You may be in a redneck town...

What a wild couple of weeks it has been. The world lost Ed, Farrah, Michael and even Billy Mays. I always muted Billy but it is still sad news.

I had a great couple of weeks traveling through Arizona going to some places most people don’t go. I used up a lot of pencil lead the last couple weeks and I saw some interesting things on my travels. I spent most the time the last two weeks driving and working on my own. As I was cruising down a country road listening to country music, I felt as though I was becoming what my good friend Jeff Foxworthy would describe as a “redneck”.

As I began to question my own neck color, I thought am I a redneck? I realized that I am just a white collar man in a redneck town. So I thought, how do you know if you are in a redneck town?

- If you only get three genres on the radio, country, religious, and Spanish, you may be in a redneck town.

- If the restaurant you’re in has more animal heads on the wall, then patrons in chairs, you may be in a redneck town.

- If you are wearing a tie, and everyone else is wearing a cowboy hat, you may be in a redneck town.

- If you see a guy with a cell phone on one side of his belt, and a revolver on the other side, you may be in a redneck town.

- If the people you see have belt buckles bigger than your dinner plate, you may be in a redneck town.

- If you see young children going to the store riding on an ATV, you may be in a redneck town.

- If the town folk think they hit it big time because a Wal-Mart opened up, you may be in a redneck town.

- If you are the only one not driving a pickup truck, you may be in a redneck town.

- If there are more feed stores, than grocery stores, you may be in a redneck town.

I have nothing against redneck folks. I think they are great. It’s just when you walk into a restaurant and everyone stops eating and looks at your because you come in all dressed up, it makes a guy feel uncomfortable.

Starting out

So I am blogging. I don't even know what "Blog" means. Maybe it is something like "tweeting", I really don't know. I don't know what "tweet" means either. I just figured my story is so inspiring, it needs to be told. I know I can speak to the masses of people who read blogs. (I assume there are some and that is why people blog.)

I figure by keeping a blog, it will be easier for me to write my biography a few years down the line. Which WILL be a best seller because I am going to meet up with Oprah and then I am gold. I mean Oprah is pretty cool, think about, she picked a president.

I have to blog, I travel all over…well at least in the great state of Arizona. I see some of the greatest places no one ever sees. I have been to places most people who lived in Arizona their whole life don’t know about. Places that are half a mile from the center of nowhere.

Also, this way I can combine my two favorite school subjects: math and English. (I don’t even know if I am suppose to capitalize English?? Should have listened to Mr. Nolte, who is not the brother of Nick) I figure I couldn’t really make anything out my other favorite class, PE. Funny how PE teachers take their job so seriously but I don’t see how playing badminton really helps. Perhaps if we learned golf, I could use that, I have golfed for work related things. The boss never says, “Hey Jeff, how about we go hit the shuttlecock around this weekend?” If he did, I would rock though, thanks to Dublin High PE. Go Gaels! That's right, I said Gaels. (Don't laugh...our school could kick your schools *&#)

So I am not a professional athlete, I am an accountant. I count things. People think accountants are boring, I am going to change that by blogging the inside life of an accountant. In fact, I am more than an accountant, I am an auditor. (NO I DON’T WORK FOR THE IRS). Even better, I am a CPA. Most people think all CPA’s do taxes but we don’t. CPA’s are like doctors, we have specialties. So when you meet a CPA, don’t think they do taxes, just like when you meet a doctor, you don’t know if the doctor is a brain surgeon or a foot doctor. You really don’t want to mix those up.

So this is my first blog. I don't know what will become of this. I hope I can post pictures, I am for sure going to use pictures in my biography. I mean a picture is worth 1,000 words, so the more pictures, the more I can charge for my book. It would be worth much more words.

So if you want, pay close attention to the life and times of Jeff.