The eventful evening was winding down on a warm New Year’s Day. Dwayne and I finally fixed Amy’s computer and were ready to just chill. It was getting late so he was going to head home soon, which takes over an hour to reach.

We had a delicious pizza dinner while fixing her computer and all the problems had been solved by buying a stick of RAM from Corsair. This dumb computer would not work unless it had specific memory running in it. Our quick trip to the Fry’s across town was a risk pending the outcome of the memory we bought. We were fortunate in our little venture and so our evening was about over.

Suddenly, during the bowl game, we saw a commercial with people serving black eyed peas for their meal.

“Oh crap, we haven’t had our black eyed peas today,” I said.

“There’s no way I’m going through this next year without eating black eyed peas,” Dwayne exclaimed. “Last year was crappy enough and I didn’t eat any last New Years.”

Still full from the 8 inches of pizza we each had, we made a quick run to the grocery store to purchase a can to bring back and eat. Surprisingly, there were only about four cans on the shelf after taking a moment to search.

Eagerly, we drove back to the house, warmed the beans in the microwave, and toasted our wishes for the new year. His toast was to be graduated by the year’s end. My toast was to get a job.

That was the best bowl of beans I’d ever eaten… pending the wish comes true soon.

This new year has already brought a nice little eye candy. Supposedly, there’s a server in this eBay auction, but I can’t find one.