13: Don’t Burst This Bubble
1. Funny how the verbs “burst” and “bust” seem related.
2. Speaking of ‘bust,” THIS is my favorite video clip taken at Floydfest, titled “Bryce Busts a Move.”
3. When I first saw THIS trapeze attraction at Floydfest I thought ‘you couldn’t pay me to that.’ After I saw the net below it and watched a couple of people do it, I began to warm up to the idea and said, ‘you couldn’t pay me to do that in front of people.’
4. I’m an optimistic pessimist.
5. I almost got spanked at Floydfest. Watch a video clip HERE.
6. The moon is a mutiny / a one bubble revolution / escape from the sky-sea / of sudsy clouds / It floats across the heavens / like a flower child pagan / in peaceful demonstration / against the status / quo
7. Best funny video watching this week, sent by my brother Bobby: How the Irish started step dancing. Watch HERE.
8. I’ve been frustrated that I can no longer drag my photos wherever I want to arrange them. When my brother-in-law was here for Floydfest he explained that Microsoft stopped that option because some people would drag photos on top of other photos and they would seem to disappear. “That’s like forcing me to wear a seat belt when I don’t want to,” I told him.
9. I don’t know when politicians and the media started calling Social Security benefits “entitlements,” but I suspect it started with Republicans using such Orwellian double speak in order to make people feel that Social Security is a privilege we think they deserve rather than a fund we pay for.
10. If your name was Ann and you were an Aquarius you could call yourself Aquariann.
11. Strangest recent news story: A baby in Brazil was pronounced dead and was being prepared for burial when she woke up and started crying.
12. It seems strange that we give people who have died “wakes” as if they are being given a last chance to “wake” up before being buried.
13. A pop the bubble game HERE. Eighty is the best I could do so far. How about you?
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August 4th, 2011 12:39 am
Groaning over number ten. Number nine just makes you mad. How is something you pay into considered a “benefit”? My money, I’m entitled to it, what little there is…
August 4th, 2011 6:36 am
I’m an optimistic realist, no wonder we get along! 🙂
Happy T13,
~Xakara
13 Cakes
August 4th, 2011 7:25 am
I hate the word “entitlement.” Social Security is not an entitlement; neither is unemployment, Medicare, etc. It’s assistance, and you or your former employer have paid for it in some fashion or the other.
August 4th, 2011 7:36 am
I’m married to a pessimistic pessimist, but somehow I still manage to stay a hopeful optimist. LOL! Thanks for sharing.
August 4th, 2011 9:06 am
Ha! Creative post. 🙂 Happy Thursday.
August 4th, 2011 9:46 am
hmmm, it said 410 but I can’t imagine it was that many!
August 4th, 2011 11:03 am
Bryce and the fingers crush huh??
August 4th, 2011 4:48 pm
I like odd news stories that have happy endings. Thanks.
August 4th, 2011 6:25 pm
Just dropping by from Thursday 13 – Floydfest caught my eye since we’re not TOO far away from you. Never been to Floydfest, but I’ll have to come to one someday! 🙂
August 4th, 2011 9:40 pm
I could never get to that game….! It kept asking me to “sign up” for the FREE Game for $59 something….So, I haven’t a clue what it is about…lol!
Love that Video of Bryce…..I just cannot get over what a big boy he is…I know I say this every time…But, it’s true! (lol)…
FloydFest looked like fun—even getting spanked…..though I must say it interests me NOT! (lol)
Those men dancing made me need to go to the loo….!
Another rich T13 Colleen…!
August 4th, 2011 9:46 pm
this week it’s #9 for me. not only is it a fund we paid into, it’s also a fund politicians raided w/o our consent. and they ought to put all that money back, out of THEIR OWN pockets. millionaires all of them anyway. crooks.
August 4th, 2011 10:14 pm
240!! It is a fun game!!
I love the Bryce video too! It is especially nice seeing your 3 guys in it.
August 5th, 2011 9:05 am
I had no idea that I have been doing Irish step dancing for a number of years. I have done that dance sooooo many and seem to do it more as I get older. Thanks for the laugh!!