What I Learned This Week - 5/3/13

1.  Nociceptors are the nerves in “charge” of the feeling of pain. I’m not their biggest fan.
2. Knowledge is understanding a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is understanding it does not belong in a fruit salad.
3. My wife keeps me on the straight and narrow. I must have some sort of close proximity intervention by her every twelve hours. A phone call doesn’t do it. Left to my own devices I will ravage the house and find the secret hiding spot of sweets and eat an entire box (okay - two) of thin mints on one sitting. If my wife was around, I wouldn’t even think of it.
4. I know more people than I could have imagined that believe in “going commando” with their computers. By “going commando” I mean they don’t use any form of anti-virus or firewall software. By people, I mean more than SIX. That absolutely floors me.
5. Star Wars is going to be released in Navajo. I am strangely intrigued.
6. I thought I was in good enough shape to have three of four days with brick workouts. I was woefully mistaken. 
7. I forgot how much I dislike DOMS.
8. I dislike unexpected rest days during training almost as much as DOMS.
9. I can’t believe I’d ever be the guy in #8.
10. Teenagers can carry on conversations that skip subjects like one flips through TV Channels – all the while everyone understands exactly the logic jump. They can go several minutes without taking a breath.  Sometimes it’s frustrating to follow; most times it’s very humorous – especially when mints or french fries are randomly offed to you mid conversation. You really don’t know where the french fries were stored.
11. If I could figure out how to convert teenager talking energy into a fuel source for vehicles, I could rule the world.
12. When compared in relation to cosmic background radiation, scientists believe Earth is travelling at a speed of 872,405 MPH. I'm pretty sure my car goes faster.
13. If I accidentally put my daughter's blue school themed workout shirt in my gym bag, the one that looks EXACTLY like mine but smaller, I will wear it and take the abuse from the people in the gym.
14.  I have to remind people that I'm pretty darn good at dropping heavy things on toes.
15. You can avoid a lot of confrontations if you do the Mary Katherine Gallagher raised arm “Superstar!” maneuver.
16. I am now a proud member of the "cowbell revolution". I carry a small cowbell in my car - whenever I see a cyclist or a runner, I roll down my window and cheer them on - cowbell and all. Everyone needs more cowbell.
17. You can’t ring a cowbell in anger.  Well you can, but it doesn’t sound angry.
18. No matter how many people you know who are battling, have battled or have a loved one who is battling/battled; one pure fact remains - Cancer sucks.
19. The internet is as old as I am. ARPNET was created in 1969.
20. The internet went from 1 million to 1 billion users in the span of less than 7 years (1998-2005). Usage has only a little more than doubled since then (2.4 billion last year). 
21. As of January 2013, 29% of Americans still get the “latest” news via newspaper.