In Case You Were Wondering

So here are a few things that I have come across in the past few days that I thought might be worth sharing with you may adoring fan base, all 5 of you ;)

In case you were wondering just how many calories there are in a blooming onion at Outback, here's the article for you . . .

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04212008/news/regionalnews
/read_calorie_count__weep_107394.htm

NYC is leading the latest attempt at curbing US obesity with new legislation that requires restaurants to inform patrons of the caloric content of the menu items. I will be interested to see if this has any actual impact on people's choices. In addition to listing the actual calorie count next to each menu item I think they should institute an icon system - like they do with chili peppers at thai restaurants to indicate spicyness. For example, they could put a picture of John Candy next to the Blooming Onion (2,275 calories) and a picture of Mama Cass next to the Cheese Fries (2,900 calories). What can I say, I am a visual learner.

In case you were wondering when the price of stamps was going to increase, here is a friendly tip. . . as of May 12th the stamp will cost .42. (http://www.usps.com/prices/) And what are you getting for your additional 1 cent? Nothing, the US Mail will still take its own dang time delivering stuff to you. PS - In case you have a large surplus of .41 stamps laying around, I would just like to let you know that I love getting mail.

In case you were wondering, this is how some people celebrated Earth Day . . .


This guy was participating in "the highly popular rain barrel workshop" which involves "recycling pickle barrels into rain barrels, to use to collect rain water from your home and reuse it in your garden." Apparently it also involves shoving yourself into said pickle barrel and rolling around on the floor. I'm not making this up: http://www.co.arlington.va.us/departments/EnvironmentalServices/EnvironmentalServicesEarthDay.aspx

I have also had a bit of feedback on my post about handicapped bathroom stall etiquette. Apparently in addition to etiquette Sean was curious about the utilization rate of handicapped stalls as "they are the largest real estate investment in bathrooms and it is never used." Good point Mr. Owens but in that vein what about handicapped parking. Talk about prime real estate that it almost never fully utilized.

Squishy also requested that I amend my exceptions to the stated rules of when to properly use the handicapped stall to include situations where you have kids with you. Her proposed revision:

You may also use the handi stall if you have children. Try getting into a normal sized stall with 3 kids (of course this was when they were all little and you couldn’t just tell them to stay outside because they might run away or pull out yards and yards of paper towels while waiting for you to get out. Also, when potty training, you have to go in the stall with them to make sure they don’t pee all over the floor or neglect to wipe their bottoms after a big poop. And you also have to keep the other two kids in there as well b/c of the aforementioned reasons.

I can get behind that exception. I think a handicapped person would prefer to wait a few minutes to use the stall designated for them in lieu of walking into a bathroom filled with crazy kids and paper towel mayhem.

Well I hope this has effectively reduced the number of things you need to wonder about today.