September 15, 2026 – Was It Just Me Or Am I Just Getting Old?

September 15, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Last Friday was the 25th anniversary of 9/11. For those of us that were around, it was an extremely impactful event. I was at a class learning about Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) in Charlotte, NC. We didn’t have a phone or access to constant media and so news mostly came through the grapevine. Somebody called the office and was notified by a coworker. It wasn’t until my drive home after work that I got some talk radio input about what was actually happening.

I spoke to my wife before I left and she had heard in kind of the same fashion that I did. We met at home around typical dinner time and turned on the TV. A fellow co-worker from Oregon was working his notice and moving back home called me. His TV was already packed up and asked if he could come over and watch the news. Of course we said yes, we were a country in shock and looking for answers.

The vision I will never get out of my head was the guy that decided to jump to his death from Tower 2 rather than get burned by fire. It was the front page picture on the Charlotte Observer the next day but of course it we saw the video on the news. For some people, it was so devastating that people like Peter Jennings of ABC news took up smoking again to die from lung cancer four years later.

I will never forget that the world almost stopped. The stock market took a week long hiatus and NFL games were cancelled. Of course all flights were cancelled for three days and even my wife was dismissed from work for the remainder of the week. The roads and skies were quiet, the weather was pleasant and it was just dead still.

I of course continued my class and my business didn’t stop. But, the company owners did something that almost everyone felt. They handed out bumper stickers that said “Proud to be American”. Overnight the American flag was added to every car and displayed home. I kind of felt like if your flag wasn’t visible, you were subject to ‘stink eye’ and your patriotism was in question.

There was a lot of anger. In my circle, blue collar South Carolina, revenge was highly desired. I personally felt like there was nothing to justify killing 2000 innocent civilians but I could certainly understand the anger towards the United States for imperialism, political manipulation and pseudo subjugation. There was also a lot of complicity. People were so shocked and even unified that they were willing to give up first amendment rights in the name of empathy. They accepted creation of Homeland Security and voluntary vehicle searches at the airport.

I don’t like a lot of what happened post 9/11. I don’t like the Patriot Act, the growth of government for false security or an 18 year war of futility. But you cannot beat the feeling that we as a nation had on September 12th. We were truly indivisible as people.

The event of September ended the lives of 2977 people. It effected an unofficial count of 4000-5000 people from secondary illnesses. 7073 soldiers were killed and 50,563 wounded in the middle east conflict as a result of vengnece. 7800 military contractors were killed and 1464 allied troops lost their lives in the conflict. It is estimated that nearly one million civilians died from the warfare. Another estimate of 500,000 cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) were resulting from service. I personally know of one suicide resulting from post war PTSD but I am confident that have been many more.

What I really wanted to talk abut today was the lack of remembrance. I saw a handful of articles on my Windows newsfeed but nothing like I was expecting. I thought it was going to be all day long, but it really wasn’t. I suppose I cannot blame people for not being to relate. It is like my relationship to December 7, 1941. That was something that happened 34 years before I was born. I wasn’t there, I didn’t live through it. How can I possibly relate?

I will live the rest of my life with the image of the office worker jumping out of the window. But, I was 26. My Dad is 80 now, my in-laws both passed on. We are quickly getting to the time that we were too young to be impacted or too old to do anything about it. The deeply personal impact it once had has faded with time.

End Your Programming Routine: Yes, we have a lot of problems and many of the are self-inflicted. New York City elects a self proclaimed Islamic fundamentalist and socialist and then wants to complain that he attends the 9/11 commemoration. We keep thinking that if we vote harder, this problem will get resolved. We forget those days like September 12, 2001 when we were all proud to be American regardless of how we got there. That is the spirit of Do Things that Matter.

September 1, 2026 – One Last Sunset

September 1, 2026 /

I have written about my dog Raya from time to time. She is a Covid dog, we recieved her in the early days of the lockdown June 2019. We had already paid a deposit for her in December 2018, long before the craziness of the period were known and it was trendy to get a dog since everyone was home without anything to do. Because of that, she spent her first year pretty isolated from the world except for interaction with the family.

Little did I know that isolation made her pretty skittish. I remember the first vet trip, we handed the vet tech the leash on the sidewalk and she was drug into the clinic while we waited outside. Because of that, she was initially labelled an ‘aggresive’ dog and required a muzzle for the first three years. Time has gotten her more accustomed to strangers and my trip to the vest last week there was no mention of muzzle at all.

