Life Lessons...

While I've only been on this planet a little less than a quarter-century, oxygen's been coursin' these vessels long enough for me to have learned a few things. So I decided that every once in a while I'll drop some wisdom gained through experience, with wildly varying degrees of usefulness. Here's a lesson I recently learned. When making a little chicken alfredo for dinner, and you've almost completed the meal having just combined the chicken, pasta, alfredo, veggies and the like, and you're just about to add some pesto and crushed red pepper... make sure that the cap is properly fastened on the crushed red pepper. I tried fishing out a good chunk of the pepper flakes, but at a certain point you just have to grin and bear it. Make no mistake, I appreciate spicy foods as much as the next white guy, but this was a bit much. Lesson learned.