"You learn something new every day."

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Apparently, full discharges are bad for your battery. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always heard it’s best to drain down your battery, fully charge, and start the cycle all over again. I do, however, know that it’s better to use the AC adapter if you can, so I guess that’s what I’ll start doing from today onward. Ever since I took the battery out, my laptop hasn’t been over-heating, which it has been doing a lot lately.

As for charging the battery, it’s best to do short charges, and once a month, do the whole full-discharge routine.

Don’t adopt.

I’m just kidding! I promise! I am actually all for adoption, but that’s beside the point of this post. I really liked the role of the little girl, Maxine (“Max”), who was deaf. From her interactions with others, I re-remembered how to sign “thank you”, and I specifically forced myself, as I was watching, to remember how to sign “you’re welcome.” I’ve always been fascinated with languages, and there was a point in time when I almost took an ASL class at The University of Texas. The only problem is, though, that it only works in the United States since sign languages vary from region to region, but I digress.

According to the source of this picture, this is how you sign both “thank you” and “you’re welcome,” but that’s not how I learned it from the movie, oddly enough. Maybe it’s wrong; I don’t know. In Orphan, the mother taught the adopted daughter how to say “you’re welcome,” by making a round gesture (like how one would typically show that someone is pregnant) in the chest area. The hand movement went from the chest to about the belly button.

While my brother and I were eating and disputing the authenticity of a local restaurant’s “home-cooked” food, we somehow rolled onto the topic of working out, and he was showing me ways I could tone my flabby arms. When we got home, he brought out these stretchy, resistant things (yeah, I’m horrible with work-out lingo) and taught me different ways I could use it. I’d share it with y’all except…just refer back to the parenthetical phrase.

So, revert your eyes, get off your bum, and start that work-out routine you’ve been telling yourself to do ever since that one person pinched the roll on your side and giggled.