My dad showed me an article in the Korean newspaper today that I thought would be funny to share.

For those of you who are unable to read Korean (which I am assuming is most of you), that article is basically reporting that Cook County, which is the home of Chicago, Illinois, USA, wants to separate from Illinois and become its own state, being the 51st of the United States.

Apparently the Cook County government has nothing better to do with its time than make ridiculous and useless proposals that will obviously never get approved.

I’m having Thanksgiving dinner leftovers.

I’m getting ahead in my academic work so it’ll be easier on me when classes start again, so that’s all for today.

Did you drop out of school? No problem. You can go work for Clear customer service.

For those of you who don’t know, Clear is a relatively new Internet service provider that emphasizes wireless services. As of right now, they have two separate plans, one for home and one for mobile.

Seeing as everything is completely wireless, I was curious as to what the actual difference was between the home and mobile services was. I didn’t see why someone could purchase the home plan and just bring the router with them, or purchase the mobile plan and keep the router at home. So, I opened up a chat window with Clear customer service to ask.

This is what happened.

"What is the difference between the home and mobile plans?"

"One is Home Internet and the other is Internet On The go."

If all anyone has to do to be a Clear customer service representative is just reword the question and repeat it back at the inquirer, then it’s the easiest job in the world and all high school drop-outs should apply for the position, because they seem to all be well-qualified.

After I thought about it a little bit, I figured that the router for the home Internet plan has to constantly be plugged in to a power outlet, while the mobile Internet plan router can hold a charge. But, that still doesn’t answer the question as to why the home plan even exists; someone could purchase a mobile router and keep it plugged in to a power outlet, and it will essentially be the same as a home router.

There are some boggling things in the world where we live.

I am now officially on Thanksgiving break, and back in my home town. Throughout the day, I took a few photos.

On the way back from Madison to my home town, my parents and I stopped by a random Korean market along the side of the road.

It was probably one of the sketchiest markets I’ve ever been to in my life. Most of the products were crammed into a random corner on horribly-constructed hardware shelves, and the floors were wavy and uneven.

Shortly after making it back to my home town, I went back to Chicago Martial Arts for the first time since the end of this past summer. There was almost nobody there because apparently people don’t come to martial arts the day before Thanksgiving, but we ended up ordering food and having a small day-before-Thanksgiving party.

Later in the night, my parents and I went grocery shopping. I saw these strange objects and decided they were picture-worthy. I think they are called rutabagas; they have an odd texture.

While continuing to shop, I came across this strange turkey-shaped cake. I thought this was also pic­ture-worthy.

That’s all for today; I’ll try to have more pictures tomorrow.

While I was going through the photos on my camera today, I came across this photo of a foursquare tablecloth.

I remembered that I took this photo ten days ago so I can show my friend how ridiculous it was that foursquare sent me a tablecloth.

foursquare, it’s great that you’re sending people merchandise to promote your brand name and spread the word about your website, but it would be nice if you distributed merchandise that is actually useful, rather than a massive tablecloth that I’m never going to use.