So yesterday I left work early to go to baby CPR class.  I left myself a decent amount of time, but it was raining, so of course everybody has to drive super slow.  So I was kind of trying to hurry because I could see I was going to be cutting it close, but I was still doing okay.  So I’m sort of speeding down the highway when all of a sudden my windshield wiper comes free!  I could see it was sort of hanging on a little bit so I wanted to turn off the windshield wipers so I didn’t lose it on the side of the highway, but I also knew that when you turn them off they go one more time!  So I turned them off and it did go one more time, but the wiper didn’t fall off.  I had changed the windshield wipers recently and apparently I hadn’t secured it properly.  So now I was sort of faced with a conundrum…do I pull over and fix it (in the rain) and probably be late, or do I just go without my windshield wipers?  Well it was really only sprinkling and I discovered that if I drove really fast the rain sort of beaded up and blew off the windshield…no problem after all!  So then, once I got on Lake Shore Drive, the sky started to get really dark and ominous.  And I was thinking, “Please don’t rain, please don’t rain, please don’t rain” but of course all hell breaks loose.  I still don’t want to turn on my wipers because if I lose the wiper then I still won’t be able to see and I’ll have no way of fixing it.  So I get off at the exit but it is raining so hard that I literally can’t tell if I’m in my lane or not!!  I called Sara to tell her I was going to be late during all of this but that was dumb because I could not spare one iota of attention if I was going to live.  I was hoping I could find some sort of overhang to fix the wiper and not get completely soaked but I didn’t see anything.  I didn’t even know where I was!  And then I died and I’m writing this post from some sort of spooky Internet afterlife.  No, just kidding, the rain slowed down enough for me to complete my trip sans wipers and I even made it the the class (barely) on time.  I don’t know if this story did the situation justice, but believe me if you could have been a fly on the wall in the car listening to me yell to Sara on the phone that I was dying, you’d be laughing right now.

Okay, this one is hot off the presses and it really cracks me up.  Basically there was a raffle for a Porsche and they picked the winner and someone in the crowd yelled “Do over!” and the idiot picking the ticket actually tossed the winner in and picked again!  Just because he heard someone in the crowd say “do over!”  I’m going to try that from now on, whenever I’m in a situation like that I’m yelling “Do over!”  It’s worth a shot apparently.

Okay, this is sort of interesting.  It is a map of the U.S. but the states have been renamed to a country with a similar GDP as that state.

It is interesting to see a tiny state like New Jersey has the same GDP as a huge country like Russia and then on the other hand a huge state like Alaska has the same GDP as Belarus.  You can read more about it (and see a bigger picture of the map) here.

As long as we’re on the topic of interesting things, check out this photo essay on what the world eats.  It basically shows families in different countries and how much they would spend on groceries in a week.  That might not sound all that interesting, but I promise it’s worth a look.  When have I ever let you down before?