It’s important to personal development to strive to learn something every day.  Here are a few of the things I know this week that I didn’t know last week.

• That rolly thing mechanics lie on to get under your car (and action stars in John Woo movies like to roll around on while shooting bad guys) is called a “creeper.”
• The action book series, The Destroyer, which I loved but eventually gave up on reading, capped out at 149 books in the series.  Looks like I gave up on it just 45 books too early. Maybe I’ll track the rest of them down.
• The “zip” in zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.  I always thought it meant that if you used it, your mail would get where it was going more quickly.
• Vocabulary test time! ”Portmanteau” is used to describe the blending of two or more words, like “frenemy,” which means “an enemy disguised as a friend” and has been recently added to the dictionary.  Reminds me of this time Brian Hurtt came up to me wearing a newsboy hat and pretending to be Chris Samnee.  I’m not sure, but I think he was trying to steal Freakhunter (a portmanteau?) secrets.  When I caught on to his clever ruse, I karatekickchopped (another portmanteau of my own creation) him into the following week.
• Slurpee, 7-Eleven’s delightful frozen beverage, is known to cause brain freeze.  The scientific name for this mind-numbing event is Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia.  Winnipeg is generally thought to be the Slurpee capital of the world, because they love the stuff.  Every day more than 11.6 million Slurpee drinks are consumed around the world.  Today is Slurpee Day, by the way.  Also, once upon a time 7-Eleven was the only place I could go to keep track of the latest comic books.  I miss the days of comic books, Slurpees, and Slim Jims.