Is It Raining Right Now?

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I made a revolutionary discovery of a revolutionary website today.

Have you ever had a day when you just didn’t feel like standing up, walking all the way over to your window, opening the blinds, and looking outside to find out if it is raining or not?

Then this is the website for you:

http://isitraining.in/MadisonWI

As you can see, Yes, it is raining in Madison right now (that might be different if you’re not looking at that page right now).

I’m going to bookmark that website and use it all the time now.

 

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Topic #253: What is your favorite way to procrastinate?

My favorite way to procrastinate is to do something that I’ve been procrastinating on.

For example, if I have to study for an exam, I do my homework instead. If I have to do my homework, I work instead. If I have to work, I blog instead. If I have to blog, I study for an exam instead.

As you can see, everything comes full circle and I end up getting everything done while still getting the joy of being a procrastinator.

 

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Shattered Light Bulbs

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You know those plastic shades on floor lamps that protect the light bulb and make it not excruciatingly bright? Those are apparently there for a reason.

When I brought a floor lamp to Madison, the lamp broke a little bit in the car so the plastic lamp shade shattered and was no longer usable. The base of the lamp broke too so the concrete base is no longer connected to the upright rod, so the lamp doesn’t stand up straight very well.

This lamp toppled over today.

The light bulb got smashed into the wall.

Broken Light Bulb

So yeah, if you have a broken floor lamp in your room, you might want to put foam or padding on all your walls so the light bulb doesn’t shatter into 30 pieces if the lamp happens to tip over.

 

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Sleeping Bags are Serious Business

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Tip of the Day: If you’re outside your apartment room in the hallway and you’re having a heated argument, either take your argument inside your room, or argue about something less humiliating than something as pointless as a sleeping bag.

Or else the blogger next door will listen in to your argument, get abdominal muscle pain from laughing too hard, and put it on his website.

I was on the verge of bringing my camera outside and telling them that I was going to record their argument because of how pathetic it was.

 

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Topic #252: Write a story by finishing this sentence. The story can be as long or short as you wish.

I told him where I was going, and he hurried me out, pointing to the door with the gun, but what he didn’t know was…

… that I was wearing a very bouncy rubber plate under my shirt. He shot me with his gun and the bullet bounced right off my body and back at him.

He died.

 

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Where Did All the Dots Go?

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Tip of the Day: When making copies of documents for your students to read, make sure the documents have the dots over their lower-case is. It might not seem like a big deal, but when you’re reading pages upon pages of documents with all the dots over the is missing, it gets really annoying.

Where did all the dots on the is go?

(Before you go to email me about how it’s supposed to be i’s and not is, think about what an apostrophe means. An apostrophe is used for contractions and to show possession. There isn’t a letter missing between the i and the s, and nothing is owned by the i. Instead, it’s a plural, which means an s is attached without an apostrophe.)

(Yes, I’ve been blogging for so long that I can predict all your reactions to my blog posts.)

 

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I’m Really Quick

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Two days ago, it was 90°F/32°C. When I checked the weather this morning, there was a frost advisory and it was freezing cold today.

The world would be a much better place if the weather slowly, progressively, and gradually got colder approaching the winter, and slowly, progressively, gradually got warmer approaching the summer.

In other news, while I was on the bus today headed to the Badger Herald office, I overheard a man:

“When I go to the bathroom, it only takes like ten minutes. I’m really quick.”

Yes. Really quick.

 

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Topic #246: What is your biggest frustration about driving?

The thing that frustrates me most about driving is watching other people who do not drive efficiently.

For example, it bothers me when I see people accelerating when it’s obvious that in five seconds, they’re going to have to brake because there’s a red light up ahead. Not only are they wasting gasoline by unnecessarily accelerating, but they’re also wearing down their brake pads for having to stop from a higher speed.

Another example is when there are multiple cars driving below the speed limit in a row on a multiple-lane road. If the speed limit is 55 miles per hour and it’s a three-lane road, if you intend on going at 45 miles per hour, you should go over to the right-most lane so other people can use the other two lanes to go at 55 miles per hour. It’s annoying when three cars who want to go at 45 miles per hour are all on their own individual lanes, all in a row.

Finally, it slightly frustrates me when people complain about high gas prices but keep their car on when it’s not in use. Are you waiting for someone to come out of a store? Turn your engine off. Are you using your car just to listen to the radio? Turn it off, you can survive without listening to music for ten minutes. Are you waiting for a freight train to pass? Turn your engine off instead of keeping it on for five minutes.

 

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Don’t Forget to Use Your Turn Signal

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Tip of the Day: Don’t forget to use your turn signal.

Today’s tip of the day has been provided by an old man who told me not to forget to use my turn signal while I was walking to class this morning.

In other news, follow road signs.

I intended on putting this in my blog for the past two days, and I continued to forget but finally remembered today. If you recall my blog post from September 11, you know that there was an Ironman triathalon hosted in Madison, Wisconsin on that day. Because of that, a bunch of roads were closed, and even more were marked off with warning signs.

One of the most common signs were “Road Closed Ahead, Local Traffic Only.” That means that everyone who intends on using that road to drive to a location past that road should not do so because they’re going to run into a closed road, and the only people who should use that road are people who have homes and apartments along that road.

I’m not sure if this was because people are just stupid or because they’re rebellious, but I probably saw about 20 or so cars today take the roads marked “Road Closed Ahead, Local Traffic Only” roads, keep driving, hit the closed road blocked off by police vehicles, and have to turn back around.

So if you ever happen to be in Madison in the future and there are roads with these signs next to them, don’t use them.

Or else a random blogger will notice you, laugh at you, then write about it in his blog.

 

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