# Trivial things you've done this week no other dopers have **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261 "2006-07-13T00:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/81 "2006-07-14T20:10:35Z")
Wrote two search warrants concerning a dead body dumped in my county. Designed and created my first campaign yard sign. Go me! ---
**Author:** ![SeaDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SeaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/82 "2006-07-14T20:34:18Z")
Cut a dead cow in half cause I didn’t have much else to do. Funny thing is I read every post to make sure nobody else did that. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/83 "2006-07-14T20:45:12Z")
Correctly deduced the reason one of the four recessed speakers in our basement ceiling wasn’t working: one of the mice that had taken up residence last winter in said ceiling chewed through the wire of said speaker. Took down said speaker from said ceiling, spliced said wire, and replaced said speaker. We’re rockin’ in full quadraphonic sound again. Stupid mouse. In league bowling this week, Mrs. Urquhart and I got our collective butts kicked by a pair of septuagenarians. Stupid septuagenarians. All in all, though, a good week. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/84 "2006-07-14T20:54:46Z")
Taught my children how to accost yellow jacket nests, without getting stung. Also taught them how to cut up pieces of worm into manageable lengths for bait with the edge of a clamshell, instead of using my good butcher knife. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/85 "2006-07-14T22:34:20Z")
I attended a statewide professional committee, watched _The Bicentennial Man,_ and wrote a syllabus for a course on religion where the students will watch _Grizzly Man_ as their case study. And I ate some avocados, which no one has yet mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/86 "2006-07-15T01:21:23Z")
I nailed a fifty foot shot in Frisbee Golf today. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/87 "2006-07-15T10:01:54Z")
I reached the finals in my first ever dance (lindy hop) competition! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/88 "2006-07-15T12:25:48Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I nailed a fifty foot shot in Frisbee Golf today. Cool! I had my copy of _The Field Guide to the Birds of Ecuador_ cut apart and rebound so the plates are now one volume and the text another. Nice book but it is too heavy to carry the whole thing around in the field. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/89 "2006-07-15T12:54:55Z")
Made my first attempt at growing sourdough starters- a white called StayPuff and a Rye called Mr T. And tomorrow I get to bake my first French Boule loaf for breakfast using only the starter as yeast. Quite excited. Of course if it doesn’t work we’re going out for breakfast! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/90 "2006-07-15T14:05:31Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I searched the internet for images so I can get a tattoo in a dead, _fictional_ language. Quenya? ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/91 "2006-07-15T14:07:42Z")
And I made a batch of Snert, or Dutch yellow pea soup. Also repurposed a broken carving knife as a palm dagger, complete with sheath, thanks to the magic of owning a really bitchin’ Dremel tool. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/92 "2006-07-15T14:37:42Z")
I mowed my lawn. And before anyone says they mowed their lawn too, I can guarantee they didn’t mow my lawn, so technically , this qualifies. any reference to mowing my lawn ie sleeping with my wife will be met with a very stern look! ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/93 "2006-07-15T15:30:59Z")
I modeled for a photography project I drank a two-liter bottle of diet pepsi without stopping to go to the bathroom I gave my sister a band-aid that looks like a strip of bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/94 "2006-07-15T15:35:54Z")
Taught myself the Kyrgyz language. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/95 "2006-07-15T17:35:09Z")
Invented calculus. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/96 "2006-07-15T17:43:20Z")
> [@False\_God](#): > > Quenya? Kryptonian. Yes, I’m a dork. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/97 "2006-07-15T18:33:48Z")
Most weeks of my life are so trivial it’s not funny, but this week just wasn’t. Unless you are the type of person to whom taking a 2 year old on an 8-hour flight is trivial. :eek: Hmm…trying to think…well, I found a place to buy blood pudding in the US today (and I don’t think it’s **Dung Beetle** ’s). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/98 "2006-07-15T21:19:21Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > I gave my sister a band-aid that looks like a strip of bacon. I must know where you got that. The band-air that looks like bacon, not the sister. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/99 "2006-07-15T21:25:02Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > any reference to mowing my lawn ie sleeping with my wife will be met with a very stern look! …how would we know? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/100 "2006-07-15T23:39:29Z")
I bungeed the front end of my car together so that I could drive home without my bumper dragging on the ground not 6 hours ago. That trivial thing was a result of a not-so-trivial car accident I was in (no one was injured). I bet no other dopers ran into a Toyota in the last week. I win! Sorta . . . Mayo [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261.md?page=6)