Speaking of trips to the veterinarian, we observed some pretty rapid change of behavior about two weeks ago. My wife took an impromptu trip to the local casino and I was sleeping. I left the bedroom door open because that is what I do when she is gone at night. About three in the morning Raya started whining. I thought that my wife had finally arrived home but when I got up, she tore downstairs and so I followed. Quickly, I got the point that she wanted to go outside. I didn’t think anyone was outside because Raya typically barks rather than trying to get confrontational. But I watched out the window just in case there was a bear or a prowler or something nefarious. I saw her immediately run to the grass to urinate.

That was odd but I didn’t think anything of it. Once does not make a trend. But two days later, we noticed that she had not ate at all. I feed her every morning but some days she didn’t eat all of her food, so again I didn’t think anything of it. We thought maybe something had gotten into her bowl, so we cleaned it. I dumped the food and started with a fresh portion. Still no interest. Another day goes by and she still hasn’t eaten.

We were in the middle of deciding to make a food brand change because of conversations with our new vet about the early death of Snow Flake. So, we decided to get new food and go ahead and make the switch. A new bag, a new brand something was definitely wrong. We couldn’t get into the new vet so we made a call to the old vet to get her checked out. My wife thought that maybe she had a urinary tract infection. Other that drinking a ton of water and not eating regular food she seemed fine.

The vet took a urine same and drew blood. We went home with the understanding that we were going to be back in town two days later to pick up any prescriptions that we needed after our scheduled dentist appointment. We got the call late the next day that this was no urinary tract infection but kidney failure, potentially cancer. There was nothing that could be done.

I want to go back to late 2023. My wife was feeling pretty cruddy and spent a whole Christmas vacation (two weeks) in bed. Raya was right there as if she knew. She would lay by the bed all day long while my wife was feeling miserable. We both suspected cancer had returned but it was the sixth sense of the dog that seemed remarkable. Raya seemed to have the ability to know that things were seriously not right. Now it seems the tables have turned and we were not really in tune with it.

I have to say that this sucks. I never expected to have a dog live forever but I certainly didn’t expect that six years was going to be her lifespan. It doubly sucks considering our previous dog Snow Flake died prematurely at about seven years due to a heart defect causing overheating. I was hoping that she would live more like ten years. I was also hoping that I would observe that she was getting older and that there was a decline causing acceptance that she had lived a full and happy life. I certainly didn’t expect that I thought she was happy one day and dying the next.

I will tell you what hurts the most. I have accepted that she is going to die soon and of course I do not like it. But that we are her everything, she still is trying to do her job. The Burmese in her is watching the flock and keeping them all together and safe as she is declining each day. We are trying to get the call out to the kids and people that might want to say their goodbyes while each day it gets harder and harder.

We will make the call to euthanize if or when we see that it is appropriate. But it begs the question of when is it appropriate? The first couple of days we were hoping for a miracle. We are quite the opposite of cruel. Today she has spent most of the day laying on the floor, but when you approach she starts wagging here tail. The picture in today’s post was from last night at the beach. She was running as if nothing was wrong.

Both my wife and I think that it is cancer. I can feel some lumps in her throat in the area that I would call lymph nodes and I haven’t ever felt. I did some quick research to find that lymphoma can occur in up to 25% of all Golden Retrievers. How ironic is that that Raya was by my wife’s side the entire lymphoma treatment in 2024 and now she will be a victim of that herself.

End Your Programming Routine: I know, dogs are very personal. People that love their dogs that often make no or even negative impression on me. So I get it if this kind of falls on deaf ears, but it is a personal tragedy for me. I thought I would never care about a dog like I cared about Snow due to her very loving personality. I will admit it took me a couple of years but now I think Raya has brought something Snow never did, a loyalty to family first. Although you are not gone yet, you will be missed.

August 24, 2026 – One Tiny Seedling…

August 24, 2026 /

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I am ‘working’ on the weekend. I have this many, hour training class that I am required to take and it is due at the end of this week. The only real time I have to do it is on the weekend. Hurray for me.

The subject of the training is Generative AI. We have all heard of AI, the acronym for Artificial Intelligence. But, what is Generative AI? The word generative is somewhat like equivalent to learning. This is a way of saying that AI evolves by learning. It is accepted that the current versions of Large Language Model (LLM) style AI systems are time and knowledge bound. This means that the data is loaded and it remains static. Generative AI is an LLM that connects to other systems like the internet to keep more current.

