"Locked In"

When I was a kid, almost every year my parents would take us down to South Texas to see family. When we stopped at gas stations on the way, we'd gear up with snacks and stuff and I remember the first time I saw it. In the candy aisle, there were these little plastic coffins that had these little chalky tart fruit candies that were shaped like bones. They were all part of a puzzle, which turned out to be a skeleton in the end. After putting the skeleton together, you could move the limbs around freely; playing with it before you ate it.

That changed my entire outlook on candy and the possibilities of what it could be. Novelty candy, that's my bag dude! Those little pieces are not unlike the ones in the drawing above. I could just feel them in my hands, piecing them together trying to figure them out. That's what the drawing above reminds me of. Rather than travel down memory lane; go check out this site here and you'll see what I mean.

Here we are in the first full week of the new year -- I give you the okay to start working toward your resolutions. Jon jumped on his ahead of time and he seems to already reaping the rewards from it (he's not rubbing it in, it's just the first time he's actually stuck with one.) My new year resolution is devoted to this site and reading more of your blogs.

On today's BBB, we're posting all of the best articles

by Jon Mark from the previous week in case you'd like to catch up.

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