A Growing Problem (not a going problem)

I've recently become very concerned with the quality of automobiles on the road. The problem that I am seeing is very pervasive. It happens on all makes, models, and vintages of vehicles. In general, it is an intermittent problem, but the frequency that I observe this problem is rapidly increasing. My car has not experienced this problem yet, but with this growing problem, I wanted to spread the word, so you can be on the lookout for it.

Put simply, the problem is that turn signals are not working in these vehicles. Every single day I seem to be behind a vehicle that is affected by this problem. Perhaps it is electrical in nature. Has the government been conducting tests with EMPs (electro-magnetic pulses)? Or have solar storms been on the rise? I think if it was either of those, the effects would be much more wide-spread than just affecting turn signals. Whatever the cause, please help spread awareness, and regularly test your turn signals before making turns.

Thank you.

Quick Thoughts 12/3

• We were bowling with some friends last night, and I wound up rolling the highest three game series of my life. 177, 203, and 178 for a 558 series. Not too shabby, especially considering it was that crazy black light bowling, and we were next to some kids who had zero bowling etiquette.
• That reminds me of one of my first 200+ games of my life. I was on a date in high school and we went bowling. She was getting about a 50 and I ended up with 201. I really felt awful.
• Hey the Bears won the NFC North today. Congratulations to "the pride an joy of Illinois."
• That was one ugly game today.
• I'm still supporting Rex Grossman, but he's really making it difficult for me to do so. I really don't know why he keeps trying to force the deep ball. It really is getting to be maddening.
  
• Whoever thought Brian Urlacher was over-rated must have been on crack. I swear he is in on every tackle. It's a pretty safe bet that no other Bears will be wearing #54 in the future.
• It was apparent to me today how good Brad Maynard, the Bears' punter is. The Vikings' punter had a few shanks, but Maynard was a picture of consistency. It's the little things like punting that can really make a difference in a game. Dan, I know you've always appreciated Maynard too.
  
• Iowa gets to play Texas in the Alamo Bowl. That's not going to be pretty Hawkeye fans.
  

Quick Thoughts 12/1

• The Bears play the Vikings this weekend. A co-worker of mine suggested that if the Vikes win, I have to shave, and if the Bears win, he will. I might take him up on that. I'm pretty confident that I'll be keeping my whiskers.
• Yet another reason Legos are so darn cool. Just six, eight stud bricks can be arranged 915,103,765 different ways.
  
• Now for some fun. How nerdy are you? I'm not as bad as I thought.

You Are 36% Nerdy

You're a little nerdy, but no one would ever call you a nerd. You sometimes get into nerdy things, but only after they've become a part of mainstream culture.

How Nerdy Are You?

You can be a recording star!

You know I love karaoke, but never get a chance to do it any more. Well, I just came across this site, Singshot.com, that lets you make your own karaoke recordings and post them to the site. Spend a few minutes there and you might get addicted to it. There are some really, really bad renditions out there, but they are highly entertaining. I'll let you know if I start posting any. I can see Bigshow posting a few songs.

Quick Thoughts 11/19

• No points given up by the Bears today equals bear claws* Monday!
• Today in the children's sermon at church they were learning about Thanksgiving. The question was asked, "What do you like to do on Thanksgiving," to which one elementary school-aged girl replied, "Go to the Doctor Who convention." I think I laughed for three straight minutes.
• This weekend I was able to convert some audio tape recordings to digital format. Here are some recordings from this past summer for your listening enjoyment.
• Men's quartet (Larry Dodge, Kahn Evans, Bob Kanzelman, Jeff Utecht) singing "Climbin' up the Mountain."
• Men's quartet singing "I'll Fly Away."
• Me singing "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." Accompanied by Brian Nass.
• I suppose we're going to be seeing those annoying Lexus commercials again soon where people give their spouses a new Lexus with a huge bow on them for Christmas. Give me a break.
  

* After doing some calling around this afternoon, it seems that bear claws are hard to find. If I'm unable to locate any in town, I'll bring in apple fritters.

Busy morning

Holy cow, it's sloppy outside this morning. There was thunder and lightning to go along with the snow we're getting. It's hard to believe it was 70 degrees on Wednesday! The snow plows haven't made much progress on the roads, and the snow is really piling up. Holly and I went to the hospital this morning for an ultrasound, and after only 30 minutes there was at least two inches of snow on the cars.

Speaking of the ultrasound, we found out that we're having another boy! Everything looked good and he's still measuring for a due date of April 2, which is the same due date that Payton had. So now that we know for sure, we can start concentrating on coming up with a boy's name. Remember on Seinfeld when George wanted to name his baby "Seven?" I've always liked the ring that Seven Evans has, but I wouldn't consider actually naming the baby Seven. I'd love to hear any suggestions you have for names.

Quick Thoughts 11/3

• You may notice that things look a little different on my blog now. I switched to Blogger Beta, which had some nice features such as labels for my posts. So over on the right-hand side of my blog, you'll see a few categories of labels I've given some of my previous posts. Also, there are some handy expand/collapse buttons in my archive section to make navigation easier.
  
• The reason I switched to a blogspot hosted blog now is that I was having lots of problems FTPing to my Charter-hosted blog. I don't know if my blog was getting too large for Charter, but I kept getting FTP transfer timeouts every time I tried to add a new post. For someone who is already lacking motivation to post, I didn't need any more deterrents. After deleting most of the pictures from my Charter account, I realized that my blog still points to them. So a lot of my old posts don't have pictures with them anymore. Other than that, I think I'll be better off now.
• I think the Bears are going to steamroll over the Dolphins this weekend.
  
• People knock the Bears for their weak schedule. Is it really their fault though? A lot of people picked the Dolphins to be in the Super Bowl this year, but as it stands, they only have one win right now. People also thought Arizona would be good. So even the games that were supposed to be against good teams aren't all there. You can't fault the Bears for that. They just need to keep going out there a knocking off these teams in convincing fashion, one at a time. If the Bears weren't an elite team, they wouldn't be dominating the lesser teams like they have been doing all season long.
• Hey, post some comments so I know that traffic is flowing to the new site!