This will not be a post to regurgitate everything that I have learn or to educate on the nuances of AI. But I did want to take some time to discuss AI. The first thing is to look at AI in the context of other civilization changing technologies. Can you imagine a business that never adopted the telephone as a technology? Imagine if you could only communicate with the company by either mail or in person? I think we all realize that is just not a real scenario in the 2020s.

There are still some business that didn’t quite make the internet revolution. They tend to be small businesses that were established prior to the personal computer invading our lives in the 1990s. Even so, it is pretty difficult to find a person without a smart phone so while the business may not have a website or e-commerce capability, they still likely have access to the internet by some means and it is highly likely that the internet plays into things like 3rd party payroll companies.

The point of all of that is AI is here. When we hosted our Taiwanese exchange student a year or so ago, he didn’t use a browser to answer questions with the internet or lookup things, he went directly to ChatGPT. We cannot simply bury our heads and say, I will never get a telephone. Like it or not, we need to understand at some level that this has fundamental consequences.

I am getting to the age that I understand that this is going to impact my life but I can also feel that I have put in my time on the bleeding edge of technology. In my training, one of the instructors was saying that AI skills are becoming a requirement for technical people on their resume and job interviews. Companies are trying to sell this as a productivity accelerator and yet there are some fundamental flaws that I see.

On one screen I have the training session going on the other is a gothic church in Spain as the Windows background of the day. I was looking at these two diametrically opposed images and was struck by the paradox. Here I was getting ‘preached’ at with the evolve or die message while on the other screen was something that was built before electricity was “discovered” and has stood for over 800 years.

As someone that remembers spending $200 1990s dollars on graphics cards that simply did not work, I am glad that things have improved to the point that we don’t wonder if hardware is going to work anymore (within reason). I also don’t have the time to spend weeks to try and get them to work and I don’t have the patience or the desire to try anymore. This is partially why my Linux experiment has been stalled in the same place it was a year ago. At least certain areas I still have desires to learn new technology but I am very time limited.

I guess I wonder, is a technological life better? So much work in my space is simply busy work. It is considered a proper deliverable with the project but I can think of projects that were extensively documented where the knowledge is simply lost when there is a vendor or employment change. It makes me consider the value of the time spent writing manuals and how to’s that are simply lost and nobody knows that they even exist due to lack of continuity or even knowledge of the use.

My current project is modernizing a computer system that is about ten years old. That is it, the lifespan of millions of dollars spent is less than twenty years. There is no doubt that companies can collect an exponential amount of data on products and manufacturing processes compared to the 1950s. But to what end? I would argue that of the things that are really important, we are still getting significant and deadly foodborne illness without a definitive source of the problem.

A significant theme that I have observed in the last ten years is large service companies have grown into behemoths by making the assumption that one person paid in US wages can be replaced with a person making an eighth of the US salary. For insurance purposes, they can always add seven more if necessary. I am painting a broad brush but I often see one person getting replaced with four and taking three times as long to accomplish the same objectives. Of course AI is seen as the solution. Not only will it take less people to do the same job but they won’t even have to have the same fundamental hard skills as today. Think of the technological world the internet has opened up. It has fundamentally changed our access to knowledge whereas AI is going to fundamentally change our access to ability.

End Your Programming Routine: To be clear, I am not advocating for or against AI. It is here and we might as well learn the nuances because it is here to stay. What I am saying is that compared to human history and what has stood the test of time, nothing really replaces fundamental skills applied to durable materials. We do what we have to do to get by, let us consider perspective of it all. AI is probably necessary and it will change our world but it will be something else in 800 years.

August 4, 2026 – Like Wildfire, Life Will Come Again

August 4, 2026 /

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it seems like wildfire is everywhere. My son was a camp counselor that was evacuated due to the Grasshopper Complex fire last week. It was certainly out of an abundance of caution and nobody (at the camp) was in danger. For the firefighter, the resident and even the parent, it is stressful as well as a ton of work

This parallels into my last couple of months. I suspended AltF4.co because I was simply at my end with creative ability. I didn’t have the mental capacity to work and plan and move and organize. This is winding down just like the fire season eventually does. The weather will change, the rain will come and the new season will spawn new life.

