One like, two be cool

25 Things That I Like & Are Cool

25. Hitting cruise control when I get on the Crosstown Expressway and not having to keep stopping and restarting it due to traffic-ly challenged idiot drivers.

24. Soft slacks.

23. Brown. I think of it as the new gray.

22. Bread and melted cheese fondue at Olive Garden

21. Seeing an alligator while fishing.

20. Using small Post-It notes as chapter dividers in a manual and getting them to line up perfectly. Both in spacing and in height. Ooooh... IMPRESSIVE!

19. Lightly salted cashew nuts dumped by the handful into good vanilla ice cream.

18. Seeing the dogs eyes light up when you offer her the "ice cream bones". [The "bones" is the ice cream soup left in the bottom of the bowl when you are finished.]

17. Seeing the dogs delight when she discovers the two cashews you left in with the ice cream bones.

16. Enjoying Grey's Anatomy more than you really have any right to.

15. That point. Not when you decide that you're not going to do something that you don't like or don't want to, but the point when you realize that this time you mean it.

14. Dropping a crank bait beside the structure but in front of the bank, and doing so without putting it in the low hanging tree branches.

13. Casting where you think the fish are and varying your retrieve.

12. Chatting with your neighbor about nothing in particular and realizing that over an hour has passed. Life should be just that easy.

11. Having a beer somewhere, pulling out $5 and hoping it is enough to pay for it, then finding out that it's enough to buy two. [Thanks, Ker's Winghouse!]

Hmmm... seems I lost track right about here. Not sure exactly what happened... other than math......

15. Good, strong, black coffee on a misty morning alone with your thoughts and the early songbirds.

14. A nice, reversable belt.

13. Meeting a friend's brother from Kentucky for the first time and noticing that he's carrying a fifth of Woodford Reserve bourbon to share.

12. Telling a story just right.

11. The promise a dirt road always makes that it might go someplace special.

10. A manual transmission and a heavy foot

9. Knowing that even when you used to be something else, you were never someone else

8. A pretty girl flashing you a smile

7. A whole pack of bacon on a home made pizza

6. Using a Starbucks cup over and over so people think you can actually afford $5 a cup coffee.

5. A really dirty inside joke. (Heh heh heh... I wouldn't use that brush on my teeth.)

4. The way raindrops look hitting your windshield with Rain-X on it.

3. The way raindrops look at night, falling through the halo of a streetlight and back into the darkness

2. Quiet ducks

1. Any old CD (tape, record) you had forgotten was this damn good.

Sordid and sublime, out

Ramblin' Ed