Early morning sickness

Does early morning sickness ever come knocking late at night?

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The London Olympic Stadium is 53 meters high. This blog had about 720 visitors in 2012. If every visitor were a meter, this blog would be 14 times taller than the Olympic Stadium – not too shabby.

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Push the envelope

When I was told I had to ‘push the envelope,’ I wished I’d joined a different gym.

Painful Truth

People keep harping on about a ‘painful truth.’ What nonsense. The only thing painful is people telling lies and sell them as truths and those who believe and defend them.

Old rice

Old, cooked rice turns yellow, but when water is added and some time passes, it becomes white again. Wonder what magician can copy that feat without tricks.

Windows

Some mornings I wake up and find the windows in my room are covered with a film of condensed water. Outside it is cold, but who on Earth smeared all that stuff on the inside?

Water

What’s this with water? When torrential rains pour down over our heads, we’re kind of ‘OK-ish,’ but when it becomes one single drop, it drives us nuts. Why?

Birth

Two women in front of me, on a bus one day, early in the morning, kept talking about ‘birth this and that.’.’ So much so that I was expecting to see a baby produced in the not so near future, and going at this rate, most likely during this very ride. I simply never expected to see a docked ship in the harbor.

Free range

“This is a free range bird,” the shop assistant explained and pointed at one of the birds on display to the side.

“Great,” I countered, “But it still is very dead and ready for our Christmas consumption.”

Plane crash

The best odds at surviving a plane crash, is when you go skydiving.