Neckties

Neckties are a small thing. They are worn by I would guess less than 5% of men on a given day. I wear a tie maybe twice a year. They're pure decoration, they don't keep you warm, they don't cover anything you don't want other people to see, all they really do is constrict blood flow to and from your head. So really a tie is only functionally useful if your aim is to be lightheaded. Otherwise it's a decorative piece that most people don't really care about. That said, Melissa and I went to Macy's yesterday to get a couple of things and we were looking for a shirt and tie for me for some fancy dinner we're going to later and we had a fight about the color and style of tie that I should have. I must ask, what is the world were we thinking? How in God's holy name did we both end up caring so much about a strip of cloth that we actually got mad at each other because we disagreed about how it should look? We realized our stupidity relatively quickly, but really what were we thinking?

In other news: We're inheriting my great grandmother Griffin's silverware, they're stamped 1917 and belonged to my dad's mom's mom, they're solid silver, which is really really pretty. We got a nice mahogany box for them and spent several hours last night polishing the set. They look nice now, silver is cool.