my monday; pondscum, world records and essentials for summer afternoons

today was a painfully boring monday, but thankfully my podcasts and co-workers enlightened me with the following thrilling anecdotes. (take thrilling lightly)

pondscum is considered by many marine biologists to be a derogatory name for phytoplankton, those poor diatoms and dinoflagellates. its nice to know that people are finally sticking up for a very important part of marine ecology.

this just might be the coolest thing ever, dare i say. thank you baron bob, i had almost forgot about go fishing day. let me know when you can help me with an it's it too!

i did learn that, thankfully, i am not tone deaf, which was not really a big concern of mine, but is still a real relief since i come from a family with a long history of musical talents. so although i lack talent at least i can hear the right tones.

and lastly, something completely ridiculous. the world record for keychains is 41,418 but i'm pretty sure mr tyler from topeka will disagree.