Well I wrote a blog the other day about the ship stuck in the Suez Canal.  With that thing stuck, it was threatening to raise prices on so many goods.  My wife got concerned when she heard the price of coffee my in fact go up as a result of the stuck boat.  I think if my wife had to endure a day without coffee, she herself could’ve moved that thing and opened up the canal.  Well, anyway by late Monday afternoon we got word, they were able to pivot that thing around enough that the ship made it the rest of the way through the canal and ship traffic is back to normal.  I’m just wondering why it took so long to dislodge this thing, and I sure do hope it was some guy from the hills and hollers of some small town in rural Appalachia that out “thunk” all those other brains that was staring at this thing saying I’m not sure how to fix this.  This guy comes riding up in his truck, pops the top on a cold one and says “ok boys, I need a little rope, a few extra boats, and another six pack, ’cause it’s going to be a long night”.  By morning he had it turned around and truckin’ on down the canal.  Now that’s how I hoped it played out in my mind.  Did it, probably not, but hey, here’s to a little country ingenuity and a but of imagination.

Fletch