Day 253: Flowers for Alger-Geetha

 

September 10th, 2011I woke up this morning to an empty apartment. Lauren and Tyler both left for Orientation training and subsequently I felt the compelling urge to walk around in my underwear. Fortunately for me I resisted the urge, and instead met Geetha at Ralph’s where she got groceries. Then we proceeded to Chipotle for both a delicious and satisfying lunch. After busing and walking her back to her place, I walked and bused back to my own for some Sim-playing and hard-working farming activity. Little did she know that three hours later I would surprise her at her very own place, with delicious flowers bought from Ralph’s.
Pictured today is her appropriate response to said flowers, as she trimmed the stems to make them fit in the vase accordingly. Afterwards, after spending various hours putting room signs up with Geetha (and my lactose intolerance striking me in the middle), we met up with Rashika at the bus stop and went with her to the one and only… McDonald’s. It was delicious as we consumed food that would later give us some stomach aches and make us feel sick in our stomaches. When we got back Geetha and I finished the night watching a wonderful movie called CELLULAR while drinking some delicious hot chocolate. It had a decent plot, but some pretty convenient and contrived plot twists.

On this day in 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings. In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect in New York in 1910. In 1936, Dr. Rolla Harger, a professor of biochemistry and toxicology, patented the Drunkometer, a balloon-like device into which people would breathe to determine whether they were inebriated. In 1953, Robert Borkenstein, a former Indiana state police captain and university professor who had collaborated with Harger on the Drunkometer, invented the Breathalyzer. Easier-to-use and more accurate than the Drunkometer, the Breathalyzer was the first practical device and scientific test available to police officers to establish whether someone had too much to drink. A person would blow into the Breathalyzer and it would gauge the proportion of alcohol vapors in the exhaled breath, which reflected the level of alcohol in the blood. WHAT A DOLT.

Ron Paul’s campaign today kicked off a new nationwide initiative to organize and mobilize young voters, a group that offered him strong support four years ago. In a recent Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, Paul ranked first with 29 percent among 18- to 29-year-olds. He came in third overall with 13 percent, trailing behind Rick Perry (29 percent) and Mitt Romney (17 percent). A VERY INTELLIGENT PROPHET HE IS.

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