Thursday 2/6/25
Celebrate:
Lame Duck Day
National Chopsticks Day
National Frozen Yogurt Day
Pay-a-Compliment Day
Ronald Reagan Day
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You're most likely at work, so...not a perfect day.
If you had a totally free day to do whatever you wanted, how would you spend it? A new poll looked at what America's "perfect day" would look like. And we wouldn't do anything special . . . just a whole lot of relaxing.
Here's the full breakdown of what our perfect day would look like . . .
6 hours and 54 minutes of sleep
2 hours of eating
3 hours of family time
1 hour and 24 minutes hanging out with friends
1 hour and 6 minutes hanging with pets
3 hours and 6 minutes watching TV
1 hour and 24 minutes spent on hobbies
1 hour 30 minutes messing around on our phone.
48 minutes of exercise (right........)
48 minutes spent shopping
A 42-minute nap. That's on top of the seven hours of sleep you got.
And finally, 1 hour and 18 minutes spent listening to music.
The average person expects to have 16 perfect days in 2025, which isn't too bad. It's around one perfect day every three weeks.
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The FireAid benefit concerts last Thursday are estimated to have raised over $100 million to support recovery efforts in Los Angeles.
This came from donations, ticket sales, sponsorships, and merchandise sales. FireAid streamed across 28 platforms for free.
The whole concert is up on YouTube.
There's also a 90-track benefit album dropping Friday for only 24 HOURS. It's called "Good Music to Lift Los Angeles" and it'll be available at Bandcamp.com starting at 12:00 a.m. Pacific for $20.25.
It'll have contributions from R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Tenacious D, Modest Mouse, Interpol, and many more. It's a mix of previously unreleased music like new songs, covers, remixes, and demos.
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Eggs just get more expensive, and resturants are going to have to pass that on to you.
Waffle House has announced that they've added a 50-cent surcharge on every single egg they use. The surcharge went into effect on Monday and it's been applied to all menus from Waffle House, at nearly 2,000 locations.
They chose a "surcharge" rather than boosting prices across the menu because it's TEMPORARY. The extra fee will be removed once the price of eggs comes back down. Or raised, if costs climb even higher.
I think most people understand the problem with the way supply and demand work, less chickens due to the bird flu, less eggs..prices go up.
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A new poll asked people what their least favorite month is, and the top two responses were: January (26%) and February (11%). August (10%) is third, probably because that's when summer ends and school is starting up again.
People were also asked for their favorite month. The ones with the most votes were October (14%) and December (11%) but warmer weather was also popular, with May (10%) and June (10%) third and fourth.
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According to a new study, people are speaking about 3,000 FEWER WORDS each day, compared to 20 years ago. The current average is about 13,000 words per day down from around 16,000 per day in 2005.
The reason? More reliance on digital communications like texting and social media. So, instead of calling someone you can just respond with a text saying, "OK."
Yes, women speak more than men around 13,350 words per day, compared to 11,950 for men.
So is this a bad thing? Maybe . . . if it means we're being less social.
Researchers say that the declining trend has broader implications for human health and well-being. Quote, "social interaction through conversation plays a crucial role in mental and physical health, similar to exercise or sleep."
So maybe we need a fitbit type device to make sure we get our 10,000 words a day! hahahahah
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In the In memoriam segment at the Grammys, they showed Bob Newhart and it took me a second to remember that he had a #1 comedy album and won the Grammy for Album of the Year and Best New Artist in 1961.
There have been other "odd" winners of Grammys. But there is a spoken word category, so A lot of celebrities have Grammys in the Spoken Word category, often for narrating their own books. They include Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Magic Johnson, Betty White, and Kate Winslet.
Others though -
Eugene Levy has a Grammy for the song "A Mighty Wind", from the movie of the same name. It won Best Song Written for a Motion Picture in 2004.
Steve Martin has five Grammys, but only two are for comedy albums. The other three are in the Bluegrass and Country categories, for his banjo playing.
Zach Braff has a Grammy for putting together the compilation soundtrack for his movie "Garden State".
Stephen Colbert has two spoken word Grammys, but he has another one for his album "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!"
Elmo from "Sesame Street" has three Grammys, for Best Musical Album for Children.
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Are you "middle aged"? It depends on who you ask.
There's never been a consensus on exactly what it is. Some say anywhere from 35 to 65. Others think that's too broad.
Merriam-Webster defines it as between "about 40" and "about 60." But a recent poll found plenty of people outside those ages think they fit the bill.
One in four Americans under 40 consider themselves middle aged. And one in five people over 60 say the same. So what do YOU think the cutoff is?
What's the age range where you have to admit you're not "young" anymore . . . but you still get to claim you're not an "old person" yet?
By the way..being literal based on average life-span in America it's 38 or 39.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - A kangaroo word is one that contains all the letters of a synonym. Like the word "chicken" has all the letters for the word "hen" inside it, or "masculine" contains the word "male."
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