What I Learned This Week - 6/21/13

1.  There is a fad among teenagers in Japan called, “worming” – the act of licking someone’s eyeball.  Yes, LICKING someone’s EYEBALL. Aside from being really gross it is causing a rise in severe eye infections.
2. Adding the suffix “zilla” to any word makes it awesome. It’s especially entertaining when companies in the sanitary waste disposal industry use it in their product names. It’s more entertaining when your kids figure it out.
3. I am now Dadzilla.
4. A robust mustache is an effective way to keep cottonwood fluff out of your mouth while running/biking  - functional and manly.
5. My oldest daughter has woman hands. I have no idea when this happened.
6. I am envious of those people who exude that bubbly joy  - All. The. Time. 
7. After following the amazing Coach Julie and her team of Love, Sweat and Gears attempting to break the women’s team record of 7 days in the RAAM (Race Across AMerica) - a race that covers 3,000 miles, crosses 12 states and has a vertical ascent of over 170,000 feet (30% longer than the Tour De France in a third the time),  I’ve added being part of that race to my bucket list. So now I’m looking for a team for 2020…..any takers? Yes, I could be a support van driver.
8. After years of being a shower hog, I’ve taken the opposite approach.  Instead of standing in the shower for over 15 minutes, I now do military showers seeing how little water I can use and still get clean and complete all the required tasks – including shaving. I’m down to under a minute of actual water use. I figure some fire fighters could use it.
9. Just once in my life I'd like to witness someone slip on a banana peel.
10. I’m not the only person that says, ”what?” to a questions/statement – then a millisecond later finish that person’s thought as they are repeating it.
11. You are not considered a joker if you can relate everything to Batman.
12. It figures the day I’m scheduled for a field observation meeting and I cancel that meeting, a tornado lands on the spot where I would have been at that moment.  Some call it God’s watchful hand. As a weather geek and weather chaser wannabe, I call it, “getting gypped”.
13. 900 people stuck in a concrete garage waiting for a tornado to pass generate more heat and odor than should be allowed.
14. Joggers bounce up and down at stop lights, runners just stand there looking pissed.
15. If you are on the treadmill next to me and bump up your speed to match mine, we are now racing. 
16. No, I have no idea how so many miller moths get into my 7th floor office with no operable windows this time of year.
17. I have become a Google Earth KML junkie. I blame the fires and geeks elsewhere giving me powerful tools of cut-n-paste.
18. The trick to fix a scratch in lighter stained wooden furniture by rubbing the fleshy part of a walnut on the scratch – actually works.  Walnut hacking, who knew?