Spudart recently posted the following reader request:

Hey, I have a reader request. I am a reader. And I have a request. Thus, I have a reader request. Ready? ahem. mememememe. mememememe. Ready?

I want a blog post where I can talk about how many comments I have. And how many you have. I often talk about the number of comments I have on random blog posts. But it would be really nice to have all those comments under one blog post. Then I can always go to that blog post whenever I want to say something like, "wow. i have 771 comments." Then I can go back and relive the memories when I said, "wow, i have 498 comments." Or some other random number.

So… here is that post. If anyone else wants to talk about the comments they've left, or the number, or whatever. Here. This place. I'll even make it easy to remember by giving it the url "sparxmind.com/comments".

I took the day off from work. What does that mean? Sleeping in late, going out for breakfast, getting a carwash. Fun times.

I needed gas, and it was about time for a carwash, and I'm too big of a sucker to pass up saving $1 off the automatic carwash by purchasing it when I'm buying gas. $8 instead of $9 for a $2 carwash?! YES PLEASE! (I assume $2 is a fair price for the service that is actually provided. I don't actually know a place where an automatic carwash can be found for such a price.)

So, I pull up to the carwash, use the keypad to enter the magic number from my receipt. The door opens… and there's an older guy standing in the middle of the carwash with a garden hose. He waves me in.

My first though was "are you serious?! the carwash is broken and i just paid $8 to have some guy spray my car down with a garden hose?!" I hesitated. He waved me in again. I pulled forward slowly, and he got back to work — spraying off leaves and dirt from the walls and windows of the carwash.

I was relieved.

I locked my doors anyway.

Woooooooooo!
Watching the results of the Presidential and local state (WI) elections last night, I was definitely surprised by the results.
I guess I should thank most of the country, and Wisconsin, for not being a complete bunch of idiots this election.
THANKS!

I also posted the following tweet last night:
https://twitter.com/sparxmind/status/266012438439264257

and last night at 11:09pm I ordered the Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch) from Amazon – unfortunately it's still backordered, so I have no idea when I'll actually get it.

I should start out by mentioning that I don't buy music. I don't pirate music either.
Most of my music listening is either listening to the radio, or streaming from spotify or pandora.

But! This morning Mumford & Sons' new album "Babel" was released, and I bought it right away… well, it took an hour to decide between the mp3 album and a physical cd.

You can listen to it for free on spotify (Babel – spotify) or purchase it on Amazon (Babel or Babel: Deluxe Edition)

I totally recommend giving it a listen. 🙂

I think "I will wait" is the best song on the album.

Yesterday someone submitted this comment on my Subway post:
"Subway is very clean and their sandwiches are always good. Their cherry slushes are very good and very friendly when they wait on you."

I want to find this magical Subway where the employees have been replaced with cherry slush – FRIENDLY cherry slush!

I found something interesting using Google Translate just now – the french word for "butterfly" ("papillon") also means "parking ticket".

WHOAT?!

I'm just imagining someone that knows limited French wandering into a traffic court in France and wondering why people are mad about being given butterflies.

The eternal struggle: