We decided to take a trip to the beach this afternoon and found the place pretty much deserted. Besides the usual assortment of humping horseshoe crabs, we also found a cache of fiddler crabs buried just below the waterline, which the dog had a blast with.

There was an incredibly crass commercial on last night for a welding school in Jacksonville. Taking consumer stupidity to its natural extreme, the commercial opened with "Our welding school is a lot like this other welding school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Well, graduates from that school have a 99% employment rate!" The rest of the commercial was one crazy comparison after another, and it ended by saying, "Nationwide, there is a demand for 900 more welders than our school had graduates last year. Think how many job opportunities this means for you!"