Cause & Effect

Another beautiful day here in Connecticut! Charlotte and I spent a lot of time outside this afternoon. I even got her to sit in a chair for a few minutes with me and relax. A two-year-old relaxing? Unheard of!!! We brought out some water and a bowl of grapes and were good to go. I took the phone outside with me and caught up on some phone calls while Charlotte investigated things, chased down bubbles & found & mangled pinecones. There was a huge bumblebee buzzing around in the backyard today too. It had been a while since I had seen one. I pointed it out to Charlotte and explained to her how it goes from flower to flower & pollinates them, and to give bees their space & leave them alone. We sat and watched him buzz around for a while and do his thing. We could even hear that loud, distinctive buzzing that reminded me of lazy summer days. All in all it was very relaxing, not something I can often say about sitting in the back yard with my energetic daughter!

I found another interesting link on Sissyfight today. A fellow board member posted this half hour video, which it turns out to be a movie called "Der Lauf der Dinge" or "The Way Things Go!". It's a giant Rube Goldberg like chain reaction contraption, which uses lots of chemical reactions in addition to physical ones to keep the chain going. While ridiculously long, it was pretty neat in the long run. I found it a little distracting noticing all of the cuts in the film to get from one reaction to another, but I guess one of this length would have been damn near impossible to do all at once. It's odd, they use a good amount of fire in this film, and the sound of the flames is somewhat lulling. It's like it draws you in. There's one part with a swinging flame ball that it rather mesmerizing, between the sound of the flames and the way it wisps through the air. In any case, this film was apparently the inspiration for the Honda Cog commercial that was out a year or two ago, which stages a similar Rube Goldberg type contraption using only parts from the car it is advertising. Pretty darn neat if you ask me.

I forgot to mention yesterday that I received my longest sleeper hit on Where's George. I haven't entered & marked any bills in quite some time so it's always nice to get a hit from these old bills, especially one that I entered two month after I started Georging! Had to share - it made me happy!