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One particularly dark morning about a year ago I had the idea of making an alarm clock with a plug outlet on it. The thinking was that you would plug your bedside lamp into the outlet and when your alarm clock goes off, your lamp turns on*. This concept is based simply on the fact that it’s just harder to wake up when your room is completely dark.

Since this idea is relatively simple, I actually looked into what it would take to get a patent on it. Turns out it’s a little bit of work and kind of costly. However, there currently isn’t a patent out there for this idea if anyone feels like running with it. I’ve decided to make my fortune in other areas.

However, I still had the problem of not wanting to wake up to a dark room. To alleviate this I recently took an extra electrical timer used for Christmas lights I had lying around and plugged my lamp into it. I set the timer to turn on at 6am and go off at 8am. It actually has made waking up a little easier.

I just wanted to share that.

*Note: In the event you wanted to use your lamp without turning the alarm on, there would also be a button on the alarm clock labeled “lamp”. When pressed the lamp would come on.

As part of being an active young man I often find myself being invited to various events and social happenings such as get togethers/parties/cook outs/boat outings/game nights/canoe and/or camping trips/football games/weddings/baby showers/housewarmings/christenings/ bar mitzvahs/etc. In most cases, being invited to any, if not all, of these things requires the use of a cooler.

While I’m not saying my cooler is the best cooler around by any means; it still ranks pretty high on the cool cooler list, even though it is sans wheels.

I learned a little over a year ago after leaving a cooler at my friend Mandy’s house, that there is a possibility that you may never see it again. Especially if it doesn’t have your name on it.

Yesterday as I was cleaning out my storage closet I decided I needed to put my name on my cooler. However, since I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to the look of having your name written on your cooler in sharpie, I thought it might be a good idea to use some leftover stencils I had lying around.

It might have been a little bit of overkill. No?

I wanted to post this Friday, but I never actually got around to making it.

Per Kati’s comments to my previous post; “My mom wants to know if you can photoshop her into a picture with Robert DeNiro”.

Done and done.

I was inspired to make this wallpaper from watching shark week on the Discovery Channel and a line from the movie, 50 first dates that Norwood used to always say.

If you haven’t seen the movie, the main thing you’re missing is that Rob Schnider’s character believed that sharks only bite, when you touch their private parts.

I hope this isn’t just something that’s funny to me.

Technical Note: To make this image your wallpaper on your desktop, open the image and click the right mouse button. Select the option “Set as Background”. Enjoy.