"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one." - Cavett Robert

Rule #63: You can't turn off the music during Nessun Dorma. No matter where you have to be next you must wait until that song is done before leaving.
Rule #63a: If it's Pavarotti, you can't do anything else while he's singing it. You must stop and just listen.

I'm flying up to see my folks next month, a short mid-week trip for three days. Pam's upset she doesn't get to go along.
I'm thankful for a wife who loves and likes her in-laws enough to be upset at having to staying home.

Melinda Gates on CNN this afternoon: "We need to prepare ALL kids to go on to college."
WRONG!
Bill and Melinda Gates are doing lots of very good things and I suspect they're both brilliant. But she needs to get out more, including spending some time with second semester college freshmen who are fine kids, just not built for post-secondary academics. Nothing kills the spirit of a young person quite like academic failure, especially when they're told a college degree is a measure of success and worth.

They can...and do...track what people search for on the internet. It occurred to the people at Estately, a real estate site, to figure out the differences between states re. these searches. Their results don't show what people search for most, just what they search for more than any other state.
Here's a map.
What does it say about AZ that they search for "conjugal visits" more than any other state?
Michigan doesn't surprise me (I may have contributed to that outcome), and Arkansas is sadly predictable. What's the meaning of Washington's result? What happens in Vegas....

Maybe you saw this video of the woman who escaped her car a second before it was hit by a train. It was on at least two of the three network news shows and they showed it on our local CBS affiliate, too, with some additional detail. She bought the car the day before this and had just made her first payment. But the key to the outcome.... the car had a manual transmission, her first car so equipped. That the car stalled comes as no surprise to anyone who remembers learning to drive a stick.

I had to go to Costco today. What's with people who shop there? I understand strolling through a place like Ikea, but Costco is a store where you buy stuff, not stroll aimlessly. And they seem to have no awareness of those around them, some of whom came in knowing what they needed and hoping to get in and out within an hour or so.
Come on, people! Move it along!