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I’m on spring break. No real content this week. I was going to discuss how Kentucky will let you get married younger than they’ll let you get a driver’s license, but they changed the law last year so now that’s no longer the case.

Why would I pick on Kentucky like that? Because we can drive the country from top to bottom (Canadian border to Miami) using I-75 and that’s the one state where my teen driver can’t drive because of their driving laws.

Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these are tweets.

• “Dollar-cost averaging” could be summarized as “two wrongs don’t make a right, but lots of little wrongs are okay”.
• No, the station is not supported by viewers like me. Viewers like me never contribute anything.
• I wonder how many parents would pay extra for Lego sets to be in silent packaging. Just for the fun of being able to surprise kids with Legos for Christmas or birthday presents.
• Now the other way is easy: any present can be made to sound like it is a box of Legos by throwing a handful of Legos (excuse me, Lego bricks) into the box. Or buy a small box of Legos and wrap it together with the other surprise present. Any shaking of said present will then produce a Lego sound and the child will not expect the non-Lego gift.
• If “cat” is pronounced “cat” and “cate” sounds like “kate”, why isn’t “caterpillar” pronounced “kay-ter-pillar”? Shouldn’t it be spelled “catterpillar”?

I was shopping around for a new curtain rod for the shower and I noticed that they were all titled “tension rod”.

They were titled that because they are held in place by pressing against the walls, rather than by being fastened to the walls.

But from what I learned in college, that’s wrong.

The curtain rod is pushing against the walls so it is being compressed. It should be a compression rod.

A tension rod would be somewhere that needed to prevent two walls from spreading apart.

Maybe a better way to do this is to picture a spring in the middle of the bar. To get the curtain rod to stay in place, you wedge it in place – what happens to the spring compared to its normal state? It is compressed. When a tension rod is in use, it is experiencing compression.

Whoever named that thing a tension rod has some explaining to do.

I was planning on keeping the blog schedule at twice per week, but it’s been getting more difficult to get that done each week. Last week I ended up posting only once, so I decided to make that the new schedule.

Here’s my blogging frequency history.

Week 1: Every day
Weeks 2-259: thrice a week
Weeks 260-532: twice a week
Weeks 533+: once a week

No blog post today – we’re celebrating Christmas with the other side of the family.

I’m not posting anything today – I’m too busy doing Thanksgivingy stuff.

I am without a laptop at the moment. Which means I don’t have some of my already-started posts on hand to complete. Which means all you get is what I can type on my iPhone. Which is this, today.