This was taken last July in San Diego. Scott’s family had a mini family reunion around the fourth. This is the view we had from our table at dinner. Pretty cool! Made me realize how much I enjoyed the ocean growing up on the east coast. Thank you to Larry for recommending this restaurant. All in all it was pretty special- good food, good company and good views.
An ostrich’s brain is smaller than it’s eye.
It was a nice surprise.
Here’s a brief comparison of three generations:
music:
baby boomers: the British invasion, punk rock
gen-Xers: grunge and hip-hop
millennials: Emo, American Idol
movies:
baby boomers: Easy Rider, The Graduate
gen-Xers: Ferris Bueller’s Day off and Clerks
millennials: The Matrix and American Pie
TV:
baby boomers: All in the Family and SNL
gen-Xers: Simpsons and the Real World
millennials: South Park, Survivor
historic moment:
baby boomers: JFK assassination, Watergate
gen-Xers: Challenger explosion and fall of Berlin wall
millennials: Lewinsky scandal, 9/11
for fun:
baby boomers: foosball and 8-track tapes
gen-Xers: Pac-Man and MTV
millennials: MySpace and iPods
Thursday night after taking care of his mother’s pets, Scott notices that one of our tires (drivers side front) appears flat. So we head to a gas station to pump it up with air. We make it home and on Friday morning I get up early to check the tire pressure again. Sure enough, the tire is going flat again. So, I drive to the nearest gas station and pump up the tire again. It is obvious that the tire needs to be fixed so I go home, rearrange my doctor appointments, and Scott and I head down to Discount Tire to have the flat fixed. Keep in mind that approximately 2 months ago we had to buy four brand new tires because with a Subaru it is detrimental to the All Wheel Drive to only replace one.
We get to the store and the clerk tells us it will be 1.5 hours before the tire is fixed. That’s to get it fixed. Not replaced but plugged. Stunned as we were, we politely said ok, handed over the keys and walked to Jack in the Box to pass the time. Close to 2.5 hours later we have not heard from Discount Tire so we head back to the store. We arrive in time to see them pull our car from the bay and park it. It took almost 2.5 hours to plug a tire? What the hell!!!
So we go on our way and think things are great until Scott notices that both valve caps on the driver side tires are now missing. Gone. He asks: “Did you put the caps back on this morning?” Indignantly I reply, “of course.” I then relay how I KNOW I put the caps back on because I had to fish one out of the wheel well. Not only are the nice silver ones that came with the car gone, but they had the gall to put a crummy black cheap one on one of the tires. Like we wouldn’t notice.
How do people think it is remotely an ok thing to do to take something that does not belong to you? Maybe I am overly sensitive seeing as my car was stolen from me last September. It just seems to be a sad statement on life when a persons valve caps are not safe at the tire store.
It is actually very easy to calculate how close a thunderstorm is. Basically, for every 5 seconds between the sight of lightening and the sound of thunder, the storm is one mile away.* So for example, if you count 30 seconds between lightening and the sound of thunder, the storm is 6 miles away.
*Info obtained from the June 8-10 edition of USA Weekend, in the Weather Quiz.
Many of you may think it is Seattle, and with 150 days per year of precipitation it definitely ranks up there. But it is not the wettest. The top wettest large city in the U.S. is actually Syracuse, NY. This city gets 174 days of precipitation a year.
Or if you are measuring by how much (not how often) then the award goes to Mobile, AL and New Orleans, as both cities receive well over 60 inches of precipitation a year.
*Information obtain from the Weather Quiz from USA Weekend June 8-10 edition.
I subscribe to RealSimple magazine (thanks, Scott!) and I find lots of useful information in every edition. In the July 2007 magazine, I found mention of a website you could go to create a searchable catalog of you books as well as chat with other who read the same things you like to read. I checked it out and it looks pretty cool, kind of a flickr for books. Thought I’d pass it along.
Good news! Crickets are not a nuisance after all. Apparently, you can figure out how hot it is by counting cricket chirps.* First, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds then add 40. The end number is the temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) at ground level. Air temp influences crickets, so the hotter it is, the more chirping you will hear.
*Information provided in the USA Weekend June8-10 edition, Weather Quiz
Per Stu Ostro, senior meteorologist for the Weather Channel, Arizona beats out Florida as the sunniest state* when you compare the total amount of sunshine possible in a year with the actual amount received. He states that Florida gets 60 to 70% on average while Arizona gets 80-90% of possible sunshine.
*This information was given in the Weather Quiz found in the June 8-10 USA Weekend publication.
