Our bathrooms, here at work, have motion sensors with timers on the lights.  If they don’t detect any motion after a couple of minutes, they shut off the lights.  While this may save on electricity, it does leave people stranded in the dark on a regular basis.  And, unfortunately, the sensors are around the corners so, unless you are leaving the bathroom, no amount of wiggling with reactivate the lights.

This morning, I wasn’t quick enough and got stuck in the dark.  Fortunately, I knew where everything was.

Well, 3 year old Adolf Hitler is back in the news again.  It seems that protective services took him and his sister, Aryan Nation, away from their parents.  I wonder if it had anything to do with the names?

With the advent of internet porn, the sales of Hustler and Penthouse magazines are down. So, in the light of the government bailout of the auto industry, the porn industry is also requesting financial help from the government.

Could it be that the days of the centerfold are numbered?

One of the big news stories of the new year is a set of twins which were just born. What makes this so interesting to the media is that one was born in 2008 and the other was born in 2009.

While this may be of big interest to the media, it is old news to me. My father was born in 1908 and his twin brother was born in 1909. So, this is nothing new to me.

I suspect that births, such as this, occur quite often. Aside from the uniqueness of the event, the family lost out on a tax deduction for 2008. Too bad.

Back in 2006, a Texas man was arrested for killing his wife and children and then cutting their hearts out. While he was awaiting his trial, he ate his right eye. The judge was not impressed and declared him competent to stand trial.

He was convicted and sentenced to death. While waiting on death row, he ate his left eye.

He has since been transfered to a Psych ward in a different prison. I guess cutting the hearts our of your family is normal in Texas but eating both of your eyes indicates that you are nuts.

Maybe he just didn’t like the prison food.

A few years ago, a husband donated one of his kidneys to his wife. But, now, she is divorcing him and he wants his kidney back as a part of the settlement. If she is unwilling to give him back his kidney, he wants a large cash settlement instead.

I think I know why they are getting a divorce.

The Chinese restaurant that I quite often go to for lunch has changed owners. The food has improved, the carpet has been replaced and the decor has been changed.

While the food is still Chinese, the decor is now Mediterranean. The pictures of Hong Kong have been replace with pictures of stucco houses sitting on hills sides over looking bodies of water.

The owner is a young, second generation Chinese. And while he can speak Chinese, his English is perfect. Maybe he will turn the place into a Bistro that serves Chinese food.

The sign on our local Arby’s announces that Southwest Mini Egg Rolls are back. I guess I didn’t know that they had left. Or more to the point, I guess I didn’t know that they had ever existed.

Now, when I think of south west egg rolls, I am thinking Sichuan. Cabbage with spicy shrimp. But, apparently these are more of a Juarez style.

I guess anything that is wrapped in dough and deep fat fried is an egg roll. Then again, I suppose you could call ravioli won tons with tomato sauce.

A Blue Fin Tuna recently sold a auction for over $100,000. It was bought by a sushi restaurant. At $370 a pound, that is some expensive sushi. I wonder if it would be considered to be gourmet?

What is the idea behind “gourmet”? Originally, gourmet referred to food that was high on taste and low on quantity. But now, it seems like everything is being marketed as “gourmet”.

The down hill slide began with gourmet pop corn. Now, while I like pop corn, I didn’t consider it to be in the same category with caviar.

Recently, I bought “gourmet” peanut brittle. It was tasty but not the best that I have ever had. Most recently, I bought some dried basil. There were two kinds on the shelf; regular and gourmet. The gourmet was more expensive than the regular. I opted for the regular.

If you used gourmet pop corn for pop corn balls, would the pop corn balls be “gourmet”?