Dan and I have an ongoing inside joke, which I will share with you, internet.
Dan and I are both total know-it-alls. Whenever Dan is instructing me on how to do something, or revealing a Thoroughly Interesting Factoid (ie how to wash a dish, the origin of the cedar waxwing, the toxic or non-toxic qualities of a substance), he refers to the fact that he KNOWS this because he is a licensed arborist. They taught it to him during his arborist studies. While he was in arborist school. Studying arborism.
Of course, he is NOT a licensed arborist, but I think the joke originated when he was telling me something about killing or not killing a tree...I don't remember, really, but it is now a way for me to diffuse the situation when he is getting on his soapbox. We end up laughing and he usually butts out. It's a good thing, indeed.
Today started with a phone call from a real licensed arborist - a friend of a friend - asking if Dan could come help him out today. Casual Labor? Will work for money!
So, Dan is getting real-life tree-working experience today.
I'm totally screwed.
:-)
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