What I Learned This Week - 1/31/14

1.  When I'm being tailgated doing more than the speed limit in the passing lane, I will slow down and match the speed of the car in the right lane. You’re welcome.
2. You know a young child is off the chart mad when you find your slippers with several Legos in them.
3.  The term, “galoshes” is woefully underused in today’s society.
4. Some people don't like this list as a top ten list.
5. I've decided my wife's response of "K" to my texts means that I need more potassium.
6. Female lumberjacks are called "lumberjills", and that just makes me giggle more than it should because my committee yells, “ ** wink, wink, nudge, nudge** Aren’t they all?”
7. As I get older, the more I realize there is no recovering from an hour of sleep in a night. You eventually just feel less bad. Studies show this sleep pattern can lead to a premature death. My sleepy deprived response is “no kidding”.
8. According to my oldest, you can “base jump” off the bottom step of our stairs – but you have to extend your arms and legs just “so” for it to count. 
9. A coworker builds full scale R2-D2s – no I haven’t helped him……yet.
10. The computer game, Madden Football, has predicted the correct result of the Super Bowl 80% of the time. It is predicting a final OT score for this year 31-28 and my friends in Seattle will be disappointed. I hope they are more disappointed Sunday.
11. Conversely an ape in a Utah zoo has correctly picked 7 straight Super Bowl Champions. Teddy Bear the Porcupine in a Dallas based zoo has picked the past two super bowl winners.  Both Eli the ape and Teddy picked the Seahawks for this Sunday’s game. Animals are stupid.
12. I don’t understand the need for toilet paper commercials. I’m pretty sure I’ll use anything when the time is right.
13. According to my youngest, “cowman" is not an acceptable alternative to "cowboy".
14. My kids have determined whenever someone flips them the bird it must be because it is “finger appreciation day”.
15. Clowns and silent movies have no respect for pie.
16. My youngest daughter has me convinced it is possible to be illegally blind, "it's when old people can't read stuff across the room and have to walk closer to see it". That’s illegal.
17. The "Gump Challenge" consists of running for 1,170 consecutive days for a minimum of one mile per day. I know a person that is on day 660 (or so) of the challenge. 
18. This week has had an odd OCD theme in e-mail, Facebook, home and work. Yes, those are alphabetized for a reason.
19. A picture is worth a thousand words which make Facebook photo comments practical and a time saver.
20. My kids participate in full contact origami.
21. There is an official pink Star Wars R2 unit, named R2-KT. Although the droid has a long Star Wars Clone Wars back story, it actually originated as a real world replica build by a fan (Albin Johnson with help from master droid builder Jerry Greene) for his daughter dying of brain cancer – hence the suffix “KT” (Katie).  It now makes appearances at children’s hospitals, and that makes my day.