TGIF

A full week of work has 4 hours left to go, at least until tonight. Between this past Monday through Saturday night, I will have worked approximately 62 hours. I'll figure out the final tally by the weekend. Man, thank God for Sundays.

Loaded up on some Apple pie a la mode ice cream at Cold Stone. Now when I went there, I usually had the cheesecake one with the berries and graham cracker. But unlike both my parents, when I go out to eat, I'm into a little bit of variety. So this thing had cake batter ice cream, apple pie filling, graham cracker, cinnaninnaninnaninnoman, and caramel. Excellent stuff. Their waffle cones are not very good compared to some of the other ones I've had, but what can you do?

Now on to some news of the week.

A teen who pinched and twisted another boy's nipple while standing in line at a deli has been sentenced to four days in juvenile detention because he refused to write a letter that explained his actions. David Thumler, 16, was convicted of offensive physical touching in July 2005, after the victim's parents complained to police. The Crater High School student paid a $67 fine and served three days of community service.

To me, that punishment is mostly baloney. See, cause it happened in a deli.... Anyway, the story doesn't mention why he went after the nipple? Shouldn't motive have been referred to here?

This one is downright strange:
A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said. Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away. The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, acting Athens Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb.

If that sticker had been put on a car, would the police and authorities have still gotten concerned?

Quick Facts
1. Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.

2. Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.

3. During the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep. (So basically 1 bug a year. Ah well, it probably builds your immune system.)

4. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes. (I'm just copying this stuff!)

5. Did you know that 85.7% of statistics are made up? (You gotta think about that for a while.)

6. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (Shame)

7. Don't even think about having sex while in a moving ambulance in Tremonton, Utah as it is extremely illegal. Of course, a stationary ambulance is another story.

Peace, my peeps.