Anniversary, The Next Day

Wait. Is this a sequel post? Did you read yesterday's post? If so, then you know it was our wedding anniversary. If you did not, then you know it now. Anyway, let's start with some divorce statistics from this website: 41 percent of first marriages end in divorce, 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce, 73 percent of third marriages end in divorce, that is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds in the US, living together prior to getting married can increase the chance of getting divorced by as much as 40 percent, 29 percent of Baptists are divorced (the highest for a US religious group), while only 21 percent of atheists/agnostics were divorced (the lowest). Does any of that surprise you? No, me either. Well, maybe the fact that Baptists are the most likely religion to get divorced. For us, though, it is onward and upward toward 39.

Would you pay an extra $0.35 to help restaurants pay a better living wage to their workers? One place in MN is doing just that. Why don't they just hide it by raising prices a tiny bit? I guess they want to make a political statement, huh? Which would you prefer?

So, kids, do you like optical illusions? If your answer is yes, look at this. If not, do not look at this.

What really happened to Jim Morrison? Marianne Faithfull gives a hint here.

Who'd a thunk it? It turns out that the scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark were more accurate than first guessed. A 6500-year-old skeleton lost in PA for 85 years was found in a museum basement. One good thing is that the modern tools will let them examine it more closely than when it was discovered.

There is now an IFTTT Space Channel that can ping you every time someone enters space or the Curiosity Rover on Mars detects a season change. I have recently been wondering how I can keep up on those types of happenings.

Have you been wondering how you can keep up with new Clarity of Vision comic strips? Just show up here everyday. Let's take a look at today's CoV.

What if you had to go to work at 4:00pm? What if church started at 6:00pm? What if you went to bed at 3:00am? Do those times sound really bad? This article is suggesting we do away with all time zones and base the world on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), which is based in the UK. So, 4pm might correlate to our current time of 9am. Would that we weird? Would you even support it? It would make TV commercials for new programming simpler. I don't think I would like it.

OK, Time's up. I am outta here. See you tomorrow.