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National High Five Day

DST == AOK

I hate daylight savings time. I still don't quite understand why it's done. I really thought the state of Indiana finally had one good idea when they ignored it. Alas, they've succumbed.

This year, though, DST has had a helpful side effect. For the last few weeks Aidan has been waking up way too early (usually around 5:45AM). This was workable on weekdays since he could just join me for breakfast. On weekends it just sucked. With DST in full effect now, his wake-up time is much less insane.. at least for the next few weeks. Hey, I'll take any victories I can no matter how short-lived.

Hulu: Not Bad

So, thanks to Kris (now a member of the GE empire), I got an invite to Hulu. For quite awhile I didn't really look there all that much, but now that we're thinking about getting rid of our cable, I started looking into alternate methods to watch what few shows we want to. I gotta say, for Fox or NBC shows, Hulu is great. I've been keeping up with Terminator through Hulu. I did set it to record on my DVR, but it seems that they change the name of the show every couple weeks, so my dumb Scientific Atlanta DVR keeps missing it. Last night I watched the Knight Rider TV movie that was on NBC last weekend. Since I didn't expect much out of it after reading comments on it over at Autoblog, it was actually kind of fun. Give it a looksie:

Fame

Blah blah blah.. jobs leaving Ohio.. blah blah blah.. wait.. WHO IS THAT?

Toddler fun

Here's a (true) conversation with a well-condition toddler:

Daddy: "Can you spell 'Ohio'?"
Aidan: "Yeah... (long pause)... football!"

I couldn't fault him for that.

You know you need to upgrade that lightning-detection system when...

This one's a bit of a head-scratcher.

CBC News: No fatalities in Toronto airplane fire:

At mid-afternoon Tuesday, a spokesperson with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority said lightning was causing technical problems with the airport's lightning-detection system.

cbc, lightning, news

Reinforcing preconcieved notions

Pretty much anytime we travel from GR to Ohio, we have to take US-23 through ann arbor. There's some occassional traffic hiccups and such due to weekend travel and sometimes we'll get a wise-ass pointing out that he/she has decoded our super-seekrit license plate messages and knows that we are Buckeyes.. wooo... Nothing super-bad, though. I just keep on driving and breathe a sigh of relief once I hit Toledo (I never thought I'd say that.. ;-) ).

This Friday was different. On our trip down to Columbus for Nate and Lisa's wedding, Patty all-of-a-sudden doubled over in pain as we were passing AA. As much as I wanted to get the hell away from the city, it was better not to mess around with a pregnancy, so we took the next exit. We found a few stoplights, construction, and.. well.. nothing else. After driving around for a few minutes looking for a gas station, fast food restaurant, whatever, we happened upon the waste-water treatment plant for AA. Oh, disgusting, you say. The smell must have been awful!

It didn't smell any worse than the rest of the town.. ;-)

Deciding that nothing was going to pan out from this exit, we got back on the highway and took the Washtenaw Ave. exit. Since I knew there were all sorts of places available in both directions, I made sure to go east towards Ypsilanti rather than towards the campus of that school. Got to the closest gas station where Patty ran inside. After a few minutes she came back out looking greener than when she went in. It was bar-none the worst restroom she'd ever been in (that's impressive, too.. she's been to the restrooms at Out R Inn and BW3 on campus).

We'll stay on the highway for the extra 5-10 minutes to Saline next time...

pregnancy, ann arbor, waste water