Long Time in the Bathroom

The average person will spend 1.5 yrs. of their lifetime in the bathroom.

And when you really need in the bathroom and someone else won't come out, it seems like a year and a half.

Rubik's Cube Trivia

A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillion) possible configurations.

jejune

jejune adjective [ji-joon]

1. without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
2. juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
3. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.

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That pretty much describes me OR this blog.

Oct. 14, 2015 EDIT TO ADD:  I was watching the latest The Blacklist last night and Reddington used the word in a sentence.  Cool.

Future Hall of Famer

THE man: Jason Witten

parvenu

parvenu noun [pahr-vuh-noo, pahr-vuh-noo,-nyoo]

a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.

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I wanna be a parvenu; that's why I play the lottery.

Future Teamster

Learning the union way at an early age.

Davis Family Wheat Farm

Great Texas Country Reporter segment about a family and their farm near Perryton, Texas. The kids say "Sir" and seem to have a good work ethic instilled in them.  The adults speak of honor and being caretakers of the land, but....

I did a quick search at the EWG Farm Subsidy Database and found out Davis Farms received payments totaling $2,103,526 from 1995 through 2012.