My interests were piqued by random things this week. Here's what I've been looking up.

Pied-a-terre -  An announcement went out on a local list-serv I'm on stating that someone had a pied-a-terre to rent. As much as I love learning French, I never knew specifically what a pied-a-terre was. I headed to Google to find out what that was. Answer - fancy word for an apartment you don't live in full-time.

Jackie Kennedy Queen Elizabeth - We started watching The Crown again and I was intrigued if the tiff between the First Lady and Queen was real.

Profumo Scandal - Related to the last episode of season 2 of The Crown. I wanted to know more about the actual scandal and it's impact on British politics.

Perseverance Rover Landing - I was curious about the exact date the rover would touch down on Mars.

Here are the things I found myself Googling this week.
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• Chrysler Sebring - Michael Scott seems very proud of his so I wanted to see what it looked like. Nothing like I expected. Kind of boring to be honest.
• When do kids get kneecaps? - Our kiddo was crawling around and I was curious when her kneecaps would arrive.
• COVID Incubation - On Sunday, our kiddo developed a runny nose. Our daycare has strict rules to prevent COVID (which we entirely agree with), so we got her tested on Monday.  The Husband and I both started exhibiting mild cold symptoms about 24-36 hours later. If we did have COVID, I was curious about when/where we might have picked it up. Aside from daycare, we don't see anyone (*cries*) and the only place we go is the grocery store (where we cloth mask over a KN95). 
• Common Cold Incubation - After learning that The Kid tested negative for COVID (huzzah!), I was curious about the incubation period for the common cold. 
• Assassin's Creed berries - I got The Husband the latest Assassin's Creed video game, Odyssey, for Christmas. I enjoy watching him play for both the story and the visuals. I also like the music. (Seriously, go listen to the soundtrack from Assassin's Creed 2.) In this game, apparently you need berries to heal yourself during battles. He finds that an annoying change from previous games and I was curious as to what other's were saying.

This is a new kind of post I want to try out. I am constantly Googling, Alexa-ing, and generally researching random things every day. That's partly because of my career path but also because I just need to know. In this series, I want to share those things I look up in a given week.
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• Miguel Angel Felix Gallerdo - We finally wrapped up watching season 2 of Narcos: Mexico. I looked up this drug lord several times both for hints of spoilers and to see if what the series showed was true to life.
• Amado Carrillo Fuentes - Ditto above but also for the final conversation in the last episode.
• Carcinoma - A lot of my random research is driven by reading the news. In this case, it was CNN's alert that Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond had died.
• Scranton - I was watching The Office and Pam was talking about going to "the lake." I wanted to see a map of the lakes near Scranton. Turns out, there is a Lake Scranton. When I zoomed in to the map to get a sense of the the size, the Radisson near the Lackawanna Train Station was highlighted... which is hilarious if you're a big fan of the show. That Radisson looks way better than the one they put on the show.  Also, I learned that Lake Scranton is about 25.5 miles square in size and has a 3.5 mile running track around it.
• 1426 H St., NW - I read a story that a new Cheesecake Factory was opening in DC and want to know exactly where it was going.
• Lake Wallenpaupack - [See Scranton] Watching the booze cruise episode and needed to know if it was real. It is. Then needed to know where in the state it was.