January 23, 2006
PUTTIN' IT ON, BACKWARDS
I've put t-shirts on backwards, jackets on inside-out, shoes on the wrong feet, and underwear on inside out-ass-backwards, but it took me 40-years, 4 months, and 4 days to do this:
If it's not abundantly clear--the above picture, that is--earlier this morning I put toothpaste on the bottom side of the head of my toothbrush, and didn't notice until the toothbrush itself was less than an inch from my mouth. I swear, while some days aren't even worth getting out of bed for (kidding), today's not one of them.
I happen to be one of the rare few that actually likes Mondays. From a business perspective, my brain never shuts off, and the weekends are no exception. Take this past weekend for example... while it was the GF's birthday Saturday, she'd probably be aghast to hear that in between the celebrating, I had no less than three new business ideas pop into my head, which means come Monday morning (that's today for those of you not following along), I get to hop online and do some investigating--in between other stuff, of course, like looking for a full-time job.
Other things I'm excited about this Monday morning:
Granola: Yes, I said Granola. A few weekends ago I was flipping channels and landed on a Food Network episode of 'Recipe For Success.' Has anyone watched this show? If not, here's a quick overview. In each episode, host Eric McLendon profiles people who swallowed their fears to undertake a somewhat risky food-related career makeover. The show tracks budding businesses from the ground up, starting with the idea all the way up to opening day. Well, the episode I watched was all about two 20-somethings from Connecticut who launched their own line of granola called Bear Naked. I was so intrigued by the product that I went out and bought some. Two weeks later and I've already munched my way thru four bags of Bear Naked's Banana Nut Granola (I power-mix the stuff in with my morning and afternoon meal replacement shakes--YUMMY). Anyway, Bear Naked is pretty expensive stuff. One 12 oz. bag costs $4.50 at Wild Oats, which is an expensive habit to feed. So this past weekend, instead of buying more Bear Naked Granola, I picked up some Raspberry Granola from Wild Oats' bulk section, which was on sale for $2.59 lb. In a few minutes, after wrapping up this post, I'm going to try some in my morning shake, and that's why I'm excited about Granola on a Monday morning.
Josh Bernstein's Digging For The Truth: Some readers may remember my previous posts about a friend / former colleague who landed his own television show on The History Channel (click here and here for a couple of those entries). Well, Josh is back for a second season (and why not... according to the cable channel's own executives, the first season of Digging For The Truth was the highest-rated original series in the history of The History Channel). The second season of Josh's show debuts tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern / 8:00 p.m. central, which prompted a friend and fellow blogger--Luke, who also knows Josh from our days together back in Boulder--to send the following picture, which he took himself during a morning train ride into work in downtown Chicago:
That's a cartoon'ish image of Josh tied to a poll on the left side of the photo, right next to an advertisement pumping Dr. Phil's latest book. Suffice to say, another reason to look forward to Mondays... the GF and I get to see a former friend and colleague strutting his historical acumen on cable television. Congratulations, Josh. Keep up the good work!
Happy Monday, everyone!
Posted by Mikal at January 23, 2006 8:55 AM
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This may sound slightly rude and nosey, but I was just curious how much money (roughly) Josh Bernstein makes in a year/season with his show? I realize he does much more than this, but after watching his show a few weeks ago, I became interested in that sort of line of work. I am only a senior in high school and I seem to love watching the history channel lately (I'm a wannabe geek--haha)and after I read about how he went to Cornell, I slipped into a brief dream world in which I would have loved to do something similar. Anyhow, I was just wondering how much income one would receive doing Josh's job, given that they are as prominent and successful as he is--?
