faulker009

Every year there are certain events cemented in my calendar. My fantasy basketball draft. My fantasy football draft. My fantasy baseball draft. My annual physical exam. Fortunately, all four of those events have brought very positive results in the past. But not every year. Like the year I drafted Darko Milicic over Carmelo Anthony. Or the year I passed on some guy named Jerry Rice.  Or the year that I released Roy Halladay.  Or the year that my blood test came back with a high ferritin count. When the doctor told me my ferritin level had exceeded the limit, I thought she was making a joke about the little weaselly house pet. Oh.  Ferritin.  Not ferret.  My bad. Biology was not my strong suit, either time I took it. When the doctor starts reading off the results to your blood test and there’s no punch line at the end, you listen loud and clear. Ferritin is the protein in the human body that stores iron and apparently I was storing too much. She had me go to a lo...

This year my wife decided that she wanted a Weedwacker from Costco as her Mother’s Day present. And who am I to argue. Any dummy can get that done and I definitely qualify. So I made the trip over to the grown up version of Disneyland. I immediately put something in my shopping cart, as I always do, and headed back to the free samples. Note to you Costco rookies:  As long as you have something in your cart, it doesn’t look like you are just there for the free food. Of course, the eleven empty wrappers inside my cart, next to the package of 72 rolls of toilet paper may have told a different story. Hey, can you blame me? Within minutes, I hit all of the food groups -- taquitos, egg rolls, chicken cutlets, cheese and crackers, sourdough bread and coconut pie. It’s the best meal plan since college.  Buy an annual $100 membership and eat a free meal everyday. Just make sure you wear a different mask every time so the vendors don’t recognize you. Anywhoo... Once the snackin was done...