Hey Freddie- Good to see you are still out there (and on the tubes ;)). It seems as you got to your 'vacation' spot as your cell phone is 'out of range'. I am sure that was the first to go!

Just wanted to give a shout out and hope things are well. By the way... I have a property than needs... ah never mind!

Take it easy man... Tyler

I think you need to snatch you up some hot mountain woman and move back to JC and have kids and eat El Rancho once a week, and all would be well!

Coming from a life of junk drawers and places to hide them, crap is what at some point defines the happiness that life and death so defines in us. Without all our crap in the perverbial junk drawers then how would the Corpgypsy come to find what he saw was missing from his junk drawer. Life is funny in the way it teaches the hardest lessons with the simplist of examples. It is almost as simple as being a old leather chair. Every one loves an old leather chair, but no one misses that old leather chair when you constantly have a new one. Funny thing though, no chair is ever as good as the old leather chair. So I say good for you corpgypsy, sit down in that old leather chair for a while and let life happen bro:)

My grandpa likes to say the "Work to live" phrase - he also likes to say "If God intended people to work at night he would have made us with headlights."

I have always had a problem with the term "finding myself." Myself is a very elastic and constantly changing thing. I honestly don't believe there is a pot of gold, so to speak, that i might find someday that will leave me completely content, comfortable or satisfied.

I don't think I would want to find that pot of gold necessarily. I think people should be changing and adapting, and more importantly growing no matter what. I can't remember who it was but they said to me "You've changed." and I just thought hell yeah, that is the point isn't it? Who wants to be the same idiot 19 year old?

Anyways, welcome back to the internets!

LOL - that's really funny.

Good point..I guess ideally we would avoid dumping the entire junk drawer in a box labeled "junk drawer" when moving and then dumping that box into a new junk drawer in the new place without sorting its contents. Seems like junk drawers have a few useful items worth holding on to, but the rest is pretty much crap.

So if I function like a junk drawer, that means I'm mostly full of crap. Maybe that junk drawer isn't such a good place to look for things after all.

Though my "physical" junk drawer is still fairly new...I still think that that may resemble past junk drawers. Know what I mean? A past junk drawer can be just as dangerous as the last place, and time, you once had. Hard to move forward from that.

Hooray, you're back on the internets! Now I should probably do the same...

I'm not sure I'm constantly finding myself--at least not my whole self. It's more like bits and pieces here and there where I'm not quite sure how they all fit together. Maybe they're not even supposed to fit together--maybe I just function like more like a junk drawer than a cohesive unit.

Maybe if we all open up our actual physical junk drawers we'll find what we're looking for...it's pretty easy to apply metaphors to junk drawer stuff, right? Almost as easy as to apply all the different types of glue that are in the junk drawer.

Clearly I haven't lost my knack for typing complete nonsense :)

Oh, how sweet you are. Thanks! I LOVED it. Izzy enjoyed it, too!

"Immortalized by BEAKER" indeed.

Well that was great Fred.

I like Coldplay more than I probably should.

Anyways - thanks!

Where does Kool-Aid originate?

I have always wanted to go to Seattle. Now you make me cry myself to sleep because i can't.

Probably the same reason why there are so many bars per population capita in states like Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Montana.

I figured I'd mention that I especially like your idea of the weather trade off:

"350 days of clouds, you need a good cup of coffee."

That's a good point - It kinda makes you wonder what other weather related stimuli inspired not-specifically-related innovations, doesn't it?

I'm thinking (as you may have guessed) sun-inspired "big sunglasses" which I totally hate. Actually, that's not much of an innovation...

Or maybe a better example along those lines would be Russian vodka (where the cold inspired one of Earth's best hard liquors, IMO.)

In fact, apparently crappy weather leads to excellent and important drinks. Interesting...

Miss you too Dave-O! Hope a post in your honor hasn't made you a bit red in the face from embarrassment!

As far as other crab cuisines... well, you can't go wrong with plain ole' steam crabs (but do NOT eat the gill), or soft shell crab (when you can eat the gill), the ever so lusted for - crabcake, or that of a seafood pizza with with crab sauce. Mmmm....

that pretzel sounds fantastic.

Awww, Fred, it was absolutely, absolutely a fantastic weekend - even if we didn't eat multiple crab pretzels I would've still enjoyed the hell out of it. Thanks man.

The eastern half of the U.S. if much worse off without you - I miss ya buddy! :)

- Dave

Oh man...I want a Crab Pretzel!

Yes, that was not the turkey we ate - but it was still a fun picture - don't you think?

The problem with Balanced Rock, is location, location, location. There isn't very much signage on the major freeway... not to mention is so far away from a major freeway, nor does the state market it as a tourist attractions well... Idaho is more concerned with the good skiing, fishing, and quality of life to move there. It would probably also help if the rock itself was made from a different mineral, like ore, sandstone, etc. Being that it is basically a big cinder standing tall, isn't very attractive to the eye, the arches not only provide a unique look as far as shape, but the arches there have been carved away by wind, not gravity. To compare it to the Arches Nat'l Park is bad too, because at Arches, you can see a lot of different arches - Balanced rock only gives a one view showing - similar to a large Jackrabbit, or the biggest ball of twine. Though I guess you could market the nixon silhouette in the canyon wall on the way to it.

I guarantee the turkey shown was not the one on the table of my family. Very good picture of the canyon, just wish there would have been a turn around to show how close the farm land is to that Canyon. Any marketing ideas to get more people to view Balanced Rock---it really is an unusual site in it's own rite, much like the Arches in Utah. Mom

How can a town that produced Hall & Oates be anything but friendly and super sexy?

But, I guess this is to be expected, the only thing I know about Philadelphia is the movie where Tom Hanks dies from AIDS.