When going grocery shopping do you wipe the cart handle with an anti-bacteria wipe? I have not, put starting today I will.

Study: Fecal Bacteria Found on Most Supermarket Shopping carts.

New research shows that nearly three out of four shopping cart handles are rife with fecal bacteria, including some that can cause severe illness.

Professor Charles Gerba, the lead researcher in the University of Arizona study, took samples from the handles of 85 carts across four states for bacterial contamination.

Gerba says 72 percent of the carts tested positive for fecal bacteria, with up to half the samples containing Escherichia coli, otherwise known as E. coli.

I always wash my hands as soon as I get home from the store, but this article makes me almost want to wear gloves the next time I go shopping.  I never thought of poop being on the handle. I normally picture mice walking across the food.

I recently played a game called z-type. It is a game were words come down and you have to type the words before they reach your base. When you type the words, the words blow up. Sometimes there are bigger words and if you don’t type them in time smaller words or a bunch of letters will come off of them. I got to wave 34 and i got bored. Who can beat my score?

In the NBA there has been some interesting trades the final week before the trade deadline. One of them is the three-way trade between the New York Knicks, the Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Knicks get:Carmelo Anthony, Chauncy Billips, R. Balkman, Anthony Carter, S.Williams(all from nuggets), Corey Brewer(Timberwolves)

Nuggets get:Raymond Felton, T.Mozgov, D.Gallinari, and Wilson Chandler.(From Knicks)

Timberwolves get: Eddy Curry, Anthony Randolph (both from Knicks)

I did a post about the Golden Apple a couple weeks ago and this is the followup story. The Trojan War. The Trojan War was a long gruesome battle that lasted about 10 years. Some of the main points of the story are what I’m gonna talk about.
There was a guy named Achilles. He was the son of the nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus. Achilles mom (Thetis) wanted Achilles to be immortal like herself. But since Achilles had a mortal father he couldn’t be immortal, unless his mom took him to a river that made people immortal. If Thetis touched the river at all she would become mortal. Thetis went and dipped Achilles in the river but the only thing that didn’t go in was his Achilles tendon. (that’s were the name Achilles tendon comes from today).
Achilles and Paris eventually died in warfare. (cause of death unknown). Greece got sick of the war and they were running low on supplies so they had to end the war soon because disaster was waiting to happen. The Greeks had a soldier named Odysseus. He was a very good at strategies in wars. He came up with a plan. His plan was that everyone sail “a day away,” which means to sail away from Troy for a day. He also needed someone to stay with the Trojan Horse so it’s delivered to Troy properly. The Trojan horse was the horse with about ten people inside (including Odysseus). The one man that stayed would tell the Trojans that the Greeks quit and this beautiful horse was a present of gratitude. Luckily for the Greeks all there plans worked accordingly and once the horse was inside all the Trojans partied all that night. And while that was happening the Greeks were sailing back and they knew that once they were inside the Troy walls they could just dominate troy and they did thus ending the country Troy.

picture of the Trojan horse

While waiting for Andrew to get out of school yesterday I started to reminisce of days and years gone by. At the end of my little day dream I decided a person’s first name say’s a lot about how I relate to new people I meet with a name I have met.  In my experience, when I have met multiples of people with the same first name  I have found similar characteristics.

Here is what I have concluded.  (This is my experience only) For each name below I have met at least three people who share the same first name.

I have never met a …..

• Julie that wasn’t sneaky
• Becky/Rebecca I got along with
• Dan that wasn’t humble and acute
• Deb/Debbie/Debra that didn’t love to read
• Sue I didn’t want to hug
• Kim I wasn’t intimidated by
• Cheri who wasn’t secretly trying to sabotage a person
• Mark I didn’t want to punch in the face
• Michelle that wasn’t audacious
• Sonya that wasn’t funny
• Angie/Angela that wasn’t a backstabbing kiss ass
• Bill I didn’t like
• Frank that wasn’t arrogant
• Jeff that wasn’t well dressed and admirable
• Amy that wasn’t as cute as a button
• Jody that wasn’t secretly hiding something
• Paul I didn’t have a secret crush on
• Stuart that was ugly
• Lisa I didn’t love or hate
• Joe who didn’t have an awesome smile
• Greg that wasn’t tall

This past Sunday my baseball coach pulled me and another kid on my team aside after practice. I thought I did something wrong, but I couldn’t figure out what I did. Finally, my coach told me that him and the assistant coach had made the decision that they wanted Devin(another kid on my baseball team) and I to be team captains. The coach said that Devin and I have really been working hard and that we should honor being a team captain. He told me to think about it and the next practice I told him yes. My responsibilities as a team captain are: to lead stretching, calisthenics, and to pick the team up when they’re down. This is a huge honor for me and I’m very excited.

Here we go again! Hoping you all have a nice Monday.

I saw this video in science class today and I thought it was kinda cool.

Who knew?

Why is that?

1. Did someone actually try this?
2. Was someone only thinking of trying this?
3. Did someone drop something, and it happened by accident?