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Okay, I suddenly feel old. I came home from work today. Waiting for me in my mail was an invitation of to my cousin's high school graduation party. A cousin that I used to baby sit for, once upon a time. I feel old. Really, really old.
I swear, if I hadn't seen the video for this story with my own eyes, I simply wouldn't have believed that it was true. A bunch of college students in merry ol' England riding a roller coaster in the nude. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5032279 My first reaction was one of disbelief. After a few seconds to let the mental dust settle, I couldn't help but wonder how the laws of physics would impact various body parts. Would the G-forces compress a young woman's breasts to the point that they're not even noticable? Would the gentlemen in the crowd notice an extreme amount of shinking? Or the centrifugal force cause certain body parts to become overly elongated? Oh, the things my mind ponders. Of course, I doubt any of the riders at this event even noticed these impacts on their intimate parts. They were too busy being whipped around the track with 3+ Gs. And, of course, the report from MSNBC failed to shed any light on the subject. (Those guys never
Wow! I can hardly believe it. It's been over a month since I've posted anything on here. I feel like a total slacker. I guess it's just that every time I've felt writing something down, I wasn't anywhere near a computer. Last weekend, for instance, I was thinking about a lot of stuff as I drove home from Chicago (thinking so much that I darn near got into an accident, but that's another story). But I didn't have my laptop with me, so no blog post came about as a result of all those pensive, introspective moments. The big thing that I've been thinking about as of late is the idea of losing a parent. My Dad has had these dizzy spells for awhile now. He'd keep falling all the time. My Mom told me that one time he even fell while trying to sit up in bed. After a lot prodding, he finally went in to see a doctor. His neurologist wasn't sure what could cause it, so she did an obscene amount of testing. Blood work. An MRI. You na