Danny ChaiHere’s one thing I don’t understand about SoCal people. When you ask them how long it takes to get from one point to another, they almost always say “it takes x minutes without traffic”, then they give you a more practical, realistic estimate.
My question is, why even bother saying how long it takes without traffic? There’s always traffic in SoCal. No matter what time we drove all weekend, we ran into some traffic somewhere. (The worst was a 2 mile stretch of Wilshire in Santa Monica that took 40 minutes. That’s just wrong.) So what’s the point of saying how long it takes without traffic when it’s never relevant? Is it just like an interesting side fact? Like saying it would take 2 hours by bike, just for kicks? I dunno, I just thought it was odd. Seriously, almost every time. “It takes about 40 minutes without traffic. So it will take about an hour.” Ridiculous.
I was kind of surprised at how many posters, bumper stickers, etc. I saw for Greg Laurie and the Harvest thing in San Jose this past weekend. The most random place in which I saw a poster was Thai Basil. Are they Christian there? Then what’s up with the Buddha figurines inside? Odd.
And I’m not in the habit of clicking on the ads on my own page, but I had to find out what this one was about. Sex skills for the Christian husband? What the heck?
I was also at Fry’s the other day and saw Dance Praise, basically Dance Dance Revolution with Christan music. I was kind of surprised; is there a big market for this? I dunno, weird.
Also, I learned very recently that Canada beat the U.S. in the War of 1812. You read that right. I never learned this in school, but in that war we tried to invade Canada but got our butt kicked and were lucky to escape the war without having to make any territorial concessions. Canada beat the U.S. – who knew?