First off, this week's award for awesomeness goes to the house on 14th Street, around the low 200s, that has added the letters Pi Omega Omega to their porch. Bravo. Bravo.
To the Springfest coordinators, THAT WAS AWESOME. Thanks muchly for the Wailers. I give it two Smitties up.
Anyway, on to the thoughts, focusing mainly on showers and sitcoms this week. Not sure why, they just seemed to go together. Like peas and carrots. Or beer before liquor. Or that dog in Key West walking around with a cat on its back, and a mouse on the cat's back...
4Auto response from asmitty97: so I'm sitting there on the hammock, keg next to me, filling my cup up when it's empty, and I says to myself, "Smitty, this is entirely way too much energy. Just stick the tap in your mouth." And so I did.
4If you were to ask someone what the purpose of a mirror in the shower was, most people would answer that it's for shaving or washing your face. This is of course wrong. The correct response is, of course, Shampoo Mohawks.
4When Daylight Savings occurs, what happens to TV shows during the 2-3 a.m. time slot? For fall back, when the time goes from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m., do they just replay the 2 a.m. shows? What about for spring forward, when we skip the entire hour from 2 to 3 a.m. (which completely freaks me out by the way)? Do they just skip the 2 a.m. shows? These are the kinds of things that keep me up at night.
4My sister has a one of those shower radio CD player thingamajigs. Mind you, this is a device meant to be used in the shower, where there is water. It contains the following labels and warnings: Do not clean the mirror with water. Do not submerge the device in water. It also contains the following functions: alarm clock and snooze button (most likely for those long naps in the shower) and AC plug-in (that would be for connecting your device to a wall outlet, where there is lots of electricity). The shower radio stopped working after the first shower.
4Something really weird that's bugged me for years. In the TV show "Family Matters," for the first few seasons, there was a youngest daughter, Judy Winslow played by Jaimee Foxworthy. Anyway, she was definitely there and definitely a member of the family. Now, cut to a few seasons later, no sign of her whatsoever. They simply just lost a member of the family. Last time I checked, a member of your family goes missing, you go find them. Even if it's just a puppy that lost his way, you get off your ass and you find that freaking dog.
4One time, on "Step by Step," Mike V. and I heard J.T. use, as a pickup line, "Why don't we take a scenic drive to... uh ... oh I don't know... Suckface Hill!" Who does that?
4George Foreman is a great great man, and deserves a Nobel Prize. I swear, if everyone had a Foreman grill, the world would be a much better place.
4Easily the worst thing about a cell phone is those mornings when someone calls at like 8:30 a.m., but you don't answer the phone, but then the phone keeps ringing like once a minute to tell you that you missed a call, and it has fallen into some deep crevice nowhere near your bed, and it just keeps making that beeping noise.
4I've posed the question before of why I can't just use Nair on my face instead of shaving, and I've been told that it smells horrible and other bad stuff yada yada yada. So my question now is: Why has someone not gotten on this? Do we not realize that the extent of innovation in the field of shaving since like the 1800s has progressed from a knife to a razor to the Mach 3 (the four blade razor does not exist, like Rocky 5)? It's the 21st century; I was expecting to have lasers or something shaving me now. None of this manual junk with shaving cream. At least get on the ball and make some form of Nair that I can just rub on my face in the shower.
4Ever notice when they end up having to completely rewrite a character in a TV show? We'll take Al from "Step by Step" and Topanga from "Boy Meets World." In the early seasons, Al was a tomboy and hated all the girliness (apparently, according to Word, girliness is not a real world. It offers the following suggestions: grisliness, griminess and goriness), and Topanga was that weird, earthy girl who did meditation and was all weird with that weird stuff. Then these shows' writers, producers, janitors, whomever, realized that both girls were getting real hot, and they slowly weaned them away from their original characters into the blossoming swans they were. Much like myself.
4Our shower curtain is now held together by staples.
(Smitty can be reached at smitty@cavalierdaily.com)
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