The plan: grab another beer from the fridge, open it, enjoy.
The execution: desperately hiding a beer in an overfilled fridge is never a good idea.
While grabbing it, the cottage cheese started following the laws of physics, to name a few: fricting (lack of that is), gravity (the story would have ended otherwise if the mass of a pack of cottage cheese is greater than that of the earth).
I saved the cheese, dropped the bottle, stepped into the debris and a very sharp piece of glass sliced right through the mid-section of my Crocs. As the cut in the shoe is wide, deep and ugly and my foot only received a marginal cut (only a flesh wound, don't shoot me now!), I can be thankful to a big, ugly, clumsy, but thickly cushioned shoe.

The American Geological Institute just published an interesting statistics, detailed in this pdf.
The price of a barrel of oil has stayed steady to the ounce of gold since 2001. Whereas the price of oil to the dollar has risen even faster than compared to the euro.
What baffles me, is that oil is usually perceived as a scarce and finite resource. Demand for oil has risen fast in the last 7 years, and supply not risen significantly.
Whereas demand for gold has risen a modest 3% per year since 2001 while the production has dropped a little.
The gap between dollar and euro as a result of the weakening dollar is widening - further speeding this process.