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- If current trends hold, in just another month or two the tallest person in my household will be 13 years old, not 43.
- I like my new phone a lot, though I’ve found a couple of minor bugs. I’m enjoying Cortana more as I learn how to talk to her. The location-based stuff is pretty trick, though not being able to set current location as a favorite with a single action from inside Cortana strikes me as a significant UI blunder.
- On my commute, there is a mud flap that came off a large truck lying in the road. It’s been there for three days. There are screws sticking up on it. Isn’t this the kind of thing a police officer should at least get off the pavement? It would take him/her two minutes. I would do it myself, but I can’t pull off safely where it is. Something like…oh, a police light bar would make it easy.
- No surprise the playoff committee went with Ohio State, is it? Avoid the Big 12 question entirely that way. Oh, and the committee saying the conference’s declaration of co-champions figured into it is lame. You can look at a head-to-head result whether the Big 12 “officially” does or not.
- I may try our Christmas Eve shrimp with royal reds this year.
- The saga of Harvard professor Ben Edelman being overcharged $4 for Chinese food is compelling, jaw-dropping reading. He apologized yesterday.
- Got the Christmas hot sauce box this week. Looking forward to trying some of my new ones, but I need to make some space first. I think I have ten open bottles right now.
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Have you notified anyone about the mudflap?
Related: there is an app for reporting various city improvements (potholes, etc). Not sure if more immediate needs can go through that channel.
Amanda, I didn’t notify anyone, but that was kind of the point I was making. If I’ve driven by it three times, how many times has a police cruiser been by it? Or a city services truck?
If current trends hold, in the next year, I will be the shortest person in my household. I’m 5′ 8″.
Aaron hasn’t hit his huge spurt yet, and it remains to be seen whether he’s got more my genes or Lea’s for height. (This is all my father-in-law in Nathan. I’m 5’10”. Nathan’s going to be 5’11” at 13 years old, potentially on his way to 6’3″ or so.) So Lea’s got a little way to go before she’s the shortest in the house, but she’ll get there in probably six years at the most.)