Sarasota meter-maids are citation happy. I just ran downtown to grab a slice of pizza on my lunch break. I was about to pull out of my spot when I noticed a small yellow envelope under my windshield wiper. It was a citation for an expired license tag. Examine the citation and see if you can find just how outdated it was. Yikes. Well, add $25.00 to my lunch bill.

I highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers.  In the book Gladwell takes a closer look at what makes someone a “success”.  After reading this book you will never again buy into the idea of an “overnight success”.  I highly recommend it. You really can’t get a feel for Outliers from a series of quotes, but here are just a few things that jumped out at me:

• “We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”
• “Practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.”
• “They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.”
• “Historically, plane crashes have been far more likely to happen when the captain is in the flying seat.”
  
• “Planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn’t going to be afraid to speak up.”

This morning, Kristin and I were really feeling like waffles. We have church on Saturday night so we stay pretty low-key on Sunday mornings. Kristin tried to make waffles at home but it didn’t work out so well. We were missing some ingredients and the substitutes made for a badder that Kristin described as Jelly-ey…Not generally a descriptor of tasty waffles.  So what’d we do? We got dressed and headed to Waffle House.