ICE SOCKS

I was day dreaming today and an idea for an invention just popped into my head. Has this ever happened to you? I mean this is more of an innovation or improvement to what is out there already.

Take for example the lawn mower it started with a push mower, then someone added an engine and that was pretty good. Still you had to push the damn thing! So, someone added power to the wheels so you just followed it around and now you can even get them with seats and drive them around like a car. Well I didn't come up with any innovations for lawn mowers but if I did I think it would be , remote control lawn mowers..you know like the remote control cars and trucks all the kids get for their birthdays. I mean you could drink beer on the porch and just use a little hand control and direct your mower around the yard. It would be fun!

But I didn't think of that one today. No today I was sitting down, with the bad ankle..2 WEEKS now, and putting ice on it. Now ankles are tough to apply ice to by yourself. I mean you have to kinda do a sit up to get the ice bag in place and then when you sit back it's always sliding off or in the wrong spot so you find yourself trying to tie it in place with a scarf or something you bought at the drugstore that's supposed to make it easy. So there I was , sitting there when I noticed the basket of rags and orphaned socks was right on the floor next to my chair. I saw a particularly old, stretched out sock and the Idea was born!!

I pulled the loose fitting sock onto my bad foot and put a reusable ice bag over my ankle and then stretched the top of the sock down over the bag, It held the bag snugly and firmly against my sore ankle. I could even hobble to the fridge for a beer and it stayed in place!! The ICE SOCK will be HUGE! Bigger than the Pet Rock. I'll probably start selling my old stretched out orphaned socks here to boost traffic. Maybe I'll give them away as PRIZES for BEST COMMENTS.

Now I wish I had a remote for the lawn mower so I could cut the grass!!

It made me laugh

Go to VOOTE and Vote for your favorite Happy Bunny!!

Places where I've recently commented

How do you keep track of your comments? I use my del.icio.us and make a Link Roll using a tag called comments. It makes it easy to check the blogs I've commented on, cause I don't comment if I don't think it's worth going back...here's my latest "comments" link list:




If you don't already use del.icio.us, check it out, it's so easy to save your favorite blogs and websites and you can access your fav's from any computer.

This is NOT a paid advertisement !!

One Year Later

It has been a year since Toms' Hideaway burst on the scene and it has been both fun and frustrating. My first post announced that I had 3 broken ribs, my first comment was from Germany and since then I've heard from people around the world. I continue to work on content and hope to make Toms' an interesting and hopefully funny place to stop by while clicking through the blogosphere:

Apparently I made Blog of The Day on 5/11/2007 over at

Cool, thanks to all the BlogMad Members that have stopped by, remember don't just sit there!! Comment so I can come visit your blogs.

Other Awesome things that share my Blogs Birthday!!!

1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.

1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.

2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil.....eeeewwwww!!

Births:

1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer

1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter

1911 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian

1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader

1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor

WWE Are you Ready to Rumble...NOT!!

Your Wrestler Name Is...

Captain Grover the Giant

What's Your Wrestler Name?

Now that is a really bad name, I think if they announced Captain Grover The Giant it would be on Sesame Street before you would ever hear me introduced to the WWE ring.

Ladies and Gentlemen!!

We have a triple smackdown scheduled tonight with the MAN OF STONE, The Rock with the MAN NO ONE WANTS TO MEET The Undertaker!!!! and they will be battling CAPTAIN GROVER THE GIANT !!

I can see The Rock and The Undertaker running out the back right now.....

Now I don't want to give the impression I like Pro Wrestling. Lets get this straight...It's stupid, fake and altogether ridiculous. The reason I have it on my mind is that I saw an ad for a Pay Per View Wrestling event coming up...I just want to say you would have to be a moron to pay for a show like that. Hello...It's Fake!!!

The opinion expressed above is mine if you agree or disagree or just want to share you Wrestler Name with me just comment below:

Favorite Me and I'll Favorite You..click on my Technorati Favorite Button and leave me a comment below with your Technorati Link.....I'll be writing about some of my favorite Technorati Pages this week.

Possible Side-Effects

I don't like commercials, well I like funny ones..I Like "The Slowskies " and most beer commercials but the Vagisil commercial where the mother, the daughter and the grandmother all have found Vagisil to be this amazing product!! It leaves me thinking....What a good "clean" family,but hey maybe it's not vagisil they need but better hygiene ...I don't know. For my mothers' sake I'll move on to the other kinds of commercials that I find are wasting my mind away.

Drug commercials, they all seem so UpBeat. Now you can take a sleep medicine and "Catch Up" on your sleep, an Anti Depressant to bring your "Mood Up", something for your ADD so you can "Straighten Up" your miserable disorganized life . After you have done all those things a man can go out there and find a girlfriend and use some male enhancement drug to "Get Up." and while they certainly don't advertise steroid use..they will help you Buff Up.

The underlying problem with all these drugs is that if taken together you will probably "Throw Up" or worse. I think there is way too many of these quick fix meds going around. The only funny thing about the commercials are the possible side effects they announce at the end and the one they all seem to list is.....

Diarrhea !!....who wants that during a good nights sleep??

Well I "gotta go gotta go gotta go gotta go right now"...sure wish I had some Percocets for my ankle(-:

Back to the Polls

Back in April I asked people what they were watching and based on the results and comments LOST, was the big winner with 32% of votes, HOUSE garnered 23% of the votes and 24 took 18%. The other shows, Criminal Minds, Jericho CSI(any) and The Riches all took single digit percentages.

This month I'll include the top 3 shows from last month and 3 others that weren't on the last poll...You will only be able to vote once from your computer.



Your thoughts and comments are always welcome and strongly encouraged. In fact not commenting on this blog could be bad for your health. That's not a threat, just a warning

When You Were Young

YOUNG vs OLD

"When you were Young" a line from one of the many songs from The Killers show Sunday is still ringing in my head...I'll get to the reason in a moment..Let me say by the grace of Alcohol and Ibuprofen The Killers show was very well done. While I honestly don't know the name of the opening act, they were all from Japan and sang Beatles covers..I really enjoyed them...Now... the real news

Prior to the show we had a large family gathering...29 people....and we ate and drank and enjoyed each others company..I went outside after eating and saw the under 2o somethings playing catch with the football...Now I can do that, said my stupid inner voice...I'm only 40 something..

I grabbed another 40 something and we challenged the under 21 somethings to a game of 2 hand touch..Now the 20 somethings started with the ball but we stopped them and while I felt good about that, the warning signs should have been apparent..They were not breathing heavy and my teammate said he ate too much and felt like he might puke...But we kept at it and while I did throw an interception maybe two plays later and watched the young one score...We did manage to tie it up.

It was then that my left foot decided not to play anymore. I mean this has happened to me before while painting my hand will cramp and say "I'd rather be holding a beer!" This time it was my foot saying "Hello we're going to a concert tonight, I'm leaving"

Fortunately for me when my hand cramps up I just use the other on to paint with. Unfortunately, when my Left Foot decides to quit, bad things happen...See picture below

Needless too say while The Killers were good, My foot is killing me and then there's the line to that song playing in my head!1

"when you were young......blah blah blah blah blah"