Tony Brewer

I’ve never been able to swat a fly with my bare hand, have you? Well, our President has shown his ninja skills in his fly-swatting success! And of course, PETA is unhappy about it and has sent him a humane fly trap for future nuisance bugs! What a riot!

I was surprised and upset to hear about the Zicam recall! My sister has been using those nasal swab products for about the past two years. I called her up as soon as I heard about the recall and told her about it, so she will stop using them. I hope she can take them back to the store for a refund! I’ve been using the oral mist, and I like it, but the first time I tried the nasal spray I felt like I had shot myself in the face, and never used it again! To be honest, my olfactory senses have not been keen as of late; I wonder if that is due to the Zicam product!

I was reading on the Reuters.com website that researchers are working on a new material that converts heat into electricity. The hope is that using this material will help cars get more miles to the gallon. According to the article, only about 25% of the energy produced by a typical gasoline powered engine is used to move the vehicle, and the rest escapes through the exhaust pipe. The researchers are hoping that this new material will enable the car to recycle some of that escaped heat into energy that will power the car. That would be awesome!

One day last week I was driving to work and was listening to the morning show of my favorite radio station. I was interested to hear the announcer tell us the interesting tidbit of the day; the smell of crayons lowers blood pressure. Well, I had never heard that before! My father suffers from high blood pressure, so I was very intrigued to learn more.

I have spent about the last 20 minutes on the Internet, using different search engines, trying to find some reference to “proof” that the smell of crayons reduces blood pressure, and I’m sorry to say that I can’t find any. So, if you know of “proof” on the Internet (not just some blog) please let me know!