"Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year
find you a better man."



- Benjamin Franklin

from the blog i can read

remodelling

A note to my contractors:

Please get along and get your hussle on so that I can go home.
I cannot take it for much longer. My mother that is.

fisheye

I think,


that if we all got a little perspective,


we could be a lot happier.

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now

you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do

 than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

 Explore. Dream. Discover."

SRQ

Siesta Key's sand is so white

because it's 99% quartz.

Siesta Key (Cresent Beach) was number 2 on

Dr. Beach's 2010 Top Ten Beaches list

http://www.drbeach.org/top10beaches.htm

Ringling Causeway

next purchase? telephoto lens.

I was somewhat dismayed to see this blocking the view.

This is the draw bridge

and underneath are the memoirs of Sarasota kids.

brilliant

Personally, I have a Blackberry
that I've re-named Blueberry.
Not because I'm obnoxiously clever 
but because I don't like the way blackberries taste.

gizmodo.com

Scammers

Once again I'm trying to sell something on craigslist and I'm getting spammers errrday

• smithjustin523@gmail.com
• kayclef2019@gmail.com 
• kayclef2000@googlemail.com 
• naturalearth9200@gmail.com
• janeysanders1701@yahoo.com
• captbrendawhite@mail.com
• jmsgriilll04@gmail.com

janeysanders1701@yahoo.com  asked me to sign up on bidzplace.com/?id=bhqt  so that she could complete the transaction on there and then pick it up in person. This was under the pretense that she did not trust people on craigslist - which logically makes no sense if you're meeting in person anyway.

solid 1940's advice

boingboing.net

might come in handy

Thank you Evil Beet for plastering this specimen across my reader on this fine morning: