If you ever need to find an icon for something, I highly recommend The Noun Project. I just spent 30 minutes finding some great things to put in a slide deck.

Here are the rest of the things I looked up this week:
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• into vs. in to - I still can't get it straight.
• Pfizer Immunity Timeline - I'm one shot in and I wanted to know where I was at in the immunity building process.
• Safe Chicken Temperature - I just need to memorize that it's 165 degrees.
  
• Terrazzo Tiles - At some point we will be redoing our kitchen. I wanted to the general cost and look of these tiles. I'm not sold on them. Like it. Don't love it.
  
• DSW Coupon - Wanted to see if I could find any savings on a new pair of running shoes. Always Google for coupons before you hit purchase!
  

Several times a week I think, "Oh! I should look that up later!" and then I never do. Then I get frustrated that I can't remember what I wanted to find. Then I forget all about it and it happens all over again. Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this.

Anyway, here is what I did remember to look up this week.

• Kratom - We were watching To Catch a Smuggler and the package inspectors uncovered boxes of it. I wanted to know more about this drug than what the show told me. Before it's processed, it looks any old plant. I thought that was surprising.
• Average library user age - I never was able to find an answer to this. I could find information about what percentage of an age cohort uses the library but not the average age. I guess there are a lot of variables involved here - type of library, geographic location, hours, etc.
• 50 Decibels - I wanted to know just how loud this was as, apparently, I should not set my kid's white noise machine about this. 
• Brood X Temperature - It's getting warm and I need a reminder of when all the cicadas are going to pop out of the ground. The answer was 64 degrees.
• Moss Ball Aquarium -  I read an article that these are now being banned because they are letting in an invasive species. I wanted to know what they looked like.

In college, I had a roommate who kept a small paperback dictionary on her bookcase. Whenever she looked up a word, she would put a dot next to it. I think about her every time I look up a word, because I thought her method was just so cool. It was visual representation of learning in action. 

Here's a sample of what I looked up this week.
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• da da da da dadadada song  - Our kiddo likes to sing along to this song where part of the chorus is "da das." I couldn't remember the name of the song. Luckily, Google is very good with weird searches like this. It led me to the correct song - Jason Derulo's "Take You Dancing."
• What does Apoplexy mean? - Asked Alexa this while watching an episode of The Office. I still don't know what Oscar was getting at.
• Trepidation - I wanted to confirm I was using this word correctly in a presentation proposal.

Current events, twitter, and household chores comprise quite a bit of what I research. Here are the things I looked up this week.

• CVS Covid Vaccine - DC is having some... how shall I be nice about this... "issues" getting shots in arms. I heard local CVSes might have some, so I tried to track that down. Still not eligible. Bummer.
• How to Insert a Chart in Canva - This week, I need to redesign an event flyer/phamplet. I made it in Canva because I think the results are nicer to look at. One problem I ran into is that I need to recreate a Word table for the schedule of events. Luckily, I learned how to cut and paste something that is graphically more pleasing.
• Rome Atia - I recognized an actress in Bridgerton as someone I have seen before but could not quite place. IMDB led me discover that she played Atia in the TV show Rome. I did a quick Google to get images from the series.
• Carrot Muffins - I want to bake a new kind of muffin this weekend. I want something that is isn't just a cupcake without cream cheese frosting. Then again, aren't all muffins just cupcakes without frosting?
• Raclette Machine - A nearby embassy was visited by the cops for a "suspicious package." A local reporter tweeted a joke about it being a raclette machine. I learned a new way to enjoy cheese.
• Grout Cleaners - Our bathroom floor grout is looking rather dingy. I want to clean it and needed to learn the various options and methods.

I discovered this week that I never turned off my Google activity tracking. That's awesome for remembering what to put in this post but really bad for data privacy overall. Time to consider my options. If you want to learn more about your Google activity tracking, head over to your personal page.

My goal for this series of posts is to share all of the interesting things we research in everyday life. The caveat is that I get to decided what's on the list. I do not share what I research on behalf of our students and faculty, I do not share searches that overlap with the privacy others in my life, I also do not share things that I do not wish to share. Again, I get to make that decision. Google, on the other hand, just tracks everything. They then use that for marketing. If you want to see what Google tracks and how to stop it, visit this article on c|net.

• Generations - I was very curious about the naming around recent generations. As an early Millennial (sometimes known as a member of the Oregon Trail generation), I don't often have the same experiences as younger members in my generation. I was also prompted to look at my kid's generation. Obviously, she's too young to declare trends and types, but now I know that she is considered Generation Alpha.
• Books from Birth List - Our kid is in this program and I was curious about the titles we'd be receiving the rest of the year.
• Star Trek Beyond - We watched the movie last weekend and I was looking up various actors to see where I recognized them from. I have a great ability to say, "I know I know you from somewhere..." but I can't always identify the actual where.

I think you can tell by my searches that I am itching to make plans for the future. I got to pre-register for the vaccine this week and I am eagerly anticipating my eventual arm jab. 

• ​Barrel Oak Winery - I was plotting an outing for when things are safe again and needed to see the hours of one of our favorite local wineries. I long for the day our kiddo can see a lot of dogs while we enjoy a wine tasting followed up lunch at a picnic table.
• Diana Gabaldon - I was working on my reading list for this site and it reminded me that I hadn't heard anything about the next book in the Outlander series. Happy to find out the book - the ninth in the series - has a title, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone, and will probably be out this year. Also discovered that book ten will be the last in the series. I am sad about that, but it makes complete sense. 
• Laundry Symbols - I am on our condo's green committee and put together our monthly newsletter. This month's issue is focusing on laundry and I wanted to include a chart of all the symbols we see on clothing tags.
• 3420 Connecticut Ave NW DC - A food truck that often frequents our neighborhood is opening two brick and mortar locations. I wanted to find just where the closest one was going.

Fairly certain most of my search power went towards tracking down where my kid hide her hair ties every day. Better that than her milk cup.

Here's what I looked up this week.
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• Michelle Williams - We watched the movie I Feel Pretty and I wanted to confirm that the character I thought was Michelle Williams was, in fact, Michelle Williams. She looked so different as this character.
• Sous Vide Chicken Temperature - I needed to know the best temperature to sous vide a chicken breast at. Went with 150 degrees to keep the meat moist but closer to normal cooking texture.
• Princess Margaret - We're still watching The Crown. I did several searches related to to Princess Margaret to see what the show got right and what they dramatized.

Here's what I found myself looking up this week.
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• The Crown - I immediately went to IMDB for this one. I recognized an actor but could not place where I know I knew him from. The actor, Ben Daniels, played Lord Snowden in Season 3. I had previously seen him in the American version of House of Cards. Mystery solved!
• ish - Went to Urban Dictionary to make sure I was still using this slang properly. Answer - yes. Caveat - the way I use it ages me.
• Local Fire - On Wednesday, I woke up to a text asking me if we were okay because of "the fire." I was very confused as I knew of no fires. So, I went to WTOP to find out that a house near our old apartment (which is still in our current neighborhood) was completely gutted by a fire overnight. We never even heard a siren. 
• Egusi Soup - Watching To Catch a Smuggler and learned that a prohibited items is egusi - a melon seed. The seed is ground up and used in a soup. I was curious about the soup. It looks more like a stew to me but now I want to try it. 
• Land Acknowledgment - Several webinars I attended this week had land acknowledgments at the beginning. I wanted to learn more to consider adding a land acknowledgment to the webinars we are running. There is a guide to land acknowledgments  and a map to help.
  

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.