I got to thinking while I was driving around to a few subs this morning. I stopped at Starbucks (yes I know, corporate machine, evil empire, blah, blah, blah) and got myself a cup of joe and began to ponder what would happen if there was a world ban on caffeine that would made it's use illegal. Surely the world economy would melt down. Think about it; it would cause Starbucks and any other coffee franchise to go under and would make the stock market crash. Productivity would cease to a halt all over the globe. No tea, caffeinated soda, coffee, not even decaf...not to mention chocolate could be used. So many people would go through withdrawal and have terrible headaches, the hospitals would be flooded. The Latin America, African and South American and other small tropical countries that produce coffee beans would cease to halt. China's tea production would slow dramatically. Forget about the world being dependant on oil, it's coffee that's really running the show! Of course, there would never be a shortage of coffee since it's a plant that you can grow, but what about all the environmental changes going on, surely it will end up affecting coffee production sooner or later! Forget about your sci-fi novel, Buck, you need to write a book about this!
Anyway, our lawn is screwed. This lack of rain and the merciless sun over the past few weeks has turned our lawn to a nice golden yellow. Our neighbors water their grass so it is nice and green; I say it's fine because it is Packer season and green and gold go well together. But now that fall's coming it will get greener again.
Last night Amber and I were spraying hornets coming out from under our siding with this sweet hornet killer that literally kills them on contact. I shoot at them flying through the air and they drop out of the sky like nobody's business. I saw that we had two nests on the very top corners of our roof so I got out the old hose, put it on "super jet" setting and let loose. I whacked the first nest and like 40 hornets came flying out, I got scared thinking they were going to attack me but luckily since I was the guy with the hose they avoid the water. I couldn't quite knock the nest down so I think I'll wait until the winter to do that and then slip and fall to my death.
I've been reading a lot of books lately, too many at one time. I need to read for my sci-fi book club, the text book for my PE class, The Screwtape Letters, not to mention the Bible and now our new book for book group starting in Sept. I should get some books on CD and listen to them in my car. Make the most out of my time. How did I become such a big reader? I have no idea.
I got totally rocked by an electric fence this weekend when I was visiting my cousin and aunt and uncle that live on a farm. I was talking to Amber on the phone and went to go pet the goats and leaned over the fence and felt my heart stop. It was like 10,000 volts jolting my body. It didn't really hurt, but just really shocked and surprised me. I felt a heaviness in my chest after that. Whew, that woke me up!
I just finished cleaning the Wurlitzer and began putting it back together last night. The keys don't stick at all anymore and the sound is so warm and incredible I literally melt when I play it. Tonight I hope to put the legs on and clean the outside. I still need a sustain pedal for it and then it will be complete!
My cousin gave me his 120GB external hard drive filled to the brim with mp3s to borrow. I'm totally gonna copy a bunch over and fill up my iTunes with some great stuff. Anything you can imagine is on it! I will have a field day with this.
Amber and I are heading out to North Carolina next Tuesday for our 3rd Anniversary trip. I can't believe it's already three years! We have this sweet hotel room in Wilmington and the room is actually two stories with a spiral staircase and the upper level is all windows and overlooks the city! Awesome! We'll also be visiting family in Charlotte and friends in Asheville. Should be a great time. I gotta make some NC Mixes this weekend. I really want to try some sweet tea and see what the big fuss is.
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4 comments:
If your prophecy rings true and the world's coffee bean supply runs dry, I guess we could learn from your hilarious blunder by having everyone just grabbing hold of an electric fence before heading into work in the morning.
At the risk of having every southerner adding me to their "Dead" list, I'm going to tell you that Sweet Tea is not worth all the fuss. I think this risk is safe to make, since the number of southerners who read your blog is probably very small, and they live very far away. Sweet Tea sucks. It's water, loaded with sugar, and maybe a drop of tea. It's like tea flavored kool-ade, except it doesn't really taste like tea.
Hey Zeke, I'm about to be un-gainfully unemployeed. How about hiring me to rid you of those pesky hornet nests? I can shoot water and then run away with the best of them!! ;)
I would have paid 15 dollars to see you get rocked by that electric fence.
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