We have all heard the cliche, "you learn something new every day." Which is a thought that I enjoy because I love learning and I can only hope that my brain is continually expanding. However, what is it that we fill our brains with? I believe I have mentioned that I have a desk job- which means I am susceptible to the Internet for eight hours each day. Which seems a little frightening, although much of this time is just spent sifting through work emails. So I decided to take note of what I learn in a day, and here are a few things from the last 24 hours, both through Internet and people, etc....
The word "cosset" is a form of doting on somebody like a pet. Temple Square in Salt Lake City is the 16th most visited tourist site in the US. An Air France jet went missing off the coast of Brazil yesterday. On average lightning hits one airplane every three years. Massachusetts is the only and first state to have mandatory health care, and if you are not willing to pay for it then you will be penalized on your taxes. I am going to have dinner at the Carters on Wed night. Oakland Airport parking is $16 a day for economy, $22 for daily, and $32 for the hourly/day. The Tongan Monarchy is one of the Oldest continuous monarchies in history, and in the 1980's they sold Tongan passports to anyone who wanted a passport even if they could not get one in their own country. The last Titanic survivor died yesterday. INSEAD Business school is taught in English but requires a second language competency upon admission and a third language competency upon graduation. London Business School has approximately 320 students, 25% women. The Bachelorette started a new season last week. Conan is starting at a new time. Lost gets more weird every season. It is supposed to be chilly in San Fran this week but get up to 72 degrees on Sunday. My friend Amanda got a puppy last week. Another friend Sara spent the weekend in Seattle and said the best burgers she has ever had were at Red Mill Burgers. And another friend Michelle recommended the new movie Up and Up. And my friend Jill just returned home from the hospital. (I admit there is a lot of social learning through blogs/facebook.) We are getting a new sink in our apartment tomorrow. Half of the people in my office are sick with some variation of a cold. We ran out of Vitamin C and cough drops in the medicine cabinet at work. My coworker spent the weekend in Napa and drank a lot. Another coworker bought an off colored sweater on sale at Banana Republic for $3. Victoria's Secret gave away free panties to their first 100 customers who came in with the offer code yesterday. My husband can actually make pretty good spaghetti sauce all on his own now. Somebody slept in our apartment while we were out of town. Two of my husband's high school friends just got engaged...
There are plenty of other potentially useless facts that I may have absorbed yesterday but these are the ones I remembered. And who knows which are based on truth and which are opinion and what I can take for face value. But it is interesting to recount what one can learn in a day.
The word "cosset" is a form of doting on somebody like a pet. Temple Square in Salt Lake City is the 16th most visited tourist site in the US. An Air France jet went missing off the coast of Brazil yesterday. On average lightning hits one airplane every three years. Massachusetts is the only and first state to have mandatory health care, and if you are not willing to pay for it then you will be penalized on your taxes. I am going to have dinner at the Carters on Wed night. Oakland Airport parking is $16 a day for economy, $22 for daily, and $32 for the hourly/day. The Tongan Monarchy is one of the Oldest continuous monarchies in history, and in the 1980's they sold Tongan passports to anyone who wanted a passport even if they could not get one in their own country. The last Titanic survivor died yesterday. INSEAD Business school is taught in English but requires a second language competency upon admission and a third language competency upon graduation. London Business School has approximately 320 students, 25% women. The Bachelorette started a new season last week. Conan is starting at a new time. Lost gets more weird every season. It is supposed to be chilly in San Fran this week but get up to 72 degrees on Sunday. My friend Amanda got a puppy last week. Another friend Sara spent the weekend in Seattle and said the best burgers she has ever had were at Red Mill Burgers. And another friend Michelle recommended the new movie Up and Up. And my friend Jill just returned home from the hospital. (I admit there is a lot of social learning through blogs/facebook.) We are getting a new sink in our apartment tomorrow. Half of the people in my office are sick with some variation of a cold. We ran out of Vitamin C and cough drops in the medicine cabinet at work. My coworker spent the weekend in Napa and drank a lot. Another coworker bought an off colored sweater on sale at Banana Republic for $3. Victoria's Secret gave away free panties to their first 100 customers who came in with the offer code yesterday. My husband can actually make pretty good spaghetti sauce all on his own now. Somebody slept in our apartment while we were out of town. Two of my husband's high school friends just got engaged...
There are plenty of other potentially useless facts that I may have absorbed yesterday but these are the ones I remembered. And who knows which are based on truth and which are opinion and what I can take for face value. But it is interesting to recount what one can learn in a day.
