And Then He Was 2!

My little guy is two years old today. The last 2 years have been the fastest in my life. I couldn't help but cry last night when I rocked him to sleep. No more baby.

I love him so much!

I think it is broken

There were no extra parts. It came assembled. I just don't know how to make it work properly. I really think it is broken and the warranty ran out over a year ago. It makes me very sad. I can't believe I finally got one, and now I've broken it. My mom said it can be fixed - but I just feel so bad. I see others with theirs and everything works fine. How come mine is malfunctioning? Why am I so clueless that I broke mine? I broke it and it's all my fault. I was thinking about getting another one, but now I'm afraid I will break that one too. I feel so ashamed.

Instructions NOT included

I cannot find the instructions. Most models don't come with instructions, but I had a set of instructions to help me use it right at first, but now those are outdated. This is very frustrating. I'm afraid I will break it beyond repair if I'm not careful.

Popeye's been lying to us all this time!

Just a few things I discovered today...

Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger - Just look what it has done for Popeye's career. Well, Popeye was wrong. So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids' throats. In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.

Frenchman Michel Lotito has a very unusual diet. Born on June 15, 1950, he has been consuming large quantities of metal and glass since he was nine years old. To date, he has eaten supermarket carts, television sets, bicycles, chandeliers, razor blades, bullets, nuts and bolts, lengths of chain, phonograph records, computers, and an entire Cessna 150 light aircraft (which took him nearly two years to consume). It seems that his body has adjusted to this unusual diet, as he eats nearly two pounds of metal every day. His technique includes lubricating his digestive tract with mineral oil, cutting the parts into bite-size pieces, and then consuming a large quantity of water while eating this junk.

Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? The name was lifted right out chemist Norm Larsen's laboratory notebook. Way back in 1953, he was trying to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which worked on the basic principle of displacing water. On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it right. Hence the name WD-40. It literally means Water Displacer, 40th try.

Some things just cannot be kept to yourself.

Enlightening my world, one blog reader at a time.

Norman Stingley changed my life!

An educational moment taken from an email I received today:

"What makes SuperBalls bounce so high? At the risk of making an unpaid endorsement, we think no childhood is complete without (accidentally) chucking a SuperBall into mom's crystal display case. Indeed, when it comes to instigating pure household chaos, nothing tops these wee bouncing balls of anarchy. So what gives SuperBalls their tremendous power? Toymaker Wham-O claims their SuperBall is made of something called "Zectron." Hmm, "Zectron" sounds a lot like some made-up Willy Wonka word rather than real scientific material.It turns out Zectron is legit, combining polybutadiene with sulfur. It was discovered by the ball's inventor, Norman Stingley. Like the adhesive behind Post-It Notes, this new rubber compound wasn't an intentional invention, but the material's ability to rebound 90 percent when greatly compressed led Stingley to believe he had a hit toy on his hands. And, of course, he was right."

This concludes this educational moment.

Peace, Brother!

FREE slightly damaged ELECTRONICS

Does anyone know of someone who would be interested in "mildly damaged" electronics? Here's the deal...we had a power surge at our home and it blew our T.V., VCR, Tivo, CD player, Receiver, and several other little things. I'm thinking that someone who knows what they are doing could do a fairly simple repair of the thing-a-ma-jig and have some good stuff. I was going to set it out at the street and just see if someone would take it - but thought I'd see if my vast blog readership (come on, you two, surely you know someone) might know of someone who might want it. They may be damaged beyond repair...but who knows? Let me know if you know of someone. I'll probably put it out at the street on Saturday if I don't hear from anyone.

Peek-a-Boo

Ever have that feeling that you are being watched?