Vloggerated: I QUIT pt. 1

Okay so I'm quitting smoking and to make sure I'm not a liar, to myself or anyone else, I'm making videos about it.  Anyway, here's a video.  Enjoy.

Vloggerated: June 15th

Hey you guys!  I made a great new video which you are just gonna love!

Okay, well hopefully you will at least like it...a little bit?

Okay just watch the video.

Collecting Pop Can Tabs

For the past couple months, the wife and I have been saving our pop can tabs, because, well, that's what you do, isn't it?  I remember someone saving their can tabs, maybe Bethany's dad or something?  I don't know, but I knew that it was something that was easy to do and it would benefit someone somehow.  I never really thought about what exactly would happen to those tabs after saving them for a while.

I heard there was something to do with dialysis machines?  Like, they use the tabs to make something for dialysis machines or something?  It was never really clear to me, but just save your tabs, son.  Someone is collecting them to bring to the place where they do dialysis.  Just save them, and give them to people that are collecting them.  Not hard instructions.  

Alright, so a coworker of mine has a collection that is in a constant ongoing thing.  I just pull my tab off and put it a cup, no harm no foul.  But I started thinking about what we do with those tabs at home?  We do nothing with them, so might as well save a used up jar of spaghetti sauce, rinse it out and save our tabs, too.  After all, it's the right thing to do, right?  

So our collection is getting nice and big, about half a jar.  Pretty good for the two of us.  Well I knew that my coworker guy takes them to McDonald's to donate to the Ronald McDonald house.  I thought to myself, there has to be a better place to donate my tabs than to McDonalds.  I looked up where to bring my pull tabs, and that's when I found some sort of shocking information. 

No one collects can tabs for anything other than selling them for scrap. 

 I didn't really think about it before.  I never questioned it.  I just did it, because it really wasn't hard to do.  Apparently, the rumor was that you can donate your tabs to a place that does dialysis, sort of a trade, for a free go on the machine.  I didn't know that was the rumor, but apparently that's what the deal was.  The National Kidney Foundation or whatever has vehemently denied that you can, or ever could do this.  I'm telling you, one quick Google search turns up a whole shitload of results of this myth.  Some even calling it an urban legend.  I can't believe I didn't know this.  

If you do donate tabs to places that you think will accept them, like McDonald's, most of the time they just take them and sell them for scrap and donate the small amount of funds to the Ronald McDonald charity, but it's such a small amount of value, you're way better of just putting your spare change in that little box at the counter when you place your order.  So my collection is just going to get dumped into the aluminum recycling thing when I bring the recycling next time.  Because my collection is nearly worthless.  I guess I could bring them into a McDonald's, but I don't want to look like an idiot that's never heard of this myth, which was actually the truth up until about 8 hours ago.  

Anyway, that's all.  Don't bother pulling off those tabs.  Even that small amount of effort isn't worth anything but a couple bucks.  I think I read somewhere that it would take filling an entire van with tabs to make a hundred bucks.  So yeah, don't bother.  

A New Adventure!

I came here today to tell you good folks that I've started a new blog.  It's called Safety Squeeze, and it's totally dedicated to baseball.  Now, I don't really expect many people to read it, because well, it really won't be all that interesting to most of you guys, but I felt like it would make me happy to write about baseball, so I went ahead and did it.

I love baseball, and I wanted to talk about it, even if I'm only talking to myself.  That's why I created it.  You can find it HERE.

Now, this doesn't mean this space is going away.  I've paid good money for the domain name, and I'm not about to let that go to waste.  No, I promise to continue to write on Bloggerated as much as I feel is necessary, which isn't quite daily, but more likely weekly, or twice a week, like I've been doing.

So does a dad who has a kid who just learned how to crawl going to find time to update TWO blogs?  I don't know.  I hope so, blogging makes me happy.  In the mean time, have a great day, and feel free to check out the other blog if you're interested.  I'll be back very soon with a real update, here on Bloggerated.

Have a sweet day, dudes and dudettes! 

iPhone Won't Connect to 4G? I Have Your Answer

I have an iPhone 4S, and I recently encountered a problem where it wouldn't connect to the AT&T 4G network here in Nashville. It worked fine on WiFi, but it wouldn't load any data over the network. When it happened to my wife a week or so later, I realized that I may not be alone with this problem.  So I figured I'd post something so that if anyone else has this problem, they'll be able to find an answer on the internet, something I failed to find when I searched for answers.

The Solution?  Turn it off and turn it back on again.  Works like a dream.  Simple as that.  In fact, that's a great thing to do for any weird thing your iPhone may be doing.  With no real on/off switch on the iPhone, it's probably on for long stretches of time.  Turning it off and on every once in a while is a good idea to keep the thing running good. 

So I hope you found you're answer to why your iPhone isn't working right. 

 Have a great day!  

The Second Bowl of Cereal Always Sucks

I like cereal.  I mean, don't we all like cold cereal at least a little bit?  I like to think so.  Anyway, I like cereal so much, sometimes I want to have a second bowl of cereal.  And you know what?  It sucks every time.

I eat the one bowl and it's tasty, but then I'm like, "you know, I should have gotten a bigger bowl."  Now I'm done, but I'm not finished, if you know what I mean.  So I'm like, okay, I'll just get another bowl of cereal, and it's all super crunchy and dry.  I don't remember the last bowl I just had being this crunchy and dry like this one.

Your cereal gets gradually soggy in the first bowl, but you don't really notice as it happens.  When you get that second bowl, it just seems so much more crunchy than the first bowl ever was.   Like, there is no way that first bowl was this crunchy at first, is there?  But yes, it was, but you just didn't realize.  I mean, it came from the same box, right?

So what I'm trying to say is, I don't believe that it is the same crunchiness.  I believe there is something or someone going into that box of cereal and fortifying your cereal's wall structure, making it more sturdy, and crunchy.  That's why I never buy fortified cereals.  They're just crunchier than regular cereals.

No, that's a terrible joke.  Forget that part.

Anyway, all I'm trying to say is the second bowl of cereal is always terrible, or at the very least, not nearly as good as the initial bowl was, and at best, it's just kinda tearing up the roof of your mouth.  But that first bowl wasn't doing that. So the lesson here is to get one big ass bowl of cereal, and don't go for seconds.

Vloggerated: Evie Crawls!

Alright!  I made this video very early this morning, and I'm dragging ass now because of it.  Well anyway, it's totally worth it because this is actually a pretty good one.  I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, and sorry for the ridiculous ads that are accompanying the video.  I'm just trying to get paid, y'all.