My brother, Shane, upon return from cashing his $25 birthday check, has proclaimed that he knows the perfect and easiest way to rob a bank; so listen carefully. He prefaces his plan by saying, "If I weren’t such a good person, I’d do this myself." He precedes to tell me that the only thing one needs to do to rob a bank is...

Step 1: Wait till nightfall. (This should help avoid any undesirable onlookers.)

Step 2: Climb to the roof of the bank and cut a whole directly above the vault.

Step 3: Gently let yourself down the whole you’ve created in the roof.

Step 4: Use inferred lights to knock out all the cameras. In Shane’s own words, "Like they did in that movie Inside Man." (This entire step seems a bit useless given the fact you are already inside the vault, but whatever.)

Step 5: Gather all the money and make your quick escape.

Sidenotes: Make sure you wear rubber gloves, as not to leave fingerprints, and wear boots that are too big for you. That way, if the police come knocking on your door looking for a robber, you can be automatically ruled out as a suspect. "Officer, clearly I’m not the robber. I wear a size 10, not 10 1/2, silly."

Me, being now very intrigued, but a bit skeptic had to ask...

Me: Shane, what happens when the alarm is set off as you enter the vault."

Shane: Oh well, you’ll have to hack into the banks computer system and disengage the alarm.

Me: Oh. Well that all sounds easy enough.

Banks around the globe should be thanking their lucky stars, that my brother is such a good person.

If you should ever find yourself in the land of New Jersey, I highly suggest visiting Grounds for Sculpture. Kristen and I took the trip up to Hamilton to visit it today and boy golly was it fun! We took so many pictures, that I thought I was going to regurgitate. So enjoy!

These two didn't like us much.

Monsieur et Mademoiselle Bondir.

Gentlemen Callers.

jlk