Jeremy Herndon Blog

Ever since I’ve lived in this house I’ve been wanting to fix up a room in the basement as a fitness room. I live too far away from a commercial gym for me to want to sign up for any kind of gym membership. I know that I would never go there. But I also know that if I had my own treadmill or elliptical machine in my basement in my own fitness room that it would get used every day.  Especially if I installed a spa tub in the room, and a television!

I am sure that I could get a really good deal on exercise machine combinations when I’m ready to buy them.  I just need to get my friends and relatives to give me a couple days of their time to help me build the room!  I’ve measured out the dimensions and am putting together a supply list now.  I can hardly wait to get it done!

I was very irritated today. I went to the self-serve gasoline station to fill up my car. I clicked on the trigger to make the pump continue to pump (it is supposed to kick off when the tank is full) and I was using the windshield washer squeegee and fluid that the station provides to clean off my windshield and headlights. The trigger didn’t kick off, it kept going and going, even though the tank was full. I noticed that there was gasoline just dripping down the side of my car. I rushed to the nozzle and turned it off manually. Boy, was I ticked off! I made the station give me a free car wash, and take $5.00 off of my charge for gas.

I admit that I really enjoy watching television.  A lot.  After a long hard day at work, I look forward to relaxing at home for a couple of hours watching my favorite shows before heading to bed.  My wife and I have been thinking about checking out the Direct TV Options and see how they compare to the cable service that we currently have.

My brother has been telling me how much he loves his Direct TV, and has been encouraging us to switch to Direct T V service as well.  He tells me that I can watch a lot more sports and movies than what I currently get with the service I have now, for about the same price as what I’m paying now.  So I guess I’ll look into it.  If I can get more channels for the same amount of money, then that is a better deal.  And I’m all about getting good deals!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you “out there” in “Blog World.”  I hope you all had a great day and drank lots of green beer, and ate lots of corned beef and cabbage.  I like the light-heartedness of St. Patrick’s Day; I don’t know anybody who disdains it at all.  I can remember as a child being sure to wear green to avoid being pinched!  I don’t know where or how the “pinching” tradition started, but there were a couple of years in my youth that I wished that tradition didn’t exist!

I think it is very interesting how the elementary school children in the public school system are taught one version of American history and that it takes a very long time for them to learn about all of the “skeletons” in the American closet!  Once they learn about all of the sordid details of the “bad” parts of the American history, it’s a miracle that they have any patriotism left at all!  I think it’s only natural for the college students to become disappointed and disillusioned with the country.

Which is really too bad, because even thought there have been a lot of bad things in the American past, the country IS growing and trying to improve!  The fact that the American President is bi-racial is proof of that growth!  I think that the American flag is going to be getting a lot more respect now that President Obama is making so many positive changes.