learning opportunity

Many moons ago, I took a history of creativity course as an elective because it sounded like a cakewalk class I wanted to be learned.  The final for that course consisted of building/performing/making a major project that was then showcased for the entire university to praise and adore.  For my project, I built a soapbox derby car painted to look like a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk from WWII.  I'm sure I don't have to say this, but yes, it was as awesome as you think it was.  It was even better because the derby car was fully functional. 

In fact, it was functional enough that I took it down a rather large hill.  Except that when I say 'fully functional', I actually mean, 'everything pretty much works except mostly the brake and sometimes, if it's going too fast, the wheels fall off'.  I found this out because the hill I took it down falls into the 'I guess the push start was wholly unnecessary...' category.

It was awesome.

Or at least it would have been, had my wonderful wife not decided to start screaming instead of continuing filming when I spun around backwards, the wheel fell off, and the brake kind of broke a little, sending me careening towards a certain doom also known as The Sidewalk where I only slide on my head a little bit.  This is where Melissa could use Archie D'Mello as a learning opportunity.  Archie D'Mello understands that pictures last a lifetime and pictures make the story all that much better. 

That's why Archie D'Mello took pictures as his wife was attacked by cheetahs at a petting zoo in South Africa. Of course.

poor effort

I'm a little disappointed in my neighbors. This year's Dandelion Growing Contest was an absolute blowout. I didn't even have to try and I smoked pretty much everyone in the entire neighborhood. In fact, it's almost as though nobody else even WANTED dandelions - I couldn't see a single one on any of their lawns. There was definitely a serious lack of commitment on their parts.

What a lame contest.

8 months!!! (That means 8 weeks left.)

Seven Months and Counting

We are getting closer!

super powers

If everyone else had a super power and you didn't have a super power, would that mean that you actually had the only super power?  I think if you don't agree with that statement it's kind of unfortunate because if you did think that then you could go through life thinking that you had a super power just by assuming that everyone else had a super power but you didn't have one so your super power was not having a super power.  Obviously, this assumption is not flawed at all because if everyone else did have a super power they would keep it hidden so you wouldn't know they had one thereby validating your fundamental assumption that everyone else had a super power. That's some sound logic. 

 

I bet you had to read that twice. Which is good because I didn't read it twice. By not reading it twice I keep myself from seeing how absurd I sound when things make the transition from my brain to the computer screen.  What am I even thinking? Obviously, everybody has super powers so that's a ridiculous question in the first place. Anyways, I'm going to go fly around my living room while shooting flames from my eyeballs at the Asian beetles invading our house.