Something New

It has been suggested that I post all that I do or learn on this blog. I fear I would spend too much time on the keyboard if I did, but I will try to post a little more information. I like to learn about new things. And I find most things interesting. So I tend to learn new things most every day.

Yesterday I went to measure to make some curtains for the portable the coaches will be moving into at my daughter's school and realized the yardstick I had grabbed was 40 inches long. Now that has never been a yard. So I asked and was told that it is a meter stick since the other side shows centimeter markings. When I went to school we were told about the metric system and told that someday the United States would surely convert but we were not required to learn it. Good thing since I just now learned that there are 40 inches to a meter! Many many years later! And we still haven't converted. Lucky for me!

Today I finally learned what Universal Time (UTC) is. It is really just Greenwich Mean Time, renamed. What I don't know is why the name change. After all it ISN'T 12:43 p.m. throughout the universe right now, nor even round the world because yes, the world is round! We have all agreed on that. I would love to learn the reasoning behind that. Anyone?

On a more fun note I just read that black jaguars are the only cats that swim underwater. I have a friend whose lab sticks her entire nose under water when she drinks. So is the swimming underwater genetic or could it be learned?

This morning I started restringing the other patio chair and got the verticals done before the mosquitoes drove me inside.

So are you sorry yet that you got me started doing this?