When I was younger I always ate hot dogs with ketchup. Well, sometimes with chili and sometimes plain, but usually with ketchup and never with mustard. Never. My dad would joke about it with me. He’d say, “Joshua, how many hot dogs with mustard do you want?” And I’d say, “One hot dog, no mustard.”
Now I only eat hot dogs with mustard and much prefer it to ketchup. It’s funny how things change.
Did you know that you can tickle a person’s foot and find out if they have damage in the nerve pathways connecting their brain to their spinal cord? Well you caaaaaaaaaaan!
Rubbing your finger along an adult’s foot from the heel towards the toes SHOULD make their toes curve in. Unless, that is, they’ve got some sort of disease of the spinal cord and brain. In that case the market toe will curve up while home, roast beef, none, and whee whee whee all fan out. This is the Babinski reflex!
That is actually what a baby’s foot will do in the same situation, but this is normal. Nothing to worry about. The Babinski reflex is normal for babies until they are about two years old because their nervous system is still developing. So, normal for babies, abnormal for adults.
Now you can tickle your honey’s foot and when she squeals and says “CUT IT OUT” you can be like, “Babe! I’m just checking to make sure you don’t got spinal diseases! Babe! Baaaaaaabe! This is for your own goooooood!” Knowledge is power!
Supposedly if you tickle a person’s foot after they are asleep or after they’ve been walking for a long time they’ll demonstrate the Babinski reflex even if they don’t got spinal disease. This is *neat* and we should all try it out as soon as possible.
Note: The Babinski reflex is not to be confused with the babe-inski reflex which is when people see Mallory and begin uncontrollably whistling. Also their eye balls stretch out of their sockets and they make an AOOOOOGA noise and their heart pounds out from their chest and also they turn into cartoon wolves.
On Saturday I woke up and decided that it was a good day for making a standing desk. I’ve had one at work for a few months and I really like it so I went to Lowe’s and purchased the materials I needed to build one for use at home.
Particle board and wood glue for the desk top, four by fours and various metal brackets for the legs, many screws to hold it all together. I glued and screwed two pieces of particle board together to make a single SUPER sturdy desk top. This was EASY.
I had to saw some of the legs off so that the top would be approximately forty three inches tall. It took about twenty minutes to get through all four of them. I feel like I could use a nice chop saw!
FUN FACT: Antonio, the Lowe’s dude that cut all my other pieces of wood, said that the 4x4s were too big for his wood cutting machine but he pulled out a hand saw and cut them in half for me super quick so that I could fit them in the car. Thanks, Antonio! You’re a wood cutting machine!
This is how the legs are affixed. Little metal pieces and screws! They aren’tย exactly perpendicular to the desktop but they areย pretty close!
I flipped that puppy over and carried it on my back into the junk room. Like a little wooden tortoise. The desk is SORT of heavy, but I made it! Speaking of how heavy it was, my arms were REALLY sore on Sunday from all the lifting and sawing and such that I had to do. Making things is a GOOD workout.
Ha ha! Oh yeah! The surprise! I used a piece of white board panel as the surface for the desk! It only cost thirteen dollars for a four foot by eight foot sheet so now Mallory gets to figure out what to do with two three foot by four foot panels of white board!
The best part about white boards is that you can write the word “poops” on them.
Guess why there are only five tentacles. You’ll never guess! (Andrew isn’t allowed to guess.)
