buried treasure!

Ever notice how some of the coolest things are hidden in some of the last places you'd think to look? This mostly happens with my Weezer CD's. I'll burn a disc or two, put them somewhere safe so they won't get scratched (like the cabinet in my bathroom) and eventually lose track of them. Whenever I want to listen to these discs, I'll go on a warpath to find them. I'll tear through every drawer, jewel case, or CD jacket I own until I give up and just burn the CD all over again. Then, one special day I'll be searching for aftershave or a decent towel and I'll stumble upon these CD's. A thought will briefly run through my mind; "Next time I burn a CD, I'll make damn sure I remember where I put 'em". The cycle then repeats itself.

Most recently, this has happened to my car keys. I remember coming home from class Monday night with a handful of things; my phone, gloves, a hat, a scarf, and my Garmin. My keys were also somewhere in that cluttered mess as well, and I remember throwing all of this stuff onto the kitchen table. I had THOUGHT I left my keys on the table as I normally do, though I am known to pile everything together in my room near my phone charger. Well, Monday gives way to Tuesday and my keys are GONE. I chalk it up to me being a jerkoff and that night, I kick up a search party consisting of my mom, Reese and I to track them down. I'm sitting here on a Thursday afternoon still missing my keys. I seriously must have either dumped them in the trash inadvertently, or stashed them away good. The biggest loss on this deal is that I've got two cases of Sam Adams "Lagers of Winter" outside just waiting to be drank... and my bottle opener is my keychain!

I told you these two stories to tell you this one. For a few weeks now, I have been secretly admiring Rollo's blog and Joe's myspace page because they've got facebook badges on them. For the longest time I had wished facebook would come up with something like this, to help others network. The trouble is, they created it and I must have missed the boat. After weeks of frustratingly searching facebook, its' help section and various forums around the web I just gave up. It wasn't until today that I stumbled upon how to create this "badge". I was looking at my profile at about the time one of my groomsman wrote on my wall. It was then I noticed that somehow my profile got all goofed up! Somehow, my "Wall" section had jumped up a few bars moving my "LOL Cats" to the very bottom of the page. I fixed it, but there at the bottom of the page lied my answer! Right where I never, ever look was a link titled "Create a Profile Badge". And the rest, as you can see to the right of this paragraph, is history. I can't believe the "wild goose chase" of a treasure hunt this turned out to be. Good thing I've got a "Pirate Crock" persona. Yarrr!