Jeremy Herndon

I’ve seen pictures of the Smart car on the Internet, and on television, but not “for real” until today.  I was waiting to pull out of a parking lot and a large tractor trailer passed me by, followed by a Smart car.  What a huge difference in size that was!  It was a cute little thing, a bright red, but it brought back memories of many years ago when I saw the results of a little car being in an accident with a tractor trailer and it made me shudder.  I don’t know how safe I would feel in such a little car!

Tonight a group of my friends got together to eat dinner at our local Applebee’s restaurant.  That’s one of our favorite places to eat, the food is always good and it is always reasonably priced.  The only thing that we don’t like about it is that it has a “smoking” section.  We always ask for a seat in the “non-smoking” section but we still smell the cigarette smoke, which is just plain and simple nauseating to smell.  Never mind the health consequences of smoking and second-hand smoke, it just plain and simply smells nasty!  We were surprised that last night they allowed smoking; there are times when I’ve gone there and it was all non-smoking.  Maybe that’s only on Sundays.  Next time we think we want to go there, I’m going to call them and ask them when they have smoke-free dining.

I decided that I need a new video camera; my old one is worn out.  So it just so happens that a new flyer came in the mail from the local electronics store with several cameras featured on sale this week.  One deal I saw was that if you buy a new video camera, they throw in a new 8 pixel digital camera.  I thought it was probably too good to be true, but I decided to go check it out anyway.  I shopped around the store for a while, looking at the different models and prices.  Each time it brought me back to the same one where the video camera was a good camera, and they throw in the digital camera.  And it was the best deal of the day!  So I bought it and brought it home.  The video camera is easy to use - I tried it out immediately and it works great!  I assume the digital camera will work just as well too!

Last night Paula, my girlfriend, came and sat down beside me on the couch. I was watching my 46″ Samsung TV that I recently bought. I was watching CSI Miami. My girlfriend put her head on my shoulder and she said, “Boy has it been a long day and I’m tired. And I just don’t have anything to wear to work tomorrow.” I casually said “That’s too bad and got to thinking immediately “she doesn’t even like this show and here she is putting her head on my shoulder and I think she mentioned something about money - oh no, maybe it was about clothes. She needs money for clothes.”

Just as I was thinking that she asked me if she could borrow enough money to buy a couple of sets of clothes. Well, I don’t have a lot of money, and I’m thinking that the money I’m going to be giving her for clothes I could be putting in the bank for my new car. But I love so, so I gave her enough money to buy two new sets of clothes. She seems to appreciate everything I do for her, so I feel it was money well spent.

I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how high-end high alcohol beers and becoming more popular. These beers are sometimes being brewed by smaller, less well known breweries than the mainstream breweries, and are intended to compete with wine rather than the “average” run of the mill beer. These beers often have more than twice the alcohol content than “regular” beer. One of these beers was developed by the makers of Samuel Adams Beer and has been named “Utopia” beer and sells for $140 per 24 ounce bottle. The article was talking about how these beers are “richer” and because of that people would not WANT to drink more, they would drink less.
Most of the people that I know would rather drink MORE beer, not less! I can’t imagine going to a barbecue picnic and only drinking one beer, it would not seem like a party to limit oneself to only one! After that one beer is gone and you’re thirsty again, then what would you drink? I guess this is the kind of beer one would order at a restaurant where you are only going to be there a short time.