7/25/23

Are you familiar with this Napolean Hill quote?

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."

Well, if you are moronically talented as I am, then sometimes even if you remain silent you still come off looking like a monkey humping a football. 

Actions were indeed louder than words. 
I wouldn't be surprised if my guardian angel filed a restraining order against me. 

I am so dumb sometimes.

I was smoking some meat the other day: a tri-tip steak and a pork tenderloin.

The tri-tip was done first.

The tenderloin needed another hour or so.

Everybody was hungry so we just started eating the steak. 

It was great. 

Everybody was full and then we went about our business. 

Fast forward 15 hours later as I am driving home from dropping Kyle off at cross-country practice early that morning when I realize that I never took the tenderloin off the smoker. 

Nor did I ever turn off the smoker.

The smoker has been running for about 18 hours.

That can't be good I thought to myself right after calling myself an idiot in that special, sweet self-talk that one can really only give themselves after they mess up. 

I get home, rush to the backyard and I am not sure what to expect. 

Did the smoker burn itself out? 

Did something catch on fire? 

What is the meat going to look like? 

I don't see any smoke so that sets my mind at ease as I am heading to the smoker.

Then I see an error message on the smoker's dashboard indicating that it ran out of pellets so it turned itself off. 

Thank the fat bassets.

Then I wonder what happened to that poor pork.

I had visions of the tenderloin resembling Magda from "There's Something About Mary." 

But after being on the grill for almost a full day, it didn't look as awful as I thought.
I didn't eat it but I did cut it open for blogging purposes. 

And, upon further review, I have seen baseball gloves in better shape.

It was definitely drier than a popcorn fart.

That is all I know today.

Thanks for reading and stopping by.

I will talk to you tomorrow.

I will persevere.

I will keep moving forward.

I will be the stream.