This Way to the 13 Thursday Ramble
1. Joe and I have recently been so taken with a PBS NOVA show on the Hubble telescope that we’ve watched it more than once. I love seeing what outer space looks like but I can’t wrap my brain around this: The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, because light takes billions of years to cross the observable universe. This makes Hubble a powerful “time machine” that allows astronomers to see galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago, just 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang.
2. Excavating the pockets of last year’s shorts is like doing an archeological dig into the summer of 2009. So far, I’ve found seashells, a coin, a chocolate wrapper, and a few pieces of straw from the garden.
3. My first car was a blue rambler.
4. I distinctly remember driving it home from the factory where my sister Sherry and I worked singing Layla at a stoplight at the top of our lungs. We call this period in our lives our Laverne and Shirley Days.
5. The scoop on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin’s involvement, written Floyd blogger, my blog hoster, and head of Capitol Hill Blue news site HERE.
6. Anger: I think of it as a message, like pain. When you feel it you have to pay attention and see what is hurting. Like pain, it will subside. Take care of it but don’t let it fester or poison others. Keep it clean.
7. Sign seen on Facebook: “synanym is a word you use for one you can’t spell.”
8. My contribution to spreading Free Hugs Day is HERE.
9. How to write a book HERE.
10. Best reader’s comment to a past Loose Leaf Notes post entitled Why Write: I write because it’s a great way for an introvert to interact with people on her own terms. Read more reasons HERE.
11. Is “smother” the plural of too much mother?
12. I was recently interviewing a Floyd chiropractor named Garry about his new spinal decompression machine. I asked him how he came to have 2 R’s in his first name, and he answered that he had a twin brother named Barry. His parents named him Garry with 2 G’s because they didn’t want him to feel slighted or think he was missing out on anything.
13. An unlikely butterfly: “What resembles dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour — fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!” In other words: a thousands of years old nebula HERE.
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April 21st, 2010 11:27 pm
Wow I am tired just reading your thoughts lol Oh, and I loved Laverne and Shirley
Happy T13!
April 22nd, 2010 1:13 am
Love your first and last points, which brings me to brlieve you mght like this week’s post on the meteorite that fell here last Wednesday night.
April 22nd, 2010 1:58 am
LOL, Laverne and Shirley. It sounds about right. I could easily see you two singing away.
April 22nd, 2010 4:31 am
Wow, I think #1 is so cool! Looking into the telescope and seeing far out into space is already amazing. Knowing that it’s also seeing into the past is an extra-amazing concept!
Oh, and I love the Free Hugs thing. =)
April 22nd, 2010 6:00 am
I enjoy your T13 rambles. Love # 11 🙂
April 22nd, 2010 7:32 am
# 7 Ha Ha! ##2 and #6 are my favorite this post. I look forward to Thursday 13!
April 22nd, 2010 7:43 am
You have two #12s and no 13!
Re: #6, someone asked me last night if I thought my high blood pressure was the result of anger issues. I was surprised as I had not considered it in that light.
April 22nd, 2010 7:45 am
wow wow wow !!!
this is a super cool T13
Reel Wisdom
April 22nd, 2010 7:52 am
Another great TT.
I miss those Laverne and Shirley days……and yes we sang a lot of songs LOUD and with the windows down.
PS They say a high blood pressure is anger turned inward.
April 22nd, 2010 8:51 am
#11 often thought that = love Bryce below although the glasses last week got me hook line and sinker..sandy
April 22nd, 2010 9:35 am
#12 really made me laugh, and that’s good cause I’ve been so angry lately!
April 22nd, 2010 10:16 am
Discovering lost treasures in my pockets is one of my favorite things about the changing seasons
April 22nd, 2010 10:42 am
Wonderful list!
Have a great Thursday!
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April 22nd, 2010 11:35 am
Number 1 boggles my mind, too and I love thinking about you and your sister driving down the road singing!
April 22nd, 2010 2:34 pm
The Hubble stuff is just mind boggling, isn’t it?
April 22nd, 2010 7:30 pm
Hmm. Interesting and insightful view of anger. You have me thinking–something I love to do. Thanks.
April 23rd, 2010 4:33 am
Awesome T13. I’m always fascinated with outer space. I wished that I am still around when people can just travel easily to another planet or galaxy. It’s like I am off suntanning in Mars. LOL