To be one hundred percent honest, fire in the ecosystem is essential for health. That is directly in contrast to what we humans want in the name of order and progress. Without cleansing the old, weak, dead and invasive the landscape as we know it will never be what we currently know it to be.

For me, I had a wildfire in my life and moving has been a major structural change. It will likely take years for my landscape to get back to what it was. I am still trying to get boxes into the right place and even when I do, I find I still have to dig and sort and scratch to find what I am looking for. Nevertheless, this fire was necessary for my landscape to be healthy again.

As I look and think about my future here, I have a major project planned. That would be the conversion of a shed into a shop. This is full finish work of electrical, insulation, flooring, lighting, cabinets, etc. I am excited to get started on this because this is what motivates me. I am much more excited to build than I am to actually operate. I can’t help who I am.

Like life after a wildfire, things emerge very slowly. First come the pioneering species. They will provide the environment for the main species to grow before fire takes them out again and the cycle renews. Don’t expect that this means I am publishing five days a weeks again out of the gate, but I am starting to see that I am emerging from this moving event. This time off has given me more perspective and life experience.

August 2, 2026 – Main Street Oral History

August 2, 2026 /

This is a special edition of the podcast. We are coming to finally close on our house, selling it to new owners this week. I wanted to make sure that the history that I knew it was documented and passed on. Yes, there are some facts but it is largely about how this house was part of our lives and how we changed the house as a result. One hour is not enough time to cover over twenty years of life.

As I listened to the playback, I realized that there were a couple of mistakes or omissions. I am OK with that as this is always an imperfect effort but the gist is there. What I want to convey the most is that this was a place of life, giving and growth. I won’t lie that I got a little choked up at the end. It is the closing of a chapter, the longest place we ever lived, the place where our kids were born and grew up and left.

Once the house is no longer ours, I have no right to comment or critique the decisions that others make. I do want to say that the house was an integral part of Altf4.co; arguably the most important element. I do hope that the love we gave and vice versa goes forward for generations to come. Good luck to the new family, may you be blessed as we have.

May 19, 2026 – Suspended!

May 19, 2026 /

I realize that I came back for a week in early May and then all of a sudden went silent again. The truth is that I simply have too many things going on at the moment. Work is busy and we are in preparation to move. It is work from wake until I go to sleep. If all goes well I will have a new mailing address in a week from today.

I plan on bringing AltF4.co back when things get settled. Fair warning that may be a while. Not only do we have to unpack and get settled but I also need to finish up landlord duties. More on that some other day. Suffice to say that it is going to be a while before the dust is completely settled on this move.

I won’t promise that I will wait until everything is completely done. What I can say is that I have no time right now nor do I foresee having time in the near future. For that reason, I have decided to officially declare suspension until some undecided time in the future. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say late summer might be when my new life is under control.

A sabbatical is probably a good idea anyway because I feel like I need to refresh what I have been doing. I have had some ideas about changes that I would implement but I have been in such a rut that I actually haven’t done them. In the mean time, go ahead and read “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand. I am not sure that I will come back to a week over week post on the book.

My wife was looking up Gen Z vocabulary last night. In that spirit… See you on the flip side.

May 8, 2026 – Surprised By Joy, Conclusion

May 8, 2026 /

Part of why this is so late is that I have been dragging my feet on wrapping this book up. Trust me, I am ready to skip this all together and get started into “Fountainhead”. But, sometimes we must do what we must. I must put everything aside and give my honest opinion.

I remember reading “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” in 6th Grade Language Arts. I was a big fantasy reader as a youth at least through high school. It was part of my Dungeons and Dragons phase. I read “Lord of the Rings” as well as the “Hobbit” as well as some pretty weird stuff as well. My favorite fantasy series was actually written by Terry Brooks call “The Elfstones of Shannara”.

Narnia was definitely not my favorite fantasy series. I found it a little tame in that I wanted sword fighting and fireball spells. I don’t think I read any farther than “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” from Lewis but at least it was adjacent to the subject matter I was interested in. It was certainly better that reading Tom Sawyer again.

A large part of why I stopped reading fantasy was because I was so tired of poor writing. That includes names that you couldn’t recognize talking about events that had no context and seemingly disconnected story lines. I know that elves are not real but come on, what is with the rites of the fourteen moons of Fortuna? Maybe I am just dense.

