Webs’ Random Ideas

While I sit back nervously and wait for the news.

And in crappy weather…

My wheel cover was rubbing on my tire! That would explain the noise at low speed and why the the ride seemed absurdly difficult. Glad I caught that before the great hill.

Impressive…

And I got this by just simply docking. No hardware changes or nothing. Hopefully its a fluke.

No I don’t enjoy moving. But I’m in a program with my company where I had the potential to move around a few times. So I knew what to expect.

Anyway, the more important news is that my wife and I will be closer to our family and friends and be back in an area we enjoy, Quad Cities. I’m looking forward to it. I don’t have any pics yet of the new place, but hopefully early June I will have some to share.

While we were shopping around for a home we came across some interesting things. For one, we saw a private Catholic school named “Assumption High School”. Call me crazy but is that not the WORST name for a school? My guess is no one thought about the meaning of that word in a dictionary definition sense before applying it to the name of a school. I laughed.

We also saw some very interesting rugs for sale on the corner of a major intersection. Huge rugs. My favorite was the juxtaposed Dora the Explorer rug with the Playboy rug. Classic! And who can deny themselves the two panthers about to kiss with the moon taking up the majority of the rug positioned behind them showing the heart shape the panthers created.

Then there was the house where the entire electrical system did have 3 wire run. The only grounded plugs were in the basement. About the only thing we have to could plug in is a toaster and a lamp. I’m thinking about calling that person back and telling her she is going to have a hard time selling the place because of that.

So I just re-mapped my bike route to work on a different mapping system. This is the bike route I wrote about a few weeks ago and how it really kicked my butt. I left a comment mentioning how it was just under 2 miles. Well I was off by a lot. Its closer to 4.5 miles. Which explains a little more why it kicks my butt and why it takes 20-25 minutes to get in.

I have a program on my android phone that can track these things and give me all kinds of cool information.  Next time I bike in I’m going to turn it on and I will post an update with that information.

For those of you with android phones, the app is “Cardio Trainer”. I highly recommend it for tracking any kind of cardio workouts, including treadmill.

I couldn’t even fathom a guess at what it is like to receive a standing ovation from TEDsters, let alone being 13 when that happens! Adora Svitak giving her awesome speech at TED…

Its interesting because I have had the same thought growing up too. I couldn’t agree more that children need to be listened to more often and should be allowed and encouraged to share ideas. I think allowing a child to grow and flourish in such an environment really allows for optimal development.

Not to mention most of the children I have interacted with are fun to talk to and have plenty of thoughts and ideas to share. I went to my wife’s school a few weeks ago and read one of my favorite short stories, The Sneetches. Its a wonderful story on acceptance and handling our differences. After reading I asked the children what they thought of the story and what they thought it meant to them. Mind you these were 5th graders, but I couldn’t stop them from raising their hands and speaking up. They all understood the story and the message of it.

The message in the TED talk is a pretty important one and I hope this video spreads.

and boy are my legs tired!! No joke. Its about a 2.5-3 mile ride in one direction and takes about 30 minutes. Not to mention I haven’t rode a bike since November. The real problem for me though is all the hills. Some do not seem so bad when you look at them or walk up them, but I swear hills grow a couple feet in height and length when you bike on them.

I’m hoping my body jumps into shape quickly because I want to make this a habit. I’m just going to have to do a better job of scoping out the terrain when I look for a place to live next time I move.