It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time

When it comes to sandwiches, PBJ is about as good as it gets, and I'll tell you why: homogeneity.

Sure, there are a lot of flashy sandwiches out there. Clubs. Reubens. BLTs. But with all of them, it is the same story. Lots of good ingredients, lots of textures, but only a couple really good bites (if you're lucky) with all of them together. At the fringes of the sandwich, you're left with just lettuce, or a stray piece of bacon, between two slices of bread. That is not a sandwich. No sir.

PBJ is designed to get the flavor to the very crust of the bread. You control the ratios exactly. A tad less jelly? Do it! Maybe a scoche more peanut butter. Do it! You control it. None of this one-slice, two-slice crap. Precisely the right amount of peanut butter and jelly across the entire face of the sandwich.

Runners up include your salad sandwiches (tuna, chicken salad, egg salad) and grilled cheese, which deserves recognition for its attempt to spread out the cheese to the corners of the sandwich, but falls short in portion control.

In case you couldn't tell, I'm looking forward to lunch.

Come on, L.A.

Dude, L.A. What the hell? The Lakers win and you go all apeshit? Why is "victory" synonymous with "let's set a car on fire?" I know English is the second language of most of you all down there, but Jesus.

You don't see anyone else acting this way. Except Detroit. But then, who wants to be like Detroit? It was crappy BEFORE the auto bust.

And you've won FIFTEEN times. Fifteen. This is old hat to you. This should be getting old. But you decide to act like this just surprised the hell out of you. Now if the Clippers had won, you could probably justify an overturned cop car or two. But the Lakers? Who saw that coming? I'll tell you who. EVERYONE.

But what could we expect? Your hero, your role model, your MVP is a guy you wouldn't trust to be in the same room as your daughter. Larceny, vandalism and arson must be well under your morality threshold.

I hope they take away your parade. Two million dollars? Just so you can bust up some more stuff? Whatever. Hire twenty teachers.

Lightning

For the past week I've been stuck in training doing group work, so my opportunities to blog have been cut tragically short. However, here are some lighting pictures from the other night taken from our home. I'm becoming quite the weather photographer.

Both these pictures were taken from the same spot, using the same settings. I'm not quite sure why the one above is purple tinged.