Getting back to Narnia, it was well established that C.S. Lewis was a literature powerhouse in the 1980s. Of course when he has something to say, it might be worth trying to figure out if it was of some value. It was many, many years later that I realized Lewis was more than a fantasy writer. In fact, for me it was the fact that he was a recognized author that made me investigate his theory on religion in the first place.

OK, enough beating around the bush with Lewis related items. My take on the on the book is forthcoming. Nothing real earth shattering here, it is a biography about Lewis’s early life. I think what he was trying to portray was that it seems logical that when bad things happen to you, your outlook darkens. The surprised part of the title has to do with his dark outlook seemed to self heal.

I will try not to sound too boorish but I really didn’t enjoy the book at all. It was a gift, from my son for Christmas. I am pretty sure that he saw me reading “Mere Christianity” and then saw this. I had higher hopes about this book based on my previous reading but what I am trying to say is that I didn’t seek this out.

There were a couple of things that I found interesting even if I did not care for the book. The first was the whole culture of being a student in Britain. I went down a complete rabbit hole trying to understand what in the world Lewis was talking about when he talked about that stuff mid-book. I really had no concept how ridiculous the rigid social boundaries were in that environment.

The second thing I found interesting how many classic works of literature were referenced and how many I have actually read. I have to say that most of them I did not care for so it was no form of validation for me. I guess what I thought was the interesting part was that it seems like Lewis did enjoy reading most of those works. It could be possible I am just too dense to get it. I have also mentioned in the past when I was reading Dante that it is possible that there were so many less choices back then that whatever survived was considered a classic. It does make me do a double take on whether I am in a right frame of mind.

I said that I didn’t care for this book, but why? If you were interested in reading a biography of C.S. Lewis, then I would say this fits the bill. But, if you were looking for some epiphany moment or even something to look for or work to go from Atheist to Christian you are going to be out of luck. I would go as far as saying Lewis used his status as a Christian to sell a biography, It is good business but really sets the wrong expectations. It could also be that Lewis was badgered to tell his story and so he reluctantly did. But then what is the point?

End Your Programming Routine: Look, not all of them can be winners. I feel like I have had more losers than winners over the last couple of years. That is not all bad because discriminating taste has to be critical to be of any value and not simply like or approve everything. I still respect Lewis as an author, but I am pretty sure that I am done with him now.

May 7, 2026 – Try This Out, Rod Covers

May 7, 2026 /

A couple of years ago, I did what I always do. I waited around until the last minute to start Christmas shopping. My dad is not too hard to shop for, he is pretty predictable in that he is using the same fishing rod and reel that he had when I was born. That being said I still need to feel like I need to put out some effort. I was browsing through the fishing isles and I saw these woven rod covers. I had never seen anything like this before.

As I often do, I will go back to my childhood again. I would say that we probably took at least one fishing trip a year. Some years it was four or five and some later years none. But, I will never forget the sound of clinking willow leaf spinning lures as the poles are propped up in the boat as my dad is pulling the boat out of the water. In all those years, I will never say that I remember any rod damage but these things are inexpensive and they couldn’t hurt.

I had kind of forgotten about those rod covers until I was pricing out heavier weights for my ocean going gear and I saw the display. I remembered that I had bought some of those for my dad and that I was interested in how they worked. Now that we spend a couple of days a week at the lake house, I am routinely taking different rods back and forth. I don’t make a habit of leaving my more expensive setup at the house considering the owners still have the right to show and sell until we actually close the deal.

I don’t feel like I need a cover for every rod that I own. Really, I only want a cover for rods that I am taking back and forth. So, I got a couple of the to try out myself. One thing that I learned is to buy them on Amazon. At Sportsman’s Warehouse, one cover costs $12 whereas on Amazon I paid $7 for two. They also come as six and twelve packs (or something like that) at even more of a discount. I just didn’t want that many.

What is the criteria for success? Clearly that is the lack of broken poles and to a lesser degree scratches. They also advertise that you can leave your pole rigged up so the lack of hooks and closures snagging on anything else could be a perceived benefit. As I stated earlier, I have never had a broken pole as a result of transportation. These are items that are mostly about making you feel better about using.

When I started researching the options, I soon discovered that while the combinations seemed vast, actually there really were not that many choices besides color and package quantity. The primary choice is between casting rod or spinning rod. Then, most of them are for rods that are between 6 1/2’ and 7 1/2’. Those are common, safe choices.

