Ok, recapping things that I've done in the last couple weeks that I failed to mention:

I watched about 60 episodes of Rurouni Kenshin. I finally finished The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (a compilation including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and all the books of that series)- absolutely hilarious. I started & finished Ender's Game- very good. I tried to read Frankenstein, but got bored out of my mind after about 5 pages... man, I don't know how all the kids did it. I watched Minority Report- very well made. I went and watched fireworks with Stephen (L.), Allison, Tony, Peggy, Edward, and Kevin (Hwang); then we went to Main Event for a bit, then ate at Denny's in the wee hours of the morning.

*I seem to have the curse of red lights. While driving, I always seem to encounter an unusually high ratio of red lights to green lights. I've got no idea how the light switching works, but I figure they kind of just go by how much traffic a certain location gets. Well, I've thought a lot of times that there must be some way to implement a nationwide computer controlled traffic light control system. And you could program it so that the lights were synchronized in such a way that a car driving at the suggested speed starting from a red light would reach the next red light just in time for it to turn green. Ummm yea, hard to explain, but it makes sense in my head...
And when an accident or special event occurs, the info could be fed into the computer system, and changes in light durations could be made accordingly.

Another thing that I always thought would be cool to have in cars is GPS systems that not only show roads, but also show all the cars on those roads. That way you could see where there are traffic jams, before you get stuck in them.