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Just a quick off-topic note.  I have yet to drive through Delaware in my many trips up and down Interstate 95 over the pass few years without sitting in gridlock in this god-forsaken state.  Last night I hit 40 minutes of bumper to bumper madness at 9:30pm.

Oh and they just raised the tolls.

First state, worse state.  Here’s a link to a blog that shares my sentiments and offers a potential way to circumnavigate the hell that is driving through Delaware.

Ok, so obviously this blog doesn’t pay the bills and since I haven’t figured out how to get drafted by the Dolphins or market myself as a popstar, I have a real job. Right now I’m collecting data on identity theft. I setup a quick survey on Survey Monkeys. Fill it out if you have a moment. It would be greatly appreciated and seriously it takes less than three minutes.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RBqq6g6E67kkb3_2f4dsLcyA_3d_3d

So that kind of sucked. We fed him water shots for the rest of the night (on the bartender’s recommendation), a classic move that was made much more comical when he grimaced at the taste of each successive shot, but I’m thinking I still got the brown end of the stick on the evening.

In search of late night munchies after a recent wedding at the Jersey Shore, some collegues and I decided to actively seek out what I now believe to be the nastiest and most unedible fast food in existence - White Castle.

Now I grew up eating - and loving this crap but after nine drunks gorged themselves in my hotel room last weekend, I can now induce vomiting simply by picturing my comforter covered in sauteed onion bits and suspiciously grey hamburger pellets. A heroic effort it was, but at the end of the day we had barely put a dent in the 3 briefcase style Crave Case 30 packs we brought back.

In the words of Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, “don’t take my word for it.” You decide which pic is the real White Castle burger.

So while drinking at the Eastport-a-Rockin festival in Annapolis and checking out a super funky band, The Big Hurt, I came across some good peops with an interesting approach to saving the world.

The Adopt an Oyster program is a plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by increasing the oyster population. Oysters, I was told, act as a natural filtration system and actually clean the water in which they live (so basically the Chesapeake needs an infinite supply). It was actually pretty cool, one of the people at Oyster King 1, had a bunch of oysters in glass jugs that he has filling up in bay and within a few hours the oysters had changed the water from brown to Brita-like.

You can help by adopting an “Oyster Hotel” which is a cage that floats in the nutrient-rich top water and protects the “spat” (baby oysters) from predators. You just need waterfront property around the Chesapeake Bay and $500 (neither of which I have). You get a $500 tax credit if you participate though so go on out and be good family.