Ryan Morlok’s Blog

Katy has been suffering from a bit of age discrimination lately.  It started early this week when she went to purchase The Chronicles of Riddick on DVD from Walmart.  When she got up the checkout, the clerk asked to see her ID.  The movie is rated R, so you have to be 17 to buy it, but Katy is 23, so she just stared at him blankly and asked “Are you serious?”  But sure enough, before he would let her buy the DVD, she had to show her driver’s license.

The second incident came later this week when Katy answered the door for a person selling cleaning supplies.  The first thing he asked was “Is your mom home?”  Katy can at least be thankful that she has a few years to go before she gets to that age where she wishes she was younger.

Here is an interesting diagram that recently showed up on digg that illustrates the relationships between the various disciplines of science.  It was created by analyzing the references of some 800,000 scientific papers to determine which disciplines tended to interact with others.

We finally competed our move into our new house this weekend.  Last night was the first night Katy and I stayed there.  The closing finally went through a week ago last Friday, and that following weekend we went down to Champaign to pick up our stuff.  Thanks to friends & family in both Illinois and Minnesota, we were able to get everything moved from Champaign into our house by Sunday night.

We had to wait to finish the move with our stuff from Minnesota because Katy was sick this last week.  She’s feeling better now, though, and it’s nice to be in our own place.

While I’m making up for lost blogging time by posting random YouTube videos, here’s another good one.

Flying around the earth at supespeed was the way to go…

Well, I’ll called it in my previous post.  AS soon as I go posting things about life before they’re finalized, something happens.  The closing of our house was delayed for (hopefully) about a week due to the bank not having it’s paperwork inline.  (We’re buying a foreclosed property and thus the seller is a bank.)  If we were the ones messing up like this, we’d be charged about $100 for every day closing was delayed, but because it’s a bank, the only thing we could do is walk away from the deal.  Oh well…