What I Learned This Week - 10/26/12

1.  Restaurants with integral petting zoos that claim to have the "World's best Fried Chicken" - LIE.
2. Last hour of the Iron Man World Championship in 3 minutes will motivate anyone having a bad day. Amazing personal victories. A firefighter (Fireman Rob) ran the marathon course in a full gear? A gentleman with cerebal palsy...At 16:45:52 (2:26 In the first video) my hero, Lew Hollander, crosses. -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4sPeZSutBo&feature=player_embedded longer version here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhsDOiDEXzc&feature=player_embedded
3. Ironman World championships have various parties - one of them is the night before entitled the "Thank God I'm Not Racing" party. Attendees get medals with a 0.0 finisher. 0.0 swim, 0.0 bike and 0.0 run.
4. The CIA has/had a robotic fish drone - If I ran across it in the wild, I would have cast to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEeb72ZJKAk&feature=player_embedded
5. I'm pretty sick of the word "closure" and how people use it.
6. Whenever I see an extremely fit/ripped person in the gym, my inner Jim Gaffigan screams, "What are you doing here, you're DONE!"
7. When the local new stations (radio & TV) state, "bridges & overpasses may be icy", they are doing so three hours too late.
8. Best line in a meeting this week, "No don't give Lee the photo - he has Photoshop and knows how to use it".
9. Snow season has a distinct smell. I call it, "wet dog".
10. I always forget how much fun it is to watch a young dog play in the first snow, especially the noseplow run and sneeze.
11. After watching my 16yr old Springer navigate the icy deck, I'm pretty sure that if she had a choice, she'd move to Florida right now. 
12. The average tire store no longer carries inner-tubes. They are special order items. I predict very few inner tubes on my sledding hill this year.
13. Only one more week of campaign ads....that's a week too long.