Christopher A. Wheeler

OK, so today I was taking my exam, and filling in the Scantron form, you know, the kind where you have to fill in the bubbles and stuff. Nothing new today, exact same form, but for some reason, when my whole name doesn’t fit, I got REALLY annoyed. I mean, who’s bright idea is it to limit the number of characters to 16? It’s not just Scantron forms, because I get mail quite frequently addressed to “Christop Wheeler”.

I guess there is probably a really good explanation for this; I would suppose that 16 characters was some sort of limiting factor at the dawn of scanning test forms and stuff. But now, I don’t see a reason they can’t change it. How freaking hard can that be?

Then tune in to “1 vs. 100″ on NBC Friday nights at 8pm. Watch that show for an hour and you’ll feel like Albert Einstein.

Here is an example of a question from this past weeks episode:

QUESTION: Which of these animals has the fewest amount of cells?
a) Eastern Grey squirrel
b) Calista Flockhart
c) An amoeba

And the lady had no idea.

Another guy, who claimed to work with computers every day, had a hard time with this one:

QUESTION: Which of these is the largest?
a) gigabyte
b) megabyte
c) kilobyte

He didn’t seem very certain about his (correct) answer, which is gigabyte. Come on! If he struggled with this question, he probably should be out of a job.

OK, so we all know that Pearl Harbor Day isn’t a holiday right? Thankfully now I do, but when I was a kid, I had no idea.

I remember seeing Pearl Harbor Day on the calendar and, assuming it was just another holiday, would wish everyone I saw that day “Happy Pearl Harbor Day” to all the adults at school or church or wherever I happened to be that day. And it is so weird, that NOBODY ever once wished me Happy Pearl Harbor Day back.
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Without going in to too many details…

A phrase that you do not want to hear from your spouse when you two are doing what married people do, is “Oh finally”.

I’m not a big fan of most of Hy-Vee’s Chinese food, but I do LOVE their crab rangoon!

And right now, you can get 3/$1.50. Or, if you’re really hungry, you can get 6, for… $3.89!!!

I don’t even know how I can control myself. I’ve been struggling the past few days trying to figure out what I would say about this. I mean, after the breakup of Britney and K-Fed this is almost unbearable.

Everything I’ve ever felt about marriage I feel is being rocked to the core right now. I mean, how can these two people, so much in love, be ending it all? And what does that mean for people like Kate and me? I mean, if Britney and Kevin can’t stay together, or Kid and Pam can’t keep it together, what hopes do Kate and I have of being able to stay married? Is it even possible?
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