are gonna be game changers. What I mean by that is these phones are totally gonna switch up how we humans do things. That's my prediction anyways!

For example, pooping has went to a whole new level of coolness... provided you have a smart phone in hand! I'm serious! Your dadgum legs will fall asleep on ya in a heart beat if your caught up in something on a smart phone. You don't have to be sitting on the toilet for these bad boys to come in handy. You can be waiting on your cars oil change, driving down the road... just anywhere.

What really trips me out is that I remember when I thought Bojangles accepting credit cards was a futuristic thing! Phfft... that's nothing nowadays. As weird as it sounds... the future is not coming anymore; it's here already! You can do some pretty amazing things with all the apps you can download.  You can even order a coffee and have it waiting on ya when you get there and pay for it with your phone. Personally I think that is over doing it a tad... but to each his own!

Now that I've stepped up to the smart phone world, I've added the Netflix app to my phone. So hear is what I'm doing now. I've started my very own Netflix poop-a-thon. It's simple. I find a good show on Netflix and the only time I'm gonna watch it... yep, you guessed it... is when I'm pooping!