Don’t you just hate it when, while you’re working at the kitchen sink, you notice it’s slightly backed up, so you flip on the garbage disposal and then, just as you’re standing there laughing or with your mouth otherwise agape, water shoots straight up from the other side of the sink and some lands in your erstwhile open maw?
Yeah, it’s never happened to me either, but – MAN! How disgusting would that be!?!
Hey there all you beatiful peoples! (And hi to you ugly ones, too.)
Just wanted to let you all know that recently I set up a new address for the Land of Boz. Yes, you can still access the site in the manner to which you are accustomed – by using www.landofboz.net; but in case that’s too much effort to type, you can also get to the best site on the internet (no, I mean this one) by using www.bozric.com. Don’t believe me? Click the links and I’ll see you here in a second. Go ahead – you know you want to.
I’m not sure why I never had the URL before. Uncle Chris suggested it to me as a joke and I was, like, “Duh!” I guess sometimes you just need a good board to the back of the head.
As promised, I’m posting the results of last month’s poll regarding whether or not you as an individual prefer to crumple or fold your toilet paper. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, refer to this post: To Fold or Not to Fold?
Now, as far as my own poll went, I had a total of 10 responders. Yes, I was hoping for more, but I’ll take what I can get. And the results were overwhelmingly slanted to the folding, which I found odd.
Maybe because up until recently I’d been a lifelong crumpler – raised to crumple from my first efforts at going poddy all by myself, but I wouldn’t have thought there are that many, uh, anal-retentive people out there who took the time required to fold their paper.
Clearly I was wrong.
Additionally, one of the polled individuals took the time to send me a link to another site that is conducting a similar yet MUCH more detailed poll. I’m going to include their results here as well, which are current as of the time of this post.
So – as can clearly be seen above, folding your paper prior to clean-up is much more prevalent an ideal that I would have ever thought possible, with 71% of nearly 26,000 people stating they do so.
What do these results really tell us? First, that 57% of the folding demographic are in elementary school and that by the time you hit junior high, you find you no longer have as much time to spend folding, since the percentage plummets to 6% for that age group. We also have learned that women are more likely to crumple than fold, again going against my preconceptions, and that they are likely to continue doing so until at least their mid-life crisis.
Ultimately, however, we have learned two important factoids from this poll:
We’ve been in our house for 5 years now and I love everything about it… EXCEPT for the toilets! We’ve always had an issue with clogging. On a lark, I decided to try folding my toilet paper rather than just crumple the way I have been for 40 years. Now, the commodes no longer clog – when I use them. Convincing my wife and daughter, who collectively use roughly their own body weight in toilet paper per trip, to start folding may be another story, but this leaves me know with a burning desire to know what everyone else does.
Sounds like it’s time for a poll! I’ll leave it open for the month of March and post the results after that.
Well, I was going to write about how this year Ashlee & I have started to lose weight and have drastically changed our eating habits to a more healthy regimen. We’re not going carbs only – no Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers or any of that ilk. Just good old real food without all the crap that we, as Americans, tend to copiously shove down our collective gullet. Ashlee was inspired to start losing thanks to TV’s The Biggest Loser: Couples that’s on now. I was inspired by Ashlee. And Gretchen – nothing like that 5-yr-old complete honesty, is there? “Daddy, you’re FAT!”
Then I thought I’d write about Gretchen and her never-ending quest to spit on everyone at school. After this most recent incident, which involved a mouthful of milk and then pretending to be some sort of squirting monster that douses its neighbor’s food tray, we had to issue the for-crying-out-loud-no-more-spitting edict.
But then our heat went out over the weekend and I woke up freezing my tuchus off. The same weekend that Gretchen was sick, running a 103 degree fever (and consequently gave whatever it was to both myself and my wife). Oy!
It was just too much. I refuse to write about any of it in any detail.
Ash & I are losing weight. Gretchen has stopped spitting on people. Everyone is healthy. We have heat. Nothing to see here…
Move along now.
Schmap.com contacted me about a month ago and said they wanted to use one of my photos for their third edition of the Schmap Nashville Guide. I was kinda like, “um… okay – and who are you?” So I went and looked ‘em up. Here’s the snippet about them straight from their site:
Schmap Guides
Schmap’s series of digital travel guides integrates dynamic maps with useful background reading, suggested tours, photos from the traveling public and reviews by local correspondents (for sights and attractions, hotels, restaurants, bars, parks, theaters, galleries, museums and more) to profile 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Schmap Guides can be browsed online, or downloaded for offline trip planning and traveling with a laptop.
And then this morning I received another email letting me know they’ve published it. So… that’s kinda cool, no? I mean, since it’s digital instead of actual print that makes it almost like being published, right? 
Oh – and here’s the photo they used:
