Back In The Game

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.”