It's nice to have a hobby.

This guy's is painting a baseball, and not in a Rembrandt/still life sort of way. He took a baseball, and put a coat of paint on it. And then another. And another. For 27 years. It's now almost a yard in diameter, weighs 1,300 pounds, and is estimated to have over 18,000 layers of paint. (Hmmm. With a radius of 18 inches, including the baseball, that would mean that the paint layers would each be less than 1/1000 of an inch in thickness. Is a layer of paint really that thin?)

The folks from the Guinness Book of Records visited and have taken a core sample, to confirm that it's all paint. And Saturday was declared "Ball of Paint Day" in Alexandria, IN, where there evidently isn't a whole lot else to do. (Alexandria is also famous for having what they claim is the world's largest hairball, taken from their sewer system at over 200 pounds.)