Cheap thoughts.
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I love recycling day. That’s when I get to snoop on my neighbors’ tastes in alcohol!
On the way to Hallie’s school this morning we passed a recycling bin full of empty Dogfish Head beer bottles. I don’t have to know anything else about this person – not political persuasion, religious views, where they work, or anything – to know that this person and I would get along just fine.
I collect broken computers like a redneck collects broken cars.
When the opposing teams of a kids’ soccer game line up to shake each others’ hands, the parents of the kids should also line up to shake hands. Watching your kid play gets intense!
Why is it bad when something is said to be “going downhill?” I mean, going downhill means coasting, right? How is “going uphill” any better?
If Jamaica’s Red Stripe beer wasn’t so bad ganja might not have become so popular.
Thus, we might have Red Stripe to thank for reggae music.
Why is it that washers and dryers are lined up with the washer on the left and the dryer on the right? Who came up with this standard? And does it unfairly limit the lefties among us?
What if I wanted to build a house where the dryer was on the left. Could I do it? Or would I be breaking some kind of building code?
Can one get fat just from the smell wafting from a Krispy Kreme? Every day I pedal by the Krispy Kreme at Peace and Person and feel unexplainably tugged backwards by the tempting smell of fresh doughnuts.
How do the residents of Historic Oakwood defend themselves against this fragrant siren song?
I remember being amused at seeing a Krispy Kreme in the Sydney Airport when I visited Down Under. All the way from Winston-Salem to Australia. Good on ya’, mates!
Where did the term “bank holiday” originate? It seems wrong that a bank being closed is needed as justification for taking a day off.
Not everyone works for the banks, right? Or, judging by our current levels of debt, perhaps we do?
I was reading some news story this afternoon about approval for solar power stations being put on hold.
That got me thinking of how solar panels shade whatever’s below them, which may not be good for the vegetation or critters underneath.
That got me thinking how great it would be if there were solar collectors which could float in the sky, wirelessly discharging their electrical power.
Then I realized with a laugh that I was describing clouds!
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