1. My family (both immediate and extended) has a habit of saying strange things. For example, my wife was getting dressed and I was typing up an email for work. She comes out of the bathroom, pounds her hand on the dresser and says, "Dang, I need a cloth napkin and a mug." She then went back into the bathroom. This is enough to cause a cerebral hemorrhage.
2. The ladies at mamadrama have been a huge inspiration. Go see Mama Drama one of my favorite posts of theirs is The Zombie Post .
3.The things that people say around me disappear so fast I wanted to capture some of these moments cause I can't remember them all. For example, my kids, I have 3, were convinced that the credit card sized metronome I have was actually a monster detector and I would scan their closets to make sure there were no monsters present.
Recently, I was working for Covad and they hired me as a product manager. I was living in California for 4 months and it was fun, but my wife decided she wanted to stay in Texas and I resigned for personal reasons. My VERY loving wife flew out to San Jose, Ca and we drove back to Texas.
This was a totally draining trip, but we did stop and have some fun, we did get to visit some friends in Phoenix and got to talk a bunch. We also saw several interesting things.
At just the point we were driving through LA, they had this massive fire in the hills near the Hollywood sign.
We kept seeing these signs all over California. (It says Speed Enforced by Aircraft)
Which caused us to wonder, how the hell do you pull over a car from a plane.
"Hey you, pull over ..."
rrrrrnnnnnnnnn!!!!! (plane goes by the car circles back 5 minutes later)
"Grab the ticket from the basket as we come by ... "
We laughed about that idea for days.
We saw wind turbines for literally half the trip:
And then I saw a very serious sign, that we didn't get a picture of, that said, turn off your air conditioner for the next 10 miles. And 2 miles later, and every 1 mile after that, these two items. (It says radiator water ->)
Of course there are tons more picture, like the highway sign that says Welfare 1 mile. Or the sign that says Lights ... that's all, it is right near the border of New Mexico and Texas on 10 and all it says is Lights. Guess NM can't afford camera and action.
Or the picture of all the cows near the border as well. Just miles of cows. Lots of pre hamburger.
But I have to say, my favorite picture of the whole bunch was:
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A cloth napkin and a mug.
Wow.
My recommendation to you is to not drink out of any of the mugs in your house again.
PS. My parents house is in Texas radiation water territory. We'd get letters from the county telling us that if we drank it we'd probably die so we'd buy bottle water. It wasn't until I was 16 that I realized that I was showering in the radiation water everday. My mom swore that if it didn't kill us it would make us stronger. Ah, moms.
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