It's Your Birthday

 

It's Your Birthday

Here's to a wonderful birthday
I hope that you go out and play
Celebrate in style
'cause in a short while
after today its your turn to pay.

A sweet little birthday limerick.  For some strange reason unknown to me it seems to get taken the wrong way in the United Kingdom.  So please dear readers do not send it to Kate or the Queen!

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia keeps me awake
no matter what sedative I take.
"My God!, I scream,
"Please let me dream!
Have mercy, my life is at stake!"

I have often been troubled by Insomnia.

Time Travel Line

Time Travel Line

My facebook timeline went awry!
It disappeared and they told me why,
"In the future you pose
without any clothes
and post the pictures - therefore goodbye!"

I wonder why the time traveler in The Time Traveler's Wife did not stash more clothes (and a bulletproof vest) or have his wife do it for him?  He seemed to be smarter than Bill & Ted and they were smart enough to stash items that they needed.  And how could he have forgotten that his wife had seduced the younger him before the older him got his vasectomy?  Ah the paradoxes of time travel and their effect on your facebook timeline!

A Sci-fi Reader's Heaven

A Sci-fi Reader's Heaven

A sci-fi reader's heaven
is a novel by Larry Niven
but add in Pournelle
and things go to hell
with the complexity he likes to throw in!

A Sci-fi Reader's Heaven resulted from my recent reading of a book, Playgrounds of the Mind, by Larry Nevin that reminded me that Larry had collaborated with Jerry Pournelle on a book called Inferno.

93 Million Mile Trip

93 Million Mile Trip

We're going on an outer space flight.
Planning takes a lot of foresight.
We are going to the sun
but we won't burn anyone
'cause we plan to land there at night.

RIP Neil Armstrong!

The Illinois Way

The Illinois Way

Every vote is important today
and I live in a swing state so they say.
I'll vote early and often
for those dead and forgotten
and we'll prevail the Illinois way!

Make sure you register to vote dear readers!

Back in the Day - Dare Devils

Back in the Day - Dare Devils

Riding bikes on a dare down suicide hill
"Oh my God!  He took a terrible spill!
Will he ever learn?
Oh!  It's my turn!
Time to give the crowd a big thrill!"

I was not much of a dare devil dear readers - except when my brother tried to turn me into one!

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