Inspiration

I set this blog up after a few beers a few years ago and I never made it clear why I thought this was a good thing to do. Maybe it was the beer, maybe it was the realization that a natural tendency towards inspiring boredom in others when I speak was my motivation.  Maybe it was this.  Super job, Dave.  I will continue to watch and learn.

Airport Parking

Few things in my life have been more satisfying than besting the airport economy lot parking shuttle bus. I've figured out a way to spend the least amount of time on the bus. My airport has two economy lots: the red lot and the blue lot. Each lot has a bus that loops through its lot picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. The red lot and the blue lot are right next to each other with no fence in between. This is the key to the whole scheme. If one catches the red bus at red shelter 12 one can get off the blue bus at blue shelter A and spend the least amount of time riding the shuttle bus. This is because red shelter 12 is the last stop the red bus makes prior to going to the airport and blue shelter A is the first stop the blue bus makes when it arrives from the airport. This idea really works because it is possible to park a short distance from both of these shelters.

Roof Moss

I had a history professor once who would not talk about anything that was unrelated to European history before starting the lecture for the day. The only extra word he would at the beginning of class was, "O.K.". In that spirit, let's begin what I consider to be my life's mission: boring you to tears.

Moss is a big problem where I live. Those home owners like me who have trees which shade their north-facing roofs have to treat their roofs with chemicals at least once a year to control the moss that tends to grow there. This year, I have chosen to treat the roof twice. I sprayed it last Spring. It's Fall now. So, today the kids and I went over to Home Depot and bought this great moss killer that comes in a bottle you can connect to a hose. It automatically mixes the chemical with the water as you spray. The Home Depot has figured out to place someone at the entrance who knows where things are, and I asked this person where the moss killer was. I followed the man's directions, picked up the moss killer, and used the self-checkout stand. Mercifully, I was able to get out of there in about ten minutes.

I got home with the moss killer and got up on the roof with the hose attached to the bottle. I sprayed for quite a while but the level of the chemical in the bottle did not drop! The sprayer did not work! Luckily, I had an old bottle from my Spring roof treatment session. I poured the newly-purchased moss killer into the old bottle, attached the sprayer and sprayed the roof in just a few miuntes. I'm sure glad I kept that old bottle.