Tonight is the big night! Dave Ramsey hits national television on the largest cable network launch in history. Fox has launched their new Fox Business Channel today and Dave Ramsey is their Primetime personality. You can go to Dave Ramsey’s website to see if your cable provider is carrying the new channel.
Today was a historic day for Which Which and Chris Thomas. Chris became the first person to eat his way into the 51 club, eating all 51 available sandwiches they offer.
Nearly 50 of us joined Chris at the local Which Wich sandwich shop to celebrate his accomplishment. We watched as he consumed number 51, the “Wicked”. Even Which Wich’s founder Jeff Sinelli flew in from Dallas to mark this occasion.
I have to say, I am very impressed with Jeff and his Which Wich shops. Meeting him was a pleasure. Mainly because he bought lunch for all of us today, but mostly because his shop is different from the others like Subway, Quiznos, Jersey Mike’s, etc… It’s unique. I like unique. I also like free. In addition to a free meal, I also got a free shirt a few weeks back. They have certainly made a fan out of me.
Way to go Chris!
Thanks for the food and shirt Jeff!
So, I was thinking about my brother and his run-in with a bottle of turpentine and I thought about another story. My dad was a mechanic by trade and although I am not certain if that had an influence on the amount of junk we had in our shed, I like to think it contributed. There was quite a bit of things in “storage” that didn’t work, but they made great toys for boys growing up in the country. Our imaginations could make use of just about anything we could find.
My brother had a gift of taking his imagination and turning it into a dream and then making it a realistic goal. Although he didn’t just set goals, he set huge goals, unattainable goals, goals that would normally require some type of capital venture.
One day we found an old pulley in the shed. He decided he could string up a rope between two huge Oaks in the pasture behind our house and make a zip line. He was a dreamer, not a physicist. The distance between the two trees was about 50 yards and there was a small valley between them both. The height of the rope over the valley was about 15-20 feet from the ground.
After he had worked for a few hours to get the ropes tied up in the trees, I had given up on this actually working and went inside to watch TV. Then after awhile, my brother comes running inside flapping his hands, pitching the biggest fit you had ever seen. As he took off on his first run he nearly lost hold of the pulley. He reacted by reaching up and grabbing the rope so he would’nt fall to ground. Because the rope was slick and there was so much slack in the line, it caused him severe rope burn as he slid further down the rope with his bare hands.
I thought it was a great idea too. Oh well.
What was your greatest idea as a kid?
