Amazingly simple home remedies

I saw these on a blog and automatically thought of Gary and all the good advice he gives.

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1. When choking on an ice cube, simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself.
   
2. Avoid cutting yourself slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop.
   
3. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
   
4. To treat high blood pressure: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
   
5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
   
6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.
   
7. You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and Duct Tape. ...If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. - If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
   
8. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Pinewood Madness

Ah, the sweet smell of pine. Jett recently raced his first pinewood derby car on a crazy cool track. The dude with the track seriously had way too much time on his hands and must have been a geeky engineer/scientist type. The track had light sensors that measured the time in thousandths of a second. The sensors were hooked up to his laptop and scaled the time measurements to the speed of the car if it were the size of an actual car. I was proud of Jett because he consistently exceeded 200 mph, way faster than my car. Having said that, it is a pain in the butt to build a car that doesn't lose if you procrastinate until the night before.

Jett completely chose the car design. I got all excited about building a sweet car with fins and those knife things that come out of the wheels like on Spy Hunter, but Jett wanted a car that looked like a pinewood derby car. Like the picture on the box. He drew on the side of the car exactly where I was supposed to cut. And the design was a wedge. (See below). It reminds me of my first car. Almost exactly. Except I think mine was a nice lime green with yellow stripes.


Jett did well for his first derby and placed 16th out of 37. I was just glad he wasn't 37th out of 37. This was his moment of triumph.


Although I'm sure this is how he was picturing his moment of triumph.

For Angie T

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