The knife I’ve had for quite a few years know and have been extremely happy with; aside from it being dull recently, was a Smith & Wesson Special Ops (something lol). The blade is 3.875″ (3 7/8″), tanto tip, plain edge and black coated. Fantastic knife, has been treated well and treated me well for many years of camping and every day use. Most, if not all of you who have seen me in the last 7+ years have seen me use it, I loved that knife.

Why you may ask do I need a new knife if the one I have works fantastically? Work only allows blade lengths up to 3″ and unfortunately 3 7/8″ is greater than 3″. =p There are of course, two or three solutions to this problem, the most obvious being to leave my knife at home when I go to work and only carry it when I’m not there. Next being to just stop carrying a knife at all. One big problem exists with both of these scenarios … I won’t have a knife on me at work for every day things (opening boxes, packages, food containers, etc.). So! Only one solution exists; buy another knife! =D I’ve held and used a few Benchmade knives in my life and from everything I’ve seen they make an awesome product, so it’s off to their website to find something under 3″.

Ended up buying a Benchmade 858 Mini-Barrage, sweet looking little knife. 2.91″ blade, mini-drop point, plain edge and unfortunately no black coating. Yes, I could have had the black if I purchased a combo edge (front half plain, back half serrated) however I have never been a fan of combo edges. My blade got here today and I had to force myself to put it down so I would come on here and write this. Hoping I’m going to be as happy with this blade, or happier, than I was with my last one. Lastly, have a sexy big picture of the 585 Mini-Barrage and possibly my next knife, the 580 Barrage.

Found this online today; it was awesome, and pretty accurate so figured I would post it here for everyone to look at and hopefully understand.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like
this.

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20.” Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.

So the first four men were unaffected.

They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men? The
paying customers?

How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair
share?’

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that
from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end
up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill
by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each
should pay.

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings)
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to
drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare
their savings.

“I only got a dollar out of the $20,”declared the sixth man.

He pointed to the tenth man,” but he got $10!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a Dollar, too.
It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!”

“That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I
got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down
and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they
discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of
them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, this is how
our tax system works.

The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax
reduction.

Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show
up anymore.

In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
friendlier.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

Why do songs always remind me of people? $5 to whoever can tell me the name of the person this song reminds me of right now. (:

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If this is nothing
If this is everything there is, inside this moment
I would not as for more than this
To dream by what i see through
to make believe i need you
and if tomorrow comes too soon
we will not speak of it today

chorus:
somewhere stars are falling
so close your eyes and make a wish
and when time forgets us
i will sill remember
this

if there is someplace
if there is anyplace to go, beyond perfection
i can’t pretend i want to know
how we could leave ourselves behind
how it could feel to say goodbye
when it’s enough to be here now
to sit with you and watch the sky

(chorus)

to dream by what i see though
to make believe i need you
and if tomorrow comes too soon
we will not speak of it today

(chorus)

Natasha’s Ghost – This

Though airplanes and airports, not so much. I had the pleasure of attending my cousin Caryn’s wedding this last weekend; it was fantastic! Everyone did an amazing job putting it together and I’m glad I was off work and could attend. Thinking that the next wedding I attend with either be mine or I’m going to have to learn to be a preacher because sitting in the audience at every wedding couldn’t be nearly as fun as standing up where everyone is looking at you. (: This is the third wedding I’ve been to, that I can remember, and put together between all three of them I’ve finally had a piece of wedding cake. =D It would be the strangest piece of cake ever created if you were to put all of the pieces and bites together haha.

The flight out to Colorado from El Paso, TX was mostly uneventful; aside from my “driver’s license extension” not being a valid form of ID in Phoenix, AZ. On the way back, I think they were about to give me pilot’s wings because I spent nearly the entire day on an airplane. First the flight from Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT … wasn’t so bad of a flight but it was late by a couple hours. After taxiing all the way to the runway they changed our flight plan to add another ~500 miles because of the weather; what’s awesome about that? we didn’t have the fuel to make the flight now, so it’s back to the gate for more fuel. Took an hour to get back to the gate and refueled. ><

Landing in Salt Lake City, UT two hours late caused me to miss the flight from Salt Lake City to El Paso. No big deal, I'll catch the next one ... not quite. There are no more flights to El Paso that day. ): End up on a flight to Dallas/Fort Worth after sitting in Salt Lake City for a hour and a half. Sweet! I love seeing more of Texas (lol ><). From Dallas/Fort Worth at least I have a flight to El Paso; but there's more waiting, and changing gates three times, and the plane going out of service ... so finally the plane leaves at 10:45 pm or so and we land in El Paso at 11:45. I'm almost home! 8 hours after I should have been. Oh, and at every airport I went to, besides El Paso, to get from one terminal to the other (each flight was a separate airline) I had to go through security. Must be pretty good at emptying my pockets and taking off my belt by now .

Had to edit this to add, I think my favourite part of the wedding ... besides the fact that it was a wedding between my cousin and her new husband =p has to have been the slide show. Guess I should have told the person that made it while I was there .....