A few years back my backyard flooded and so I had to bring in heavy equipment and dig this big drain

and add up this drain rock and I had to regraid my whole backyard but it was cool

because I got to use an excavator and a skid steer and I'm working on that with my headphones on one day and Edge of Glory by Lady

Gaga comes on while I'm in there working in my excavator and it's just so

catchy and there's so much power in that excavator and I already

had all the markings done before I dig so I could do whatever I wanted in the backyard and I was

like you know what it's time I'm gonna go over here with this machine right now and I'm going to dig the trout pond that I drew in Miss Macmahan's third grade class when she had a straw our ideal dream home that we would want to have as an adult and I drew one with the trout pond in the backyard and I'm going to have that right now and I took the first shovel worth of dirt out and I was like yes I am on the edge of glory and then I dug more and I was like I'm on the edge here of glory and I dug this whole

giant thing and I was like that it's this is perfect except it would be double

perfect if it were twice as big and so then I dug even more and now I had a

gigantic trout pond in my backyard

with no plan whatsoever for how you run a trout pond or how you line it because I

literally only thought of doing this just right then on the spot.

So over the next few weeks, there was a lot of work that went into learning about pond liners,

and ultimately I discovered that if I had stopped at the first hole, I would have been fine because there were pond liners that are made for that hole that you can just order as a normal person.

But because I dug the second half of the pond, I now had to make a gigantic seam that would make it so that two of these

pond liners would cover the one chuk of pond and so I bought all that stuff and I put the seam in there and I put the sticky texture stuff on it and I filled it up with water and I was like that ought to work and I just watched it drain before my eyes. I was not even close. Oh man, so then I pay for all this other stuff and I get the like, what do you call it? The stuff they advertise on TV where the guy takes the black slime and he puts it over a screen door and then he can use it as a boat because it seals everything up.

I bought that stuff and I painted over all of it and I filled it back up with water and now it drained super fast except there were little chunks of black

go up floating all over the place that I had to go through and pick out by hand.

And this pond turned out to be a metaphor that is equal to chasing your problems and creating more problems that

could only be equaled by that old lady who swallowed the fly song. It was comical

how much money and time I squandered on this thing before eventually I

did figure it out and made for a really cool beautiful pond in my backyard and

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