The Lesson, As Always...

• Lifting weights is good. The zoo is good. But combining the two by carrying 70 lbs of kids at the giraffe exhibit is exhausting.
• Committing yourself to work through diligence, education, and humility brings crushing workloads and frustration.
• Committing yourself to work through diligence, education, and humility brings recognition and personal satisfaction.
• Reconciling the previous two points is a daunting endeavor, to say the least.
• Selling your house is much easier when you pick a realtor who is familiar with your segment of the market, you have put some effort into the house, and your Wifey is able to commit copious amounts of time making it sparkle for showing it to prospective buyers.
• Through either age, lack of other talent, or some other sort of doom, it's inevitable that I will be a softball pitcher (slow-pitch).
• The Office is still just about the best thing going on television.
• When holding hostages, the Naval warship is not really offering to throw you a line to help you weather high seas.
• And the flashes in the sunlight are not from men holding binoculars, but rifle scopes.
• Our latest word of the day at work: chicanery
• Just because: Turtle Man. I heart the Rebel Yell. Closing word to the wise: don't choose ponds on farms to hunt snappers, you don't want to know what rinses into them.