What I Learned This Week - 8/30/13

1.  Barbara Eden turned 82 and still looks stunning. Rick Springfield turned 64 – I had no idea he was old enough to be my dad.
2. I’m not a fan of the late sunrises making it easy to forget to turn my car lights off in the morning, resulting in not being able to go home because the car battery is dead. Twice.
3. There is a definitive horrible feeling when midway through a workout on a bike ride or run and you realize you forgot to hit “start” on your Garmin.
4. Scientists need to have Morgan Freeman speak every word in the English language so documentaries can still be narrated by him after he passes.
5. “Smart” people in Japan are developing a line of microwaves and food packaging that allows one to cook food without pressing a button or reading instructions. Just scan the QR code on the food, set it in microwave and boom – it’s “perfectly” done. 
6. Pro cyclist Jens Voigt geocaches as down time from racing. During some races he’ll actually create caches and leaves some of his race gear/shwag. I found this out after he left Denver.
7. The person who put the “T.U.R.D.I.S.” sign on the blue port-p-potty is a genius.
8. One can never have too many cowbells.
9. If you have to explain the appeal of a Ferrari to me, you obviously don’t understand sarcasm.
10. I feel sorry for people who don't have dogs because they have to actually pick up the food off the floor when I drop it.
11. I’ll never get tired if dihydrogen monoxide jokes.
12. Apparently, it’s considered mean to correct and grade in red pen and return love notes to the children that leave them for you. I guess I have to switch to a purple pen.
13. Every time I spell "beautiful", I have to pretend I'm Bruce Almighty.
14. If people winked in real life as much as they do in Facebook posts... the world would be a pretty creepy place ;-)
15. Driving eleven hours is not as much fun as it sounds.....and it doesn't even sound fun.
16. When I was a kid, I used to grab the Sears catalog and drool all over the pages of toys. Now I read blogs about Eurobike.
17. Yes, you can pull a butt muscle (specifically the medius gluteal muscle) by awkwardly picking up something off the floor. Yes, it's painful.
18. Not all cruise controls are created equal.