Wow, I have such a vivid memory of my elementary school music teacher telling us the exact same story.

Hell yeah T.

Big fan.

Is there an echo in here?

You might want to check out Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. The book is about the people of the Exodus Fleet, a group of multi-generation ships that left Earth years ago. Even though the fleet eventually found other planets for them to live on, many are content to continue living out in space. It's a neat little slice of life book about this community doing their part to keep these ships going.

Ah, the SSC. I lived about 20 minutes from Waxahachie in the early 90s, cancelling the project messed up the local economy. My family's house was suddenly worth way less than when we had bought it. We wound up moving away in 94 and had to pay the difference.

I think a lot about what the area would have been like if the SSC had been completed (and how bad the traffic might have been).

The girls yelling "LITTLE DUST BUNNIES GO AWAY RIGHT NOOOOW!" from the original Streamline dub of My Neighbor Totoro is forever etched in my brain, so it's probably that.

Let me sand it down first! That wizard's got some rough edges.

You know Entry of the Gladiators, but you might not think of gladiators when you hear the song.

Do they have to be current-day events? Or can we recreate moments from history?

The Cheat is GROUNDED.

We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off. Not so you could throw light switch raves!

I failed my first time. The instructor never told me why I failed, so I have no idea what I needed to improve on. I remember thinking it MUST be the parallel parking section, so I asked my dad to take me out to the DMV so I could spend an hour or two perfecting my parallel parking.

I scheduled a second test for the next Sunday. Little did I realize this was Super Bowl Sunday. The instructor I got that time around was very chill and just told me to drive through a nearby neighborhood a few times so we could wrap things up quickly. I was never even asked to parallel park.

All of this to say that I don't think the DMV has a secret failing policy, but I can guarantee you that some instructors take it more seriously than others.

Video games, browse dumb websites, and maybe draw a little