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I was shopping around for a new curtain rod for the shower and I noticed that they were all titled “tension rod”.

They were titled that because they are held in place by pressing against the walls, rather than by being fastened to the walls.

But from what I learned in college, that’s wrong.

The curtain rod is pushing against the walls so it is being compressed. It should be a compression rod.

A tension rod would be somewhere that needed to prevent two walls from spreading apart.

Maybe a better way to do this is to picture a spring in the middle of the bar. To get the curtain rod to stay in place, you wedge it in place – what happens to the spring compared to its normal state? It is compressed. When a tension rod is in use, it is experiencing compression.

Whoever named that thing a tension rod has some explaining to do.

I was planning on keeping the blog schedule at twice per week, but it’s been getting more difficult to get that done each week. Last week I ended up posting only once, so I decided to make that the new schedule.

Here’s my blogging frequency history.

Week 1: Every day
Weeks 2-259: thrice a week
Weeks 260-532: twice a week
Weeks 533+: once a week

No blog post today – we’re celebrating Christmas with the other side of the family.

I’m not posting anything today – I’m too busy doing Thanksgivingy stuff.

I am without a laptop at the moment. Which means I don’t have some of my already-started posts on hand to complete. Which means all you get is what I can type on my iPhone. Which is this, today.

Except for this introductory sentence and this link ( Blank Post ), this post is empty.

For want of a post today, I will simply note it is both National Lemonade Day and National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day today.

I personally prefer milk with chocolate pecan pie, so maybe I’ll have to celebrate these days separately somehow.