arm-flapping, Dykes, and the bad example Santa sets

Today I learned that the Nintendo Wii requires players to flail their arms, which numerous people have noted should reduce the incidence of childhood obesity. (Don't miss the video.)

In sports news, if you are as clueless as I am, noting that the following headline came from the sports section won't help you, either:

Hiring Dykes would get Arizona off the ground

As a side note, in comment #13 under that article there are two four-letter words, so, um, Go Free Speech!

In unintentional chimney sweeping news:

The Westminster Fire Department reminds citizens that they should never attempt to climb down a chimney.

In glacially-paced floor-grinding news, we should be finished grinding tomorrow, but here's what I know about floor grinding:

• Old concrete is harder than new concrete, which is why this is taking so long.
• The top layer of our subfloor, which doesn't have pebbles in it, is a lot harder to grind than the layer underneath, which does have pebbles in it. Once you can see pebbles, you're pretty much done, but before that, it's like watching paint dry, which I hope to be doing on Sunday.
• When people say the grinder uses rocks, they mean a lot of little rocks all stuck together in blocks with some black substance that doesn't smell bad. The blocks slide into slots under two big horizontal wheels on the bottom of the grinder, and you can easily check the rock blocks for mud or dullness by tilting the grinder up. The trick is that since the blocks don't actually attach to the slots, it's a hassle to get them lined up in the slots again. If there's a way to do that that doesn't involve two people and some crawling around in the mud peering at rocks, someone please let me know.