A Slight Amusement

I came across this today and just had to share:

Yeah, it took me a few seconds …

(Later: I remembered where I found this: Stu Savory’s Blog.)

Too busy doing things that aren’t really bloggable, so it’s been pretty quiet around here lately. I have posted a couple of nice fireworks photos on my photo blog, luminosity:

http://www.allthepages.org/luminosity/2008/07/beautiful_fireworks.html

http://www.allthepages.org/luminosity/2008/07/fire_wheel.html

I still squeeze in some time for blog reading (via Google Reader, naturally), and that’s how I found this quick little quiz from my friend Julie-Ann. It fits the bill for a quick, light summertime post:

Erase my answers, enter yours and repost. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things, nothing made up! You can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name? Mike

2. 4-letter word: Meta

3. Car: Maybach

4. TV show: Mannix

5. City: Montreal

6. Boy’s name: Mark

7. Girl’s name: Moneka

8. Occupation: Mystic

9. Something you wear: Madras (shirt)

10. Food: Mozzarella

11. Something found in a bathroom: Magazine

12. Reason for being late for work: Moonstruck

Everyone is different, but from what I’ve heard, the flu that’s going around locally seems to last about a week. I’m in my sixth day, so that seems about right. My fever receded a day or so ago, which is a good sign, but I still feel terrible, and given the (so far) slow rate of recovery, am not really confident I’ll be that much better tomorrow. I have no energy, am irritable and depressed, and just wish this thing would be over!

And the fun continues this week, as Sheryl seems to be coming down with something now.

And … it’s all my fault. Here’s a tip. You’re smart enough not to mention to a family member or friend, “Say, it’s quite late in the season and I haven’t been sick!” Of course you know that. It’s called tempting fate or something.

What you may not have realized is that the mere act of having the thought, of thinking to yourself, “whew, looks like maybe I made it through this season without a major illness” is enough to trigger the aforementioned illness. I remember exactly where I was, 10 days or so ago, when I had that very exact conversation with myself. And here we are.

This health update and public service brought to you in the spirit of nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.

No association with Marshamellow, but I wanted to link back as a thanks for borrowing the image she created.

I’ve spent time visiting our local nursing home since I was a young cub scout performing Christmas carols, and I’m pretty sure the residents of Bethany Home would enjoy a visit from the balloon hat man. His creations are so whimsical and colorful that it makes me interested in learning more about how they’re done!

Until then, there’s this video:

Thanks to Boing Boing for the link!