The 13 Outlet
1. If the average night’s sleep is eight hours (one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one’s life. If you live, say, 75 years, that’s 25 years asleep.
2. I’m married to a Joe who’s not average.
3. Can you get carpal tunnel from squishing slime too much?
4. 4-Minute Moon: Like a boiled egg / with the top scooped out / the moon is a shell of itself
5. “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” Ray Cummings
6. “But here’s the twist: The expansion after the simulated Big Bang didn’t just happen in one direction, but two. The simple Big Bang they modeled produced two universes, one a mirror of the other. In one universe, time appears to run forwards. In the other, time runs backwards, at least from our perspective.”- From Big Bang May Have Created a Mirror Universe Where Time Runs Backwards
7. Similes make me smile
8. “A poem is a physical event. The rhythm may quicken or slow your pulse. The flow of language may expand your breathing. The music woven into the words may change the very texture of your voice. A poem even entrains your brainwaves, altering your biochemistry and allowing shifts in consciousness that can bring healing, understanding, and unexpected insight.” -From Kim Rosen’s book, Saved by a Poem and Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life’s Savings and a Poem Saved My Life
9. Projection – When Trump accuses others of what he is doing himself before they have a chance to accuse him.
10. Input or output, outlet or socket?
11. The upside of having 7 rounds of letters with only 1 point each is that all those Rs, Ts, and Es make it easier to make a SCRABBLE (worth 50 extra points), especially if you have an S (also only worth one point). And, a SCRABBLE is a long word that has a chance of reaching on of the four triple word scores on the far corners of the board. – From You Say SCRABBLE I Say BINGO HERE.
12. “Mara loves words / They beg for her attention / and for them we both dig deeper / in and out our hands descend / into the drawstring bag / as if the letters in it were nuggets of gold / and we could be rich if only we could spell / Rumplestilskin!” – Read The Big Bang Theory of Scrabble in its entirety HERE.
13. My SCRABBLE BINGO word was “resteady,” as in steady the chair again, but when I got home, I actually looked it up and discovered it isn’t a word. You can only steady a chair and then steady it again if it is unsteady.
________________Thirteen Thursday
February 20th, 2019 11:27 am
You are always observing and figuring – this could be an observant person or questioning person!
February 20th, 2019 7:09 pm
Oh, dear, and I liked resteady. Does re-steady work?
February 21st, 2019 1:58 am
Great 13, as always, CR!
Here’s a Bingo poem you might like:
https://rlavalette.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/420-bingo/
February 21st, 2019 5:49 am
13 learning
February 21st, 2019 12:10 pm
I’m pretty sure you can get carpel tunnel from anything.
Wait. Slime? Where are you squishing slime? Or should I ask why?
February 21st, 2019 12:24 pm
I squish it while watching TV or at anytime. I’m a little addicted! It’s more fun than popping bubble wrap.
February 21st, 2019 5:19 pm
What if the Big Bang produced an infinite mirror images of the universe? The infinite number is the black space and that’s why we cannot see the edges of the mirrors.
Seems to me if restudy can be a word, then why not resteady. 🙂
February 21st, 2019 5:23 pm
It’s hard to beat bubble wrap.
My trip to Iceland included a few days in Greenland, which is up next. All told it was 16 days.
February 21st, 2019 5:32 pm
I think we have an infinite number of universes in which there are an infinite number of Colleens. In one of them, you are a clown. 🙂
February 21st, 2019 5:32 pm
That’s from the show The Big Bang Theory, in case you don’t watch that. Sheldon says it.
February 21st, 2019 5:58 pm
I’m glad you explained it, Country Dew! Although I did want to be a clown at one time and had my sister make me a clown suit. Susie, I think you should be able to put “re” in front of any verb!