This jug has what must be the most useful measuring scale on it EVER.

Click here or on the image to see the other side.

I've taken a liking to maps lately, so here's another one:

This is my excuse just in case I don't post at all until next Monday. Tonight I drive from A (Whitewater, WI) to B (Chicago, IL) followed by a 9+ hour drive tomorrow from B to C (Ava, MO).

I'm going to be adding mileage to my car faster than she's ever experienced. As of this morning my gas tank is full, my car is clean, and my tires are perfectly inflated. 1230 miles later, I'm sure I'm never going to want to drive again - which is ok, because I think I'm selling my car off in a few months anyway. Anyone want a slightly used 2007 Hyundai Sonata Limited?

Corn - Destroyer of Planets!

Saturday wouldn't have been complete without me doing something somewhat out of the ordinary.. like.. carrying a toaster oven almost a mile and a half through Chicago. A toaster oven isn't that heavy, and 1.3 miles isn't that far, but the shape and size of the box is big enough to be awkward. And awkward enough to become almost unbearable pretty quickly.

To put things into perspective, I'll completely disregard scale and overlay our route on top of another map:

From this, you can easily see that I practically walked across a good chunk of North America. Pictures don't lie.

As you may remember, I planned on watching the Chicago River be dyed a brilliant green shade of green this weekend. Definitely not the main reason I went to Chicago, but it was something that I wanted to see while there. I wanted to see it so badly that I even went as far as going to the river and looking at the water.

And so did about 25 bazillion people.

Here's where we run into a little snag though - the dying was supposed to take place at 10:45am, before the parade. We got there maybe 20-30 minutes early and managed to squeeze into a decent viewing area. 10:45 came and went, and nothing happened. People (myself included) started seeing lighter green streaks in the water, but that might have just been our imaginations. This definitely wasn't the transformation from "Eeeeeew!" to "Ooooooh!" that I was expecting. So when it got to be about 11:30 we left. Dissappointed, a bit frustrated, we left.

From the pictures I saw later that day, I have to assume that the dying happened at some point between 12 and 2pm.

I bet it was interesting to watch.

Turns out I'm actually a starfish.

Good Twin - BAD Twin

Sumdae I be big and u be sowry

More lolcats

It's funny how bacon keeps sneaking its way into my life.

I very rarely eat the stuff.. I like it and all, but there's less than a 0% chance that I'll ever eat it in lollipop form.

Last weekend I saw someone driving around with a "Kerry - Edwards" window cling in the rear window of their car. Remember John Kerry? He ran for president 4 years ago.

I voted for Kerry.. I don't remember particularly liking him, but I supported him mainly because he wasn't Bush, and he was the most likely not-bush to win. Could you imagine running for office and having your greatest strength be that you aren't someone else? Could you imagine losing to that someone else?

Kerry didn't have a particularly revolutionary platform - nothing that would warrant advertising his campaign 4 years after the fact. If it had been a bumper sticker I guess I could understand - some of those are impossible to get off. But a window cling? I mean, some of those fall off if you just look at them funny.