Auld Lang Sighin' (January mini-rants)

[Die_Capacitrix]

Can I rant about myself? I read the post about the new January mini-rants and somehow still managed to post in the wrong thread.

Here come rants, blah-blah (December mini-rants)

I may have known this earlier, but I probably forgot. Ronald Reagan killed the Metric Conversion Act which was signed into law by Gerald Ford. Yet another reason to dislike Reagan. I was too young to vote at the time, but I remember voting for Anderson in a classroom exercise. I wonder what would have happened if Anderson had won the Republican nomination, or even if Bush had won. Anyway, because of this, every time I talk to my parents, I have to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit mak…