What I Learned This Week - 12/5/14

1.  377 days until Star Wars the Force Awakens (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters.
2. Yes, I think the trailer for the new movie is OSM.
3. People already have tattoos of the new Star Wars Awakens ball-droid.
4. The amount of interwebz nerd rage rants over things revealed in the new Star Wars Awakens is amusing.
5. There is a 3D printer that prints with Nutella. My middle daughter just discovered the definition of “euphoria.”
6. Kansas is crazy dry and I fear for food prices next year.
7. Camo-pink shotguns intimidate young boys.
8. There is no better feeling than taking your daughter hunting and after a long day hear her say, "ok, I get why you do this - it's pretty fun."
9. On a slow day of hunting, a dry cob of corn with husk makes a reasonable facsimile of a pheasant for target practice.
10. You can throw your shoulder out by throwing corn-husk-pheasants.
11. There is something oddly rewarding watching a well training hunting dog try to mentally process shooting a corn-pheasant and not being able to retrieve a real bird.
12. Girl Scouts are entering the interwebz age by finally allowing scouts to sell cookies online via their own web page. Watch for your special e-mail in January.
13. May the 4th, 2015 is going to be a very exciting day not just for Star Wars fans, but for movie buffs and nerds everywhere.
14. According to my youngest, the beginning of a snow flurry is called a “Flur”.
15. Given the right amount of time and boredom, my middle daughter is a baking machine.
16. According to my middle daughter, the first step in twerking is, “reconsider it”.
17. “Grilled cheese cronuts” are a thing.
18. "Groaking" is act of watching people eat food hoping they'll offer you some.
19. “Stasiphobia” is the fear of standing or walking.
20. Only 5% of the population never grows wisdom teeth – I’m one of them.
21. Skeletor took over Honda’s Twitter account and the account was not rescued by Heman. I was very disappointed.  #Skeletakeover.
22. The concept of a twitter account for my lab seems like a good and hilarious idea...Maybe an Instagram account is better.  Then again, I’ve fairly certain people don’t want to see what she’s eaten.
23. Al Roker's longest weather report was broken earlier this week by a Romanian (Daniel Osmanovic) raising money for an abused girl. Daniel's forecast went 3 hours longer.
24. Hand-sanitizer should be renamed to “cut-finder”.