When I look at my fleet of rods, I have a 4 1/2’ and a 9’ rod as well as sizes in-between. I would say that the majority of my inexpensive rods fall in the 6’ category making them too short for these cover technically. The other thing I would say is that all of my spinning rods are two pieces. I nearly always break them down for transport. The only time that I don’t is when I am being lazy.

The verdict? I think that if you have a one piece rod that fits the length criteria, this is a good idea. I do worry about the load shifting and breaking the tip off with a well placed force. But, if I had a two piece rod, I would break it down and not worry about it. The only other caveat would be if I left my two piece rod assembled all the time like when rods are stored in pole holders on a boat. That doesn’t match my scenario.

End Your Programming Routine: It’s good to try things out that are inexpensive. Since I am going to use two for sure, this really only cost me an additional $7. I won’t say that I will never use the others, I simply don’t see the value. That being said, I will keep them for some potential use in the future. I have other rods on the wish list.

May 6, 2026 – Seis de Mayo

May 6, 2026 /

If you are anything like me, you are regretting that last margarita from last night. Five AM comes awfully early and I have to hit the ground running. I am kidding, I regret nothing and I am old enough to respect my limits and take my lumps if that it what it comes to. What I am dancing about is that my wife and I went out last night to see how our new town throws down for Cinco de Mayo.

If you are truly like me, then you don’t have a lot of desire to jump into another culturally appropriated holiday like St Patrick’s Day as another example. That being said, I am all gung ho to explore my new home town even if that means I need to have multiple margaritas to do it.

Last week, I agreed to go out to a Mexican restaurant because I wanted to know if it was any good. I was actually pleasantly surprised because my expectation levels are pretty low when it comes to Mexican/American restaurants. So, when I come away thinking not too bad, it is a huge win. That doesn’t mean that I am going to crave this place but it does mean that I am not going to wish I would have stayed home and made peanut butter and jelly if we do choose to go there.

I ran across something pretty neat a few months ago. It is called the Central Coast Food Trail. Take it with a little bit of a grain of salt, I am pretty sure the list is sponsored and not necessarily awarded. Nevertheless it is a good start on getting a bead on some quality food.

As a kid, my family came to the beach for two things. The first was camping but the second was fishing. Grade school and middle schools we typically made a trip to go salmon fishing and consequently we camped the weekend. When the salmon regulations were changed so that there was not a concentrated couple of weeks in late August, we stopped coming to the coast.

On my mom’s side of the family they were fairly smitten with the coast. So much so that several of them had beach houses. They were never fisherman and from the 1990s onward my trips to the coast were almost strictly leisure. They involved going out to eat and shopping. I am aware of some good restaurants in the area but I have a pretty limited experience level with what it offered.

I actually got to the point that I would prefer to stay home as to go to the coast. Many times my wife would spend the weekend with her friends and I would stay home with the kids. I have nothing personal against the coast, it was more a function having no desire to live a life of consumerism. I start to get board going too long into stores that I like, a whole day is dreadful.

I wrote the above to say that connecting with my future community in that way is revolutionary. It is a completely different way to see this area. It is not simply a collection of restaurants that primarily service the weekenders and the spring breaker families but people that are growing and harvesting with the same amount of passion that anyone, anywhere would exhibit.

It is not just restaurants either. I learned that there is actually a culinary teaching center here in our town. I don’t know much about it at this point but I am definitely going to look into it. That sounds like a good date night idea.

I think that it goes without saying but that the ocean translates into seafood. There are opportunities to get salmon, rock fish, halibut, Dungeonous crab, bay shrimp, clams and oysters. Depending of the season, there is also tuna out there. You just have to go way out. Seafood is great, but it definitely needs to be paired with other items. Finding out about local produce and seasonal fair is critical for top notch meals at home.

End Your Programing Routine: I am getting to the age that I don’t need an excuse to drink or eat enchiladas. I like to go to bed at 9:30 after I have made and eaten my enchiladas. That being said, it is kind of fun to open the doors to someplace I have seen my whole life but never stepped inside. While I don’t really want to spend my time frequenting these places but I would like to be somewhat of an authority of my new home town. Last night I sucked up my preferences and hit the town with my wife. You just have to do that sometimes, even if the reason is flimsy.