Canth Clroy

I like dark chocolate but the piece I just ate wasn’t very good. I was eating some leftover ham for lunch today and then I realized it was really old. I thought about it for a few minutes and then I finished eating it. We’ll see what happens. I had a bowl of Cheerio’s this morning and it was about the same as it ever was. I don’t think you can really get sick of Cheerio’s but you never crave them either. At least I don’t. They are just there but I guess that’s the appeal. I had some coffee with that bottled coffeemate stuff and some with just milk and sugar. The stuff with the coffeemate was much, much better. Tonight is pizza night. I am very close to being sick of pizza. Too many pizza nights. I have a bag of animal crackers on my desk I have not eaten for like two weeks. At this moment, I want another piece of dark chocolate.

So I got into this conversation with a guy here at work about what was the worst day of the week. He said Tuesday. His theory: You know Monday is Monday, but when you get through that it’s Tuesday and you still have the rest of the week to go and it isn’t even hump day (Wednesday). I think it’s Thursday. My theory: Monday is Monday and Tuesday you are still plowing through stuff and then you have hump day and suddenly your week is almost over. However, you still have this stupid day between Wednesday and Friday to get through.

Did you know that the Superman S-Shield is one of the most recognized symbols in the world. Everyone knows the S-Shield. In fact, I recall reading somewhere that it was in the top 5 recognized symbols in the world. Right up there with the cross, the Star of David and the Nike swoosh. Anyway, Prior to 1985 there were two Supermen. There was an Earth-1 Superman and an Earth-2 Superman. It’s too complicated to explain but Earth-2 Superman (or the Golden Age) Superman was the original Superman from the 1930s. The other one wasn’t. Each one had its own S-shield symbol. Isn’t that worth knowing?

For your reference…

 
Earth-1 Superman’s S-Shield  

Earth-2 Superman’s S-Shield

So yesterday Canem is looking at the list of prizes she can win for this walking thing they have at her school. If she walks 30 miles she can get a podometer. I told her that I used to have one and she asked, very excited, “You do? Where is it?” Here’s the thing. I had that podometer 25 years ago and I know exactly where it is, but only if it were 25 years ago. See, it’s in the little drawer in the hallway outside the bathroom. There is a white vase on the table. Also in that drawer are some baseball cards and a few other assorted random items including a piece of melded wrought iron that a neighbor gave me. But that table no longer stands where it did, in fact, that hallway where it sat probably doesn’t exist anymore either. But I know exactly where it is, if it were 25 years ago.

Now that is certainly something to think about.

Some guy at the bookstore talked to me for like 10 minutes and everything he said was darn close to being completely incomprehensible. It was excrutiating. I nodded a lot and said “Uh, huh” a few times. Finally I just started to walk away and he says “Oh, well, I was just leaving too.” And follows me. Then some girl said “Hi” to him and he ditched me for her. I was glad to see him go, but I also felt like I’d been kicked to the curb. It was a strange feeling.

I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone.

We went to a 3-D movie “Deep Sea” last weekend. So as the movie starts the 3-D is all weird. There’s two images. (Yes, I had the glass on) but it just wasn’t right. However, I didn’t say anything because I thought maybe we just were sitting in a bad row or perhaps it was just me. However, then Canso says “Dad, why is there two of everything.” So then we quickly realized that it was bad for everyone and some lady down the way walked through the aisle saying she was going to complain. Then someone figured out that if you put the glasses on upside down (seriously!) then the 3D worked but it was kind of awkward. Anyway, after the lady came back they stopped the movie and said it was broken and we’d get free passes and our money back. So we came back an hour later and everything was fine. But who knew that 3D could be broken.

OK, I’ve seen a lot of disturbing pictures, but Canso brought this book home from school and in the Canine section there was a picture of something called Nyctereutes Procyonoides. An animal otherwise known as the Raccoon Dog. There is something wrong with this, seriously wrong. A dog that looks like a racoon. You may think this is photo shopped or something but the thing is, it’s not. It’s real and it is disturbing. I don’t have the picture from the book because it is a lot weirder than this one. This was the best I could find.

The Freakish Raccoon Dog

I don’t think this should be. It’s not right.

I always thought the Washington Monument was kind of lame. The Lincoln Memorial is awesome. It’s got a buzz. The Jefferson Memorial is OK. I went there some 10 plus years ago and there were letters missing under the statue so it said T omas  efferso which was kind of pathetic. Anyway, I digress. I always thought the Washington Monument was kind of lame. It’s just a big obelisky thing. Nothing about it says “George Washington.” So today I found out that originally it was going to be a lot taller and have a big parthenon thing around the base and on the top there was going to be a huge statue of George Washington dressed in a toga driving a team of horses on a chariot. As over the top as that sounds, I still think it would be better than what we have now. The reason they didn’t build it like that was because it was built on wetlands and seriously it took forever to build it and I think after awhile they just wanted to be done with it.

Today I found out that some cell phones are imported from Finland.