I’m smack dab in the middle of reading the New York Times bestseller The Four Hour Work Week and its inspired me to work on all of the different ideas I have so I can (eventually)eliminate the BS in my life. One of the things I’m going to do is start to run with an idea I’ve had for years to improve tale gating tables for use at football games. It’s pretty stinken’ cool — I’ll keep you updated.

The other idea I’ve had is to sell a health supplement called spirulina. I’m looking for manufacturers who can produce it and sell it for me — that way all I need to do is process the orders. And with the information I’ve been learning from the Four-Hour Work Week I can outsource that processing to someone else so I just collect the sales checks. It is a rather ambitious plan, I know, but you can’t walk on water if you don’t get out of the boat, right?

I used a microwave for the first time in about 7 months yesterday. I’ve never much cared for how things taste when they come out of one of those things and I’ll gladly wait a few minutes more to get things pipping hot of the oven (or toaster oven).

This has lead to an interesting set of questions for me: How long could the average person go without having a microwave? What are other ammenities that we’ve come to rely on that make our life easier? For the easy life, my most helpful tool (besides the fridge) is the washing machine. I like to have clean clothes and I like the fact I can drop them in and come back. I don’t imagine they could do that in colonial times, huh?