Just as with anything else, certain drinks have rises and falls in popularity. Remember how the Cosmopolitan had a little resurgence in popularity during the whole Sex and the City phenomenon?

Now seems to be the time of tequila. In fact, there is an entire website dedicated to the tequila renaissance — The Tequila Guy. The site chronicles the best of the best in tequila, including an expansive history and fact-a-thon about the juice of the blue agave plant, a catalog of most of the tequilas on the market and ratings for each, recipes, chat and related news. It’s a world unto itself and Tequila is King.

Seriously, if you love good tequila, you should really check out the site. It’s not only informative, it’s a blast. I’m particularly fond of the Ask The Tequila Guy section.

The appendix has long been considered a part of your body that serves no purpose. Nonetheless, you still need to keep an eye on it, because if your appendix becomes infected and inflamed; it can kill you. I’ve still got mine, but there are a lot of people walking around with appendectomy scars.

A group of from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School publish an article this week in the Journal of Theoretical Biology saying that actually, the appendix produces and protects good germs for your digestive system.

They say, sometimes the good flora of bacteria in the intestines die or are purged. Diseases like cholera or dysentery would clear the system of useful bacteria and the appendix reboots the digestive system.

The article’s authors also say that the appendix is not generally needed in a modern industrialized society. If a person’s digestive flora dies, it can usually be repopulated with germs picked up from other people. This was crucial before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region.

The appendix may still be useful in less developed countries.

Scientists not connected with the research said that the Duke theory makes sense.

Last weekend I went to a couple of home improvement stores to look at bathroom sinks. I looked both at the standard round sinks I can just drop into the existing counter and vanity, as well as the combination sink/counter marble vanity tops. I would have to have the vanity top special ordered, so that it did not have the splash guard in the back. That could put me in the mindset of just keeping the current, not-so-attractive vanity top and just putting in the new self rimming sink.

It’s an old porcelain number and it has begun to rust around the drain and the overflow. That’s just icky and it is a safety issue. I’ve scraped my hands while swishing out he sink on more than one occasion. I want new faucets for the sink as well.

Now that I know the basic price range in the local stores, I’m ready to shop online a little and see if I can get a better price on the sink by ordering off the net. Often you find more variety shopping online and can take advantage of being able to price compare within minutes.

I’m ordering this weekend so we can get it in next week.  Gigi’s godparents are visiting this month and I want it to look nice by then.

Ah, sweet technology.

So, what about this guy in Georgia who had is iPod burst into flames while it was in his pocket? The guy works in a kiosk at the airport. Things combusting in your pants while on duty in an airport might cause more than a fair share of security issues.

He is not the first person to claim their iPod caught fire. Some suspect the lithium ion batteries are to blame, much like the batteries that were causing laptops to catch fire.

I think I will stick to listening to music at home and in my car, thank you very much. I don’t need to look over and see my Coach bag blazing while I’m playing in the park with my daughter.