I took some photos of the trees a few weeks ago, before the wind blew all the leaves off the trees.

I can now post from my iPod touch.

This penny was discovered face-up in a parking lot. I put it in my pocket and moments later I found an extra dime in the soda machine coin return.

We’re on a road trip to visit some family. We drove by a new wind farm. It was the first time I’d seen a whole group of wind turbines together. I watch the propellers being transported on the highway as I go to and from work. It always amazes me how large just one blade is on these things.

This is about as close to a clear blue sky as we get around here. There is a lot of commercial air traffic in this part of the country.

I took ten years of Power Ball data and found the five most frequent lotto numbers and the one most frequent Power Ball ( these are also known as the mode).

Too bad the Power Ball doesn’t have a memory.

I have a little device that tests the TDS or “Total Dissolved Solids” in liquids. I decided to test the various water sources in my kitchen. The tester gives a number between 0-999 and one of five faces. 0-30 is a face, 31-100 is a face, 101-200 is a face, 201-300 is a face, and 301-999 is a face.

I started with hot tap water because I thought it would be the highest, and I was correct. I got a 350 from my sample.

I then got a sample of cold tap water. It was also very high at 330.

Our refrigerator has a filter connected to it, so I tested the water from it. I was disappointed to see that it was 300.

We don’t usually use the water from the fridge, we have a Britta water filter pitcher that we drink from. Luckily it seems to be a better job of filtering out the solids in the water. The sample showed a 190.

I took an ice cube from a bag of store-bought ice and let it melt in a clean baggy so I could test the water from it. I was pleasantly surprised to see that ice from the store had only a 3.

While I was in the freezer getting the Ice, I also pulled out a bottle of Cachaca and decided to test a sample of it with the meter.

It has a TDS of 20.

We didn’t have any bottled water in the house at the moment, so that was one sample I wish I could have also tested. I thought about testing my spit, but I have a feeling I already know the results and it would have been a gross thing to do anyway.

It’s hard to have a bad day when a visit to the candy store is involved. I left with a pound of burnt peanuts and a pound of grapefruit sections. I could have easily left there with ten other items, but two bags of candy is enough for now. Plus I need a reason to visit the store again anyway.

Why not, it has the same minuscule chance of happening as any other set of  Power Ball numbers. We’ll see if it pays off Saturday night.

I don’t think, while working on my car, I’ve ever injured myself worse than this. Don’t use your legs to hold the throttle body while you try to loosen a stuck screw with your electric drill. It might unseat itself, rip your pants and dig into your leg.

I’ve covered it with ointment and a tissue. I’m not sure how I’m going to sleep tonight with this thing on the inside of my thigh oozing blood. Needless to say this was not my brightest moment… and to make it worse, the repair on the throttle body didn’t even work.

For some reason this fortune isn’t reassuring. There are a lot of things I don’t want to come my way. Unfortunately this fortune cookie says that EVERYTHING will now come my way. I image there exists a clipboard with a list of everything and a couple of guys loading up a truck to send it all my way;

“Flesh-eating food-borne virus, check. Paper cut from an IRS audit notification letter dipped in lemon juice, check. Sting from a fiberglass bee, check. Alright, now all we have to do is find someone to poke his forehead with a pine cone covered in dog poop while he is asleep in a dentist chair and (-checks clipboard-) that will be everything.”

There are so many other phrases that I’d rather read in a fortune cookie; “Everything will go your way now” or “Everything good will now come your way”, or “Nothing bad will now come your way”, but never “Everything will now come your way”.