I had one of my (many?) "well that's weird" kind of thoughts the other day.
I was walking somewhere and looked up to check the address and realized we don't say addresses the way we say numbers!
Which translated into my head as "we say addresses weird!"
Like, I don't live at four thousand and sixy two James Street, I live at 4062 James Street. "forty, sixty two" or 4602 wouldn't be "four thousand, six hundred and two" James Street it would be "forty six oh two" James Street. You know?
I'm sure it has something to do with cross streets or something. Like when I think of my old address of the house I grew up in, I believe the first three numbers corresponded to the cross street we were closest to, or something like that. I'm sure there are reasons for how houses and buildings are labelled/numbered, but it was just this funny thought I had; that we say addresses differently than we would read them were they numbers like dollars or something.
Am I making half sense?
(Oh wait, I say the year like it's an address? Twenty eighteen rather than two thousand eighteen? ERMAGHERD WHERE DOES THE WEIRD END?)
Whoops. Double Whoops!
I have an (older) Apple laptop, and some of you who do as well, may know the frustration of the charger cords. They are absolutely the weak point of these devices and constantly fray and break. Especially, it seems, for me, probably due to the angle of my cord compared to where it has to plug in and where I spend most of my time. So because this part breaks so much, I get tired of paying the $100 for the replacement I know isn't going to live all that long. Last time I got a replacement I tried to fortify the break point, but it still went. And then I ordered a slightly cheaper one off of Amazon. It didn't come from apple, but arrived with all apple branding, so... I figured it was real enough. *shrug* It frayed as well, and this time the protective coating was only slightly split so I left it for a while, intending to get some electrical tape to seal it up for a while. Which is why I was not so happy to hear and see it spark when I went to plug it in...
