Yesterday was gloriously uneventful. I had a staff meeting from 9-11am, and then since my shift didnt actually start until 1:00, I met xwellthenx for lunch. (Hes such a cutie.) The rest of the day went amazingly smoothly. I picked up one kid from school, a new kid arrived, and then I spent a while playing the N64 version of Mario Kart with two of them for a while. All the kids also basically did what I told them to without argument all day. It was lovely. 
I had two fairly amusing things happen during the day. When the new kid arrived, my co-worker did his intake and then introduced him to me. The kids call us Miss or Mr. [insert first name here]. I gave the kid a tour of the house, explained things about the place to him, and I think also told someone to stop doing something during dinner. I dont know if he missed all that or just didnt think anything of it, but when I pulled out my keys to unlock the supply closet so the kids could do their chores, the new kid said, Youre staff? I thought you were a resident! You look like one. That would mean I couldnt be older than 17. I thought that was pretty damn funny. This is not the first time I have gotten this. Several of the DFS workers who have come to the shelter have said the same thing to me. (In fact, when I went with my brother to get a tux for prom today, the guy who worked there asked me what my dress looked like.) Im old enough now that I just think its funny, but it used to drive me insane.
The other funny thing happened yesterday when we took the kids to rent movies. I saw a poster for Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and commented that I wanted to see it. The girls agreed with me. Then I mentioned that I kind of want to see it because I think Topher Grace (the guy from That 70's Show) is hot. One of the girls said, Well now we know you have bad taste! with a whole lot of attitude. (Theyve been telling me I need new clothes for a while.) I was like, What? I like geeks! They just stared at me in disgust. I got a kick out of that.
And now for my rant:
I dont know if anyone has heard the song Confessions, Part II by Usher. Its been on the radio constantly lately and the kids love it. I am thoroughly disgusted by it. Apparently, in part I of the song, he confessed he cheated on his girlfriend and now hes confessing that the other woman is pregnant. This is the part of the song that pisses me off the most:
This by far is the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do
To tell you, the woman I love
That I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely even know
I hope you can accept the fact that I'm man enough to tell you this
And hopefully you'll give me another chance
This ain't about my career
This ain't about my life
It's about us
Please
Umexcuse me? You werent man enough not to cheat and get some other woman pregnant! Why on earth should she forgive you and give you another chance? Poor Usherwaaah. Im sorry, but I find this song to be absolutely revolting.
I am also saddened by the fact that the kids think its a wonderful song. Ugh. I really hope this is just a song and doesnt have any basis in reality. I also really, really hope that if it does, he wasnt such an asshole as to let her hear it on the radio first. Ill give him the benefit of the doubt on that one though. No one could be that bad. 
Ok, Im done with that now.
I had lunch with my youngest brother, Scott, today. He and I have gotten pretty close in the last six months, which makes me happy. When we were growing up, I was much closer to my other brother and not very close to this one at all. Now I try to hang out with Scott once a week. Hes 16 so today we spent some time talking about the slang in middle/high schools these days. He filled me in on words I dont know so the kids dont make fun of me. Unfortunately, I couldnt remember a lot of the words they use so I couldnt ask him what they meant. He told me to start making a list. I felt so old!
Ok, I think this entry has gone on way too long. Im going to stop writing and put away my laundry.
I had two fairly amusing things happen during the day. When the new kid arrived, my co-worker did his intake and then introduced him to me. The kids call us Miss or Mr. [insert first name here]. I gave the kid a tour of the house, explained things about the place to him, and I think also told someone to stop doing something during dinner. I dont know if he missed all that or just didnt think anything of it, but when I pulled out my keys to unlock the supply closet so the kids could do their chores, the new kid said, Youre staff? I thought you were a resident! You look like one. That would mean I couldnt be older than 17. I thought that was pretty damn funny. This is not the first time I have gotten this. Several of the DFS workers who have come to the shelter have said the same thing to me. (In fact, when I went with my brother to get a tux for prom today, the guy who worked there asked me what my dress looked like.) Im old enough now that I just think its funny, but it used to drive me insane.
The other funny thing happened yesterday when we took the kids to rent movies. I saw a poster for Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and commented that I wanted to see it. The girls agreed with me. Then I mentioned that I kind of want to see it because I think Topher Grace (the guy from That 70's Show) is hot. One of the girls said, Well now we know you have bad taste! with a whole lot of attitude. (Theyve been telling me I need new clothes for a while.) I was like, What? I like geeks! They just stared at me in disgust. I got a kick out of that.
And now for my rant:
I dont know if anyone has heard the song Confessions, Part II by Usher. Its been on the radio constantly lately and the kids love it. I am thoroughly disgusted by it. Apparently, in part I of the song, he confessed he cheated on his girlfriend and now hes confessing that the other woman is pregnant. This is the part of the song that pisses me off the most:
This by far is the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do
To tell you, the woman I love
That I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely even know
I hope you can accept the fact that I'm man enough to tell you this
And hopefully you'll give me another chance
This ain't about my career
This ain't about my life
It's about us
Please
Umexcuse me? You werent man enough not to cheat and get some other woman pregnant! Why on earth should she forgive you and give you another chance? Poor Usherwaaah. Im sorry, but I find this song to be absolutely revolting.
I am also saddened by the fact that the kids think its a wonderful song. Ugh. I really hope this is just a song and doesnt have any basis in reality. I also really, really hope that if it does, he wasnt such an asshole as to let her hear it on the radio first. Ill give him the benefit of the doubt on that one though. No one could be that bad.
Ok, Im done with that now.
I had lunch with my youngest brother, Scott, today. He and I have gotten pretty close in the last six months, which makes me happy. When we were growing up, I was much closer to my other brother and not very close to this one at all. Now I try to hang out with Scott once a week. Hes 16 so today we spent some time talking about the slang in middle/high schools these days. He filled me in on words I dont know so the kids dont make fun of me. Unfortunately, I couldnt remember a lot of the words they use so I couldnt ask him what they meant. He told me to start making a list. I felt so old!
Ok, I think this entry has gone on way too long. Im going to stop writing and put away my laundry.
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Blue light gets scattered (spread) around much more than all the other colors from the sun, causing the sky to appear blue.
Blue sky: a more detailed explanation
Light is made up of electromagnetic waves.
The distance between 2 crests in this wave is called the wavelength.
White light contains all the colors of the rainbow.
The amount of light scattered for any given colour depends on the wavelength of that colour.
All the colors in white light have different wavelengths.
Red light has the longest wavelength.
The wavelength of blue light is about half that of red light.
This difference in wavelength causes blue light to be scattered nearly ten times more than red light. Lord Rayleigh studied this phenomena in detail. It is caused the Tyndall effect or Rayleigh scattering.
Lord Rayleigh also calculated that even without smoke and dust in the atmosphere, the oxygen and nitrogen molecules would still cause the sky to appear blue because of scattering.
When blue light waves try to go straight through an oxygen and nitrogen molecules, its light is scattered in all directions because of this collision.
This scattered blue light is what makes the sky blue.
All other colors (with longer wavelengths than blue light) are scattered too.
Blue light's short wavelength causes it to be scattered the most.
(The shorther the wavelength of the color, the more that color gets scattered by the atmosphere)
Actually, violet has the shortest wavelength of all colors. Violet is scattered even more than blue light. However, our eyes are much more sensitive to see blue than violet, therefore we see the sky as blue.
Very little visible light is absorbed by the atmosphere.