Left Contact (Again)

I've had trouble with my left contact before.

Well this time, I have a very good reason to be thankful.

Saturday morning, I put in my contacts around 12:00AM (near midnight) and went to sleep. When I woke up at 7:20, I took out my right contact like always, then realized my left contact had fallen out when I was asleep.

So, naturally, I freak out.

I looked everywhere. Behind the bottles of contact solution, behind my pillow, near my bed, on my clothes, in my blankets...nothing.

I finally sigh and put away my right contact and I reason I'll just have to look for the left one later. I had something important to do that day (hence my early rising).

As I lifted myself from my bed, I glanced around one last time and-- lo and behold!-- there was my left contact, BEHIND me on my bed. It was in the one spot I had not looked for it, and, if I had shifted any of my weight behind me, I would have surely crushed it into pieces.

So, that's that. Thank you God for helping me find my contact :)

Hail!

Before I forget,

Let the records show that on Friday, February 18, 2011
and Saturday, February 19, 2011

that it actually HAILED for about 6-7 minutes per session in California.

That is all.

10 Random Things, Which, Under Most Conditions, You Will Probably Never Know About Me

Per request: 10 Random Things, Which, Under Most Conditions, You Will Probably Never Know About Me

1) My shoe size is 14 US.
2) The ring finger on my left hand is significantly longer than the index finger on my left hand (about 1.5 cm longer). The ring finger on my right hand is only slightly longer than the index finger on my right hand (less than 0.5 cm).
3) I cannot watch a scary movie. They're scary.
4) When dealt a hand of poker cards, my highest cards go on the left.
5) I stutter quite frequently. I can almost never pronounce "just" without messing up the "juh" sound.
6) I am deathly afraid of roller-coasters, or any other open-air ride that involves motion. Yes, including the little kiddie ones.
7) My favorite philosopher is Kierkegaard.
8) My favorite poem is Dream Within A Dream (1849) by E. A. Poe.
9) I cannot whistle.
10) I stink at (and will not attempt to play in the presence of other people) any First-Person Shooter game whatsoever (ie: Call of Duty, Halo, etc).

Dumb Ants (and Random Facts- Ants)

Here's a little fact about ants you probably didn't know:

• Black ants and Wood ants do not have a sting; instead, they are able to squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.

Did you know that? Black ants don't bite-- they spray acid. Not just acid, but FORMIC acid, which is....HCOOH or something (thank you, high school chemistry).

The reason why I have become interested in ants is because yesterday, as I was minding my own business in the yard, they attacked me. Thousands of them swarmed up my left leg and --

Okay, slight exaggeration. I was washing something outside with the hose, and I guess I must have flooded their ant hill home and a plethora of them started to scramble around, and I didn't realize that some had started to crawl up my leg. But I shook them off and went back inside...where I realized that there were still a bunch of them all over my clothes and arms.

And their bites stung! Goodness, they didn't hurt, but they were annoying!

And that annoyance prompted me to look up facts about black ants and their bites...Hence the fact above. (Once again, thanks to high school chemistry) I knew that an acid can be neutralized in water (or something like that), so I took a shower, and now my skin is fine and I don't feel any stinging or anything.

But anyway, here are some other random facts about ants I found on the internet:

• If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse.
• There are thirty-five thousand kinds of ants in the world.
• The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.
• Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. They rely on juice which they squeeze from pieces of food.

EDITED: 1/19/11 2:18 PM: Corrected appalling grammar errors.