It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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Our microwave's turntable rotates at 6 rpm. Accordingly, the key is to enter a time in seconds divisible by 10 so that my coffee cup's handle is facing out when I open the door.
And that represents the zenith of my interest and ability for using math in daily life.

Tonight is the BCS championship game. Seems anticlimactic, almost boring. They've pushed it so far back that it competes for attention with NFL playoff games, it's separated by all other (significant) college games by a week, and this year involves two teams that played each other earlier in the season in a game that wasn't close. One more way the NCAA has made a mess of college football.

They're advertising a soon-to-be released movie with Queen Latifa and Dolly Parton. Looks pretty formulaic and corny but the ads remind me of one of my favorite lines.
When asked if she'd had cosmetic surgery, Dolly responded, "Honey, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap."

Did I mention there's a whole lot of sanding, staining and varnishing involved in building a teardrop trailer? I'm doing the interior of the sides and the bulkheads now. I still have about 40' worth of scabs to do. Uff-dah.

Watch this two-minute video and keep track of your thoughts and the order in which they occur.
Lasquite's Saint Bernards
I think it would be interesting to compare lists.
(Very early on my list is a word that starts with s and ends with it. We've got one Greyhound and there's a lot of it.)

OK, time to settle in for some college football.