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:

From wikipedia: "The Easter Bunny or Easter Rabbit (sometimes Spring Bunny in the U.S.^[1][2][3]) is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs, who sometimes is depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Father Christmas, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holiday."

The Easter Bunny – a simple rabbit that performs almost the same duties as Santa Claus… but without the support staff. No flying reindeers, no sleigh, no elves to build toys. No, the Easter Bunny has to do it all on his own. Can you imagine a little rabbit hauling just a bunch of candy? Imagine the eggs, not just having to carry them around, but also having to hardboil them all! And then hide them! AHHHH! Santa has all kinds of magic (and Elves) to get his duties done, what does this bunny have? Nothing!

And what's the deal with the eggs? Why is a rabbit hiding eggs laid by a chicken?

So….

I started to wonder how much weight this magic bunny has to carry around just in eggs. I have no idea the number of kids who have eggs hidden for them, so I'll just use some obviously low numbers.

1 egg is about 2oz. If we assume each city has 100 kids that have to find eggs, and that each one has to find 8 eggs (just to make an even pound per kid), and pretend that there are only 1,000 cities that need to be visited – that comes out to 100,000lbs of eggs (1lb x 100kids * 1,000cities = 100,000). Crazy!

What about the volume? In the above example we have  800,000 eggs at 2oz each, there are 128fl oz in a gallon, so that gives us 64 eggs per gallon (ignore the switch from oz to fl oz please 🙂 ), or 12,500 gallons of eggs.

So even using extremely conservative numbers, and sloppy math, we can see the insanity that this bunny has to deal with. My suggestion to the Easter Bunny: form an army of monkeys and send out the Easter Monkeys to do the leg work.

Yep, I said it. Easter Monkeys.