It seems to me to be longer than it actually has been ..
which is what I was beginning to think this blog was turning into … a has
been. A month is a god awful time to be
absent from posting something, indeed, anything, for crissake.
I still find it hard to concentrate on many things,
including writing. My world, which
shrunk mightily in June, is far too slowly finding its way out of the fog. I never thought that recovery from surgery,
any surgery, could possibly take this long.
I have finally began to internalize the advice every Doc I have seen
since June has offered up – that spine surgery is big league stuff (especially
the kind I ended up having), and recovery, therefore, is one long, lonesome
journey. But I do see some light at the
far end of the road and am even feeling like there may be a time when I can say
“normal” again. I am still planning on writing about that, but not yet, not
just yet. At least I’m thinking of
writing and posting again, which, believe me, is a far better place than I’ve
been in.
Which means I’ll be stealing again. I absolutely love it when I come across these
things, either when people send them or I find them in some sort of news feed
in some far off corner of the internet.
I could live a good month on the useless, yet priceless knowledge that
these things impart. Life may not be
richer because of them, but it does become, at least for the moment, more
interesting. We need interesting.
Hence, some more things you may not know:
Glass takes 1,000,000 to decompose. (how do they know?)
Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust (damn
good thing)
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached
at only one end (the person who sent this
to me said that as a card carrying male member of the human family, he may have
to take issue with this one ... think
abboudit)
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman
numerals
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our
ear is not the ocean, but the sound of blood surging through the veins in the
ear (damn, another childhood sacred truth
destroyed)
Nine our of every ten living things live in the ocean (scary, very scary)
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot
heal itself.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
The moon moves about 2 inches away from the earth each year
(that may be a problem about 1,000,000
years from now, but we won’t have to worry about it)
The earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling
space dust (so, when to we drop out of
the sky?)
Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be
higher than 15,000 meters
Everything weighs 1% less at the equator (great place for a weight watchers
convention)
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other
painkillers (yet another reason to refill
that cup)
And last, but certainly not least….heed….. when a person
dies, sight is the first sense to go.
The last sense to go is hearing. (So, careful what you say, heh….)
Mark Twain Quote: “But we are all that way: when we know a thing we have only scorn for
other people who don’t happen to know it.”
