Challenge Returns + Precocious Grand-Child Info + Distracted Drivers
Temp Challenge Returns
I can neither confirm nor deny that I've received a plethora of requests for the Leckband Temp Challenge to return. Therefore, at 7:19a, CDT, based on stats from weather.com, here are the results.1) Norfolk/Woodland Park, NE, 29/wind chill 15 . . . TEMP CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS *
2) Eagan, MN, 34/24/snow *
3) Ventura, IA, 31/18
4) Beatrice, NE, 32/20
5) Lincoln, NE, 32/20
6) Garrison, IA, 34/23 . BALMIEST LECKBAND
* It's true that Eagan is getting snow, but we in Norfolk/Woodland Park are experiencing gale winds. Plus it's our 3rd day this week of wind advisories. And it's my blog, lest anyone forget. Also, the wind yesterday blew off my grill cover & ripped it to sheds. I haven't been able to replace it, due to our continued, gale-force conditions. On the plus side, 2 grill covers, most likely from neighbors, showed up on our deck.
Conversations with My Grand-children
Setting: I'm sitting with Bentley in my living room on THU afternoon. We're watching [gag me] Blippi. Rachel is sitting across from us on the couch. Blippi's Halloween song is playing. It includes some dancing skeletons.- Bentley to Rachel: "My bones are warm." (Rachel & me: "What?") Moments later . . .
- Bentley to Rachel: "How did you make me?" (Rachel gasps. We both laugh.)
- Bentley repeats: "How did you make me?"
- Rachel: "I grew you in my tummy." Bentley turns back to me & whispers in my ear . . .
- Bentley: "No, she didn't."
I encouraged Bentley to ask his daddy how he got made. You're welcome, Derek.
Criminal Minds
From Omaha World Herald (10/5): "'Time traveler' faces intoxication charges, Police said a central WY man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had traveled back in time to warn of an alien invasion. Casper police said the man they encountered late MON claimed he was from the year 2048. The man told police that he wanted to warn the people of Casper that aliens would arrive next year & that they should leave as soon as possible. He asked to speak to the president of the city. The man old police that he was able to travel in time only because aliens filled his body with alcohol. He noted that he was supposed to be transported to the year 2018, not this year." COMMENT #1: It's unclear who is the greater criminal here: the time traveler or incompetent aliens. COMMENT #2: Perhaps I should have shared this under "There Is No Place Like . . . "From Norfolk Daily News (10/7): "Technology in vehicles dangerous for drivers. The infotainment technology of new vehicles is making drivers take their eyes off the road & hands off the wheel for dangerously long times, an AAA study says . . . Automakers now include more infotainment options to allow drivers to use social media, email & texts. The technology has also become more complicated to use. Cars used to have a few buttons & knobs. Some vehicles now have as many as 50 buttons on the steering wheel & dashboard that are multi-functional. There are touch screens, voice commands, writing pads, heads-screens, voice commands, writing pads, heads-up displays on windshields & mirrors, & 3-D computer-generated images . . . Programming a destination into in-vehicle GPS navigation systems was the most distracting activity, taking drivers an average of 40 seconds to complete the task. At 25 m.p.h., a car can travel the length of four football fields during the time it takes to enter a destinations. Previous research has shown that drivers who remove their eyes from the road for just two seconds double their risk for a crash." COMMENT: I'll somewhat reluctantly confirm this study. It takes me an average of 3 minutes to program my dashboard latte-maker. And that doesn't take into account putting coffee beans in the grinder, filling the latte-maker w/water, placing the cup underneath it, & removing the cup when it's finished.
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