I suppose it was bound to happen: geeksta rap.

Today’s forecast high in Minneapolis: -2° F. Current temperature: -7° F. Current windchill: -32° F. Brrr…

Of course, this hardly compares with Ojmjakon, Russia, which is currently clocking in at -45° F. The forecast high for Ojmjakon for Sunday is an incredible -48° F.

My hockey team won a game last night! The wins don’t come very often. In fact, our single previous win occurred back in November when we last played this team. Do I feel guilty about our only two wins both coming against the same team? Not the slightest.

I’d like to think that this win came about because of my new stick, but the reality is that we simply played well. It’s easy to stop shots when the shots never occur in the first place. Likewise, it’s easy to score goals if you keep pounding the net; eventually, something will go in.

My car is sentient.

I know, I know; it sounds crazy. But what other explanation could there be?

This past weekend, I replaced my car’s fog lights because one of them got cracked by a rock. After the new lights were installed, the car ran smoother, was quieter, and had more pep. The car seemed happy. Honest truth.

After I washed and vacuumed my car tonight, the same thing happened: everything got quieter, smoother, and tighter. The car was content.

A similar phenomenon emerges whenever I think about selling my car. The car spontaneously runs better, as if it were trying to convince me not to part with it.

The left half of my brain assures me that it is merely my perception that has changed, just a placebo-type effect. The right half isn’t convinced that the observations can be dismissed as illusion.

I was talking with my grandpa once about cars. He commented, tongue-in-cheek, that his cars kept running better and better as the years wore on. They just kept getting quieter and smoother! Never mind that his hearing was going out; that was completely unrelated.

Who’s to say that cars aren’t affected by human perception? The common adage that “the best way to have a strange noise go away is to have a mechanic try to hear it” holds some anecdotal water.

Obviously, then, the best way to fix a car’s mechanical problems is to replace a few cosmetic parts, give it a good wash, and have an old person bring it to a mechanic equipped only with a stethoscope. It’ll be purring after that.

Today was a good day.

Today had a high of 48 degrees, which is a new record (the average high is 23 degrees).

Today was sunny, which has been quite rare over the past few weeks.

Today my team at my company took the afternoon off to bowl and play laser tag, all on the company dime.

Today I saw more evidence that a piece of code that I wrote for my forum is doing it’s job, thus solving a huge resource issue that has been plaguing the server for months.

Today I will play ice hockey, which is always fun.

Today I am alive, young, and in relatively good health; the possibilities are endless.

Tomorrow will be good too.