So when we went to see Simon Singh I bought a book called The Physics of Superheroes in addition to the Big Bang. For the longest time I was not liking the Superheroes book - too much Golden Age of Comics & too many formulas which was making it more difficult for me than some of the other "laymen" physics books. But THEN I got to this paragraph:

Parker found that he had acquired from this spider bite various arachnid attributes, including heightened agility and the ability to adhere to walls. Because a spider can lift several times its own body weight, Peter could now lift several times his own weight, described in the comics as a "proportionate" increase in strength. Peter also gained a "sixth sense" that alerted him to potential dangers, a Spider-Sense, if you will. One can only guess that Stan Lee, stymied in his attempts to kill real spiders in his bathroom, concluded that spiders used ESP to aviod being squished.

Finally clicked with the author's sense of humor and have enjoyed the book much more. Even the math is making more sense now that I giggle occasionally. And chapters 5 & 6 were about the Flash, whom I have a slight crush on, so that probably helped, too.


Today we did LOADS of yard work. Which is kinda bad because I wasn't supposed to be lifting. But we finally cleared out all the vines that had taken over the back corner of the house. disbandedtoastr helped GREATLY in this. We owe her a big thank you. John also pressure washed the back patio and we moved a bench. Now there are TONS of vines and bushes and branches to con the garbagemen into picking it all up.



Yesterday we went to a birthday dinner for Tammy. I'd been sick a lot of the day and had been to the hospital the day before so I almost didn't go to the dinner. I told Tammy after dinner that I wasn't feeling that good and I was going to go home instead of her house but that John was gonna go over. (Honestly, I had a headache and was sick and didn't want to be around smoke and dogs and lots of people and far from my bathroom OTHERWISE i would have totally been there. I felt sad that I wasn't going because we always have fun when the gang is together plus we were gonna bring some games and I haven't played any in a while.) Anyway, John & Mike came back after an hour or so. Two of the other attendants called and asked if they could stop by our house on their way home to pick up a computer John was setting up for them and he told them that was okay. Suddenly six people from her party were over at our house and we watched Law and Order and drank milkshakes for a few hours. it was fine BUT I felt terrible because it was her birthday party and half of them were over here. Someone else from her party who stayed at her place called us today and said something about it. John tried to explain but I don't know how well that went. Now I'm really worried that she's gonna be mad at me for "stealing" her party. But seriously! I can show her my doctors notes and pictures of my colon if she wants. I certainly didn't want people over - we had NOT CLEANED, the house was a wreck, and I was sick. I'm so worried I'm babbling about it here. Eeeks!