What I Learned This Week - 6/7/13

1.  Every weekday morning and afternoon, I greet the security guard at my office with something similar to, “How’s it going <his name>?” He ALWAYS  greets me with, “Hey Buddy”, even though he has called my phone and knows my name  – I always feel five.
2. I do not understand the importance of continuation ceremonies other than the context of revenue generators for photographers and flower shops.
3. Huggies has revealed a concept device and accompanying iPhone app that clips onto the diaper in the region where natural springs are expected to flow and sends parents/people  a message when a rescue operation is called for. They are calling it the “TweetPee”. When I’m old enough to need diapers again, I’m making sure my kids get my tweets.
4. Prancercise is a thing that exists. I have yet to see anyone actually do it….on purpose.
5. Star Wars like holograms actually exists, but are incredibly expensive to use daily….until a group of engineers from Japan discovered a way to create them using a standard A4 paper scanner. At the moment the technology has only been successfully performed on fleas and ants….only.
6. People in South Dakota steal sharks and leave them in open fields.  My mind’s eye finds that image fairly hilarious. How does no one see a person(s) carrying a twelve foot shark in an open field?
7. There is no possible way for me to look good in a wetsuit.
8. I’m not the only person who has accidentally made a small child (other than my own) cry and then immediately made them laugh so I wouldn’t get in trouble.
9. I’m not a big soda drinker, but Lester's Fixins line of soda flavors (which includes ranch dressing, sweet corn, bacon, buffalo wing and peanut butter and jelly flavors) are enough to make me swear off the stuff forever.
10. I agree with Steve Martin, if you smoke too much, your lips will fall off.
11. Triathlons have a mental aspect that I was totally unprepared for.
12. Some triathletes are better at making fun of themselves than they are at triathlons….self included.
13. I have no idea why that horrifically painful hour of swimming, biking and running was so much fun....and why I've signed up to do another. I foresee triathlon rehab in my future.
14. I can wig myself out fairly easily.
15. I had forgotten how good of sleep I get on a rainy night - we have so few rainy nights.
16. There is such a thing as National Donut Day....and it's today....and many places are giving away free donuts. If you are a military vet, you get two free. The latter makes me smile.
17. Justin Beiber has announced he's taking a private flight into space. Dear Private-Beiber-carrying-rocket-ship-guys, please accidentally forget you've launched a rocket into space and leave him there.