Now I Could USE A Super Mushroom

Hug an Australian Day
Richter Scale Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Confederate Memorial Day (Ga,Fl)

 

Interestingly, it’s entirely possible to type without using your right thumb.  Which turns out to be very handy for people who have, to pick a random example, lodged an X-acto knife in said thumb.

 

Ironically, it was while I was carving that 1-Up mushroom. And here I may never play video games again.

 

Fortunately it didn’t go deep; I think the bone stopped it. Hooray. And figures I had no band-aids,* so I wound up duct-taping some toilet paper to it until the morning when I could buy some.  Now I keep whapping it and swearing, but I will not give up on my mushroom.  It may be a setback in ceramics, though.

 

 

*Or, as they have been known in my family since the volunteer jobs, “bamnaids.”

Out There

I keep forgetting that we’re Not Sure if there’s life on other planets.  I read reports on how we’re getting closer to detecting life if it’s out there, and I keep thinking, well, sure it is, just because a) I’m a science fiction geek who takes aliens for granted in stories, and b) it seems sort of arrogant to assume that we’re the only ones around in an enormous, possibly infinite Universe, because my limited understanding of probability suggests that even if it’s a remarkably low chance for life’s conditions to arise, well, there’s quite enough chances out there to turn that low probability into a huge number.

 

And then scientists say they’re not sure.  I need to be reminded of that more often.

 

But I’m still on the side that says they’re out there.  Just cuz, you know, what I said before.  And anyway, it would be cool.