What I Learned This Weekend

• Limca is a fizzy lime drink in India, and allegedly goes well with gin.
  
  
• Drinking a lot of red wine allegedly lengthens your lifespan.
  
  
• A company was working on creating a "red wine pill," giving you the benefits of red wine without destroying your liver. This company was bought out for 750 million dollars.
  
  
• I need more karaoke practice.
  
  
• I was lucky to get my Sevens jeans for $40; they're typically $100 discounted at Filene's.
  
  
• Reheated gyoza tastes really bad, but reheated okonomiyaki is great.
  

What I Learned Today

• "Cheeking" is when a prostitute conceals a condom in her cheek, then rolls it onto their client during oral sex.
  
  
• A "shock-trauma handshake" is when, on the scene of an accident, in order to determine if the injured person's spine has been broken, a medical technician inserts his or her finger into the injured person's anus. This is to check the autonomic response (tightening of the anus).
  

What I Learned Today

• That singing and guitar-playing ability do not make you a good songwriter, even if you throw in a "rap" song about 8-bit-era Nintendo thumb.
  
  
• That I'm less polite than I used to be: in the lunch area, I took one of the seats closest to the mini-stage where Nintendo-Gangsta was performing, ate my lunch, and stood up and left in the middle of one of his songs.
  
  
• That John Sununu is not Asian.
  
  
• How to make a savory breakfast.
  
  
• That I can't just go to sleep early tonight, though exhausted.
  

What I Learned Today

My uncle used to have a tradition with his family, where he would ask my cousins to tell him one new thing they learned that day before they started eating. I'll try to keep that up to space out my nutrition diary entries and hopefully keep some readers interested.

• American Presidents used to wait to be inaugurated until March 4. This was tradition from 1798-1933.
  
  
• New Bedford, MA, was at one time one of the richest towns in the world, thanks to the demand for whale products in the 19th century.