"Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as...

If you stay up all night on the longest day of the year, didn't you just stay up all day? #summersolstice #conundrum   ~ Emery Lamb

“Even so-called 'short novels' are pretty long and can take several hours to read, so make sure you stay hydrated. I like to keep an isotonic sports drink handy if I'm going to be reading for any longer than forty minutes. I'll also take regular breaks and make sure...

Hubby was awakened by daughter's 1 am phone call this morning. An appropriate Father's Day gift, triggering warm, fuzzy flashbacks of being woken by her nightly infant cries. Too bad she mixed up which way the 4-hour time difference worked.   ~ Emery Lamb

"You make 'em, I amuse 'em."  ~ Dr. Seuss  

One of the weird things about living in Fairbanks was the lack of crickets. After 10 years without, I recall the excitement the first night after the fam moved back to the lower 48 to hear them again. Now, I hear crickets in the mornin', and crickets in the evenin'...

"I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you."   ~ Bill Burr  

Twitter's algorithm for "Who to follow:" pick two most obscure followers of the people I follow & add one commercial business out of the blue.   ~ Emery Lamb

"It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank."   ~ Arne Jacobsen